October becomes Gustober, as Gus leads us through a 4-part series (at least) on Bigfoot in The Ozarks and the men that search for them. This week, we look into the Camp Orr legend of Smokey Joe, the last of the untouched (by us) Bigfoot-adjacent lore of The Ozarks proper, and touch on a couple of other historical wildman tales and the possibility that maybe.. it could just be bears

The story of the Taum Sauk Reservoir in southeast Missouri and the time the walls came tumbling down

A supplemental episode from our previous Governor Isaac Murphy series, the story of the Elkhorn Tavern at Pea Ridge National Military Park

The conclusion of the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad strike in Harrison, Arkansas. It gets pretty dark

One of America's longest railroad strikes took place in The Ozarks and you've probably never heard about it. Maybe privatizing public goods isn't the best idea. We also read a couple listener emails

We look at corn cob pipes, from their patenting in the northern Missouri Ozarks, to a small day to day look at a former factory in Everton, Arkansas

The life story of B. Dean Brown and the Branson Cross

We discuss the New York Times article that was released today about that racist intentional community near Ravenden, Arkansas that's trying to expand into Missouri and across elsewhere in the South

The story of a Bigfoot-type monster supposedly near War Eagle, Arkansas

In a podcast first, we have guests in the wonderful Beyond the Breakers podcast. Normally ones to focus on shipwrecks and maritime disasters, we pull them onto land and discuss one of the wackiest incidents in Springfield, Missouri history, The Cobra Scare.