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In this episode, Sarah and Katie take a crack at one of Canada’s strangest mysteries: The Mad Trapper of Rat River. Travel back to 1931, [Read more]

As the daughter of a pope, Lucrezia was born into dizzying power and political intrigue. She was also controversial — rumors of incest and other [Read more]

Over the course of her life, Marie Laveau wielded enormous influence as the notorious Voodoo Queen of New Orleans — but how much of her [Read more]

With Halloween looming, Sarah and Katie travel back in time to explore the historic challenge that led to the creation of Frankenstein and the vampiric [Read more]

Saint Paul’s Cathedral stands on the site of four previous churches, the earliest of which dates back to 604. When German forces bombed London in [Read more]

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in August of 79 AD, Pompeii was buried in volcanic ash and rock. As time passed, Pompeii was forgotten. Learn more [Read more]

The outspoken statesman and abolitionist Charles Sumner served as a senator from 1851-1874. Learn how Senator Sumner’s 1865 protest against the Kansas-Nebraska Act prompted one [Read more]

Everyone’s heard of the breathtaking Egyptian queen Cleopatra — but have you ever heard of her children? Listen in as Katie and Sarah investigate the [Read more]

King Herod wasn’t the world’s worst ruler. Yet seventy years after his death his tomb was desecrated and forgotten. Learn more about the life and [Read more]

Today, people associate molasses with cookies and other sweets. Yet in 1919 molasses was used in munitions as well as food — and Boston had [Read more]