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The Time Love Lost
Can love really conquer all? The stunningly beautiful, 19th Century French socialite and heiress Blanche Monnier, whose mother locked her in an attic…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Pennsylvania Tsunami That Was Armed And On Fire
What happened when Andrew Carnegie and his robber baron friends made a few cosmetic adjustments to an important dam to upgrade the aesthetics of thei…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Other Book of Mormon
Is Brigham Young REALLY the heir to Joseph Smith? After Smith was killed in 1844 there was not one but TWO claimants to lead the Mormon Church. The o…
2 years, 9 months ago
This Episode Could Get Us Excommunicated (Seriously)
The Catholic Church has a long and bizarre history with holy relics, but the story of The Holy Prepuce — aka baby Jesus’s circumcised foreskin — is e…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Troll Who Won World War 2
Juan Pujol Garcia was a Spanish chicken farmer turned self-made spy. A fervent hater of fascism, he decided to volunteer as a spy for the Nazis and t…
2 years, 9 months ago
Guess The Dead Language - Free Patreon Preview
Think you'd know Latin if you heard it? Can you understand Middle English? Can you even possibly guess what ancient Aztec or Sumerian sounds like? Tu…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Time Dracula Saved Jesus
Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini was a 15th-century smut writer who climbed all the way up the Papal ladder and became Pope Pius II, head of the Ca…
2 years, 9 months ago
When A Fruit Became God
What happens when you eliminate religion during a cultural revolution? Sometimes people, looking to fulfill their spiritual needs, start worshipping …
2 years, 10 months ago
The King Who Beat Off Sea Men
Ramesses III took power in Egypt during the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a literal regional apocalypse caused by a horrifying invading horde known as th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Boston’s Streets Ran Brown With Blood
The Great Molasses Flood was a disaster that occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston after a large storage tank of the …
2 years, 10 months ago