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Emileigh, Morgan, and friends go on a trip of a lifetime and ghost hunt Fort Pulaski in Savannah, GA!
 
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Sources 
“History of Memory, Tourism, and the Lost Cause at Fort Pulaski” 
https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-of-memory-tourism-and-the-lost-cause-at-fort-pulaski.htm
“Fort Pulaski” 
https://www.nps.gov/places/fort-pulaski.htm
“Underground Railroad at Fort Pulaski” 
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/underground-railroad-at-fort-pulaski.htm
“Prisoner of War Experience” 
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/immortal-600.htm
“Fort Pulaski” 
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-pulaski
“Fort Pulsaski” 
https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/fort-pulaski/
“Fort Pulaski and the Defense of Savannah”
https://npshistory.com/publications/civil_war_series/12/sec1.htm
“Casimir Pulaski” 
https://www.nps.gov/people/casimir-pulaski.htm
“Fort Pulaski and the Defense of Savannah” 
https://npshistory.com/publications/civil_war_series/12/sec2.htm

Episode 177. We're starting spooky season off with a true horror story. In the early 1900s, dialpainters working for radium corporations found themselves facing a number of serious health issues years after leaving their jobs, including teeth falling out, broken bones, cancer, and death. Today's episode covers the fight a small group of women went through while dying in order to make their previous employers take accountability and provide compensation for the harm they experienced. 
 
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Sources 
 
“Control of Hazards in the Luminous Dial Painting Industry” by J.C. Jones and M.J. Day (Oct 1945), British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol 2 No. 4, pp. 202-208
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27720547
 
“Mae Keane, One Of The Last ‘Radium Girls,’ Dies At 107” by Rebecca Hersher (Dec 28 2014)
https://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-one-of-the-last-radium-girls-dies-at-107
 
“Deadly occupation, forged report” by Amy Roeder (Oct 24 2013)
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/centennial-radium-forged-report/
 
“The radium girls and the press” by Bill Kovarik and Mark Neuzil (1996)
https://revolutionsincommunication.com/radiumgirls/
 
“The Radium Girls at the National Archives” by Zachary Dabbs (Jan 4 2018)
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/04/the-radium-girls-at-the-national-archives/
 
“The Radium Girls” by Shelton Simmons (Mar 6 2021)
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c2fe2df2c5d44d878d6b05559fa386b8
 
“Radium Poisoning Revealed: A Case Study in the History of Industrial Health Reform*” by Claudia Clark (1993). Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Vol 19:1 pp 73-116
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23262526 
 
“Meet the Radium Girls…” 
https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls
 
“Grace Fryer”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Fryer
 
“Katherine Schaub” by Nicolleta Perna (Oct 2024)
https://njwomenshistory.org/biographies/katherine-schaub/
 
“Edna Bolz Hussman”
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206407113/edna-hussman
 
“Albina ‘Bena’ Maggia Larice”
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187122198/albina-larice
 
“The Radium Girls” by Talha Khan Burki (Feb 2017), Cancer and Society Vol 18 Issue 2 p. 178
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(17)30036-0/abstract 
 
“Quinta Maggia McDonald”
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153926380/quinta-mcdonald 
 
Sound Credits
Music by Nadia Cripps from Pixabay 
https://pixabay.com/music/solo-piano-melancholy-in-winter-182627/

Episode 176. The RMS Carpathia was on a routine trip to Croatia when it heard the cries for help from the Titanic. Without missing a beat, the Captain and crew went straight to their aide. Today's episode is about this feat of heroism and the downfall of the ship in World War 1. 
 
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Episode 175. The Food and Drug Administration is the result of decades of advocacy and legal battles for the regulation of food and medicine in the United States. Before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, thousands of people every year died from adulterated food, including but not limited to lead in cheese, borax in milk, and clay or wax beads being passed for coffee beans. Today's episode explores the evolution of this government agency and how, once again, regulations are written in blood. 
 
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Sources
“Where Did the FDA Come From, And What Does It Do?” by Ben Panko (Feb 8 2017)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/origins-FDA-what-does-it-do-180962054/
 
“Background: Research Tools on FDA History” (Jan 31 2018)
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-history-research-tools/background-research-tools-fda-history
 
“U.S. Food and Drug Administration Is Established” by Jennifer Davis (2021) 
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/us-food-and-drug-administration-established
 
“Food and Drug Administration” 
https://theamericanleader.org/timeline-event/food-and-drug-administration/
 
“Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome” (June 26 2017)
https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/eosinophilia-myalgia-syndrome/
 
“The Jungle”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
 
“What was food like before the FDA?” by Lauren Leffer (May 1 2025)
https://www.popsci.com/health/food-safety-before-fda/
 
“Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts” 
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts
 
Sound Credits:
Music by Gregor Quendel from Pixabay 
https://pixabay.com/music/classical-string-quartet-ragtime-lucky-lou-1906-frank-c-keithley-arranged-for-strings-293032/

Episode 174. Although Pompeii has become the most well known Volcanic disasters that has ever happened, most people have the real story of that fateful day wrong. Emileigh and Morgan follow the hour by hour timeline of events that not only destroyed Pompeii but Herculaneum and the surrounding countryside. 
 
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Sources
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/last-hours-pompeii-mount-vesuvius-eruption-timeline/
 
https://www.worldhistory.org/pompeii/
 
https://www.science.org/content/article/minute-minute-account-pompeii-eruption-revealed-agonizing-detail
 
https://pompeiisites.org/en/pompeii-map/analysis/pompeii-after-the-eruption/
 
https://www.britannica.com/place/Pompeii/Influence-on-European-culture
 

One fateful day in August of 1883, the world experienced a worldwide calamity like no other. The volcanic island Krakatau, or Krakatoa, erupted. The resulting shockwave, tsunamis, and debris caused uncalculable damage around the planet. 
 
Sources
“Krakatoa 1883: The Loudest Sound in Recorded History”
https://volcanodb.com/krakatoa-eruption
 
“Krakatoa” by history.com editors (May 9 2018, updated Jun 30 2025)
https://www.history.com/articles/krakatoa
 
“On This Day: Historic Krakatau Eruption of 1883” (Aug 26 2017, updated Aug 16 2023)
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/day-historic-krakatau-eruption-1883
 
“The 1883 Krakatau eruption: A year of blue Moons” by Tammana Begum
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-1883-krakatau-eruption-a-year-of-blue-moons.html
 
“When Krakatoa Blew: How the 1883 Eruption Changed the World” by Patrick J. Kiger (Mar 7 2024)
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/krakatoa.htm
 
“The 1883 Cataclysm: Anatomy of an Apocalypse” 
https://www.krakatau.net/articles/cataclysm-1883/
 
https://www.krakatau.net/articles/global-consequences/ 
 
“Navigating the Sunda Strait: Colonial History and Maritime Charts” 
https://www.mygeoquest.com/navigating-the-sunda-strait-colonial-history-and-maritime-charts/
 
“The Passage Between Giants” 
https://qualla.com/sunda-strait/#list/qqgn/sunda-strait-wp
 
“The Straits Settlements and British Malaya” by Sir J. Frederick Dickson, K.C.M.G (1889-1890) from The English Illustrated Magazine, 7, pp. 283-292. 
https://victorianweb.org/periodicals/englishillustrated/11.html
 
“A Re-examination of Raffles’s Statistics on the Population of Java in the Early Nineteenth Century” by Yoshihiro Tsubouchi, Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 28 No. 4 (March 1991). 
https://kyoto-seas.org/pdf/28/4/280404.pdf
 
“Inside Out: The colonial displacement of Sumatra’s population” by Antonly Reid, Paper Landscapes: Essays in the Environmental History of Indonesia, pp. 61-89. (May 1998)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333079464_Inside_Out_the_Colonial_Displacement_of_Sumatra's_Population
 
Sound Credits: 
Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay  
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/household-oldfashioned-typewriter-20367/
 
Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay 
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/technology-old-school-projector-97973/
 
Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay 
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/household-old-style-door-bell-101191/
 
Sound Effect by u_qlymcu2vle from Pixabay 
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/telegraph/

Episode 172. After successfully getting his hostage to his apartment, Tony Kiritsis spends the next three days demanding air time, immunity, and money. Emileigh and Morgan dive into what demands were given into for the sake of saving Dick Hall's life. 
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUcZXVT6888
 
https://ibha.indiana.edu/the-tony-kiritsis-hostage-incident-62-hours-that-forever-changed-indiana-broadcasting/
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kiritsis
 
https://deadmansline.com/richard-hall/
 
https://www.biography.com/movies-tv/a69945868/dead-mans-wire-true-story-tony-kiritsis?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=mgu_ga_bio_md_pmx_prog_mix_us_23705378805&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23710774922&gbraid=0AAAAApTwOX0FfouIHCNEAx1Kgw_b1ZFVm&gclid=CjwKCAjwhZDUBhBGEiwAbi5bjjvKDmnFAoZdje9_VTgmUAcIEG2Ct35tvw074wYDHn98okILndgrIxoCcuEQAvD_BwE
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KITiydUmVk

Episode 171. Indianapolis became the center of attention on one fateful day in 1977 when Tony Kiritsis took Dick Hall hostage at gunpoint. The world was able to tune in and experience a situation unfold on live television for the first time, changing the way news is covered forever. 
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUcZXVT6888
 
https://ibha.indiana.edu/the-tony-kiritsis-hostage-incident-62-hours-that-forever-changed-indiana-broadcasting/
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kiritsis
 
https://deadmansline.com/richard-hall/
 
https://www.biography.com/movies-tv/a69945868/dead-mans-wire-true-story-tony-kiritsis?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=mgu_ga_bio_md_pmx_prog_mix_us_23705378805&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23710774922&gbraid=0AAAAApTwOX0FfouIHCNEAx1Kgw_b1ZFVm&gclid=CjwKCAjwhZDUBhBGEiwAbi5bjjvKDmnFAoZdje9_VTgmUAcIEG2Ct35tvw074wYDHn98okILndgrIxoCcuEQAvD_BwE
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KITiydUmVk

Episode 170. John Brown was a vehemently anti-slavery abolitionist who resorted to violence in order to dismantle the racist institution. His belief was that if enough people rose up, black people could be free in the United States. He also believed that the only way this could happen was by soaking the land in blood. 
 
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Sources
“John Brown” by history.com editors (Oct 27 2009, updated May 28 2025)
https://www.history.com/articles/john-brown
 
“John Brown” 
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/john-brown
 
“John Brown” by Harry Searles (Sept 24 2019, updated Jan 10 2025)
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/john-brown/
 
“John Brown” 
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
 
“John Brown” 
https://www.nps.gov/people/john-brown.htm
 
“John Brown” by Joshua J. Mark (Jun 25 2025)
https://www.worldhistory.org/John_Brown/
 
“John Brown’s Day of Reckoning” by Fergus M. Bordewich (Oct 2009)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-browns-day-of-reckoning-139165084/
 
“John Brown” by Britannica Editors (Jul 31 2026)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Brown-American-abolitionist
Sound Credits:
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” by the US Air Force Band (1999)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic%22_US_Air_Force_Band.ogg 
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic%22_US_Air_Force_Band.ogg">Composition: William Steffe; Performance: United States Air Forces in Europe Band, Concert Band; Recording: United States Air Force</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Episode 169. The evacuation of Dunkirk was not only an incredible feat of heroism, but was one of the main reasons that the Allies hung in long enough to win World War 2. Today, Emileigh and Morgan dive into how this nearly impossible task was done and the the aftermath of it's success. 
 
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https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/second-world-war/dunkirk/why-the-dunkirk-evacuations-were-an-unexpected-success
 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/second-world-war/battle-of-france/britains-phoney-start-to-the-second-world-war
 
https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1940-dunkirk-little-ships
 
https://www.mby.com/news/over-70-dunkirk-little-ships-to-return-to-dunkirk-marking-the-85th-anniversary-of-operation-dynamo-135162
 
https://www.britannica.com/story/timeline-of-the-dunkirk-evacuation
 
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/military-history-and-science/evacuation-dunkirk
 
https://www.adls.org.uk/history-of-dunkirk
 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/second-world-war/dunkirk/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-dunkirk-evacuations
 
https://soundingsonline.com/features/living-legacy-the-little-ships-of-dunkirk/
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ships_of_Dunkirk
 
https://about.proquest.com/en/blog/2017/dunkirk-the-real-stories-behind-the-drama/
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvTL2oW3cM