Episode #96- What is America's Weirdest Secret Society?

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the 1930's a famous California history professor thought he had discovered a long lost historical treasure. It was a brass plate apparently inscribed by the famous English adventurer Sir. Francis Drake. The plate was heralded as an amazing discovery, but it was actually an elaborate hoax orchestrated by an irreverent secret society. The group behind the hoax is known as E Clampus Vitus and it may be America's weirdest secret society. Tune in a find out how tin-can medallions, "widders", and a Grand Noble Humbug all play a role in the story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:42.5	In 1579, the first Englishman in history navigated a boat into the Pacific Ocean.
0:50.8	Now, he was hardly the first person to take a sailing craft into the Earth's largest body of water.
0:57.2	Seafarers from Polynesia, China, Japan, and countless indigenous groups from North and South
1:03.6	America had been sailing and paddling the Pacific for centuries.
1:08.7	This Englishman wasn't even the first European to sail the Pacific.
1:14.4	The Spanish and Portuguese had both been navigating the waters for decades before this particular
1:20.4	pirate managed to surround the southern tip of South America.
1:25.3	This Englishman, of course, was none other than Sir Francis Drake,
1:29.8	the famous Elizabethan adventurer and high seas stick up, boy.
1:35.6	Now, Francis Drake has actually made an appearance on our podcast before.
1:40.4	Way back in season one, when I explored the voyages of Ferdinand Magellan,
1:44.9	and asked who was really the first person to sail around the world.
1:50.0	While there's actually some debate around who deserves the title of the world's first
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