History Obscura

Mission to Mars--But Not the Buzz Aldrin Version

Hello! This is your happy host, Mandy Gardner. Unfortunately, a demon has taken up residence in my throat this week, so I have decided to share a few pre-recorded chapters of my science fiction novel, Mission to Mars, with you tonight. As luck would have it, this very book and its predecessor, Letters to Earth, are currently on sale as whole audiobooks through Endless Ink Publishing. Please do buy yourself a copy!
 
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Bonus Episode: Canadian WWI Soldier Saved by Dead Brother

Does what it says on the tin! A Canadian soldier's paranormal experience during WWI.
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Minnie Dean: The Baby Farmer of New Zealand

Baby farming wasn't always an evil side hustle--or was it? This is the story of Minnie Dean, neé McCulloch, a Scottish-born settler of southern New Zealand in the 19th century.
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Treasure Island: Chapter Two

Bonus weekly episode! Chapter Two of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel, Treasure Island.

Life Magazine’s ”Dawn of Religion”

The antiquated yet fascinating tale of humankind's religious awakening, as told by Life Magazine in 1955! Ah, the obsolete anthropological theory! Golly, the complete omission of all femalekind! That's what we call the history of history, friends. Do enjoy ;)
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Hallowe’en Special Story! The Monkey’s Paw: Parts Two & Three

Very Happy Hallowe'en to all of you special people! Thank you so much for joining me this season and every other season! There was great witchery afoot tonight; don't mind the lykoi's howling and jingling along with the conclusion of this classic spooky tale. It's their Hallowe'en, too ;)
 
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Halloween Special Story! The Monkey’s Paw: Part One

Not exactly as told by The Simpsons ;) Enjoy the Monkey's Paw short series this Hallowe'en season!
 
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Nightmare Before Halloween? It’s the Month of Hungry Ghosts

 
Halloween & Day of the Dead may epitomise the spooky season in Europe and North America, but Asia has its own terrifying annual festival in which swarms of ravenous spirits with bad karma flood into the land of the living.
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Prophecies for the World of 1980!

Hear what American industry experts of 1955 had to say about the world of the future in 1980!
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Treasure Island

Today's reading is from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel, Treasure Island.
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