Rethinking Our History

Send us Fan Mail This week we are looking into an industry that hits close to home. A dear friend was traumatized by the troubled teen industry, and one organization in particular was at the middle of it all.  Known as the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools this organization was created to give parents a place to send their kids when they have hit the end of their rope.  But...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are looking into the life of a man who is said to be one of the greatest inventors of all time.  Though he holds 1,093 patents to his name, very few of them were actually thing he himself created. Perks of being the boss I guess.  Thomas did start out wanting to make a name for himself as an inventor. He created a couple of things before he got his big break with the...

Send us Fan Mail Growing up in North Carolina the Trail of Tears was learned about from an early age. One thing we did not learn about were the long walks the Navajo, or the Dine people, had to endure as well.  Though they are the only nation that has been allowed to return to their lands, albeit less of them, what they endured shaped future generations.  Much like with the Cherokee they faced hor...

Send us Fan Mail We are continuing our celebration of PRIDE month by looking at a time when the US government was so concerned about Communist infiltrating the government, they went after queer folks.  We can see a direct link between the actions taken by the government, and the way people view the queer community today. Lesbians and gay men were seen as a possible threat to national security and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to PRIDE month folks!! This week we are bringing you the life of an icon in the queer community.  While not the first trans woman to make waves, Marsha P. Johnson is a woman who fought for anyone's right to exist. She did what she had to do to make ends meet and care for those she loved.  From housing homeless trans youth, to caring for friends dying of AIDS, Marsha w...

Send us Fan Mail We are finally finishing our look at the Crusades, Holy wars fought by the papacy against, well, anyone they wanted to really.  While they might have started fighting against the Muslims for the, quote unquote, Holy Land, before long people were having petty crusades against each other and other Christian factions.  But by the 1400's a new and more powerful empire was rising,...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are headed up north to look into the missing persons case of three young brothers who went missing over Thanksgiving week, while visiting their father.  According to their father, he gave them to a shadowy underground group to save them from their mothers abuse, while there has never been any evidence abuse was taking place.  The courts did not agree an just last year...

Send us Fan Mail Life has gotten a little chaotic lately, so we have not recorded in a couple weeks, but we wanted to let yall know we are not going anywhere, just life lifeing. Enjoy this episode from The Paranormal Lovers with special guest Total Conundrum.  We have a real special episode for you guys this week. We are joined this week by the hosts of the podcast Total Conundrum Traci and Jeremy...

Send us Fan Mail When we last left the crusades both of the main leaders of the warring parties have died. And of course there is a power struggle before we get new leaders who also set about planning their own crusades.  Follow along as we meet new champions and villains, and you can choose who you think the real villains are in this lesson.   ROH EP 68 Source Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Send us Fan Mail We will be back in one week with our continuance of our look at the Crusades but this week we are going to look at an event that took place over a hundred years ago, but changed the way people did business forever.  At the turn of the century it was common to find sweatshops that employed hundreds of immigrants to make products; for little pay in terrible conditions. At the Triang...

Send us Fan Mail We are going way back in time this week, even further than the Ottoman Empire, to look at a series of events that we all know about, but probably know very little about.  Christianity and Islam have been large players in the religious world for thousands of years. The Pope has been the leader of one of those religions for almost as long, and through him wars have been raged in the...

Send us Fan Mail We are taking a look at the case of a man who terrorized the nation, and our little slice of heaven, for years.  Fueled by white supremacy, a hatred of socialism and abortions, Eric Rudolph set off several bombs, starting at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta GA.  Even after 5 years of a federal man hunt, it was a local rookie cop from right here in Appalachia that would be the one...

Send us Fan Mail We took a little trip this past weekend and did not record so we decided to rerelease one of our more important episode.  Imagine getting a phone call that your 24 year old child did not return to their jobsite out in the Arizona desert. And then imagine getting told that your child is an adult and can disappear into the desert if they want too.  That is what David Robinson had to...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are finishing our look at one of the longest running empires in the world.  We take a look at how their government was ran, their culture, and various other things that make this empire so unique.   ROH EP 64 Source Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire Thanks for joining us today! Feel free to follow us: On Instagram: @theparanormallovers Email us at: t...

Send us Fan Mail This week we go through the last part of the regain of the Ottoman Empire. At their height they had over 30 million people under their rule. But in the late 1700's the might of the Empire began to fall.  Over the next couple of centuries the border of the empire fluxed, with wars raging on almost all sides. When the 20th century came around, citizens of this once great empire...

Send us Fan Mail We wanted to take a look at an Empire that most of us have heard of but probably do not know much about, the Ottoman Empire.  Beginning in 1299 and lasting until the early 1900's, this Empire rule vast portions of different countries across different continents.  They were brutal in their attacks and left no one to rebuilt, you were either killed or take into slavery. If anot...

Send us Fan Mail We are bringing you guys a lighthearted story this week with the tale of John Donohue and his mission to take his friends beer; all the way from New York City, to the battle fields of Vietnam.  John had done his stint in the military but was never placed on the front lines. His friends were though and at the time of his journey, over two dozen neighborhood boys had died in the cou...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are hopping into the way back machine to look at a missing persons case that has plagued this area for over 80 years.  On the night of Christmas Eve in 1945 the Sodder Family had settled in for a night of celebration. Leaving her children playing with their new toys, Mrs. Sodder went to bed, planning on celebrating the holiday. But she would never get the chance. Afte...

Send us Fan Mail Due to doctors appointments we got a bit behind with notes this week so enjoy this FREE patreon episode! We have got a doozy for you guys this week. Carl Panzram was one of seven children born on a farm where the kids worked the land. This did not change when the parents were forced to send their kids to school, instead the kids were forced to work long into the night, or else.  B...

Send us Fan Mail We are headed up Appalachia this week to take a look at an event of great historical significance. During this time of extreme division in the US, and across the global, we are taking a look at a time when people came together to fight the powers in charge.  The coal industry was the backbone of Appalachia for a long time. Generations went deep underground to mine out the mineral...

Send us Fan Mail We are going way back in time today to look at a man many of us have wrongly credited with being the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula; Vlad The Impaler. Born in the time of the great Ottoman Empire, Vlad the 3rd had a rough go at life. At a young age he and his brother were taken hostage by the Sultan for years, while their father stood again him and his reign. After his...

Send us Fan Mail In this day and age we have the benefit of science but in the 18th and 19th century there wasn't much of that. You know, you have ghost in your blood, do cocaine about it.  So when one member of the family died, then others around them also begin to get sick, suspicion often fell on the recently deceased.  For around 100 years New England was in the grip of a panic; panic tha...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are looking at someone who has made it their life mission to try to talk to a certain set of individuals and change their mind.  Daryl Davis stands in his own right as an amazing R&B and Blues musician, playing with the like of Chuck Berry and BB King.  But when he is not playing the piano, he is talking to members of the Ku Klux Klan to try and understand what ma...

Send us Fan Mail A couple hundred years after the Hellfire club fell to ruin a more sinister club emerged. The Atomic Energy Commission. But the AEC is not the only bad actor in our lesson today. Oh no, the US government had their hands dirty too.  From America's favorite Oatmeal brand, to the US Navy, to hospitals, citizens of this oh so great country were- without their informed consent- ex...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine getting a phone call that your 24 year old child did not return to their jobsite out in the Arizona desert. And then imagine getting told that your child is an adult and can disappear into the desert if they want too.  That is what David Robinson had to deal with the summer of 2021 when his son Daniel went missing from his job in Tempe Arizona. The Buckeye Police Departmen...