The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

"Wyoming's own midget mummy" was found in the San Pedro Mountains in 1932 and mystified thousands before disappearing in 1950. but what was he? A little person, a baby, a fake? And where the heck did he get off to? https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/vote-for-pedro/ Key sources for this episode include Aaron Mahnke's The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures; Charles J. Cazeau and Stua

R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind and curing all of society's problems... so why aren't you living in one right now? https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fuller-houses/ Key sources for this episode include Jonathon Keats' You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future; Lloyd S

Paul Otlet had a vision of an system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... Too bad the most advanced technologies at his disposal were index cards. Transcript, links, and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/steampunk-google-and-the-world-city/ Key sources for this episode include Alex Wright’s Catalogi

Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-first-battle-of-the-american-revolution/ Key sources for this episode include Randolf C. Downes's "Dunmore's War: An Interpretation"; J.T. McAllister's "The Battle of Point Pleasant"; Virgil Lew

In which a mysterious lost people living in the mountains of Tennessee turn out to not be so mysterious after all... and maybe not even all that lost, if the Internet can be believed. Transcript, sources, and more: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/neither-here-nor-there/ Key sources for this episode include Anita Puckett's "The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of

In 1837 Canadians tried and failed to overthrow the British government. The revolution seemed over... and then the Redcoats seized an American ship, set it on fire, and sent it over Niagara Falls, prolonging the conflict for years. Transcript, sources and more available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/dangerous-excitement/ Key sources for this episode include Edwin C. Guillet

Enjoy this special treat: "Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, read by the incomparable Eric Leslie. Happy holidays!

An instructive little tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of arms and armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/armor-class-4/ Key sources for this episode include Charles Henry Ashdown's "Armour & Weapons in the Middle Ages"; Charles John Ffoulkes's "The Armorer and His Craft from the XIth to

Countess Dorothy di Frasso was the most famous hostess in the world, who threw parties for kings and queens, dukes and barons; actors, athletes and aviators; Nazis, Fasists, and mobsters. This is the story of her amazing life. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-realest-housewife-of-beverly-hills/ Key sources for this episode include Graham Wallace's "Claude Grahame-White: A Bi

Listen up, fruitcake... or, rather, listen up -- fruitcake! This week #7 (Dorothy White) drops by to tell you everything you never wanted to know about Christmas's most maligned tradition. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fruitcake-subculture-conspiracy-revisited/ The only key source for this episode is #7's own Texas Cooking article “Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy” but she