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SCREWED UP ($85,000 – $90,000)
Ronald Lord looked like the last person airport security would bother with. Seventy-one years old, Canadian pensioner, rolling off a...
Sep 82 min read
KILLA FISH ($85,000 – $90,000)
In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt found himself deep in the Amazon, standing on a riverbank beside his Brazilian hosts. They had promised him a...
Sep 83 min read
SNAKE OIL ($65,000 + CAR ALLOWANCE + GAS CARD)
Clark Stanley was born in 1854 in Abilene, Texas. After a decade as a cowboy, he claimed to have spent two years apprenticing with a Hopi...
Sep 52 min read
CHAFF ($60,000 – $80,000)
During World War II, British and American air forces conducted bombing raids over Europe. To disrupt the enemy's radar systems, they...
Aug 262 min read
BREATHLESS ($50,000 – $70,000)
On June 14, 2025, in a quiet pool in Opatija, Croatia, freediver Vitomir Maričić took a deep breath and didn’t surface again for 29...
Aug 262 min read
COLLAPSE ($150,000 – $220,000)
Barings Bank was one of the oldest and most respected banks in England, founded in 1762 and famously used by the royal family. For over...
Aug 262 min read
JUMP KING ($60,000 – $80,000)
On August 30, 1991, the world watched in awe as American track and field athlete Mike Powell launched himself into history. With a leap...
Aug 252 min read
THE GREAT IMPOSTOR ($175,000 – $250,000)
Ferdinand Waldo Demara, born December 21, 1921, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, didn’t just bend the truth, he lived inside it. History...
Aug 252 min read
LAWN CHAIR LARRY ($50,000 – $55,000)
On July 2, 1982, a man named Larry Walters decided it was time to fly. Not on a plane. Not in a glider – but in a lawn chair!Armed with...
Aug 152 min read
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