Based on a True Story

This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire, Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Based on a True Story. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two-part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?Find the podcasts in this episode Foul Play: Crime Series: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213foulplay Murder She Told: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213murdershetold Crime Salad: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213crimesalad Crimelines: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213crimelines Frightful: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213frightful Reverie True Crime: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213reverietruecrime Rotten to the Core: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213rottontothecore The Trail Went Cold: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213thetrailwentcold Once Upon A Crime: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213onceuponacrime Criminology: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213criminology The Peripheral & Generation Why: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213theperipheral Live, Laugh, Larceny: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213livelaughlarceny The Hidden Staircase: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213thehiddenstaircase True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now?: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213truecrimecaseswithlanie Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213obscura Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://links.boatspodcast.com/comment Full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/213 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Released in 2001, Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor is often criticized as being entirely inaccurate as it attempts to tell the story of the surprise attack on December 7th, 1941 that led to the United States entering World War II. Today we'll be joined by historian and author Marty Morgan to take a deep dive into what details the movie got right and what it got wrong.Learn more about the true story Watch Marty's documentary about the Oberg color film footage: https://links.boatspodcast.com/212oberg Visit Marty's site: https://links.boatspodcast.com/212guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2dc24e37-b42f-51d4-b4bf-91aeb304ddc7 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/212 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The classic TV series The X-Files is fiction, but there are some true stories and UFO cases that inspired episodes of the series. To help us learn more about them, we'll chat with UFO researcher and host of Our Strange Skies, Rob Kristoffersen.Learn more about the true story Listen to the episode Rob recommended: https://links.boatspodcast.com/211raechelseyes Follow the Our Strange Skies podcast: https://links.boatspodcast.com/211guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/46e56faa-fc96-51eb-9692-21ac8f45dd2b Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/211 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dolemite Is My Name is the 2019 biopic about Rudy Ray Moore, the comedian, singer, actor, and film producer who has often been given the nickname the "godfather of rap." We'll chat with Mark Jason Murray, who was the Research Consultant on the film and author of Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself: The Authorized Biography Of Rudy Ray Moore Aka Dolemite.Learn more about the true story Get Mark's book: https://links.boatspodcast.com/210book Learn more about Rudy Ray Moore: https://links.boatspodcast.com/210guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ff13a859-0993-507f-9b6b-cf28fb124bc1 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/210 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The movie's title W.E. stands for Wallis and Edward. Was the movie correct to suggest King Edward VIII's reason for abdicating the throne in 1936 was so he could marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson? We'll chat with author Andrew Lownie about the true story to find out more.Learn more about the true story Get Andrew's book, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor: https://links.boatspodcast.com/209book Learn more about Andrew's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/209guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/c76af887-07ea-5de6-bce5-86e8f4527dfa Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/209 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zero Dark Thirty shows the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. Peter Bergen is the author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden and he joins us today to dig into the true story behind the movie.Learn more about the true story Get Peter's book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208book Also mentioned on this episode, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208manhunt Learn more about Peter's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/2db2725a-3da3-56a6-9ad7-dcf879e3f74f Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/208 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was originally released on August 28, 2017. This is a remastered version of that interview.Matt Bondurant joins us today episode as we compare what really happened with the movie Lawless. Matt's grandfather, Jack, and two grand-uncles that were the inspiration for his book that the movie is based on, The Wettest County in the World.Learn more about the true story Get Matt's new book, Oleander City: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207newbook Pick up The Wettest County in the World: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207book Learn more about Matt: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/ecd0fdbc-d16a-559d-a654-57040bf1a99a Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/207 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Horner was the Paleontology Consultant on all six of the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movies. He joins Based on a True Story to chat about the real dinosaurs we saw in the franchise.Learn more about dinosaurs! Follow Jack's work at https://links.boatspodcast.com/206guest How to Build a Dinosaur: https://links.boatspodcast.com/206book Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/e652d905-dec0-414d-ab59-9a37b681c3d0 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/206 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not all movies try to be historically accurate, and yet they still depict moments in history. To help us extract history from the satirical comedy, we’ll be chatting with professor, scholar, and author of Jesus of Hollywood and Bible and Cinema, Adele Reinhartz.Learn more about the true storyGet Adele's books: Jesus of Hollywood: https://links.boatspodcast.com/205book Bible and Cinema: https://links.boatspodcast.com/205bibleandcinema Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/808e0195-2daf-45c7-a635-9d30c3b56616 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/205 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle at Dunkirk, was an event that many believe kept Britain in World War II before the United States even joined the fight as it took place between May 26 - June 4, 1940. Today we'll be chatting with Joshua Levine, who was the historical consultant on the 2017 movie from director Christopher Nolan that depicts the event.Learn more about the true story Get Joshua's book Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture: https://links.boatspodcast.com/204book Find all of Joshua's work: https://links.boatspodcast.com/204guest Did you enjoy this episode? Leave a comment: https://galas.fm/episode/35dfc185-7d95-4bd6-98a9-2ca2d245f741 Find the transcript and full show notes: https://links.boatspodcast.com/204 Support our sponsors: https://links.boatspodcast.com/advertisers Remove the ads by supporting the show: https://links.boatspodcast.com/support Leave a voicemail: https://links.boatspodcast.com/call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices