Episode 43: Mississippi River Monsters

Did a 70-foot-long river behemoth really lurk in the river’s channel in the 1870s? Are there monsters in the river’s depths that have eluded us so far? In this episode, we delve deep into the Mississippi’s murky waters and mystical swamps to uncover stories about the terrifying creatures that we have imagined prowl the

By |2024-06-21T11:08:23-05:00June 19th, 2024|Podcast|Comments Off on Episode 43: Mississippi River Monsters

Episode 6. Twin Tragedies: Cholera and Fire Devastate St. Louis in 1849

In 1849, St. Louisans must have wondered what they had done so wrong to deserve suffering through two terrible tragedies. Steamboats brought cholera to the city, triggering a deadly epidemic that would ultimately kill thousands of people. In the early waves of the epidemic, a steamboat fire on the levee got out of control

By |2022-09-14T14:41:56-05:00September 14th, 2022|Podcast|Comments Off on Episode 6. Twin Tragedies: Cholera and Fire Devastate St. Louis in 1849
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