In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent was a vice den where the nuns were whores and the priests were baby murderers. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately wanted to believe her. Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-awful-disclosures-of-maria-monk/ Key sources for this episode include Cassandra Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum America; Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade: 1800-1860; Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal; William Leete Stone's Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; and other contemporary newspaper reports and publications. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: [email protected]

In August 1834 Boston teamsters burned down a convent a convent full of nuns, thanks to religious prejudice and the suspicious testimony of Rebecca Reed, a lazy teenager with a grudge against the Mother Superior. Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/six-months-in-a-convent/ Key sources for this episode include Cassandra Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum; James Phinney's "The Destruction of the Convent at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1834"; Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860; and Rebecca Reed's Six Months in a Convent. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: [email protected]

The strange transformation of a Qu'ran study group into a UFO doomsday cult whose members believed they were psychic ancient alien Egyptian astronaut mound builders. With a quick break in the middle for their founder to catch disco fever.

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Key sources for this episode include Susan J. Palmer's Nuwaubian Nation: Black Spirituality and State Control; Theodore Gabriel's "The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors" from UFO Religions; Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips's The Ansar Cult in America; and contemporary newspaper reports from the Atlanta Constitution by Bill Osinski and Bill Torpy.

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In the early Twentieth Century Billy Sunday was America's foremost evangelist, whose admirers included young men, ex-presidents, and titans of industry. Today we're asking the hard questions about Billy -- like, was he any good at baseball? Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/a-month-of-billys/ Key sources for this episode include Robert Bruns' Preacher: Billy Sunday & Big-Time American Evangelism; William G. McLoughlin Jr.'s Billy Sunday Was His Real Name; and baseball-reference.com. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Broadway and Other Kiwi Dreams, a podcast hosted by James Shera exploring the lives and minds of theatre practitioners in and around the New Zealand performing arts industry. https://play.acast.com/s/broadway-and-other-kiwi-dreams/ 

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Joseph Raber was "too lazy to live and too lazy to work" -- the perfect victim for conspirators who insured him to the gills and murdered him. Join us this week for 1879's Crime of the Century, the incredible tale of "the Blue-Eyed Six!" https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/make-insurance-double-sure/ Key sources for this episode include Gary Ludwig's The Blue-Eyed Six: A Historical Narrative; G. Thomas Gates's A History of Hangings for Homicide in Lebanon County; and contemporary newspaper reports. Thanks also to #2 and #23, who helped me understand some of the more confusing legal issues surrounding the case. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Pop DNA!. Join hosts Erin and Rhonda as they dissect the building blocks of our favorite pop culture works, sometimes with bad jokes. https://linktr.ee/Popdnapodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: [email protected]

This one has it all: sibling rivalry, country club politics, adultery, duels, the Civil War, Spanish colonial policy, three giant piles of bird poop, all connected by the greatest American painter of the 19th Century: James McNeill Whistler. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/crepuscule-in-blood-and-guts/ Key sources for this episode include Daniel E. Sutherland's Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake; Nikolaus Pevsner's "Whistler's Valparaiso Harbour at the Tate Gallery"; William Columbus Davis's The Last Conquistadores: The Spanish Intervention in Peru and Chile, 1863-1866; and the personal correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Art Slice. Join artists Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker as they approach art history from an artist's perspective, without all the technical gibberish getting in the way. https://www.artslicepod.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: [email protected]

In 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst vanished into thin air. He was never seen again, and we're still debating what happened to him some 213 years later. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/gone-guy/ Key sources for this episode include Sabine Baring-Gould's Historic Oddities and Strange Events; Michael Mason's "Benjamin Bathurst; The Case of the Missing Diplomat, 1809"; and Neville Thompson's "The Continental System as a Sieve: The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst in 1809." Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Grown Up. The life of an adult is complicated and tough, and sometimes you feel like you aren't doing your best. Join Derric Holland as he does his best to navigate the perils of growing up and discusses mental health, relationships, and self-discovery along the way. https://beacons.ai/grownuppodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: [email protected]

Everyone makes mistakes. Here are some (more) of ours. Featuring corrections and updates for the following episodes:

• Hurricane Coming Through
• He Whooped to See Them Burn
• The Icelander
• The Prophet of the Pacific
• Suffer Little Children
• You Are Who You Eat
• Westward Huss
• Tales from the Cryptid
• Wonder Marvelously
• Your Heart's Sorrow
• A Warning to Future Man
• Air Crash Museum
• Worse Than Frankenstein
• Seven Minutes in Heaven
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Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/errata-3 Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: [email protected] Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/

Mormons believe that Jesus once lived in the Americas. Some of them once believed he lived on the outskirts of Walla Walla, Washington from 1868-1880. This is their story. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/unto-us-a-child-is-born Key sources for this episode include C. LeRoy Anderson's For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: The Saga of the Morrisites; Russell Blankenship's And There Were Men; William Denison Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County, Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, and Asotin Counties; and Tony Zbaraschuk's The Fall of the Standard: William W. Davis and the Walla Walla Jesus. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/orderjackalope Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: [email protected] Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/

The mind-boggling tale of how two world-famous zoologists were fooled by a shifty carnival worker, a rubber dummy, a three ton block of ice, and their own biases. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-ape-man-creature-of-whiteface-customized-my-van/ Key sources for this episode include Ivan T. Sanderson's "Preliminary Description of the External Morphology of What Appeared to be the Fresh Corpse of a Hitherto Unknown Form of Living Hominid"; John Napier's Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality; Bernard Heuvelmans' Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman; Brian Regal's Searching for Sasquatch; several episodes of The Bigfoot Show, MonsterTalk, and Skeptoid podcasts; and online articles by Darren Naish. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/orderjackalope Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: [email protected] Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/