Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-02-24
Books mentioned on CLASSIC: Titanic Conspiracies
The 1912 sinking of the Titanic left an indelible mark on Western culture, so it's no surprise that more than a decade later revisionists and fringe theorists continue to claim there's something more to the tragic story. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they take a closer look at the true story of the Titanic.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales (Balloon Hoax / Descent Into the Maelstrom / How to Write a Blackwood Article / Loss of Breath / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Mystification / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial)
Discussed“which of course for some of us will call to mind the famous narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket written by Edgar Allan Poe a bizarre coincidence in a very dark one where Poe writes a story about some people lost at sea and survival cannibalism”
Where to get it
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Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan
Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan is a late nineteenth-century novella about a massive ocean liner that strikes an iceberg and sinks, bearing eerie resemblances to the real-life Titanic disaster.
Discussed“in a novel written in 1898 known as futility or wreck of the Titan it was a guy named Morgan Robertson and 14 years before the Titanic met his demise he wrote a novel that had a lot of similarities to what happened to the Titanic”
Where to get it
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The red market
The Red Market is an investigative book by Scott M.
Recommended“do check out the red Market if you have not uh if you haven't listened to it yet”
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