Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Findaer asks, Have you ever gone into a topic for an episode expecting that you know a good bit about it only to realize you were completely wrong as you continued to research it?

The only episode I can say where something like that happened was the episode on the serial killer HH Holmes. I had heard that story that most people heard, but then, as I started researching it, I found that almost everything in the common telling of the story was exaggerated by tabloid newspapers of the era.I eventually had to abandon the episode, and I put it aside for over a year.

That was an exception. Usually, I don’t find that something is totally wrong so much as I find that there is just more to the story. Most historical events either have more nuance or details than most people are aware of.