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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Where History Comes Alive! A fast-paced, well-researched weekly podcast covering a wide range of historical events, persons, places, legends, and mysteries, Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, the selection of stories and interviews includes lost treasure, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, WWII stories, biographies, disasters, legends of the Old West, American Revolutionary history, urban legends, movie backstories, and much more. Available wherever podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Comcast & others. Episodes air Sundays at 12pm ET and "Best Ofs" on Fridays early around 12:05 AM. Easiest way to search categories or leave a review is at our website here: https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/Follow us at www.Facebook.com/1001Heroes and Twitter @1001podcast.
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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Where History Comes Alive! A fast-paced, well-researched weekly podcast covering a wide range of historical events, persons, places, legends, and mysteries, Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, the selection of stories and interviews includes lost treasure, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, WWII storie...

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WHY DO BUNNIES LAY EGGS AT EASTER?
April 1, 2026

WHY DO BUNNIES LAY EGGS AT EASTER?

Found in the Footnotes –Why Do Bunnies Lay Eggs At Easter? In this light‑hearted Easter special, we dive into one of history’s most delightfully confusing questions: Why on earth do bunnies lay eggs at Easter? The answer, as ...
MK-ULTRA (PT 2):  THE VICTIMS SPEAK, THE STORIES OF CIA ABUSE OF POWER, THE HEARINGS, THE GUILTY WALK FREE
March 29, 2026

MK-ULTRA (PT 2): THE VICTIMS SPEAK, THE STORIES OF CIA ABUSE OF POWER, THE HEARINGS, THE GUILTY WALK FREE

SHOW NOTES — MK‑ULTRA Pt. 2: The Victims, The Stories & The Outcome Episode Summary In Part Two of our MK‑ULTRA investigation, we move from the paper trail into the human cost of one of the most disturbing intelligence progra...
TORNADO: REMEMBERING THE 2011 SUPER OUTBREAK & HOW TO SURVIVE THE NEXT ONE
March 27, 2026

TORNADO: REMEMBERING THE 2011 SUPER OUTBREAK & HOW TO SURVIVE THE NEXT ONE

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast TORNADO: REMEMBERING THE 2011 SUPER OUTBREAK & HOW TO SURVIVE THE NESXT ONE The 2011 Super Outbreak stands as the largest, deadliest, and most destructive tornado outbreak ...
DR. PEMBERTON'S CURE
March 25, 2026

DR. PEMBERTON'S CURE

Dr. John Pemberton's "cure" wqas a patent medicine created in 1886 to treat morhine addiction, nerve pain, headaches, and hangovers. His remedy consisted of Bordeaux wine mixed with coca leaves and kola nuts, with the coca le...
MK-ULTRA THE DEADLY CIA BRAIN CONTROL PROGRAM THAT FUELED THE 60'S LSD COUNTERCULTURE (PT 1) HOW THEY WERE CAUGHT
March 22, 2026

MK-ULTRA THE DEADLY CIA BRAIN CONTROL PROGRAM THAT FUELED THE 60'S LSD COUNTERCULTURE (PT 1) HOW THEY WERE CAUGHT

Beginning in the late 1950's our government's CIA, feeling that our enemies were leading us in the science of mind control, began a program of experimentation on both volunteer and unknowing subjects using the hallucinatory ...
BIGFOOT: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE SEARCH
March 20, 2026

BIGFOOT: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE SEARCH

Does Bigfoot really exist? We'll give you all the known science and let you decide! Stop by our new website where you can browse all 12 1001 shows and enjoy over 1,500 stories at www.bestof1001stories.com and leave a review ...
BORN ON A MOUNTAINTOP IN...FRANKLIN?
March 18, 2026

BORN ON A MOUNTAINTOP IN...FRANKLIN?

The Ballad of Davy Crockett begins this way "Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, Greenest state in the land of the free...", but Tennessee wasn't always Tennessee... actually it was named Franklin when the independent thinkin...
THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED 'THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO'
March 15, 2026

THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED 'THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO'

The True Story That Inspired 'The Count of Monte Cristo ' — A Four‑Part Special at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Fresh off our full narration of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo at 1001 Stories for th...
UFO FILES: THE BETTY AND BARNEY HILL INCIDENT
March 13, 2026

UFO FILES: THE BETTY AND BARNEY HILL INCIDENT

⭐ Summary: The Betty and Barney Hill Incident On the night of September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill—an interracial, middle‑class couple from Portsmouth, New Hampshire—were driving home from a vacation in Canada when they ...
THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD OF BOSTON 1919
March 11, 2026

THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD OF BOSTON 1919

DROWNING IN MOLASSES — SHOW NOTES Overview On January 15, 1919, Boston’s North End was shattered by one of the strangest and most devastating industrial disasters in American history: the Great Molasses Flood. A massive steel...
THE KIDNAPPERS OF CENTRAL PARK
March 8, 2026

THE KIDNAPPERS OF CENTRAL PARK

THE CENTRAL PARK KIDNAPPING EDWARD H.SMITH There are stories in American history that arrive like a thunderclap—stories that seize the public imagination, shake a city to its core, and leave behind a permanent change in how ...
A CURIOUS VANISHING: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 11 DAY DISAPPEARANCE IN DEC 1926
March 4, 2026

A CURIOUS VANISHING: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 11 DAY DISAPPEARANCE IN DEC 1926

When the most famous writer of crime fiction mysteriously disappeared in December of 1926, leaving behind her parked car with headlights on and her personal items, the public and the press feared the worst. An intensive searc...

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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
May 1, 2025

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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