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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Apr 15, 2024

"Wyoming's own midget mummy" was found in the San Pedro Mountains in 1932 and mystified thousands before disappearing in 1950. but what was he? A little person, a baby, a fake? And where the heck did he get off to?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/vote-for-pedro/

Key sources for this episode include Aaron Mahnke's...


Mar 25, 2024

R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind and curing all of society's problems... so why aren't you living in one right now?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fuller-houses/

Key sources for this episode include Jonathon Keats'...


Mar 4, 2024

Paul Otlet had a vision of an system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... Too bad the most advanced technologies at his disposal were index cards.

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Feb 12, 2024

Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-first-battle-of-the-american-revolution/

Key sources for this episode include Randolf C. Downes's "Dunmore's War: An...


Jan 22, 2024

In which a mysterious lost people living in the mountains of Tennessee turn out to not be so mysterious after all... and maybe not even all that lost, if the Internet can be believed.

Transcript, sources, and more: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/neither-here-nor-there/

Key sources for this episode include Anita...