Don't Look Now

We discuss the city of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire and forerunner to present megalopolis, Mexico City.  Founded in the 1300s on an island in Lake Texcoco, the city saw the rise of the Aztecs, the practice of human sacrifice, and their eventual fall at the hands of Hernan Cortes.

We discuss The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God cult, a Catholic splinter cult created formed Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo, and Credonia Mwerinde.  The cult's doomsday predictions for the year 2000 and their subsequent failure to come to fruition led the leaders to murder close to 1000 of their followers.

We discuss Robert Hooke, contemporary (and rival) Isaac Newton. Discoverer of the cell, the elastic constant, proponent of the wave nature of light, and architect of post Great Fire London.

The story of John McAfee, from drug addict, to Antivirus Tycoon, to international fugitive, to Presidential Candidate.  In America when you're rich you are allowed to make MANY mistakes.  

Data shows that the United States and Canada both have an abnormally high rate of violent crime directed toward native women.  This is embodied in the Highway of Tears, a stretch of Highway 16 in British Colombia that has seen a horrifying number of native women be murdered or go missing.   

We discuss the case of the Central Park jogger from 1989 and the subsequent railroading and false conviction of the Central Park 5.  The five teens (four black, one latino) were eventually exonerated when DNA evidence proved that the culprit was a lone serial rapist who confessed to the crime.

A brief mini-sode on the finding of the Fenn Treasure, a multi-million dollar treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains by Forrest Fenn in 2010. 

The history (and more importantly gossip) surrounding Queen Elizabeth the First, the last of the Tudors.  Why was no one allowed to inspect her body upon death?  Why did she wear a literal inch of makeup?  Was she actually an impostor?  Find out here!

Is it possible? We discuss the theory of time travel as well as its representation in popular media and viral hoaxes.

We discuss the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles Lindbergh of aviation fame and one of the most talked about crimes of the 20th Century. It’s a maze of strangeness from top to bottom.