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The darkness awaits.

It's about to be a fun ride.

Follow along, watch as we slide.

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Goose bumps all through the night mixing just a

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and listening to some of our darkest mysteries ain hey. Welcome to Hillbilling Horror Stories.

And now here's your host, Jerry and Tracy Polly and their dog ninja.

Mysteries, hoaxes, folklore, conspiracy, and pseudo-history, topics sometimes avoided by historians who don't want to normalize nonsense or draw attention to the blind spots in our knowledge of the past.

But these are some of our most intriguing tales.

The Lost Colony of Roanoke,

the man in the Iron Mask,

the princes in the tower,

the Battle of Los Angeles,

the Turin Shroud.

Stories like these,

fraught with ambiguities and falsehoods

and suggesting alternate views of history, not only entertain, but also teach us to view the past and the present with a critical eye.

Join me, Nathaniel Lloyd, as I delve into these stories on my podcast, Historical Blindness, and shine a light in the darker corners of the past.

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