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Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious Minds
Actually... is a deep-dive podcast that digs up the stories history left behind - the ones that got buried, dismissed, or quietly erased. Each episode pulls apart a piece of pop culture, true crime, or hidden history to find the version nobody tells you: the hoaxes, the cover-ups, the myths that calcified into "fact." Join us each week for the stories that are stranger, messier, and far more interesting than the official version.
Episodes
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 8: Robert Todd Lincoln: The Man History Wouldn’t Leave Alone
Robert Todd Lincoln is remembered for one of history’s strangest coincidences: his eerie connection to the assassinations of three American presidents: his…
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 7: The Great Cabbage Patch Kids War of Christmas 1983
In Christmas 1983, one toy turned otherwise reasonable parents into a nationwide army of determined shoppers. Cabbage Patch Kids were oddly named, a little…
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 6: Before Dallas: The Forgotten Plot to Kill JFK
Three years before Dallas, a 73-year-old retired postal worker sat in a dynamite-rigged Buick, waiting for President-elect Kennedy's car to pass by in Palm…
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 5: The Million Dollar Corner: What Was Hiding Behind Macy's Famous Giant Shopping Bag?
For more than sixty years, a giant red Macy’s shopping bag wrapped around the corner of the company’s Herald Square flagship. But when it came down in July…
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 4: A Complicated Man - Emily Wilson and the Translation that Changed The Odyssey
In November 2017, Emily Wilson published something unprecedented in more than four hundred years of English literature: the first complete English translation…
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 2: Go Ask Alice — The Fake Diary That Fooled America for 50+ Years
In 1971, a "real diary" from an anonymous, drug-addicted teenage girl hit bookshelves — and terrified a generation. Except the girl never existed. "Go Ask…
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 3: Whatever Happened to D.B. Cooper’s Money? —The Perfect Crime’s Imperfect Ending
In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a plane, collected $200,000 in ransom, and vanished into a storm over the Pacific Northwest — parachute…
Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious MindsEpisode 1: Project Acoustic Kitty — The CIA’s Most PURR-Posterous Idea
In 1966, the CIA spent five years and roughly $20 million (in today's money) turning a house cat into a surveillance device — implanting a microphone in its…