Who deserves the credit for inventing peanut butter? A Michigan physician and moral scold? A Missouri snack food maker and flim-flam artist? A Canadian chemist? The indigenous people of South America?

Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/crunchy-or-wrong/

Key sources for this episode include Jon Krampner's Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter; Christina Vella's George Washington Carver: A Life; and "Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health and the environment" by Katerina S. Stylianou, Victor L. Fulgoni III and Oliver Jolliet.

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It is the embodiment of all evil, capable of killing with a thought? Is it the brain box of the cosmos, capable of unlocking the secrets of the universe? Either way, it's the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull of Doom!

Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/lost-legacy/

Key sources for this episode include, well, Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Toppings's The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls; Skeptical Inquirer articles by Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford; the memoirs of Frederick Albert Mitchell Hedges, Lady Richmond Brown, and Jane Harvey Houlson; and Richard Garvin's The Crystal Skull.

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A baffling tale about ancient astronauts, religious fanatics, fake clones, a gullible press, and sex robots from outer space.

Transcript, sources, links and mroe at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/whatever-happened-to-baby-eve/

Key sources for this episode include Susan Jean Palmer's Aliens Adored: Raël's UFO Religion; James R. Lewis's Legitimating New Religions; several articles from Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions; and contemporary newspaper reports.

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In 1912 it was the greatest anthropological find of all time, the earliest known link between man and ape. Then, forty years later, it was revealed to be an audacious hoax. This week, the strange story of Piltdown Man.

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Key sources for this episode include Miles Russell's Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson and the World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax; John Evangelist Walsh's Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution; Sir Arthur Smith Woodward's The Earliest Englishman; J.S. Weiner's The Piltdown Forgery; and Lydia Pyne's Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils.

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Did you know that Connecticut and Pennsylvania went to war multiple times over the area that's now scranton? Learn all about the Yankee-Pennamite Wars in our latest episode!

Key sources for this episode include Isaac Chapman's A Sketch of the History of Wyoming; Sydney George Fisher's The Making of Pennsylvania; John B. Frantz and William Pencak's Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland; Andro Linklater's The Fabric of America; and Paul Moyer's The Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier.

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On Pohnpei, upon a stone altar, within the spaces... the legendary and factual stories of the mysterious fortress of Nan Madol.

Key sources for this episode include David Hanlon's Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890; Bill Ballenger's Lost City of Stone; The Book of Luelen by Luelen Bernart; and the critical edition of James Francis O'Connell's A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands published by the Australian National University Press in 1972.

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Errata for The Hot House; French Leave; The Icelander; "I'm the Naughty Boy"; What-Is-It?; Moron or Madman?; Suffer Little Children; and more.

Script at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/errata-2/

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Would you believe there were Vikings in Washington, DC? Or West Virginia? Or Oklahoma? Or Arizona? Or Hawaii? How about all of the above and none of the above?

Key sources for this episode include the works of Gloria Farley, Barry Fell, and Scott Wolter along with some truly excellent research done by debunkers over the years, especially the excellent blog articles by Henrik Williams of Uppsala University. (But if I had to recommend anything I would recommend Scott Tribble's article "Last of the Vikings," which tells the entire amazing story of Frank Cowan and his Great Viking Hoax.)

Script, full sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/westward-huss-everywhere-else/

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In which the vikings of Minnesota challenge the patriots of New England for the right to claim Vikings beat Columbus to the New World.

Key sources for this week's episode include the works of Hjalmar R. Holand; Kenneth Feder's ARCHAEOLOGICAL ODDITIES; Erik Wahlgren's THE KENSINGTON STONE: A MYSTERY SOLVED; and more recent scholarship from Alice Beck Kehoe, Eric A. Powell, and Karri L. Springer.

Script, full sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/westward-huss-minnesota/

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For years, archaeologists have searched in vain for the location of Leif Eriksson's Vinland. They should have just asked the good people of New England, who kept finding it everywhere they looked.

Key sources for this episode include the writings of Carl Christian Rafn, Eben Norton Horsford, William Brownell Goodwin, and Frederick Julius Pohl. And also Edmund Berke Delabarre's RECENT HISTORY OF DIGHTON ROCK, Kenneth Feder's ARCHAEOLOGICAL ODDITIES, David Godward's THE WESTFORD KNIGHT AND HENRY SINCLAIR, and Douglas Hunter's THE PLACE OF STONE.

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