The Backstory with Patty Steele

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(Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier

In this re-release episode: The Netflix hit film Society of the Snow is the true story of South American athletes trapped in the snowy mountains after a plane crash…with some surviving by eating their dead teammates. Now we look at the Donner party of pioneers in 1846, trapped in 22 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains…and the even more gruesome way some of them survived.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  The Backstory: Surviving a grizzly attack

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  The Backstory: From prostitute to queen of the pirates

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  The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge

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  The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman

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  The Backstory: Back from the dead to take the gold

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  The Backstory: Demons to moon landings – the story that inspired The Exorc…

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  The Backstory: All the money in the world…and a torturous upbringing

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  The Backstory: Fatal obsession with a rising star

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  The Backstory (Replay): Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility

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  The Backstory: Getting inked…5,000 years ago

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  The Backstory: Weird trends: from live ornamental hermits to garden gnomes

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  The Backstory: Spiderman and…presidential corruption?!

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  The Backstory (Replay): Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles

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  The Backstory (Replay): Illicit sex in old Hollywood

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  The Backstory (Replay): The unexplained blast that shook the world