A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
https://www.podcastone.com/pd/Our-Fake-History
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 14 hours 33 minutes
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Episode #151- What Is The Titanic Myth? (Part I)
The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of the best remembered nautical disasters in history. Over 1500 passengers died after the luxury ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in April 1912. Since that...
OFH Special Presentation - What Should We Believe About the Knights Templar? (Part II)
In part two of this OFH Special Presentation Sebastian pulls a little something out from behind the Patreon paywall. What was once a massive extra episode on the history and weird mythology of the Knights Templar is now being presented...
OFH Special Presentation - What Should We Believe About the Knights Templar? (Part I)
In this OFH Special Presentation Sebastian pulls a little something out from behind the Patreon paywall. What was once a massive extra episode on the history and weird mythology of the Knights Templar is now being presented as a two part...
Episode #150- Why Didn't You Tell Us That?
Over the course of 150 episodes there have been theories, stories, and sidebars that have fallen through the cracks. Tales that don't quite fit the main thrust of an episode sometimes get cut for time. Interesting, but obscure,...
Episode #149- Who Was the Real Stagger Lee?
The character of Stagger Lee has been one of America’s most enduring folk heroes. There have been over 400 songs written about the swaggering, gun-toting, bad man. He has gone by many names: Stacks Lee, Stagolee, Staxs O’Lee....
Episode #148- Who Was First in Flight? (Part III)
In 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont performed a number of short flights in front of a large crowd in Paris. These were done in his newly constructed heavier-than-air flying machine, the No.14-Bis. After these successful hops newspapers roared...
Episode #147- Who Was First in Flight? (Part II)
The late 19th century in France sometime gets called La Belle Époque or the "Beautiful Era". As the name suggests, this is a time that has been fondly remembered as an age of optimism marked by artistic and scientific...
Episode #146- Who Was First in Flight? (Part I)
In mythology from around the world the ability to fly was reserved strictly for the gods. Stories about human beings constructing flying machines were usually punctuated with a moral about hubris. Vain attempts at flight were an easy metaphor...
Episode #145- Real Gryphons?
The legendary hybrid creature known as the gryphon was said to have the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. Despite this fantastical descriptions the ancient Greeks and Romans truly seemed to have believed that gryphons were...
Episode #144- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part III)
Eleanor of Aquitaine has been called the "Queen of the Troubadours" by fawning biographers. She has been credited with transforming medieval European culture through her patronage of the arts. It's also been written...