Our Fake History

Our Fake History

Author: PodcastOne Language: English Episodes: 100
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A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
Episodes
Episode #213 - Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part I) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:36
There is an old English rhyme that implores every patriotic Briton to "Remember, Remember, the 5th of November." This was the date of a foiled attack on the English parliament known as the Gunpowder Plot. The man poised…
OFH Throwback- Episode #3- Was There a Real Labyrinth? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:57
In this throwback episode Sebastian revisits one of the earliest episodes of Our Fake History from 2015. Is the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur just a bedtime story for morbid children or does it contain the kernels of…
Episode #212 - Was "The Man Called Intrepid" a Fraud? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:44
In 1976 the bestselling biography A Man Called Intrepid made the Canadian spy Sir. William Stephenson something close to a household name. The book claimed that the previously obscure Stephenson had secretly been the hea…
Episode #211 - Who Killed King Tut? (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:39
When King Tutankhamun became King of Egypt at the tender age of eight he inherited a kingdom in chaos. His father's religious revolution had upended the traditional social structure and enraged the old priesthood. In tho…
Episode #210 - Who Killed King Tut? (Part I) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:45
King Tutankhamun may be the best known Egyptian Pharaoh. The discovery of his tomb in 1922 created a wave of "Tut-mania" that has made him a fixture of pop-culture ever since. But even though his treasures are among the…
OFH Throwback- Episode #172- Who Was the African Samurai? (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:32:10
In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to the conclusion of the African Samurai series. In the 1580’s Japan was a on the precipice of a massive transformation. For over a century the country had been embroile…
OFH Throwback- Episode #171- Who Was the African Samurai? (Part I) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:21
In this throwback episode Sebastian was inspired by a recent controversy around the Assassin's Creed videogame series to revisit his series on Yasuke, the African Samurai. Near the end of Japan’s “Warring States” period…
OFH Throwback- Episode #90- How Bad Was Blackbeard? (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:47
In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to Season 4 to finish up the series on Blackbeard. Thanks to the mysterious pirate historian Captain Charles Johnson, Blackbeard became a truly legendary villain. Accord…
OFH Throwback - Episode #89 - How Bad Was Blackbeard? (Part I) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:17
In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to season four and a fan favorite about one of history's most notorious pirates. Blackbeard may be the most iconic pirate to ever roam the seas. His fearsome reputation…
Episode #209- What Are the Olympic Myths? (Part III) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:48
The man credited with reviving the Olympics in the late 1800's was a French aristocrat named Baron Pierre De Coubertin. In his memoir he claimed that idea to revive the Olympic games had been his and his alone. However,…

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