Admit it: you’re obsessed with royal families – watching them, gossiping about

them, wanting to be them. It’s the stuff of fantasy. But for real life royals, the crown

jewels can be more like shiny handcuffs. There are expectations and rules – and if

you break them, the consequences are big, and very public. And there are royal

families and wild royal tales from around the world and throughout history that you

have never heard before.

Even the Royals is a new podcast from Wondery that takes you inside the cloistered

world of royal families, past and present, where wealth and status often come at

the expense of your freedom – and maybe even your life. In these stories, very

human emotions, like jealousy, love, disgust, have the power to reshape the world.

This is just a preview of Even the Royals. You can listen to the full episode wherever

you get your podcasts, or at Wondery.fm/royals_historicalblindness.

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In this episode I finally take on the topic of Pre-Columbian Norse contact with North America and the controversial runestone discovered in Minnesota in 1898 that is touted as evidence that Scandinavians reached much further inland than we otherwise have evidence to prove.

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Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Black Ballots," "Brer Krille," "Borough," "The Gran Dias," "Winter in Black," "Invernen," "Palms Down" and "Curio." 

Other music, including "Remedy for Melancholy," is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons.

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In this rerelease, as with the first, I have completely rewritten and rerecorded the second episode in an effort to demonstrate the eventual quality of the podcast to new listeners who choose to start at the beginning. There is a lot of new material, so I'm also releasing it as a bonus episode. In the new version, I have restructured my exploration of the Dare Stones hoax and included more recent research.

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Some background music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Access Road 442," "Tarte Tatin," "The Gran Dias," "Leatherbound," "An Oddly Formal Dance," "Maisie Dreamer," "Link Stick," "The Griffiths," "Silent Ocean," "Uncertain Ground," "Access Road 214," "Game Lands," "Voyager," "Cicle Deserrat," and "Brer Krille." 

Other music, including "Sunset," and "Remedy for Melancholy" is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Additional Music:

"Leaving Home" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In the conclusion to my season premiere, I investigate the genuinely puzzling disappearance of Flight 19, 5 bombers on a training run in 1945 whose vanishing, along with the rescue plane sent to find them, led to the creation of the Bermuda Triangle urban legend. 

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Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "daemones," "Remedy for Melancholy," "periculum," "September," "daedalus," "Wake Up," and "Delirium."

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In this rerelease, I have completely rewritten and rerecorded the first episode in an effort to demonstrate the eventual quality of the podcast to new listeners who choose to start at the beginning. I will be replacing the old episode audio but also releasing it at as a bonus episode so that listeners who are caught up don't miss out on what's essentially an all new look at the topic. In the new version, I dive far deeper into the mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke than I did back in 2016. 

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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.

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Check out my novel, Manuscript Found!  And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts! 

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Some background music, including "Sunset," "Remedy for Melancholy," "Oneiri," "daemones," "Cold War Echo," "Daylight PON II," and "Nothing (Bonus Track)" are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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In the season premiere--part one of a two-part series--I look at how one genuine mysterious disappearance caused fabulists to search for other disappearances in the past and invent a grand mysterious paranormal phenomenon that doesn't really exist. This is the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle.

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Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "Cold War Echo," "Remedy for Melancholy," "Oneiri," "Salue," "Wake Up," and "Nothing (Bonus Track)."

Also featuring:

"Echoes of Time" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In this year's annual Xmas special, I put the Christ back into Christmas by refuting the fringe skeptical view that no such person as Jesus Christ ever existed. This topic forced us to examine what historical sources we can trust, how unreliable and yet how useful the New Testament may be to historians, and how the pagan continuity hypothesis leads to yet more unsupported, extreme conclusions. 

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One song used in this episode, "Remedy for Melancholy," is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Other music featured:

"A Very Brady Special," "At Rest," "Clean Soul," "Waiting," "Danse Morialta," "Calmant," "Immersed," "Snow Queen," "Blue Feather," "Magic Forest," "Decline," "Ritual," "The Other Side of the Door," and "Almost New" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In a special presentation, enjoy this Christmas episode from The Constant, a great podcast that examines history's blunders and misapprehensions, which I believe all Historical Blindness listeners will greatly enjoy! Last December, host Mark Chrisler took on Fox News' claims of a War on Christmas with a thorough look at the wars on Christmases past.

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Music during the background of my introduction is "Holiday Wish" is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0)

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In this last full episode of the year before my holiday special, I tackle an alternative view of religion and history with some academic chops that also indulges in a great deal of conspiracy theory: the idea that all religion was actually inspired by the use of hallucinogens. 

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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.

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Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "Cold War Echo," "Remedy for Melancholy," "Comatose," "Daylight PON II," "daemones," and "Oneiri."

Correction: The episode seems to imply that Ruck himself conducted research on cannabis's use as a sacrament, when in fact I only meant that Ruck had promoted the research, which was actually published in Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen's book Sex, Drugs, Violence... and the Bible. The blog post has been amended to clarify this.

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Hi listeners! As a Thanksgiving treat, I'm releasing a patron exclusive minisode relevant to the holiday that I released two years ago on Patreon. Sign up to support the podcast on Patreon and you can get minisodes like this between each release, making this a weekly podcast.

In this piece, I discuss the myths surrounding the landing of the Pilgrims and how they have been used as a handy metaphor throughout U.S. history.

Some music on this episode, including "Remedy for Melancholy," "Denouement," "Salue," and "Maree," is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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