Club Member's Bonus: History's Greatest Travel Scams Transcript and Research Notes

Bonus material from our episode History's Greatest Travel Scams: From Medieval Relic Fraud to the Tea House Scam in Beijing for members of the By Their Own Compass Club

Welcome, fellow travellers who pay actual money to hear us ramble on about dead people in boats. We appreciate your support. This is the By Their Own Compass Club companion to our episode on the Greatest Travel Scams in History. Think of it as the stuff we found fascinating enough to spend hours reading about, but didn’t make it into the episode. They say good writers should “kill their darlings,” and that’s a pretty bloody metaphor for typing on a laptop. Rather, we saved our darlings for you, dear club members, because we think you’re pretty darling, too.

Part I: The Holy Bones Business Was Even Worse than it Sounds