From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.

My name is Matt.

Our colleague Noel is on an adventure, but we'll return shortly.

They call me Ben.

We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

Shh.

Can you hear it in the distance?

That train whistle?

Oh, I did.

I heard it.

I heard tell of it. Yes. Tonight we are traveling the rails,

fellow conspiracy realist, exploring a hidden history of the United States, a culture that is often romanticized, vilified, and above all, perhaps misunderstood. You know, when people hear words like hobo or vacabond or traveler, dirty kid,

a hobo especially, I think for most of the public in the West,

it conjures up this vision of it itinerant men, you know,

maybe not with the best sharpest duds, but with

dignity in their faces, holding sticks and bindles amid the Great Depression, which is, again,

a terrible name.

Yeah, images of human beings looking for work, right?

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