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American Shadows
Hosted by iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild · EN
American Shadows is a bi-weekly podcast from iHeartRadio and Aaron Mahnke’s Grim & Mild. The show focuses on the darker stories from American history: the people, places, and things that are hidden and forgotten in the shadows. From better-known tales like the conspiracy to steal Lincoln’s body, to less-known stories, like the rainmaker who flooded San Diego. Join host Lauren Vogelbaum as she spans two centuries of omitted lore from our country’s history books.
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Lavender Haze
Jul 27, 202300:29:12Tap to summarizeIn the 1950s the United States launched a witch hunt, and it's not at all what you think.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Hungry For Justice
Jul 13, 202300:30:28Tap to summarizeWhat would you do when faced with a life-or-death situation? Alferd Packer had to answer this question for himself, and do something that is -- for many -- unthinkable. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →A Morbid Obsession
Jun 29, 202300:31:44Tap to summarizeThe story of a man who loved his mother. Too much.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Like The Wind
Jun 15, 202300:25:57Tap to summarizeWhen the bicycle was invented it did more than simply change people's lives, leisure and mobility. It ignited a controversy over traditional gender roles. One woman set out to change all that.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Louder Than A Riot
Jun 1, 202300:28:07Tap to summarizeThe fight for equal rights was long and slow until one day a fight broke out with police, culminating in a riot. What happened next is history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →A Deadly Isle
May 18, 202300:29:59Tap to summarizePrussian immigrant Louis Wagner came to America hoping to make a better life for himself. Working as a fisherman in the Isle of Shoals it seemed he was living the dream, until he found himself down on his luck.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Boneheads
May 4, 202300:28:05Tap to summarizeThe Gilded Age was a time of opulence and opportunism, an age that turned businessmen into household names. But it also created some of the biggest rivalries in the rush to unearth the past.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Bad Medicine
Apr 20, 202300:31:09Tap to summarizeThomas Neill Cream wanted nothing more than to leave the family shipping business to become a medical doctor. Having graduated with honors, his future seemed promising -- until the bodies began to appear. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Anchors Away
Apr 6, 202300:26:27Tap to summarizeSpirits were high that summer’s day as everyone boarded the General Slocum. The passengers were looking forward to their annual picnic just up river… but as fate would have it, they’d never arriveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →The American Plan
Mar 23, 202300:27:19Tap to summarizeIn 1918, the US Government created a plan to track, detain, and imprison women for the STIs brought home from soldiers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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