In the winter of 1924-25, a diphtheria outbreak in the remote Nome, Alaska, relied upon a desperate dog sled relay mission. You may know the heroic dog, Balto, but what about Togo?

Sources:

Salisbury, Gay, and Laney Salisbury. The Cruelest Miles. W.W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 2005.

Mushing 101: A Primer for Someone Getting Started in Sled ..., dogscouts.org/base/tonto-site/uploads/2014/11/TRAIN_Mushing_101.pdf. Accessed 1 Nov. 2024.

Salisbury, Gay, and Laney Salisbury. The Cruelest Miles. W.W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 2005.

Join us for spooky season! This time we’ll talk about the rise of spiritualism, complete with seances, exclusive clubs, famous true believers, infamous fakes and frauds, and the most respected magician of all time, Harry Houdini. Sources: Dawson, Kate Winkler. The Ghost Club. Penguin, 2023. Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Jaher, David, and Simon Vance. The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World. Random House, 2015. Ptacin, Mira. The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

In 1845, Sir John Franklin led an expedition in search of the northwest passage with two boats, aptly named HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, and never returned. To this day people search for clues as to what became of them, and what they did find carried horrifying implications.

Sources:

Beattie, Owen, et al. Frozen in Time : The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. Vancouver ; Berkeley, Greystone Books, 2017.

Brandt, Anthony. Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. Random House, 2010.

Palin, Michael. Erebus. Greystone Books Ltd, 25 Sept. 2018.