Three dilettantes open a cabinet of curiosities to learn about the fascinating, beautiful, and disturbing.

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E3: The Many Failures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Although Walter Raleigh is famous for founding the first permanent settlement in North America, history has largely forgotten his half-brother who was a genius, a fool, a bloodthirsty psychopath, and perhaps the worst explorer in Canadian history.

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E2: The Punished Dilettante

Jen tries her best to gross out Dave and Tracy with bizarre tales of the preservation of human body parts for “educational” (?) purposes. Please note that you might not want to be eating while you listen to this one.

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E1: The Mad Trapper of Rat River

In 1931 several RCMP officer responded to a complaint in the Northwest Territories. A man probably called Albert Johnson had been hanging another man’s traps. What followed is the greatest manhunt in Canadian history.

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