Join me for the stories of several pairs of early 20th-century twins whose lives were almost as identical as their DNA!

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Turns out, mistrusting the doctor is nothing new! Here, you’ll hear one of history’s most eminent doctors vehemently defend his profession in the face of constant criticism.

Charles W. Leadbeater addressed a packed auditorium in Buttle Montana during June of 1903 on the subject of reincarnation and theosophy. His take on the process of death and rebirth is creative and engaging, though simultaneously (not a little) xenophobic.

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In 1980s North America, cults and religious sects like the Hari Krishnas, Scientology and the Moonies had become the greatest fear of many parents. With more and more young people flocking to such groups and cutting their families out of their lives, "deprogrammers" moved onto the scene as psychologists and anthropologists tried to explain the phenomenon.

Originally published by the Calgary Herald, 22 May 1982

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Achille and Gian Battista Judica-Cordiglia built their own radio tower in Turin, Italy, intent on listening in on Soviet space missions. The recordings they produced seem to have been the horrifying last moments of many unnamed cosmonauts whose existence the Soviet Union strictly denied.

The first 2 audio clips (played before the episode intro) are allegedly the breathing and heartbeat of a dying Russian Cosmonaut. The recording at the very end of the episode is allegedly the final message of a female Russian cosmonaut as her craft goes out of control.

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Inquiries made by a Royal Commission ascertained that the conditions of Britain's 19th-century poor were appalling, and furthermore, the attempts of government to improve such conditions by way of the workhouse were a complete disaster.

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Christopher Columbus went the entire 1492 voyage without realizing he was in the midst of lands unknown to Europe. When he returned home, he wrote his royal patrons and described all the wonders he had found "in the Indian Ocean." 

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Friedrich Jürgenson recorded birdsong from his garden one day and discovered within that tape a voice that did not belong there. He spent the rest of his life collecting evidence of voices beyond this realm, and in so doing was the founder of EVP research.

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The famous historian who captured the last moments of Pompeii also had a bit of an obsession with ghosts, it turns out! 

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A favourite of gothic enthusiasts young and old, historical and modern, poet and writer Edgar Allen Poe suffered a strange death and even stranger funerary rites.

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