Mysterious
af Robin Barefield
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The Murderer Who Helped Write The Oxford English Dictionary
The Murderer Who Helped Write The Oxford English Dictionary
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Mysterious explores the mysteries in the world around us. Brought to you by authors from a variety of genres, we each tell you about a mystery related to our particular field of expertise. From mysterious disappearances and UFOs to the unexplainable behavior of a pig to an unsolved mass murder at sea to a nun who suddenly disappeared. We will explore mysteries in nature, mysterious occurrences in history, and the enigmas of space. Join us and take a closer look at the mysterious world around us.
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- The Murderer Who Helped Write The Oxford English Dictionary · 18 min.Episode 75: The Murderer Who Helped Write The Oxford English Dictionary Words build worlds. They shape laws, compose prayers, ignite wars, and whisper love. Every word we speak…
- The Mysterious Plagues of Egypt · 31 min.Episode 74: The Mysterious Plagues of Egypt Most people know the biblical story about the Ten Plagues of Egypt. I learned the story in Sunday School. However, in recent months…
- The Valley of Headless Men: Nahanni National Park · 28 min.Episode 73: The Valley of Headless Men: Nahanni National Park With landmarks bearing the names of Deadmen Valley, Headless Creek, Funeral Range, and Hell’s Gate Rapids, you…
- The Lost Pages · 26 min.Episode 72: The Lost Pages Picture this: You walk into the New York Public Library. Those marble halls, the whispered conversations of scholars, the smell of old paper and…
- GEORGE HINTON HENRY, THE FATHER OF ALASKA JOURNALISM, FOUND AT LAST! · 19 min.Episode 71: George Hinton Henry, The Father osf Alaska Journalism Found at Last —Maybe No chapter on newspapers in Alaska would be complete without a section on the most-sued…
- Voynich Manuscript Mystery · 24 min.Episode 70: Voynich Manuscript Mystery There is a book, a book that has broken the minds of the world’s greatest codebreakers, a book that has resisted every attempt at…
- The Greenbrier Ghost – A True Tale of Murder and the Supernatural · 17 min.Episode 69: The Greenbrier Ghost: A True Tale of Murder and the Supernatural In the misty hills of 1897 Greenbrier County, a young woman’s sudden death sparked a chilling…
- Gift Mortgages · 17 min.Episode 68: Gift Mortgages HERE’S A DOUBLE MYSTERY FOR YOU! THE FIRST ONE IS: DIDN’T YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET THE MORTGAGE ON YOUR HOUSE PAID OFF FOR FREE? THE SECOND MYSTERY IS WHY…
- The Mothman of Point Pleasant · 22 min.Episode 67: The Mothman of Point Pleasant Welcome to a journey through one of America’s most haunting enigmas—the Mothman of Point Pleasant. Plus — The Phantom Dogsled by Steve…
- The Clara Nevada – An Accident or Murder? · 19 min.Episode 66: The Clara Nevada — Accident or Murder? No saga of the Alaska Gold Rush would be complete without a touch of the mysterious. Every rush has its eerie events, and the…
- The Mysterious Grand Canyon · 38 min.Episode 64: The Mysterious Grand Canyon Since well before the “Americans” discovered the magnificent Grand Canyon, the incredible geologic formation has been shrouded in…
- What Happened on the Edmund Fitzgerald · 23 min.Episode 63: What Happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald? The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitchee Gumee The lake it is said never gives up…
- Where’s Joe? · 22 min.Episode 62: Where's Joe? The endless supply of larger-than-life characters in Alaska makes the state fertile ground for reality television shows and movies based on true…
- Ghosts in the Goldfields · 28 min.Episode 61: Ghosts in the Goldfields Alaska has always been a land of extremes—untamed, ruthless, and seductive to those who believe they can master its wilderness. It has lured…
- Mysterious Area 51 andThe Skunk Works · 41 min.Episode 60: Mysterious Area 51 and The Skunk Works In the mid-1980s, I was involved in a civil trial in Lancaster, California. Both sets of attornies came from Los Angeles. One…
- The Hex Hollow Murder · 17 min.Episode 59: The Hex Hollow Murder Picture this: late November, 1928. York County, Pennsylvania. The trees are bare, clawing at a gray sky, and the air’s thick with the kind of…
- The Mystery of the First Broken Arrow · 28 min.Episode 58: The Mystery of the First Broken Arrow Fat-Boy Bomb The U.S. military defines a “Broken Arrow” as an “unexpectedent involving nuclear weapons that result in the…
- With all the Chaos Surrounding it, How Was the Alaska Railroad Ever Built? · 29 min.Episode 57: With all the Chaos Surrounding it, How Was the Alaska Railroad Ever Built? One of the greatest mysteries in Alaska – even though it is quite visible to the naked eye…
- Justice for Jon Benet · 25 min.Episode 57: Justice for Jon Benet On December 26, 1996, the police responded to a kidnapping call, which later turned into a murder investigation. There were two possibilities…
- The Mystery of Artificial Intelligence · 25 min.Episode 56: The Mystery of Artificial Intelligence In 1950, a robotic mouse named Theseus found its way through a maze and remembered the route. AI had taken its first baby…
