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• Lonelygirl15

  When YouTube was barely a year old, the the site's users were gripped by the slowly unfolding tale of Bree, the sheltered, beautiful 16 year old girl whose parents kept her locked in her bedroom with no one but the internet and her only friend, Daniel, for company. As Bree's situation grew more dire, she became one of the first online obsessions, paving the way for hundreds of hoaxes to come. SOURCEShttps://www.youtube.com/@lonelygirl15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-m-JXcppohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5S2Kdb8Io4&t=3shttps://medium.com/@vocativ/the-strange-saga-of-lonelygirl15-an-oral-history-dd94687e9976https://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-creators-of-lonelygirl15-turned-web-series-into-a-multi-million-dollar-company-2010-7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnjZzDeepE8https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/16/lonelygirl15-bree-video-blog-youtubehttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-lonelygirl15-story.htmlhttps://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/how-the-secret-identity-of-lonelygirl15-was-found/https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/154b603/how_did_people_of_the_2000s_fall_for_lonelygirl15/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Mumler Spirit Photography

  It's the Civil War, and the nation is in deep mourning. William Mumler of Boston has something to help: "spirit photographs" of you and a deceased loved one. Is it a scam, or is technology now capable of traversing the thin line between life and death? Eventually, it will be up to the court to decide. Sources:Special thanks to u/Naturalog on Reddit and Stephen Berkman'The Apparitionists' by Peter Manseauhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/meet-mr-mumler-man-who-captured-lincolns-ghost-camera-180965090/ https://www.vox.com/22918581/mumler-victorian-spirit-ghost-photographyhttps://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sat2698811#page/33/mode/1up https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/when-cameras-took-pictures-of-ghosts/281010/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Report from Iron Mountain

  At the height of the Cold War, a "leaked Top Secret Memo" from inside the government proposed a controversial and radical idea: the worst thing that could happen to humanity was worldwide ... peace. Sources:https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/30/us/l-c-lewin-writer-of-satire-of-government-plot-dies-at-82.htmlGhost of Iron Mountain by Phil TinlineJFK (1991, O. Stone)https://hvmag.com/life-style/a-history-of-iron-mountain-an-information-storage-facility-in-germantown-ny/https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-many-lives-of-iron-mountainhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/iron-mountain-hoax-anti-vietnam-war-satire-conspiracy-theoriesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• The Impostress Rabbit

  The court anatomist returned the King George I with astonishing news: a woman named Mary Toft has been giving birth.... to rabbits. Sources: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/05/an-extraordinary-delivery-of-rabbits/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mary-toft-gave-birth-to-rabbitshttps://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/aug2009.htmlhttps://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/80/1/33/665070?login=falsehttps://academic.oup.com/past/article-abstract/238/1/43/4822513?redirectedFrom=fulltexthttps://www.godalmingmuseum.co.uk/articles/mary-toftsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Salvator Mundi

  A painting purportedly by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is discovered at a little-known auction house in New Orleans in 2005; a decade later, it fetches the highest price for a work of art ever sold at auction. Sources:The Lost LeonardoSavior For Salehttps://therenaissanceworkshop.com/leonardo-da-vinci/https://www.mos.org/leonardo/biography.htmlhttps://www.rct.uk/collection/912525/the-drapery-of-a-chest-and-sleevehttps://www.rct.uk/collection/912524/the-drapery-of-a-sleevehttps://web.archive.org/web/20200524085434/https://www.history.com/news/how-a-priceless-da-vinci-masterwork-disappeared-from-view-for-centurieshttps://salvatormundirevisited.com/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/09/lost-leonardo-da-vinci-film-solved-mystery-worlds-most-expensive-painting-salvator-mundihttps://apnews.com/general-news-91be03753b7d4dbbacfc4bb0d1dcca3dhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/how-saudi-royal-crushed-his-rivals-shakedown-ritz-carlton-n930396https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/arts/design/salvator-mundi-louvre-abu-dhabi.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/world/middleeast/saudi-crown-prince-salvator-mundi.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGsUFvwgvCohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64rDJkX4HYhttps://artwatch.org.uk/two-developments-in-the-no-show-louvre-abu-dhabi-leonardo-salvator-mundi-saga/https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/emdl.aspSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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