Fact or Fiction: A Mostly-True Crime History Podcast
Welcome to Fact or Fiction, the podcast about historical crimes with one fictional detail added. Listen carefully because it's not easy to know if something is Fact or Fiction. Ready to play?
Fact or Fiction: A Mostly-True Crime History Podcast
Latest Episodes
A Jazz Age Murder with Jane Ammeson
Today’s guest is author Jane Simon Ammeson, who writes about travel, food, and history. She's the author of 18 books, including several about historical true crime.In this episode, she shares highlights from her 2015 book, A Jazz Age...
Author Series present Jeffrey D. Simon and "The Bulldog Detective"
Today’s guest is author Jeffrey D. Simon, author of several books about terrorism and a former RAND analyst who also taught at UCLA. As a guest on Fact or Fiction, Jeff has agreed to share some of the highlights from his most recent bo...
Fact or Fiction Author Series presents Christopher Allen Gorden
St. Louis was a rapidly growing frontier town in 1849. That year, the city experienced a great fire that destroyed the city's business district, an epidemic of cholera that decimated the population, and a steady influx of would-be miners on the...
Fact or Fiction Author Series presents Amy Kasuga Folk
Nicknamed "Liquor Island," Long Island was a center for bootlegging and rumrunning for the New York metropolitan area during Prohibition. Amy Kasuga Folk's book Rumrunners of Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island shares highlights f...
The Goat Gland "Doctor"
In the first half of the twentieth century, John R. Brinkley was a celebrated and successful "doctor" renowned for his ability to use goat organs to help humans with infertility. In addition to his "medical" success, Brinkley was also an early ...
