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The Kidnapping of Caleb Milne IV – Podcast #24

Published on August 6, 2009

Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Fraud & Deception, Hoaxes, Podcast

A long-forgotten story about the sensational kidnapping of Caleb Milne IV back in 1935. Not all was as it seemed.

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The Fake Epidemic – Podcast #22

Published on June 11, 2009

Posted in: Fraud & Deception, Podcast, Science, Technology & Medicine

The 1993 film Schindler’s List will forever immortalize the heroic efforts of Oskar Schindler to save the lives of more than one thousand Jews during World War II. Yet, there is another far lesser is a story of deception and just plain sheer genius. This is the story of

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Extracting Gold from Seawater – Podcast #17

Published on August 31, 2008

Posted in: Fraud & Deception, Hoaxes, Podcast

The true story of the 1897 invention of the "accumulator" that was designed to extract gold from the world's oceans.

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