It was the fifth-largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest oil field in the world. And then, abruptly, it was an empty field.

Topics too nerdy for one podcast, and too chocolatey for the other. Today we ask"How much chocolate is in your chocolate?"

The Chocolate Snobs ask: Is Willie Harcourt-Cooze a James Bond villain? Because his biography sure makes him sound like one. That hasn't stopped us from sampling the

For their second outing, the Chocolate Snobs try to tackle something a bit darker (and maybe too dark): The . 

The Chocolate Snobs kick things off by trying the most ubiquitous chocolate bar in America: .

Thomas Lake Harris channeled history's greatest poets to write history's worst poems... and the poets told him he was the new Messiah.

In 1975, an idealistic Soviet officer decided it was time to restart the Communist Revolution by fomenting mutiny on a state-of-the-art destroyer.

In 1970 MFA Boston acquired a trove of golden bronze age jewelry... The problem was they had no idea where it came and did'nt care.

Prescott Ford Jernegan claimed he could extract gold from seawater. It was a classic something for nothing scam... So why did so many people fall for it?

Walter Siegmeister wanted to create the master race by moving to the jungle and consuming only fruit. That wasn't even the weirdest thing about him.

The strange, sad, and hate-filled story of Elwood Towner, aka Chief Red Cloud, who spoke at Nazi rallies in full Native American ceremonial regalia.

Reader Robert Lifson sent along these mug shots of Ann O'Delia Diss Debar and they were so good I had to share.

In February 1973, French right wingers broke into the grave of of fascist dictator Philippe Pétain and made off with his mortal remains.

She was the meandering metropolitan mystery who fooled police across the nation. Who was she, and why did she love bread so much?

The greatest political cartoonists of the day, vs an easily caricatured governor with no sense of humor.

Milton D. Hays just wanted to run a railroad like a tyrant, and his complete lack of ethics allowed him to realize that dream.

Octavius Valentine Catto was a man for all seasons. He could have been the leader Philadelphia needed... if he hadn't been murdered.