A Hint of Fiction

To all who come to this Happy Place, Welcome! In this episode, we celebrate Disneylands birthday with a star studded extravaganza! Ghosts, we got em, Yeti's, check, black widow brides looking for their next lover, oversided mice, we have it all! Our three stories include: Counterprotestors take over the Disneyland Park, three animatronics dissapear and reapper and Walt gets a little help from the CIA, can you tell which story is true? Intro: 00:46 The Day the Yippies Invaded 8:18 The Animatronics That Left and Then Came Back 25:21 The building of a city, with a little help from a spy 40:16 Outro: 48:02

Legends of objects of value and grandeur surround people of similar nature, we look to these relics as milestones of our accomplishments as humans and sometimes these objects take on stories of their own. Weapons of great power and destruction, secrets that could change the world or powerful objects that in the wrong hands could cause the end of everything.  These sacred and special artifacts sometimes go missing and lost to time, where do these pieces of our history go and what happened to these mythic items? Today, we bring you three stories of powerful artifacts lost to time. A feudal swordsmakers most powerful sword goes missing during a World War, a bardian original is lost to the annuals of the stage and an engine is created that smells good.   Intro - 00:59 The Greatest Sword from the Greatest Swordmaker - 3:07  When Love Was Won and Lost - 18:10 The Engine That Smelled Good - 31:01 Outro - 43:12 Audio Editor - Veekalp Sharma ([email protected])

We all come from somewhere and all towns have a story.  While many feel safe and secure, sometimes dark truths lurk just under the surface. What truth's will you uncover in your cozy little hamlet's and homesteads? And what if those truths are not always what they seems In this episode, we discuss three strange and in some cases deserted towns, filled with their own dark stories. A man obsessed with flight makes a journey above the skies, An ancient seaside town, is actually a den of sin and debauchery and a small coal mining town becomes abandoned after an accident.   Intro: 0:57 The City of the Skies: 2:40 The Sunken City of Sin:  18:51 Fires All the Way Down: 26:23 Outro: 37:02

Curses are the great equilizer in our world, we see them in our history, our media and our mythos. But how do curses affect the real world and how do you try and stop one? In this episode, a bad contract affects all who work on the Man of Steel, Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King, and a cursed forest attracts wedding bells. Intro - 1:07 The Curse of the Man of Steel - 5:14 Curse of the Ancient Mummy - 20:31 The Cursed Forest that Wants Wedding Bells - 34:16 Outro - 41:51  

Humans are considered to be the top of our food chain, we are the biggest apex predators on the planet, contending with Great White Sharks, Lions, Tigers and Crocodiles…. Oh my. The question I put to you is, what if we were not? Stories of large humanoid creatures, flying beasts in far flung jungles and massive sea creatures make us question our place at the top of the food chain. Do these cryptids pose a threat to our very existence?   In this episode, a bat creature attacks an expedition team in a remote jungle, a large sea creature is unearthed after some major construction and an ugly creature cries tears of amber for its lost incarnation. One of these stories isn't true, can you figure out which one? Welcome to A Hint of Fiction Story Timestamps A Screech in the Night - 3:44 Monsters on the Seven Seas - 12:29 The Crying Cryptid - 22:16

Love is amazing, it lifts us up, it binds us, and it makes us become something more than the sum of our parts. On the other hand, losing love can feel like losing a part of yourself, and can make you to make outlandish decisions in the scramble to be whole again.  In this episode, a goddess ghosts a aggressive suitor, a Emporer and his wife are just awful and a poet scorns the love of a mistress, which causes her to go insane.  Intro: 1:12 Do as the Greek's do and Ghost: 2:47 A King in Heartbreak, A Tyrant of Rome: 16:01 Nothing Like a Lover's Scorn: 31:59

Things occur in collective history that are unusual, strange and downright weird, we discuss three of these stories this week.  A simple act of wanting to sit in a rocking chair causes a 3 day riot, a scientific experiment on a California military base goes awry, and cats are put on a extermination list by the pope.  One of these stories isn't true, can you figure out which one?

Ghosts, what are they? Are they the actual living spirits of humans long since passed? Or are they emotional ties to a place of great importance? Or something even sinister?  William discusses three ghost stories today on our newest Half Halloween episode! Can you figure out why haunts are real and which ones a just fancy folk legends?  A hotel is imprinted with the spirit of the living, a women finds love from the realm beyond and a cruise liner is the home to a gruesome murder. Which one of these are true? Find out today on A Hint of Fiction.

Welcome to Half Halloween, it's like Halloween...we'll you get it.  In our first spooky episode of this new holiday, we talk about urban legends. From things that go bump in the dark, to that chill that runs up your spine, we find the truth behind these creepy encounters, we'll sort of.  In this episode: celebrities visit a small town, post-mortem, a unusual fright is found at a local haunted house, and an costumed attacker protects his small corner of the world.      *******************Spoilers Ahead*******************************   Post Mortem vacation spot: Written by William Acker The body in the Haunted House: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/04/11/the_corpse_of_elmer_mccurdy_and_how_it_ended_up_in_a_long_beach_fun_park.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pike The Bunny Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Man

Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum! Alex and Will explore the true history of pirates and talk about some of the greats! Did pirates bury their treasure? What is a buccaneer? Why was the rum always gone?  Find out in this episode!!! *****************Spoilers Below*************************   Captain Kidd's Lost Treasure: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/captain-kidds-treasure-has-been-discovered-deep-180955214/ The Prositutes of the Caribbean: Written by William Acker   Libertalia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertatia