It was supposed to be a celebration of sixty years of baseball... and instead, well, Philadelphia fans did what Philadelphia fans do best.

Key sources for this episode include contemporary newspaper reports from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, and Bruce Kuklik's To Everything A Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976.

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

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H.H. Goddard's groundbreaking studies of the feeble-minded helped justify eugenics policies across the world... which is a tragedy because they were junk science and lies. Here's the whole sordid story.

Key sources for this episode include David Smith's Minds Made Feeble: The Myth and Legacy of the Kallikaks; Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man; Thomas C. Leonard's Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the PRogressive Era; Stephen Murdoch's IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea; and, of course, the works of Henry Herbert Goddard.

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

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Burnu Acquanetta, "the Venezuelan Volcano," was an exotic beauty who took Hollywood by storm in the summer of 1942... but who was she really? And does it really matter?

Key sources for this episode include Gregory William Mank's WOMEN IN HORROR FILMS: 1940s; contemporary newspaper and magazine reporting; and several articles written by Robert L. Pela for the PHOENIX NEW TIMES.

Script, full sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/burning-fire-deep-water/

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On August 6th, 1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater walked out of a New York City restaurant and was never seen again. In this episode #7 lays down the facts and explores several theories about what really happened that night.

Key sources for this episode include Stella Crater's The Empty Robe, Sarah Pruitt's Vanished! American's Most Mysterious Kindappings, Castaways, and the Forever Lost, and Richard Tofel's Vanishing Point.

Script, full sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/call-your-office/

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In July 1916, the New Jersey coast was rocked by the deadliest string of shark attacks in US history. This episode, #13 recounts the whole bloody story, from Beach Haven to Spring Lake to Matawan -- and beyond.

Key sources for this episode include Richard G. Fernicola's "Twelve Days of Terror" and contemporary newspaper accounts.

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

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In 1855 the town of Perry, New York was terrorized by a "sea serpent" in nearby Silver Lake. It was a hoax... but whose hoax was it?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/his-royal-snakeship/

On July 2, 1903 Washington Senators outfielder Ed Delahanty walked out of the team's hotel in Detroit and disappeared. We now know what happened to him, but no one knows why...

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/triple-jumper/

Time to dress up, because #7 is inviting you to a dinner party where all the foods are famous. Or at least have famous namesakes.

Transcript, sources and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/you-are-who-you-eat/

Okay, so I know we said last time that we weren't going to do this again, but you know what? We lied.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/oahspepals-god-goo/

(This is the last one, we swear.)

Because you've been good, here's a podcast where two non-believers read through the Oahspe and try not to be jerks about it.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/oahspepals/

(Apologies to Apocrypals for nicking their format -- it's purely out of love, we swear.)