Yes, you read the title right. Host Brenda is doing an episode on the history of a Japanese racehorse. Is this nerd history? Surprisingly yes. Haru Urara was a racehorse at the Kochi track in Japan who lost 113 out of 113 races she ever participated in. And yet she was beloved by the entire country for her indomitable spirit. Why are we talking about her today? You're going to have to tune in to find out.

For a long time, Ong's Hat, an abandoned ghost town in New Jersey, has been the subject of many urban legends and local folk tales, but it was also the location and subject for the Internet's first ARG (Alternate Reality Game). However, what happens when Paranormal investigators start treating the very fictional game as real?

For several decades, the launch coaster Dononpa was Japan's most iconic rollercoaster, drawing people in from all over the world to see. However, in 2020 something strange started happening. Dodonpa began breaking people's bones.

It's the end of summer, which means thousands of nerds are descending upon fairgrounds around the country dressed in their finest medieval garb. But how did these festivals come to be? Who founded these events? And what does it have to do with the Red Scare?

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In 1964 award winning animator Richard Williams set out with a simple goal: to make an animated feature film that showed off everything the medium of animation was capable of. However, between rights disputes, the failure of a Raggedy Ann and Andy movie, and Richard William's severe mismanagement of time and money, The Thief and the Cobbler would become one of the most infamous animated films in history due to its decades long production cycle.

Today in this special episode of Secret Histories, Host Austin welcomes Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara from the hit podcasts Reading Glasses and Reading Smut. The topic for today? Why do books release on Tuesdays?

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In 1976, disgraced wallstreet investor Eugene Mullvihill opened the infamous Action Park in Vernon New Jersey. It would turn out to be a lawless place full of drunken poorly trained teens, a deadly wave pool, and the world's first, and last, looping waterslide.