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Part 2: How Did Mary Baker Become Princess Caraboo?
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Brian Brushwood (Scam School, Modern Rogue, Scam Nation) brings you the hidden stories behind the most audacious con jobs, swindles and heists in history. Email the show at Worlds Greatest Con at Gmail dot comSupport us directly at Patreon dot com slash Greatest Con Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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- Part 2: How Did Mary Baker Become Princess Caraboo? · 39 dk · Sezon 9 Bölüm 2Princess Caraboo becomes Mary Baker once again. Behind the exotic language, the pirate kidnapping, and the faraway island was a poor young woman with a far more painful story…
- Project Alpha LIVE at CSICon 2026 · 58 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 9We return to the Mac Lab one final time as Brian is joined by Mike Edwards and Banachek live on stage to discuss Project Alpha at CSICon 2026 in Buffalo, NY. Part two of…
- Who Is the Mysterious Princess Caraboo? · 46 dk · Sezon 9 Bölüm 1A mysterious woman walks into a small English village speaking a language nobody understands. She says her name is Princess Caraboo: royalty from a faraway island, kidnapped by…
- Do Rainmakers Believe They Make The Rain? · 48 dk · Sezon 8 Bölüm 2In 1915, San Diego is on the brink of becoming a major American city, if it doesn’t die of thirst first. Enter Charles Hatfield. He claims a secret chemical process can summon…
- Why Do We Call It A Ponzi Scheme? · 41 dk · Sezon 8 Bölüm 1Charles Ponzi conducted a financial fraud so audacious he became the biggest brand name in crime. Yet most people don’t know what he actually did and those who do are often…
- Crazy Eddie - Part II · 42 dk · Sezon 7 Bölüm 2Eddie has a plan to make millions. It leaves him an international fugitive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Crazy Eddie - Part I · 36 dk · Sezon 7 Bölüm 1A New York City upstart becomes a legend in the city that never sleeps. But his greed leaves him teetering on the edge of fame, wealth and death. Hosted on Acast. See…
- Q Ships · 39 dk · Sezon 6The Germans have invented an aquatic killing machine the likes of which the world has never known. If you are one of its victims, how do you trick sure death? By pulling an…
- The Greatest Magic Show of all Time was a Lie · 46 dk · Sezon 5The true story of how Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin is called out of retirement to help quell an uprising in French Colonial Algeria. What happens next is the most famous, high…
- EPCOT - Part II · 48 dk · Sezon 4 Bölüm 2Walt is dead. His dream of EPCOT isn't. Roy Disney puts off his own retirement to attempt to finish his brother's final plan. In his way is a new hostile governor and the…
- EPCOT - Part I · 55 dk · Sezon 4 Bölüm 1Walt Disney doesn't want to expand, he wants to build his masterpiece. He doesn't want to sell more popcorn, he wants to defeat communism. He doesn't want Disneyland East, he…
- Uri Geller hijacks the New York Times, An Interview with Michael Shermer · 1 sa 21 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 8Brian and Justin discuss an article in the New York Times alleging that magic has forgiven it's 50-year grudge with Uri Geller. Considering the subject matter of our Project…
- In James Randi's Own Words · 33 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 7A funny thing happened as we finished our season. We asked for listeners to unearth an old podcast WGC co-creator Justin Robert Young did with James Randi and it was indeed…
- An Update On Project Alpha and Your Emails · 49 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 6Sometimes when you tell a story, you change it. We have an update on one of the central figures in Project Alpha. Brian Brushwood reads your emails and feedback including…
- Back In The Lab - Project Alpha Part V · 1 sa 11 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 5In a rare, candid, conversation Brian Brushwood sits down with Mike Edwards and Banachek to get even more stories from the Mac Lab and answer lingering questions. Hosted on…
- Side Characters - Project Alpha Part IV · 42 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 4At a 1983 press conference in New York City, the entire charade is revealed. It’s recorded for a prime time NBC special set to air two weeks later. We unpack 40 years of…
- Demonic - Project Alpha Part III · 52 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 3The boys are a team, they’ve been fooling the Mac Lab for over a year but what comes next? Fame and fortune for the Project Alpha team, hopefully. Yet, that means total…
- Alpha - Project Alpha Part II · 53 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 2Steve Shaw is an orphan who bounced around the globe. Mike Edwards is an Iowa choirboy who fulfilled every hope of his loving parents. They both see a world being defrauded by…
- Project - Project Alpha Part I · 42 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 1The Cold War is on, the threat of nuclear annihilation is constant. In a world of fear, a social contagion breaks out: the belief in psychic powers. Military, government and…
- Project Alpha Trailer - Season 3 of World's Greatest Con Begins April 10, 2023 · 2 dk · Sezon 3Two boys demonstrate genuine psychic powers in a rigorous academic study in the late 1970s. When the results are revealed, the academics will be at the center of a new field of…
