Ep. 161: Derek McLennan is excited. His metal detector is beeping, a high pitched tone, clear and strong. He knows what that means. It’s 2014 and he’s walking the grounds, the glebelands of the Church of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway. He begins to dig, sifting through the packed Earth, inching his way deeper and deeper. An hour passes before finally, a familiar glint in the soil, unmistakably silver. Derek carefully extracts the long narrow object. It looks like a spoon possibly. He wipes

Ep. 160: When thinking about wars, they tend to have a pretty obvious cause. The American Revolution - independence from Great Britain, the Civil War - slavery, World War II - Hitler trying to take over the world, Vietnam - the spread of communism. There’s a clear goal to all of these wars, something they are trying to achieve or prevent. The same cannot be said, however, about World War I. World War I, or the Great War, had, possibly, a larger impact than any other war ever. It changed the

Ep. 159: It’s August of 1905 in the small village of Commugny, Switzerland. Jean Lanfray, a French laborer stands before three coffins, weeping. “Tell me I haven’t done this!” he sobs. “I loved my family. I would never do this.” In the coffins lay the bodies of his wife and two daughters, ages 6 and 2. Jean shot them all with his rifle after a day of binge drinking. At the trial, his defense paints a picture of Absinthe madness. They call in a psychiatrist who claims that only the absinthe Jean