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True Stories Episodes

Stories that make us ask questions about life, war, events, and so much more.
Oct. 12, 2025

THE LEGEND OF THUNDER ROAD: FROM FAST CARS, MOUNTAIN BOYS, HOOCH, AND…

In the 30's, 40', and 50's, "white lightning', or strong mountain brewed whiskey, was an important revneue source for the mountain communities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. But getting it out of the stills and do...

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Oct. 5, 2025

THE MURDER OF FOUNDING FATHER GEORGE WYTHE- A TRUE CRIME STORY FROM O…

Great link for those who want the full story:"The Murder of George Wythe" Title page from Boyd and Hemphill's pamphlet reprint, The Murder of George Wythe: Two Essays (Williamsburg, VA: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1955)....

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Sept. 21, 2025

MISSING PERSONS FOUND (#3A) OUR CANINE HEROES

In this episode, part 3A of a two episode "Our Canine Heroes"installment, we share actual stories of hero rescue dogs and why search and rescue relies so heavily upon them, especially when time is critical in saving lives. W...

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Sept. 14, 2025

MISSING PERSONS: FOUND (#2) CALLING COLTER SHAW WHAT TO DO WHEN A…

In this episode we discuss the human element required to locate missing persons. Police, FBI, Investigators, and trackers are discussed, as a number of organizations which work free of charge to help families find their love...

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Aug. 31, 2025

FALL SERIES: MISSING PERSONS: FOUND (EPISODE 1) THE DETECTIVES BEST…

Eight powerful stories revealing how DNA,Geneology.and cold case detectives solved missing persons case., some found alive, someproviding a final asnwer and closure for grieving relatives. COMING NEXT: FALL SERIES (EPISODE 2)...

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June 29, 2025

MISSING DOWN UNDER: THE TOM PHILLIPS STORY

Tom Phillips and his three young children disappeared from the isolated rural Waikato town of Marokopa on 9 December 2021. New Zealand Police believe that the children were taken by their father to a location somewhere in the...

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June 22, 2025

REMEMBERING THE HARVEY GIRLS AND HOW THEY TAMED THE WILD WEST

By 1880 the ATS&F Railroad had laid tracks from Kansas City to California- and people and products were starting to move through the still untamed west. Food along the way, however, was a spotty proposition, and the railroad was faced with a...

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June 15, 2025

THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE (WHICH RESULTED IN) OUR NATIONS FIRST MEDA…

On the 26th of March, 1863, the first six Medals of Honor were awarded to 6 surviving members of the Andrew's Raiders, who, one year earlier , had participating in a daring union raid into the south to commandeer a railroad e...

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May 25, 2025

THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF BUTCH O'HARE: AMERICA'S 1ST WWII FIGHTER ACE

I first heard this story on Paul Harvey years ago., and I've retold it in part but never in full. This is the story of Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry O'Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) who was an American naval av...

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April 13, 2025

REMEMBERING I LOVE LUCY

TV history was made in 1951 when the first episode of I Love Lucy aired on CBS starring a fiery red head Irish actress named Lucille Ball and her real life husband, Cuban American band leader Desi Arnaz as New York City apartment dwellers Lucy and...

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April 6, 2025

THE JFK ASSASSINATION COVER-UP: THE REPORTER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH-DOROTH…

Full Transcript at   In light of the recent release of thousands of previously classified documents concerning the Kennedy Assassination we present an in-depth look at the aftermath, which left investigators wirth the murder of the assassin...

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March 23, 2025

THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 2) THE TRAP IS SPRUNG

Part Two tells the story of the hunt for both lions, and how Lt.Col Patterson corners them both, as well as the time things got so bad with the coolies being killed that most of them left the bridge project.

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March 16, 2025

THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 1): THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS

The incredible true story (the 1996 movie is largely fiction) of a British railroad project in Kenya in 1898 that was being harassed by man-eating lions which would attack coolies in the night,dragging them out of their tents screaming for help....

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March 6, 2025

BEST OF (#54 of 514) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (PT 2)

The story of old Adolph Ruth, who used a map whiich his son had found (supposedly the old Peralta Map) to venture into the Superstitions to find the gold. He never made it out. This is the story of how he was found and others that followed.

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March 6, 2025

BEST OF (#53 OF 513) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (PT 1)

This is the story of most famous legend of buried gold in the west.  An old prospector who mined in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona was witnessed to have possessed hi grade gold. Many men have tried trying to find his mine but noone ever...

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March 2, 2025

THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 2): SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS, AFTERMATH

In part two we cover a recap of the3 flood path and devastation, survivor and media accounts,  causes and blame,including the 2016 report, Clara Barton's efforts with the Red Cross, and the Johnstown floods of 1936 and 1977, showing that...

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Feb. 23, 2025

THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 1) HEROES & SURVIVORS

On May 31st 1889 the earthen dam holding back Lake Conemaugh 15 bmiles upstream from Johnstown, PA burst duriung heavy spring rains, sending a 40 foot wave of death down a narrow river valley in which was located 80,000 persons, and finally reaching...

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Feb. 9, 2025

PARIS UNDERCOVER: A WARTIME STORY OF COURAGE, FRIENDSHIP, AND BETRAYAL

Two woman in Nazi-occupied Paris, bith close friends over 50 years old create a daring escape line that rescued dozens of allied servicemen . With one still in prison,  one was returned to the states on a prisoner swap and wrote a tell-all book...

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Jan. 19, 2025

THE JFK CONSPIRACY THE SECRET PLOT TO KILL KENNEDY- AND WHY IT FAIL…

A Dangerous Loner... The Perfect TARGETS... THYE VERY FIRST PLOT TO KILL JFK Jon talks with NYT Best-selling authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mentz about THE JFK CONSPIRACY- The secret plot to kill Kennedy- and why it failed.   Check out our...

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Jan. 5, 2025

THE YOUNG BROTHERS MASSACRE: A BAD DAY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

On Jan 2, 1932, in a rural area in southwest Missouri, 6 lawmen were shot and killed and two wounded in a shootout as a groupof 11 sheriffs and deputies surrounded a farmhouse in which two or three well-armed fugitives were holedup. They were brothers...

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