Baseball, black magic, corruption, drugs, murder and poop jokes in the Florida Keys. Join us as we cover the mysterious 1976 disappearance of Key West fire chief Joseph Anthony "Bum" Farto. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/with-both-hands/ Key sources for this episode include contemporary reporting by Rick Ratliff in the Miami Herald and later retrospectives by David Sloan in Keys Weekly.  Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network.  This week we're cross-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Cartoon Time Machine! Join the AniMates each week as they look at beloved cartoons from the past, present, and future.  Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB 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]

We know all the coolest Ancient Egypgian gods have animal heads, but ask yourself: what kind of animal is Set? Finding out the answer may be harder than you think. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/tales-from-the-cryptid. Key sources for this episode include Geraldine Pinch's Handbook of Egyptian Mythology, P.E. Newberry's "The Pig and the Cult-Animal of Set", and Jim Ward's  Deities & Demigods.  Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB 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]

This week we've got all the hot Peacemaker spoilers you've been craving! Assuming you don't mean the John Cena show but the 1844 naval tragedy that helped reshape America. (Can you spoil something that happened 178 years ago?) Okay, yes, we're being a bit clickbaity this week. But maybe it'll work! Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/peacemaker/ Key sources for this episode include Kerry Walters Explosion on the Potomac, Robert Seager's And Tyler Too, The Franklin Institute's "Report on the explosion of the gun on board the steam frigate 'Princeton''", and Lee M. Pearson's "The Princeton and the Peacemaker; A Study in Nineteenth-Century Naval Research and Development Procedures". Learn more about Chris over on his blog, or take one of his tours from Walking Backward Tours. Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB 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]

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.

Script, full sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/dawsons-creek/

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.

Script, full sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/liminal-space/

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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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