Join us on this week's dark path into the lives of people in witness security, and learn more about the Italian Mafia on the way.

Listen to Learn More About:
—Notable Mafia members like Salvatore Maranzano, who established the five dominant Mafia families, and Joseph Barbra, a powerful mafia leader that established  a famous soda company still around today
—Mafia terms like Costra Nostra and Omertà and their meanings
—Life inside the witness security

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Over The Grey Skies by Daniele Musto
That’s Life by CMJ
Passion by Tru Genesis
When In Rome by Avocado Junkie
Mariachi Dream by Federico Ferrandina

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Come walk this dark path with us and plunge into the history of spies. Learn from MF Thomas'  first hand experiences  about the uncrackable codes used to transmit information at ‘number stations.’


Listen To Learn More about:
1. Number Stations and how they allow spies to transfer information
2. Real life spies, Kendall and Gwen Myers
3. The North Korean Broadcast that stirred up alarm
4. “The Buzzer,” or the most ominous number stations

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MUSIC:
Brenner by Falls
Brenner by Falls
War Banner by Cody Martin
Roulette by Alternate Endings
Revenant by Clark + Walker
Beez Kneez by Neon Beach
Overlord by Thorr
Polarities by Xenia Tunes
Edgerunner by Cody Martin
Polymath by Memory Theory
Perfect Spades by Third Age

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You probably know a lot about the Salem witch trials, but did you know that it was not the site of the first witchcraft trial in the colonial United States? Accused witches had been appearing in New England courtrooms for half a century. In many ways, Salem was the last gasp, the most notorious, nightmarish outcome of a process that, maybe, made it inevitable. Come with us further back in time, down a dark path deep into the New England woods, where strangers coming to a strange continent needed a scapegoat for all the hardships that awaited them, and a face for all their fears.

Listen to Learn More About:

• Puritan Culture  and History 
•  Why Witch Trials became rampant among Puritans in Colonial America
• The first "witch execution" in the American Colonies
• The women that was convicted of witchcraft three different times 
•  The town in Connecticut that stayed out of the Witch Frenzy 
• More unique witch craft trials before Salem's in 1692

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MUSIC:
Brenner by Falls
Stranded by Wastelander
The Void by Cody Martin
Burning by Chelsea McGough
The Blacksmith by Wicked Cinema
Exclusion Zone
Perfect Spades by Third Age

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On October 26th of this year, government agencies have a deadline to finish a review of all remaining documentation related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, The last of four American Presidents to be murdered in our history. 

We wanted to mark the occasion by taking a different approach. There are so many more stories to tell than the story of murder itself; moving, fascinating stories, even funny ones. We decided to zoom in and draw some of them out of the fog to share with you. What we found were stories about a telephone, a pink dress, and a comedian. Each of them, immortalized by the events of November 22, 1963; and each of them, in their own way, reminding us of the deeply personal dimension of this day that the world has never forgotten.

Listen To Learn More about:

• The Journalist who published the story about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
• Jackie Kennedy’s Famous Pink Channel Suit
• The Comedian who brightened the audience morning  

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MUSIC:
Fire by SAMME
Inception by Falls
As I Dream by Moments
Something Bad is About to Happen by Rhythm Scott
Stopped Time by Moments

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The nightmare these two women found themselves in was far from over. Throughout their lives, they had been exploited, by poverty, by sexism; and now the exploitation was coming from international politics. They were set up to take the fall for the people who actually planned this crime; and what followed as multiple nations got pulled into the ugly diplomatic aftermath had nothing to do with justice.

They were imprisoned, cut off, their lives dangling in the balance. And even though the world almost completely denied them a role and a voice in deciding their fate; we wanted to tell this story in a way that kept these two human lives front and center.

Listen To Learn More About: 

• North Korean Assassination attempts  
• The assassination of Kim Jong Un's older brother,  Kim Jong Nam
• The women who murdered Kim Jong Nam,  Sisti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong 
• VX Nerve Agent 

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MUSIC:
Brenner by Falls
Stormy Night by Ian Kelosky
Nocturne by Elision
Prowler by Hill
System Failure by Wicked Cinema
102 F by Dario Benedetti
Perfect Spades by Third Age

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Get ready for a saga about a murder where the murderers, themselves, were victims, and a chillingly contemporary story of how innocent individuals can fall through the cracks when nations clash. Nobody leaves this story with their hands clean.

Listen to Learn More about: 

• The mysterious assassination of Kim Jong Nam, Kim Jong Un's ( the current dictator of North Korea) older brother
• Kim Jong Un and his predecessors 
• North Korean Culture

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MUSIC:
Ripley by Falls
Big Drum Barrage by Rhythm Scott
Sussex by Stephen Keech
Rising Sun by Colossus
Mystery by Third Age
Perfect Spades by Third Age

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These men fought for Britain, France, Poland, and other nations. They were the most daring, imaginative, and brave Allied prisoners plunked into one facility, and for years against all odds and every setback, they relentlessly put the supposedly “escape proof” castle to the test. This is their story – not a single, dramatic mass escape, but a tale of soldiers who wouldn’t let themselves be just prisoners, who kept their fighting spirit alive and never, ever gave up.

Listen to Learn More About:

• Listen to Learn More about: 
• The Fortress Colditz Castle 
• MI9, the organization designated to help prisoners of war escapes
• Failed and successful allied escape attempts like:
  • Frenchmen drilling escape tunnels down through the clock tower
  • A British officer sewing themselves into a mattress
  • A makeshift escape aircraft

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REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING/MEDIA:

Channel 4: Escape from Colditz Documentary
Britanica: Colditz Castle
Schloss Colditz History
Uktv: Colditz History
Conscript Heroes: Escapers from Germany
Archive: Colditz

MUSIC:
Intro: Brenner by Falls
Part 1: Change Will Come by Third Age
Part 2: Camargue by Allice in Winter
Part 3: All I have by Moments
Part 4: Romans by Lincoln Davis
White Rabbit: Perfect Spades by Thrid Age and Nu Alkemi$t

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If you trace the dark path back through Wright’s life and work, there is a very good reason why he changed his design philosophy so radically. When Frank Lloyd Wright built the home he thought represented his ultimate dream, it became the site of a nightmare he could never escape.

Listen to Learn More about:

• The Murderer that killed a family and entire staff in Frank Lloyd Wright's home. 
• The personal life of architect  Frank Lloyd Wright
• Architecture like The Guggenheim, Ennis House, and Taliesin 
• Frank Lloyd Wright's early career and rise to fame

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MUSIC:
Falls by Brenner
Epic by Louis Lion
Lights Out by The Europa Protoharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Shadow Passage by Cody Martin
Crest and Mantle by Wicked Cinema
What You Do Not Know by Joshua Spacht
Perfect Spades by Third Age


REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING/MEDIA:
Architect Magazine
History: The Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright’s love Cottage

Mental Floss: Gifts for True Crime Fans
Washington Post: He Burned Frank Lloyd Wright’s House and Killed his Mistress

Wisn: Motive for Murders at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home Still a Mystery

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How could an entire international competition involving dozens of nations and hundreds of elite athletes be stricken from the official history of the Olympic Games?

Listen To Learn More About:

•  The founding of the IOC and Pierre de Coubertin
• The “unofficial” Olympic games of 1906
• The  gold medalist who was borne with Polio and other amateur Olympians 
• Athens’ fight to permanently host the Olympics 

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REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING/MEDIA:
SR Olympic Sports
Why were the ancient Olympics Revived
The Second International Olympic Games in Athens
International Olympics Committee
BBC
Olympedia
Olympics Archive
Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame

MUSIC:
Of a Feather by Falls
Aurora by Bryant Lowry
Neon Moon by Night Driver
We Could Begin Again by Cloud Wave
Bright Star by SCRZG
Brenner by Falls
Perfect Spades by Third Age, Nu Alkemi$t 

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At the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, anyone who showed up on the day of competition would have an opportunity to compete.

And as for what events they would compete in? The classical Olympics were more than sporting events: they included poetry readings, debates, art, theatre, diplomatic meetings between sworn enemies. And Pierre de Coubertin wanted all of this in the modern Games.

This created an argument which, in some respects, carries on today: What constitutes an official Olympic Event? And that’s what we’re exploring in this first of two Olympic episodes on My Dark Path.  These are the unusual, the forgotten and the absurd events run at the modern Games. Let’s see how deep we can dive – by the way, seeing how deep you could dive was one of the events…

Listen to Learn More About:

• Forgotten Sporting events like rope climbing, tug of war, croquet, and angling
• Forgotten Olympic art competitions like architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture
• Father of the modern Olympics Pierre de Coubertin 
• Successful amateur Olympic competitor Spyridon Louis 

READINGS AND ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:

“9 Really Strange Sports That Are No Longer In The Olympics” (TIME)

“Going For The Gold” When Town Planning Was An Olympic Competition”

“Live Pigeon Shooting and Other Odd Olympic Games” (NPR)

“Live Pigeon Shootng” (Top End Sports)

“Pigeon Racing in 1900” (Top End Sports)

“Plunge for Distance” (Wikipedia)

“Plunge for Distance, Tug of War: The Olympics’ Sad History of  Defunct Medal Ev

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