One Year, Two Hoaxes

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The year 1917 gave us both the birth of the Cottingly Fairies and the silly fake history known as the Bathtub Hoax.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. We're getting close to the Past and the Curious live in Chicago Land.
0:08.0	It's Saturday, April 5th at 11 a.m. I will be at the maze branch of the Oak Park Public Library in Chicago Land.
0:16.0	It's free, and I'd love to see you there. I'll have some stories, some songs, we'll share a few laughs,
0:22.5	and I'll also share my new production, the longest painting in the world,
0:26.5	which features live storytelling and original music.
0:29.5	I can't wait to see you, so find details on the website.
0:33.7	Chicago Land, let's rock.
0:39.5	Incoming Transmission. Chicago land, let's rock. Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.
0:45.5	We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest tales from across time.
0:51.2	From the Ice Bowl to the Great Heathen Army.
0:53.7	And the head of Oliver Cromwell.
0:55.4	The same head they kept on a pike for three years?
0:58.0	Yep.
0:58.6	All here on History Dispatches.
1:00.6	New episodes every weekday.
1:02.0	Find out more at history dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app.
1:08.2	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
1:14.2	Well, hello.
1:18.7	My name is Mirk.
1:24.4	And I have been turned into a turtle.
1:33.9	April fools, everybody, if I got turned into a turtle, I'd be more like a ninja turtle, I'd be like Michelangelo, you know.
1:40.4	Well, anyway, this episode is kind of April Foolsy themed.
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