Welcome back, everyone to 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries podcast.

This is your host and storyteller, John Hagadorn.

And before we begin this story, I have an announcement for you.

With this episode, we're celebrating our 1001 episode for the 1001 Stories Network,

which I launched in January of 2015. My idea at the time was to create a conglomerative stories

borrowed from four basic themes, heroes, legends, histories, and mysteries. And that idea just kept

blossoming. I've never run out of inspiration and

ideas because there are so many great stories out there. Each story to me is a treasure that I want

to share with others. I see it as a journey, an adventure, if you will, and researching a story, to me

at least, is like an archaeological dig, hoping to find gems

that will inform, entertain, and sometimes inspire. Doing a story on Raiders of the Lost

Arc for episode number 1001 is a fitting tribute to the show as we share something in common

with the concept of the movie, The Search for Historical Treasures. From 1001 movie, the search for historical treasures.

From 1001 heroes and the search for historical treasures came to search for literary treasures.

1001 classic short stories and tales, 1001 stories for the road, and our other 1001 shows that feature narration of some of the greatest stories which are now in the public domain,

short and long. And that has been and remains a very satisfying quest and yet another way to share

with those who enjoy great stories. My appreciation for men and women writers of classic literature

has grown tenfold these past few years, and few things are more exciting to me

than being able to discover and share these stories from a wide variety of genres. To me,

you can get much more from a well-written story than you'll ever get from movies or TV. Stories

stimulate your thinking that make you imagine. They allow you to see things you'll never get

out of a movie. It's like walking the same path you've been driving for years. When you walk it,

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