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A spine-chilling collection of classic stories and tales from the other side featuring classics from a wide variety of writers that include H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, and many others. Radio dramas (suspense, horror, and gothic) will also be featured.
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Where History Comes Alive! A fast-paced, well-researched weekly podcast covering a wide range of historical events, persons, places, legends, and mysteries, Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, the selection of stories and interviews includes lost treasure, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, WWII stories, biographies, disasters, legends of the Old West, American Revolutionary history, urban legends, movie backstories, and much more. Available wherever podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts ...
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1001 RADIO DAYS

Jon Hagadorn

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Radio Days, When Radio Was King- brings you a wide variety of entertainment from the golden age of radio - drama, detective, suspense, comedy, sci-fi, theater- and much more. The selection and quality of the shows is excellent.. Brought to you by 1001 Stories Podcast Network. Hosted by Jon Hagadorn. We appreciate reviews!
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Expand your horizons with this collection of hand-picked classic short stories and tales by writers like Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Wharton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Hans Christian Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. These fast-paced stories and captivating tales are chosen for their unique flavor, are suitable for all ages and tastes, and provide a window to a time when writers knew how to tell great stories using descriptive w ...
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Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, 1001 Stories For The Road is bringing back adventure with stories like "Treasure Island", "The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie, "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "Tarzan of the Apes", "King Solomon's Mines", "The 39 Steps", "The Call of the Wild"- and many more. These stories are classic for a reason- they are great! And they are family friendly. We appreciate reviews-thank you!
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1001 Stories From The Gilded Age

Jon Hagadorn Podcast Host

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1001 Stories From The Gilded Age (Formerly 1001 Greatest Love & Life Stories) brings you a wide mix of classic short stories and long-form family-friendly novels, a perfect mix of timeless classics from another age - when life was slower, men and women dressed well in public, , and courtesy, manners, and morals were practiced. From this age comes great stories from woman authors as well as popular stories such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables and Black Beauty. Our "Gilded Age' coll ...
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No other writer of adventure short stories and novels was as successful and as prolific as Jack London. He lived the life he wrote about, and his stories cover every corner of the globe. His characters are based upon people he knew and encountered throughout his active young life. His characters consist of all colors and creeds, ages and abilities, educations and backgrounds- but they generally have two things in common: the will to survive and thrive, and the inner toughness required to get ...
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Welcome to the new 1001 Stories From the Old West.. Here we offer hand-picked accounts from diaries, historical documents, autobiographies, books of the time period, and historians to bring you the American frontier story directly from the people who lived it. You'll hear actual accounts of Indian battles, pioneer struggles, outlaws, cowboys and Indians, lawmen, and the men and women who took the chance and moved west, many by wagon train, to a largely uncharted and wild territory. Go west, ...
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A tourist gets lost in Mammoth Cave and runs into a very scary situation in 'The Beast In The Cave' In 'The Alchemist' a curse haunts an old family for 6 hundred years, killing each male member of the family at age 32. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com by going to 1001 Classic Short Storiers and tapping on "Episodes"- then look for…
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ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE CBS cast Gerald Mohr to star as Philip Marlowe, with Roy Rowan as announcer. Philip Marlowe, being a loner, was really the only regular character, but throughout the three years the series ran a long string of high-quality supporting Hollywood actors appeared on the show. Performing alongside Mohr at various times were …
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1001 HEROES CONFIDENTIAL APRIL 20, 2025: THE SEARCH FOR AMY LYNN BRADLEY Amy Lynn Bradley (born May 12, 1974) is an American woman who went missing during a Caribbean cruise on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in late March 1998 while en route to Curaçao. Her whereabouts remain unknown to this day. She was a 23-yea…
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A group of women form a society to determine what it is that men bring to this life-so they start asking questions but find themselves getting limited answers. As a late "Gilded Age"piece of work it challenges the status quo in 1921 at the beginning of an era when women no longer were required to being 10 or 15 children into the world- that educati…
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John Stanley was an American actor, born in England. Between 1947 and 1949, he played Sherlock Holmes in 78 episodes of the Mutual and ABC radio show Sherlock Holmes (radio 1947-1949) with Alfred Shirley, Ian Martin, George Spelvin as Dr. Watson. Two great episodes for you today! Locate ALL our Sherlock and ACD episodes in one easy place at www.bes…
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In this futuristic and frighteningly prescient short story, written by Jack London in 1906, America and its allies wage biological warfare on an overreaching China in 1976 using airships to drop glass tubes filled with a variety of plagues destined to destroy China's population of 500 million. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! APPLE USER…
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Shortly after deploying for the war in Iraq, an unprecedented attack was about to take place; the first of it's kind in U.S. military history. Embedded Enemy is the true story of the deadly attack against the men and women of Headquarters and Headquarters Company First Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. The Bastogne Brigade was staged at Camp Pennsy…
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'Ulysses and the Cyclops'-Adaped by Andrew Lang from the Greek classic 'Homer', this story places Ulysses in the hero's seat as he and his men are trapped on an island occupied by one-eyed giants called Cyclops- and they have a nasty penchant for eating sailors and roasting their remains. Ulysses is known for his "McGuyver" like abilites to find sm…
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The sad fact of rural life in "the gilded era" was that most folks, especially after the children were grown up and gone, werepoor and lonely, and often caring for the elders. Mary E.Wilkins (thats how she signed her books) was a good storyteller in this genre- and the people were often siomple and honest and hardworking. Check out our website at w…
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TV history was made in 1951 when the first episode of I Love Lucy aired on CBS starring a fiery red head Irish actress named Lucille Ball and her real life husband, Cuban American band leader Desi Arnaz as New York City apartment dwellers Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. The show would air 6 years, making #1 in ratings 4 of those years, and breaking single …
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Edgar Allan Poe wasn't just known for horror- he also had a sense of humor and a deep sense of justice for those who had been wronged. In this story, a French king who likes to play extravagent jokes on his guests decides to use his two dwarfs, which had been captured and sent to him by one of his generals, as the evenings' entertainment. The man d…
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A fascinating journey into early Hawaiian history mixing story with the legend of High Chief Kahekili who was the rival of Chief Kamehameha.Some believe Kahekili's bones are locatd in a shrine- others say they are part of the ocean. This story builds to a climax near the end as we learn the fate of the great Maui Chief. Enjoy our website at www.bes…
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A young man living off a rich Aunt's endowment decices to take a few weeks off with pals and head for the nearby lake looking for peace and quiet. He is soon wrapped up in trying to get his shy friend hooked up while at the same time being stuck with a fat toddler whose parents have been abandoning him to the mercies of lake vacationers due to a me…
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Two cultures collide when a group of British overseers meet for a regional planning session in India's outback, have too much to drink, and one of them defaces a statue outside a temple. The offender is almost immediately confronted by a naked leper called Silver Man who leaves a bite mark on his chest- causing a physiological change in the coming …
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Full Transcript at https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/ In light of the recent release of thousands of previously classified documents concerning the Kennedy Assassination we present an in-depth look at the aftermath, which left investigators wirth the murder of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by st…
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When Mary Magdalane, Mary Salome, and Mary Cleopas landed on the shores of pagan France with their group of faithfuls- they had a mighty task to accomplish. Taking refuge under a Roman Temple- they began to preach the word of Jesus- simple and pure, 350 years before Catholicism. Legend says that she brought with her The Holy Grail, and that after h…
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