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true war stories, but this one's a real man's own voice. Gift idea for the partner who reads every WW2 memoir going. Book's in bio.

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November 3, 2026 at 9:02 AM
⚡ At Odds starts Friday!
Family. Strangers. Partners. 6 true stories about clashing beliefs and finding a way forward anyway. 🎧 Anywhere you get our podcasts!

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November 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
He ran. Across Moscow. Past guards. Into the night. British agents waited near the border. It was now or never.
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The Spy and the Traitor – True Cold War Spy Story
Explore The Spy and the Traitor and discover Oleg Gordievsky’s secret Cold War missions and bravery.
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November 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM
A new story is up on Substack "Suburban Halloween Horror" A true story set in 1959 about 2 grade-schoolers who encounter a witch who is being hounded by powers greater than her own.

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October 30, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Seriously, does no one else remember the story of "what's the frequency, Kenneth?" #feelingold #truestories
October 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM
True war stories like this one don't make the documentaries. Book's in bio.
John Shaw watched that fence for weeks.

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October 29, 2026 at 9:04 AM
💔 He saved a man's life. That man later betrayed him.
🔒 After years in captivity, Samuel Umweni returned home, only to discover his family life was gone.
🥀 Sometimes surviving war means losing everything.
📖 The Handle Is One of Us
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November 4, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Her Career Soared. She Didn’t. 🖤

At 22, Aaliyah was becoming an R&B legend.

After filming “Rock The Boat” in the Bahamas, she boarded a plane that crashed shortly after takeoff.

Investigators later uncovered disturbing problems #Aaliyah #MusicHistory #TrueStories #BeyondTheMapHistory
November 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Jurassic Park’s dinosaur expert and the Montana shopkeeper who handed him a “good mother”

The bones were the opposite of showy: small enough to miss, easy to overlook, the kind of fossils that could sit quietly in a box while bigger dinosaur dreams stomped past.

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Jurassic Park’s dinosaur expert and the Montana shopkeeper who handed him a “good mother”
The bones were the opposite of showy: small enough to miss, easy to overlook, the kind of fossils that could sit quietly in a box while bigger dinosaur dreams stomped past.
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November 1, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The Pilot Who Came Back for the Azaleas

At an azalea festival in Brookings, Oregon, a former Japanese wartime pilot arrived with his family’s roughly 400-year-old samurai sword.

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The Pilot Who Came Back for the Azaleas
At an azalea festival in Brookings, Oregon, a former Japanese wartime pilot arrived with his family’s roughly 400-year-old samurai sword.
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November 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The Boy Band That Became the Navy’s Band

Before it was a Navy band, it was youthful noise in Charlotte Amalie trying very hard to become music.

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The Boy Band That Became the Navy’s Band
Before it was a Navy band, it was youthful noise in Charlotte Amalie trying very hard to become music.
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November 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Cream of Wheat: The Grand Forks Telegram That Told a Mill to Forget the Flour

Before it was a familiar box in American cupboards, Cream of Wheat began as a pale, grainy handful of possibility in a worried flour mill.

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Cream of Wheat: The Grand Forks Telegram That Told a Mill to Forget the Flour
Before it was a familiar box in American cupboards, Cream of Wheat began as a pale, grainy handful of possibility in a worried flour mill.
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November 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Snowboarding Started as a Christmas Toy in Muskegon—and Mom Gave It Its Funny Name

The first Snurfer was not born in a factory or a stadium.

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Snowboarding Started as a Christmas Toy in Muskegon—and Mom Gave It Its Funny Name
The first Snurfer was not born in a factory or a stadium. It began with the scrape of skis, the squeak of a rope, and the kind of snowy Michigan yard where a child can turn a small hill into a whole…
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November 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Dizzy Gillespie's Bent Trumpet Wasn't Planned; It Started With a Party Mishap He Decided to Keep

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Dizzy Gillespie's Bent Trumpet Wasn't Planned; It Started With a Party Mishap He Decided to Keep
The trumpet bell was supposed to point straight ahead, neat and obedient, but after one Manhattan party it looked as if it had spotted something interesting on the ceiling.
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October 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
The Man Who Put Loveland on the Envelope

Picture a valentine envelope with a little extra wink on it, the kind of postmark that makes someone pause at the mailbox before opening the flap. The funny part is that the magic starts with a map.

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The Man Who Put Loveland on the Envelope
Picture a valentine envelope with a little extra wink on it, the kind of postmark that makes someone pause at the mailbox before opening the flap. The funny part is that the magic starts with a map.
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November 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Walmart: The part where Sam Walton put on a grass skirt because his associates earned it

A grass skirt on Wall Street is not what people expected from a famously frugal Arkansas businessman.

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Walmart: The part where Sam Walton put on a grass skirt because his associates earned it
A grass skirt on Wall Street is not what people expected from a famously frugal Arkansas businessman. Add a lei, a public hula, and a promise kept, and the financial district had itself a very…
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November 3, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Netflix's Operation Christmas Drop Has a Guam Ham-Radio Santa Behind the Airplanes

Out over the blue Pacific, Christmas sometimes arrives with a parachute and a thump, dropped from the back of a C-130 toward islands with no loading dock and no big-box store in sight.

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Netflix's Operation Christmas Drop Has a Guam Ham-Radio Santa Behind the Airplanes
Out over the blue Pacific, Christmas sometimes arrives with a parachute and a thump, dropped from the back of a C-130 toward islands with no loading dock and no big-box store in sight.
trueinspiringstories.com
November 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
The Littlest Jazzman Got His Dunk

The smallest uniform in EnergySolutions Arena had a big number 1 on it, and the biggest helper on the floor was 7 feet 1 inches tall. When J.P.

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The Littlest Jazzman Got His Dunk
The smallest uniform in EnergySolutions Arena had a big number 1 on it, and the biggest helper on the floor was 7 feet 1 inches tall. When J.P.
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October 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
We’re digging up some stories from the archive just in time for Halloween. 🎃

This week, Beverly Naigles and Khalil Cumberbatch share two powerful stories about incarceration and its intersections with science.

🎧 Listen tomorrow!

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October 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM