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Welcome to the always entertaining and informative Killer Means Awesome podcast.
Season 1: Killer Shipwrecks - Think of shiny coins and sunken dreams. Each episode features an incredible story of a recently discovered shipwreck.
Season 2: Killer Biographies - Do you get Pocahontas and Sacagawea mixed up? So do we! Check out these true stories about historical figures you really should know better.
Season 3: Killer Inventions - Incredible true stories about inventors and the inventions that changed the world.
Season 4: Killer Crime - Trues stories of crimes you have to hear to believe!
Hosts:
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
46 minutes
English
United States
60 episodes
since Jan. 15, 2023
episodic
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The steamboat Arabia sank in the Missouri River in 1856 and was written off as a total loss. But in 1988 five enterprising treasure hunters dug deep under Kansas cornfields to make an unbelievable find -- the Arabia and its full freight of perfectly preserved food, clothing, and building supplies. …
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Nothing about his upbringing in the wilds of 17th century New England suggested William Phips would one day be knighted by the English king and then made governor of the Massachusetts colony. But a knack for finding and salvaging valuable shipwrecks made his ascent possible. His work on one shipwre…
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished in a matter of minutes. She was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. No mayday. No distress call. Just a captain's last words: "We are holding our own." The wreck inspired Gordon Lightfoot's famous song, but the real story …
Harrison Okene, a crew member on the Jascon-4 tugboat, was using the bathroom in the middle of the night when the boat -- and his whole life -- turned upside down. A rogue wave flipped the Jascon-4 and sent it to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 20 miles off the coast of Nigeria. All crew members …
In 1900, a Greek sponge diver surfaced in a panic, describing rotting bodies and horses on the seafloor. His captain thought he was hallucinating, so he went down himself. He came back up holding a 2,000-year-old bronze arm.The Antikythera wreck holds the world's oldest known computer, a weapo…
The Spanish Armada of 1588 was supposed to be invincible. But its ships fared poorly in battles in the English Channel and then began to suffer catastrophic losses while attempting a dangerous escape north around Scotland and Ireland. Among the 28 ships lost by Spain was the mighty Girona, with 1,3…
In 1622, a Spanish galleon loaded with half a billion dollars in gold, silver, and Colombian emeralds sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys, taking 260 lives with it. Spain spent 60 years searching for the valuable wreck and never found it. More than three centuries later, a treasure hunter name…
Few 18th century pirates had more success than Sam Bellamy. In one remarkable year, he seized or looted no fewer than 53 ships in the Atlantic Ocean. But then in 1717 Bellamy and his crew died in a nighttime shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod, spilling a massive haul of treasure into the ocean and…
In 1120, a drunken midnight party aboard a brand-new luxury ship killed nearly 300 of England's young nobility, including the only legitimate male heir to the throne. What followed was two decades of brutal civil war, the rise of an entirely new dynasty, and a lesson in how one submerged rock …
It was one of the worst maritime disasters in US military history, and naval historians would spend decades studying what went wrong. But the sinking of the USS Indianapolis also led to acts of extraordinary courage and selflessness. In 2017 -- 62 years after it sank -- the crumpled remains of the …
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