When the Spanish Flu hit Philadelphia in 1918, it first overwhelmed the hospitals, then the morgues, then the gravediggers. The disaster was the fault of one man, public health director Wilmer Krusen, who allowed a Liberty Bond parade that spr

12 New Jersey's Bermuda Triangle

Mar 18th, 2020 51m 27s

In the mid-1800s, the isolation of the Sourlands region made it a refuge for some, and was a place where black people could own land and establish their own communities. (See Episode 2) But the isolation also meant that the mountains could be l

11 Hellfighter

Feb 13th, 2020 1h 16m

Needham Roberts, a porter from Trenton, went to fight in WW1 and returned home decorated and victorious after a bloody hand-to-hand battle against impossible odds. But he and many other black veterans would find that America in the era of Jim C

10 The Cloudbuster Part 2

Jan 9th, 2020 49m 2s

In Part 2 of our two-part series on Wilhelm Reich, we examine the ongoing legacy of his work, a college in Princeton that carries on his research into “orgone energy,” and Diccon Hyatt interviews a man who was given Reichian therapy as a child.

9 The Cloudbuster Part 1

Jan 8th, 2020 1h 5m

In Part 1 of a two-part series, we discuss the life of Wilhelm Reich, one of the most controversial figures of 20th century science. Reich claimed to have discovered a new form of energy called “orgone” which was responsible for everything from

6 The Garden In The Machine

Dec 6th, 2019 37m 36s

Far beneath the roar of Route 1 in Trenton, there is another manmade highway that lies in stillness and darkness, unused and nearly forgotten for nearly 100 years. It is a section of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and in the last century it too

8 Horror At The State House

Oct 7th, 2019 27m 38s

On the afternoon of Friday, December 22, 1978, the festive mood of Trenton preparing for the holiday weekend was shattered when a shocking crime took place on the steps of the state house. This is a story about that crime, and about the afterma

7 F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gift to Football

Aug 27th, 2019 40m 50s

It's pretty common for football fans to have ideas for how the coach should run their favorite team better. What's unusual is for those ideas to be put into practice. When F. Scott Fitzgerald, who has been described as history's first football

5 The Man Who Never Slept

Jun 6th, 2019 37m 53s

Albert Herpin was known throughout the world as "Trenton's Sleepless Wonder" for his claim not to have slept for decades. By the time he died in 1947, he was the subject of hundreds of newspaper articles as well as an entry in Ripley's Believe

4 A Twisted Tale Of Magnetic Mind Control, Castration, And Twinkies

Apr 30th, 2019 50m 56s

A late 19th century health guru named Webster Edgerly founded a health club/cult that attracted 800,000 members. His books told his followers that by performing a series of exercises, they could use "personal magnetism" to control the minds of

3 The Flight of the Aereon

Apr 4th, 2019 48m 46s

In 1971, a strange aircraft took to the skies over New Jersey. The Aereon 26 was a prototype intended to be the first in a series of increasingly gargantuan hybrid airships. We explore the history of the Aereon, which goes back to the Civil War

2 Sourland Legacy

Feb 28th, 2019 39m 56s

The black community of the Sourland Mountains included war heroes, a man who stood up to Charles Lindbergh, and an enslaved woman who beat up her owner and escaped to live past the age of 100. Their stories have rarely been told. Diccon Hyatt a

1 The Cure for Madness: A Story of Psychiatry Gone Wrong

Dec 20th, 2018 33m 30s

Around the turn of the last century, Dr. Henry Cotton set out to relieve the suffering of the mentally ill by discovering and curing the underlying biological causes of madness. Unfortunately, his scientific research led him to try very unusua

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