The Lesser Known People Podcast

Matsutarō Shōriki founded Japan's first commercial television station and was known as the father of Japanese baseball. But, did you know that he survived an assassination attempt by a man wielding a broadsword? Or, that he was categorized as a "Class A" war criminal? Bet you didn't. Come on, give it a listen.

Half Hanged Maggie, modern day vampires, meat showers, the Plainfield Ghoul, and some chump named Rodney Alcala show up in this spooky Halloween special. Laugh your ass off and bash your brains in with these humorous and seriously F'd up stories.

We follow Fritz across the Atlantic, and find traveling halfway across the world has not dulled his hatred for the British. He continues to carry out covert operations in New York and Brazil, dabbles in insurance fraud, and plays a game of cat-and-mouse with the FBI's counter-intelligence team. Was he a hero, or a villain? Whatever you decide, you'll agree Fritz led one hell of a life.

Wanted by the British Admiralty on charges of Murder on the High Seas, and Conspiracy, Col Fritz Duquesne is part freedom-fighter, part double-agent, and a master of escaping prisons. The gang weighs in on the morality of imperialism (hint: it's bad), plots a quest to find Fritz's missing gold, and learns how — and how not — to break out of jail.

Elmer McCurdy, soldier, outlaw, corpse. McCurdy was shot dead in 1911, but that didn't stop him. In a strange turn of events his body was preserved in an arsenic based embalming solution, and his corpse was passed around, Weekend at Bernie's style for decades. He was in sideshows, museums, and was even used as a prop on the big screen until 1977 when he was finally laid to rest.

Stephan Bibrowski is Lionel the Lion Faced Boy. Lionel was a circus showman, poly-linguist, and a tooth aficionado. He was a man of many hats and of many hairs. Like, a lot of hair. Whole body, 8 inches of hair. The moniker was fitting.

Henry Paget the, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, was FAB-U-LOUS! Paget was a royal that racked up 60 million in debt in just five years. He blew his wad on jewelry, gold studded underwear, and a car that farted roses. In this episode, the LKP boys explore the life of a guy who did it his way and was definitely too sexy for his shirt.

The internet has produced some seriously bizarre mysteries, but few are as cryptic, unsettling, and downright brain-melting as LHOHQ—a website (or perhaps an entity) that feels like the love child of a conspiracy theorist and an ARG developer on acid. At first glance, LHOHQ looks like the type of website you'd find on a dusty old laptop in an abandoned government building—a chaotic mix of flashing...

As it turns out Goshen may have been living a bit of a lie. In this episode there is talk of Goshen's real origin story, a brutal and much deserved ass kicking, and something called a "knowledgeable goat".