Did a no-longer-living Mark Twain send a novel from the great beyond with a Ouija Board? Find out about the real story with help from our pal Nate DuFort of the podcast, Unspookable.

Episode 110! Peter the Great, The Hairy Eagle and more!

Did I decide on an episode about Peter the Great just so I could say 6-7 a few times to be cringe and make kids laugh? Yes, yes I did. But it's a really fun story about when the Tsar of All Russia travelled "incognito" through Europe. 

And as a bonus, we're talking hair sales, hair wreaths, and even the not-so-famous "Hairy Eagle!"

Episode 109 tells the story of Lincoln's the speech Lincoln lost before his inauguration in 1861.

Also included is the story of Ely S. Parker, an indigenous Seneca man who made an impact in the Civil War - and who had really nice handwriting.

Composer Joseph Haydn is buried with two skulls. You'll never believe why (hint: it has to do with phrenology).

Meanwhile Thomas Paine's bones went missing thanks to an overly enthusiastic fan.

Henriette D'angeville was the first woman to climb Mount Blanc in the Alps, despite everyone advising her not to try it.

Decades later, Julia Archibald Holmes (a friend of John Brown's) became the first woman to summit Pike's Peak, a feat that Pike himself never did.

Philo Farnsworth loved electricity so much he came up with a way to invent television - as a 14 year old!

Centuries beforehand Stephen Gray, a British scientist, learned more about electricity than anyone before him - and he used children to show how it worked!

This episode will make you hungry!

Rufus Estes and Chin Foin both left a big mark on food, both lived in Chicago at the same time, and both had their food featured in important cookbooks in 1911.

The year 1917 gave us both the birth of the Cottingly Fairies and the silly fake history known as the Bathtub Hoax.

A man named Hadji Ali, but known as Hi Jolly, was an important figure with the US Army's short lived Camel Corps, and his legend lives on today.

Around the same time a man named Elisha Otis changed the world with the elevator brake. It was safe and carried people higher and higher!

Two guys who grew up on farms. Both were tinkerers.

Benjamin Banneker, a free Black American created the first striking clock built in America.

Richard Pearse, from New Zealand, was a pioneer in flight. Was he a first? we don't know for sure. But he was pretty interesting!