Category Archives: Episodes

The Trove – Episode 1: Night of the Living Bread / Poison Your Husbands

The Trove

Need your Relic fix every week? Introducing “The Trove” a half-hour, round table style talk that discusses weird archaeology and strange historical discoveries in the news.

In this inaugural episode of “The Trove,” historian Courtney Misich talks about doing starving puritan cosplay, and Max declares a pumpkin spice war on the nation of Australia.

Also:
– Big, spooky ships floating at sea
– Zombie carbohydrates
– Deadly cosmetics from Italy
– Mysterious, sunken jars

Check out Courtney on the Cult of Domesticity Podcast!

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Episode 41 – Gangsters Glory

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Dutch Schultz was one of the most ruthless mobsters of Prohibition Era New York, and had his fair share of enemies. Legend has is that paranoia drove Schultz to hoarding his loot and concealing it within a safe, that he and his team buried in the Catskill Mountains. Many believe Dutch Schultz revealed a code to his buried treasure while on his deathbed, and the mobster’s safe is still waiting to be found.

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Music by by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Photos taken at the Museum of the American Gangster

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Episode 40 – The Curious Village

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Rennes-le-Château was just another quiet village in the shadow of the Pyrenees, until one day when a mysterious priest showed up in town with a seemingly endless surplus of cash. Vanishing just as quickly as he arrived, Father Saunier left his parishioners with only suspicion and questions. When a failed writer moved into his crumbling estate, he discovered something shocking about the priest’s “fortune”–and kicked off three decades of bizarre speculation, conspiracy theory, and one of the best selling novels of the 2000’s. What is the treasure of Rennes-le-Château?

Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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Episode 39 – Treasure Island

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During the 1800s, the rising tide of revolt in South America forced the Viceroy of Lima to move thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of treasure and religious iconography to Mexico. Only, it didn’t make the journey, being stolen during a mutiny and hidden somewhere on Cocos Island, the purported inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”. Ever since, the island has carried a reputation for buried pirate treasure…and a dangerous allure.

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Episode 38 – To Catch a Panther

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Since the early 2000s, a number of high stakes diamond heists have taken the world’s wealthiest cities by storm. At first, the only evidence connecting the robberies was the extravagant, theatrical, and meticulously planned heists that often saw the perpetrators eluding international authorities. Yet slowly but surely, a pattern began to emerge, pointing to the largest, anonymous diamond thieving ring in the world. Who are the Pink Panthers? Where did the come from? And where will they strike next?

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Episode 37 – A Feast for Anubis

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In 1922, the Carver expedition went to Egypt and discovered King Tutankhamen’s tomb, sending the world into an Egyptology frenzy. Haunting the publicity were rumors that a curse had been unleashed as well. What are the origins of the Curse of the Pharaoh’s and are more Pharaohs waiting to be unearthed?

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Episode 36 – Stealing The Moon

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When the first manned mission to the moon camp back to Earth, they brought back samples of the lunar geology. President Richard Nixon ordered a few of these samples to be segmented, encased in lucite, and gifted to the nations of the world. Through a series of strange circumstances involving assassination, government collapse, and a heist at NASA, many of the moon rocks are now missing.

Music by Derek Fiechter and Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Episode 34 – A Hint of Riches

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Relic explores treasures that have been lost due to human error and greed, but what if a treasure was lost on purpose? This episode covers four infamous–and very real-treasure hunts: Forrest Fenn’s treasure, Masquerade, The Secret, and the Golden Owl.

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
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Episode 33 – Silk and Slaughter

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Genghis Khan ushered in the 13th century of a tidal wave of carnage and conquest. Yet for all of the horrors attributed to the Mongol ruler, history paints a much more nuanced portrait of a rational, progressive, and open minded leader. Yet for someone who had garnered such notoriety, Genghis Khan’s death and subsequent burial is shrouded in legend and mystery. What is the truth, and is it wise to go looking for it?

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Episode 32 – Legend of the Lost Dutchman’s Mine

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The Superstition Mountains of Arizona have inspired many tall tales of the American Southwest, but none more intricate and longlasting the Lost Dutchman’s Mine. Wrapped up in a tangled web of greed, colonization, and mysterious deaths, the missing mine may have multiple origins. But one thing is for certain: those who go looking for the lost gold often don’t come back at all…

Podcast preview for Perhaps It’s You at the top of the episode, and preview for Into the Portal following the bloopers reel (there were a lot this episode….)

Music by Derek Fiechter and Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 30 – The Woman on the Train, or The Dorak Affair

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James Mellaart took the archaeological world by storm when he discovered one of the oldest Neolithic sites in the world. Then, a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger on a train promised Mellaart an even more earthshaking find: the treasures of a bygone culture that neighbored the once-thought legendary city of Troy. However, what happened next challenged Mellaart’s credibility for the rest of his life. The truth behind the strange case of the “Dorak Affair” is still hotly debated to this day.

Music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Suggested reading from Suzan Mazur, who has covered the case extensively.

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Episode 28 – Ghosts of Leap Castle

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For hundreds of years, County Offaly in Ireland has stood in the shadow of Leap Castle, a place with a wicked and bloody past. One of its violent residents was said to have buried a treasure somewhere on the castle grounds. But going to look for this treasure might be more trouble than it’s worth, as an entire of host of gruesome specters supposedly roam the dark corridors of one of the world’s most haunted abodes.

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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Episode 27 – Empty Frames

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In 1990, two individuals dressed as police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and altered the course of the art world forever. One of the most audacious crimes ever committed kicks off Relic’s Season 2, the arc of which will focus on heists, deception, the paranormal, and the occult.

All music from Purple Planet and Kevin MacLeod
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Season 2 Preview – “Empty Frames”

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This season on Relic, we’re taking a look into the darker, dangerous side of treasure hunting: true crime capers, and cursed artifacts that may be better left undiscovered!

This preview contains the prologue to our first episode of the season, and one of the most bizarre unsolved art crimes ever committed: the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist.

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Special Report: WHAT’S IN THE BOX???

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Ok, so they found something weird in Egypt, you guys! Could be big, could be less big. Find out what’s going on with the “Black Sarcophagus,” and who might be buried inside (or not). Also, I reveal the theme for Season 2!

More Info here: https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-mystery-sarcophagus-unearthed-in-egypt-alexandria

Music–to cover over the noises made by our new podcast dog, Susie, provided by Kevin MacLeod.

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Bonus Preview: Everything is Crystals! Episode 1

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While Relic takes some well-deserved time off, my friend Tom and I are producing an “off season” humor podcast on one of our favorite video game series. You can listen to part 1 of our pilot episode here, and be sure to check out (and subscribe) to the official channel on iTunes: “Everything is Crystals”, for part 2!

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Every episode, Tom and I regale a guest with an story from the most ironically titled video game franchise of all time.
We choose 1 game from the series, 1 new guest, and 1 thematic cocktail. Then hilarity ensues! Whether you’re into gaming, anime, sci-fi, or just bad fantasy lit, there is a crystal for everybody!

Our first episodes delves into the history of the humble Tokyo power company that would go on to create one of the world’s best selling–and sequel-spanning–video games of all time. We also discuss the production of the O.G. Final Fantasy, and set the stage for a tale of silent protagonists, dark knights, and crystals galore. All the while, I force my co-host and guest to drink aggressive shots of various liquors. Good times all around.

Outro Music: BossaBossa by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 26 – Season Finale Part 2: Blood of the Grail

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The adventure comes to a conclusion with Relic’s season finale.

No other lost treasure has captivated the minds of artists and treasure hunters alike than the Holy Grail. Said to have been the goblet that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper, it is an object of alleged immense power, rivaled only by its companion treasure, the Spare of Destiny. Where are these two sacred artifacts, if anywhere, and what did the Nazis want with them?

Vocal sample from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989) Lucasfilm Ltd.

Music from Kevin MacLeod
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“Parzafal” by Richard Wagner, supplied by MusOpen

Special thanks to the research of David McIntee and his book “Fortune and Glory”.

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Episode 25 – Season Finale Part 1: Brood of the Gods

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The first part of Relic’s season finale! If you’ve watched any science fiction or adventure movie in the last 20 years, you may be aware of a certain fantasy/sci fi trope: Nazis channeling the forces of the paranormal to help satisfy their goals. The truth behind the lore is, as they say, stranger than fiction. In this episode, find out how fringe belief, ancient mythology, and modern pseudoscience, came together to form a tyrannical and genocidal movement.

Music from Kevin Macleod and MusOpen

 

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Episode 24 – Yamashita’s Gold

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During World War II, the Japanese amassed their hoard of stolen wealth primarily on the Philippine island of Luzon. After the war, rumors began to emerge that a general by the name of Tomoyuki Yamashita had buried most of the loot in unspecified locations. For many years, this was nothing more than an urban legend…until a local man named Rogelio Roxas supposedly uncovered a cache of gold in an abandoned tunnel. This was when things got weird…

Music from: Derek Fiechter. MusOpen. And Kevin Macleod

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