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In 1898, the British were building a railway line between Mombasa in Kenya and Uganda. At the Tsavo River in Kenya where a bridge needed to be built, the project was suddenly interrupted by two man-eating lions that targeted the camps of the workers. Over a period of nine months, the lions killed scores of people. These lions were deliberately hunting people, preferring humans over any other prey, and they seemed to have supernatural abilities in evading all attempts to stop them. Colonel J.H. Patterson, the chief engineer in charge of the project, finally managed to eliminate them.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was first published anonymously in 1821 in the London Magazine and was published in book form a year later. A revised edition was published in 1846. It is an account by the author of his addiction to laudanum and the effects it had on his life. This recording presents an abridged version of the 1856 edition.

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: "the Man-Eater."

They fought a war without rules, and taught the enemy the legend of the Green Beret. No fighting men in the world were a match for the U.S. Army Special Forces, the men of the Green Beret. But in the chaos of Vietnam, where enemies, allies, friends, and traitors all shared a landscape of terror, the Green Berets had to develop their own tactics and draw closer to the only people they could trust: each other.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a graphic, honest, autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its profound effect on his life. Confessions was the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him lasting fame. This intensely riveting audiobook edition is therefore a must for all those interested in the pharmacological arts, altered states, the pitfalls of addiction, and the age-old quest for expanded consciousness.

Soul Eaters is a captivating true crime and horror podcast hosted by Andrè Ravenskúl Venås, exploring the darkest corners of human nature. Each episode unearths chilling accounts of heinous crimes and unimaginable atrocities, peeling back the layers to expose the horrifying extremes of human depravity. With hauntingly vivid storytelling and meticulously researched details, Soul Eaters confronts the malevolence buried within history, offering a stark lens into the minds of those who commit the unthinkable. But the darkness doesn’t stop there. Soul Eaters ventures beyond reality, weaving ...

Smoke Eater: A Fireman’s Podcast is a show dedicated to passing along the hard won experience, knowledge, and traditions of the Senior Man in the firehouse prior to their retirement. We’ll be talking to some of the best men and women in the business. People that have spent their careers working in some of the busiest firehouses in America and truly doing the job. Through the show you’ll get to hear what they want to pass on to the next generation of rookies and then you’ll be able to pass that info on to your own probies anytime a new member walks through your firehouse doors.

Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others.