Season 1 Trailer

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Have you ever wondered what really lies beneath the Great Sphinx of Egypt?

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What secrets are hidden in Tesla's lost notebooks?

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And seriously, where did they put the Ark of the Covenant?

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If these questions have ever crossed your mind, then welcome.

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You're in the right place.

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This is the Adventure Story Podcast hey, I'm Luke and I spend my time writing adventure novels and daydreaming about ancient mysteries.

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Let's be honest, probably 30% writing, 70% daydreaming.

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The adventure Story Podcast is my excuse to talk with the dreamers and the doers of adventure.

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Those who craft epic quests from their laptops, like me, and real world explorers who laugh in the face of gps, not so much like me.

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Plus, I'll share some of the misadventures that have inspired my books and look back on a few classic adventure stories we all know and love.

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Each episode is part Indiana Jones, part behind the scenes adventure novel and part late night conspiracy session, but with better jokes and less tinfoil.

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If you've already read my books, that's amazing by the way, then this is your way to step behind the pages and discover the truth.

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All of my books contain some element of truth, although they are fiction.

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Maybe it's the lost tablets of a Loma's diary in the Ark Files, the Seal of Solomon in the Templar Enigma, or Riga's lost documents in Riga Rising.

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Adventure is and has always been part of my writing.

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I've loved it for as long as I can remember, from reading books set in distant and magical lands as a child to my own travels around the world.

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In fact, I often talk about wanting to write for the first time when I visited India.

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I remember it now like it was yesterday.

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The sun was rising as we flew across the tarpaulin tinted slums to land at Mumbai airport.

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We pushed through the scrum of people and out into the wet heat of the Indian summer.

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That taxi ride that followed, I say this with complete honesty, changed my life.

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Sprawling slums of colourful crumbling shacks flanked the road.

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On both sides, groups of women dressed in iridescent saris wandered beside the speeding traffic.

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A series of wildly disconnected images flashed past.

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Pollution blurting trucks, cars held together with duct tape, ruthless sports cars, decrepit, garishly adorned buses jammed to bursting.

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There were men working, others sleeping women chasing away stray dogs with sticks.

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It's a journey I'll never forget.

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The city was so different from my own and opened my mind to new worlds which I knew I needed to share.

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I've since visited countless countries in search of archaeological oddities, historical mysteries, and loads of stuff that will just make you ask what if?

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,: 2025

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So far, we've got episodes on the truth behind Cambodian Dinosaurs, the Lost City of the Amazon and Ghosts on the London Underground hit subscribe and join me for the adventure.