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The Boy Who Played a Broom
Before the sold-out concerts, screaming crowds, and international fame, he was a poor boy in Seattle pretending that a broom was a guitar.
A five-dollar instrument, an unexpected second chance, and one life-changing encounter would eventually place him on the path to becoming one of the most influential musicians in history. But his rise was almost as brief as it was extraordinary.
In this episode of Twist of Fate Radio, discover how a child with little more than imagination transformed the sound of music—and became a legend before his death at only 27 years old.
Can you identify him before the final reveal?
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In 1943, actress Agnes Moorehead entered a CBS studio and delivered a performance that would become one of the most celebrated moments in radio history.
With little more than a microphone, a telephone and the power of her voice, she held listeners captive as a woman slowly discovered that the murder she had overheard being planned was her own.
Before she became known as Endora on Bewitched, Moorehead had already worked alongside Orson Welles, appeared in Citizen Kane and helped demonstrate how completely radio could capture the public’s imagination.
Discover the woman behind the voice—and the unforgettable performance that proved an audience does not need to see danger to feel it.
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In 1776, an American captain facing capture threw his ship’s records into the Atlantic—but chose to save three papers. One of them was a rare early printing of the Declaration of Independence.
Captured by the British, mislabeled as “another paper,” and forgotten in naval archives for nearly 250 years, the document resurfaced just before America’s 250th anniversary.
This is the remarkable true story of the Declaration the enemy captured—and accidentally preserved.
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Inside a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, a young American officer found an unexpected way to fight despair.
With no proper tools, no quality wood, and almost nothing to work with, he began building a violin from scraps gathered inside the camp. Bed slats, table legs, broken glass, and salvaged glue slowly became an instrument that would bring music back to men surrounded by barbed wire.
Decades later, that handmade violin would become a treasured piece of family history and a powerful symbol of survival, ingenuity, and hope.
This is the remarkable true story of the soldier who made music in the middle of war.
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In the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, rescue workers found a baby girl alive beneath the wreckage.
She survived because, in the final seconds of her mother’s life, one choice changed everything.
This episode of Twist of Fate Radio tells the heartbreaking story of a young mother, a devastating earthquake, and the kind of love that refuses to let go.
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A college student walked out of the Florida State University library with a few borrowed books in his backpack, never imagining they were about to become the reason he survived.
In this episode of Twist of Fate Radio, we tell the true story of Jason Derfuss, a student who escaped the 2014 FSU library shooting without realizing a bullet had struck the backpack he was carrying. It was only later that he discovered the impossible detail: the books he had just checked out had stopped the bullet.
A routine library errand. A backpack full of books. And one terrifying moment where the smallest object made all the difference.
This is the story of The Book That Took the Bullet.
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Before the Booth name became forever tied to one of the darkest moments in American history, another Booth made a very different choice.
Years before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, famous actor Edwin Booth stood on a crowded train platform when he saw a young man fall into danger beside a moving train. Acting quickly, Booth grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back to safety.
Only later did he learn who he had saved: Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of President Abraham Lincoln.
In this episode of Twist of Fate, we explore the haunting true story of the Booth who saved a Lincoln — and the unbelievable coincidence that connected two families before tragedy changed history forever.
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Before children could line up in shopping malls to meet Santa Claus, Santa mostly lived in stories, drawings, and Christmas Eve imagination.
Then, in 1890, a store owner in Brockton, Massachusetts named James Edgar put on a Santa suit — and accidentally helped create one of America’s most beloved Christmas traditions.
Known as “Colonel Jim,” Edgar was playful, generous, and loved making children smile. What may have started as a clever holiday promotion became something much bigger when children believed they were meeting the real Santa Claus.
In this episode of Twist of Fate Radio, we share the heartwarming story of the first department store Santa — and how one man’s simple idea brought Santa a little closer to home.
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In 1938, a young British stockbroker planned to go skiing.
Instead, one message from a friend sent him to Prague, where frightened families were searching for any way to get their children out before war closed in.
He had no official power. No army. No organization behind him.
But he had determination, a pen, a stack of forms, and the belief that if a child could still be saved, someone had to try.
This episode of Twist of Fate Radio tells the true story of Nicholas Winton, the quiet man who helped rescue more than 600 children before World War II — then told almost nobody for nearly fifty years.
And when the truth finally came out, it led to one of the most emotional television moments ever recorded.
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Before he became one of the most iconic names in baseball, Joe DiMaggio was a fisherman’s son in San Francisco, expected to follow his father onto the water.
But there was one problem.
He hated fishing.
The boats made him sick. The smell of fish turned his stomach. And in a hardworking immigrant family, that refusal looked like failure. His father wanted him to carry on the family trade, but fate had another plan.
In this episode of Twist of Fate Radio, we follow the unlikely path of a boy who stepped away from the fishing boats and found his way to baseball history. From the docks of California to Yankee Stadium, this is the story of how one life was redirected by something as simple as knowing where you didn’t belong.
Sometimes the path you refuse is the very thing that leads you where you were meant to go.
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