Rethinking Our History
In this new weekly show from the host of The Paranormal Lovers we take a look at some of histories less well known events. Why are they less well known? Because " History is written by the victors."
So we are here to look at the other side of the story, and to give people a starting point to learn about the true history of this country.
Episodes
40 episodes
Episode 39: Russell Williams
This week we are going to take a look as a soldier that tarnished not only his name but that of the Canadian Forces.With a career that spanned over 23 years Colonel Williams was at the top of his game when a local woman went missing from...
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Episode 38: Eleanor Roosevelt:
This week we are looking at an exceptional woman.For many years the first lady had been a prop for the most powerful man in the world. But when Franklin Roosevelt became the 32nd president of the US, his wife Eleanor flipped the position...
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Episode 38
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Episode 37: April 29, 1992 Part 2:
So we are back with the second half of the riots that changed LA forever. After the inital day of rioting, the violence became more widespread throughout the city. While law enforcement was quick to block off the neighborhoods of Beverly Hills ...
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Episode 38
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Episode 36: April 29, 1992, Part 1:
This week we are going back in the way back machine to the best decade of all time. The 90's. After what has been going on in California the last month or so, I felt it was appropriate to look at a time in history when we saw this happen before...
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Episode 36
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Episode 35: Marvin Heemeyer and Killdozer
We are back! Thank you so much to our fans who are still here with us while we were off. Thank you to everyone who reached out after the passing of my brother, your love was very much appreciated.So this week we are looking at an event I...
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Episode 34: Missing in Washington: Benita Long:
May 5th is MMIW Awareness Day and June 6th is MMIM Awareness day but everyday indigenous people go missing and their cases are thrown to the side.This is what happened with Benita Long when she went missing in March of 2022 from a motel ...
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Episode 34
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Episode 33: The Bath School Disaster:
WARNING: This episode contains discussion of animal murder and a school bombing.This week as we enter Pride month we take a look at someone no one should have any pride in. Andrew Kehoe was known as impatient and frugal, but also a helpf...
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Episode 33
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Episode 32: Slave or Samurai? Yasuke:
It seems there is a lot of vitrol and hate towards anything showcasing black excellence now adays on social media. This includes figures from history.Known as the black Samurai we do not know much about the man known simply as Yasuke. Bu...
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Episode 31: The Thule Society:
This week we are going to be looking at a society that should be long dead but has had a revival of sorts recently.Founded in the early 1900's as a study group, the Thule society quickly became German Supremacy group, one that heavily ta...
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Episode 31
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Episode 30: Lawman Bass Reeves
We got quite a short one this week, but it's a been more fun then what we have covered recently.Having been born into slavery, Bass Reeves was finally able to escape his captors and made his way to live with the natives. They taught him ...
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Episode 29: Missing in NC: Cole Thomas
This week we are going to do something different. We are going to be looking at the case of a missing person that needs attention.On the night of Thanksgiving 2016 Cole Thomas went missing from an intersection in Benson NC during a road ...
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Episode 28: The Match Girls Strike
Let's go to Britain this week, during the 1800's of it all. 1888 to be specific.After a newpaper article came out bringing light to the terrible conditions of the match making factories management attempted to make people sign a form ref...
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Episode 27: The Bombing of MOVE
This week we are looking at one of the wildest events I personally have ever heard of.In 1985 an organization known as MOVE was causing waves in the community. They had already been run out of one home, and now the cops were on their way...
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Episode 27
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Episode 26: The Oklahoma City Bombing Part 2:
Last week we took a journey to look at what drove two men to decide to bomb a federal building, taking the lives of dozens.This week we look at that act that took those lives. On April 19th 1995 at 9:02 am, the bomb that Timothy McVeigh ...
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Episode 26
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Episode 25: The Oklahoma City Bombing Part 1:
This week we are looking back at the worst domestic terrorist attack in US history.After the mess that the US government made during Rudy Ridge and the siege at Waco, many homegrown terrorist were angry and looking to take revenge agains...
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Episode 25
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Episode 24: The Dancing Plague of 1518
We got a bit of a lighter episode for ya this week, but its still a weird story.On July 14th 1518 Frau Troffea walked out of her home in Strasbourg France and began dancing. But this was not joyful twirling, line dancing, or any of the d...
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Episode 24
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Episode 23: The Murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy
In 1992 the cult classic movie Candyman made it's way to movie theaters, and more than a few people recognized the story line to be much more than just a nightmare. For folks living in the ABLA homes, the thought of someone breaking in through ...
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Episode 23
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Episode 22: H.H. Holmes
This week we are back in Chicago looking into one of the most infamous names to come out of the city, and can you believe it is not a black man?!Naw, Herman, as he was named at birth, was a descendent of the first english colonist. And j...
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Episode 22
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Episode 21: Ida B. Wells Part 2:
This week we are looking at Ida's life after meeting her husband and having kids. For some women, this would slow down their fight, but not for Ida.No, if anything being a mother to young black children fueled Ida's fight even more. Even...
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Episode 21
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Episode 20: Ida B. Wells: Part 1:
This first episode exploring black excellence during Black History Month looks at one of the bravest and most influencial black women in the history of the US.Ida B. Wells was born as an enslaved child before the emancipation proclimatio...
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Episode 19: Eastern Airlines Flight 401
On the night of December 29th 1972 Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was making a regular flight from NYC to Miami.Things were going well until the went to land in Miami, and there was a malfunction with a light in the cockpit. This malfunctio...
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Episode 19
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Episode 18: The Gullah Wars
We recently began binging a new to us show, the United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell and in the 3rd season he goes to the Low Country to meet the Gullah people.While there he learns about Robert Smalls, an enslaved man who stole a...
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Episode 17: Sidney Lanier
We got a short one for ya today folks. Last week on The Paranormal Lovers we covered the infamous Lake Lanier. This week we look at the man for whom the lake was named after.Sidney Lanier was a Georgia boy who loves music. After a short ...
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Episode 16: The St Francis Dam Failure
We are back for 2025 and boy do we have a good one for ya today.Back in the 1920's infrastructure regulations were not as strong as they are today, and they aren't great today. But by 1920 standards they are leaps and bounds better than ...
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Episode 16
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