Curator 135

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Curator 135 Podcast

Curator #135 is a Podcast that explores mysteries, odd history, mythology, media and traditions. His favorite age is vint'age'. Dive into events and stories not always covered in school as well as the characters within those stories. Your host, Nathan Olli, is a former radio personality, aspiring author, event DJ and works in a library at a K-8 STEAM School.

15 SEPT

A Curse Upon Thee

Send us a textThe Hope Diamond, The Busby Chair, The Hands Resist Him, the Crying Boy paintings and the Dybbuk Box are five of the most cursed items in our history. Learn how these curses grew over time and the factors behind believing something is cursed. Is it all in our head or is there some truth to the fears? Support the show

32 min
12 AUG

The Pentwater Michigan Murders

Send us a textIn the early 1890's Samuel Minshall left Chicago in search of a better opportunity in Pentwater, Michigan. Pentwater was a small, up and coming village in Western Michigan along the shores of Lake Michigan. There he met William Sands who promised him enough work to support his family. That promise was broken and it drove Minshall mad. He couldn't stand to see the rich get richer while his family struggled to make ends meet.So he took action. Horrible, murderous action. ...

39 min
16 JUL

Suburban Murder - Locked in a Closet

Send us a textIn 1964 three elderly siblings were brutally beaten, robbed and left in a closet to die. Learn about the Parsons; William, Hilda and Lenore, their lives and what led up to the unsolved murders that are still on the Livonia Police Department's Cold Case list sixty years later. Support the show

30 min
9 JUN

Suburban Murder - Livonia's Own Serial Killer

Send us a textIn 1982 Kimberly Louiselle disappeared from Livonia and was found deceased weeks later in a wooded area of state-owned land miles away. The following year, one day shy of exactly a year, Christina Castiglione went missing while in Livonia. She was also found deceased later on in a remote area near Howell. From the start, police knew that the two cases were likely the work of the same man. It took 40 years and a group of college kids from Michigan State University to m...

24 min
27 MAR

The Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex (Owen Chase's Diary)

Send us a textThe crew of the Essex left Nantucket on a whaling expedition in August of 1819. They knew that they might be at sea for as long as three years but they had no idea what they were about to encounter.Find out how 20 men survived a whale attack that sunk their ship only to be forced into three small boats in the middle of the ocean. What happens when starvation hits? When your fresh water supply is drained? Or when madness sets in? This is a reading of Owen Chase's book N...

48 min
21 FEB

Theodore Coneys: Denver Spider Man

Send us a textIn the early 1940s, a well-liked man was brutally murdered in his home while his wife recovered from hip surgery in a nearby hospital. There were no signs of forced entry, plenty of cash around the home, and every door and window was locked from the inside. So who did it? And more importantly, where did the assailant go after the murder? The house quickly gained the reputation of being haunted as neighbors noticed lights going on and off and the silhouette of a man being se...

22 min
4 FEB

The 1904 Olympic Marathon Mess

Send us a textThe games of the Third Olympiad were the first Olympics to be held on American soil. After St. Louis wrestled away the chance to host the games from Chicago, they lumped the event in with the Louisiana Purchase Expo and World Fair. The Olympic Marathon, an event that everyone looked forward to, was a mess from start to finish. Full of comedy, danger, and cheating. Travel back in time with Curator 135 and learn about all of the shenanigans that took place. It got so bad...

29 min
28 JAN

The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering

Send us a textThe early 1920's was a time that saw numerous vessels vanish in the Atlantic Ocean. The Carroll A. Deering didn't vanish, but its crew did, and then washed up on the dangerous Diamond Shoals off the coast of North Carolina.Was it mutiny? Captain Wormell and his first mate did not get along and everyone knew it. German U-boats were a thing of the past, and so were pirates, right? Was it Russians? Or the work of the not-yet-known Bermuda Triangle? We may never know. The Carro...

25 min

Curator #135 is a Podcast that explores mysteries, odd history, mythology, media and traditions. His favorite age is vint'age'. Dive into events and stories not always covered in school as well as the characters within those stories. Your host, Nathan Olli, is a former radio personality, aspiring author, event DJ and works in a library at a K-8 STEAM School.

Creator

Nathan Olli
Years Active

2020 - 2024
Episodes

74
Rating

Clean
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