All Stories

cheat week

The Serpentine Story of Snake Oil, Or How I Came to Buy Snake Oil from Amazon.com

cheat week

How To: Cheat Nuclear Fusion

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The Man Who Can Punk Your Dog

houdini

Marvel at the Awesome and Mysterious Power of 19th-Century Magic Advertisements

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I Spent 4 Seasons as Amy Poehler's Stand-In

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Cheating Wonders: A Brief History of the Konami Code

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The Map of the World's Best Cheats, Fakes and Flat-Out Lies

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Cheating Wonders: The Mysterious Cloaked Figure of Gastonia

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Object of Intrigue: The Turk, a Mechanical Chess Player that Unsettled the World

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FOUND: A Fake Bank in China

100 wonders

100 Wonders: The Tunguska Event

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How To Fake Good Booze

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Why Fake Diaries Can be as Powerful as the Real Thing

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The Time I Convinced A Hollywood Director that I Was My Identical Actress Twin

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The Golden Age of Fake IDs Could Be Over

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Cheating Wonders: Beringer's Lying Stones

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FOUND: A Stone Giant in Upstate New York

obscura day

Relive the Glory of Obscura Day with This Podcast Documentary