These things shouldn’t even be possible.
Following a kidnapping of the president of Glico industries, a crime organization calling themselves the Monster with 21 Faces begins systematic extortion attempts on confectionery giants Glico and Morinaga, including lacing candy with potassium cyanide. The mystery behind who the Monster with 21 Faces is remains.
Some of our Research:
Simple facts
Pocky related approach
The Glico Morinaga case
A man calling himself Albert Johnson led the Mounties on their biggest manhunt ever, performing almost superhuman feats of evasion and survival before he was eventually brought down. And the RCMP was never able to solve the mystery of who he was and where he came from.
Some of Our Research:
Mapping the route
The details
A little more on Albert
One mystery has plagued us since childhood- how does he carry all those toys? How does he make it to everyone’s house in one night? Why has no one seen him delivering toys? That’s right, it’s Santa! We take a look at the tough questions, and this time, we may have actually solved it!
Some of our Research:
How he gets around
Why you never see him
Never a bad thought
The 1918 flu pandemic, known as the Spanish Flu, killed 50-100 million people world wide, somewhere between 3%-5% of the worlds population at the time. What made this flu strain so deadly, how did it spread so fast, and where did this strain come from? In this extended show we dive deep into the possible origins, behaviors, and potential causes of this flu pandemic.
Some of our Research:
Spanish Flu Stats
Migrant workers
From a vaccine
Unlucky patient zero
Panspermia
A clever bug
Viral double team
Virus and bacteria
Aspirin poisoning
Evolution from Space-Sir Frederick Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe
Virus in the sky
Historical comets and plagues
More about comets than you ever wanted to know
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Kaspar’s sudden appearance from nowhere in Nuremberg, Germany, touched off controversies that lasted for decades. Was he a child of royalty, stolen from the cradle and robbed of his birthright? Or a homeless kid who was kind of a con man?
Some of Our Research:
Kaspar’s Wiki entry
Another telling of the story
Tracts Relating to K Hauser by Earl Stanhope
DNA Analysis