Christmas is a time of cheer, love, and happiness. Except when it isn't. Aaron struggled to find uplifting stories so decided to steer into the skid and run us through some of the worst Christmas' that anyone has ever experienced. If you'd like to feel better about spending Christmas with the in-laws, this is the episode for you!

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Quite often when you get a name like 'Unkillable' it ends poorly for you. But in the case of Adrian Carton de Wiart, it might well have been the most apt nickname there ever was. Join us this week as John takes Aaron through the tale of this absolute hero who defied the odds time and time again to leave a badass story in his wake.

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The police may never have been able to solve this mystery, but we're pretty sure we have. And we take down a big name celebrity and a bunch of potential podcast sponsors in the process. Because we don't care about anything but the truth. Listen in as truth seeker Aaron takes open minded John and Sean through the tale of the disappearance of the Patanela.

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Have you ever had a plan go so spectacularly wrong that you were still hearing about it centuries later? And even worse, they celebrate it by using the very thing you were trying to use? Join us this week as John takes Aaron and Sean through the tale of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot, on it's 419th anniversary.

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It's time for another Spook-Tacular as we hit the spooky season again. For the first time Aaron gets to take us through a haunting tale, literally! This week Aaron takes John and producer Sean through the tale of the Bell Witch, one of North America's most spooky hauntings. Prepare to think every bump in the night is a spooky ghoul!

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You know the saying 'a kernal of truth'? Well this week we find the little kernals in a bunch of Fairy Tales, as John takes Aaron through the true stories behind some of our favourite Fairy Tales. Shout out to the Brothers Grimm!

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Imagine you duck out on a camping trip to go grab something from the car, and when you come back everyone is gone. Now imagine that trip to grab something took 3 years, and the people you were camping with included your whole family. And you have no clues to where they went except for a single word carved into a tree. Welcome to the confusing mystery of the Roanoke Colony. Aaron takes John and Producer Sean through the mysterious tale.

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Sometimes I have to work really hard to write the titles - not this time. John takes Aaron and Producer Sean through the grisly history of the Guillotine. You certainly don't want to be from the French high society this week.

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Everyone loves a bargain, and Aldi is about as bargain as it comes. From pantry staples to robot vacuums and snow gear, ALDI has it all. It even has a pretty interesting back story, believe it or not. This week John takes us through the history of the world's most confusing chain of Supermarkets.

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Sometimes long road trips are fun. Sometimes you end up eating your friends. This week it's the latter, as Aaron takes John and Producer Sean through the thoroughly icky tale of the journey of The Donner Party.

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