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The Thames Torso Murders: Were They Connected to Jack the Ripper? | Unsolved-ish A Strange History Podcast
In Victorian London, human torsos began appearing in and around the River Thames. Carefully dismembered, deliberately unidentified, and quietly dismi…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
When Newspapers Fooled the World: Giants, Fairies, and the Greatest Hoaxes in History
Long before the internet and social media, newspapers were the fastest way information spread across the world. In the nineteenth and early twentieth…
3 months ago
The Servant Girl Annihilator: America’s Forgotten Victorian Serial Killer | Unsolved-ish A Strange History Podcast
In the mid-1880s, a wave of brutal murders terrorized Austin. Women were attacked in their homes at night, often while sleeping, struck with axes, kn…
3 months ago
Nosferatu’s Castle: The True History of Orava Castle, the Real Vampire Fortress Behind the 1922 Horror Classic
What is the real history behind Nosferatu’s castle? In this deep-dive episode of The Strange History Podcast, we uncover the chilling true story of O…
3 months ago
The Psychology Experiment That Taught a Baby to Be Afraid and Made Psychology Question Its Ethics
In 1920, psychologists at Johns Hopkins University conducted one of the most famous and controversial experiments in the history of psychology.
The st…
3 months ago
The Sodder Children Disappearance (1945): Five Children, No Bodies | Unsolved-ish A Strange History Podcast
On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in rural West Virginia. Five children were believed to be trapped inside — yet when th…
3 months ago
The Comet Cult: The Strange Story of Heaven’s Gate and the Hale-Bopp Tragedy
In 1997, one of the brightest comets of the twentieth century appeared in the night sky. The Hale-Bopp comet was visible for weeks, drawing millions …
3 months ago
Hessdalen Lights vs Skinwalker Ranch: Are These Scientific Mysteries Connected? | Unsolved-ish A Strange History Podcast
In a remote Norwegian valley known as Hessdalen, strange glowing lights have appeared for decades under direct scientific observation. Thousands of m…
3 months ago
The Medieval Doomsday Prediction That Failed Repeatedly
For centuries during the Middle Ages, many scholars believed the world had been created on March 25. Because of this belief, some also predicted that…
3 months ago
The Invisible Killer: The Day Scientists Discovered the Bacteria Behind Tuberculosis
For centuries, tuberculosis was one of the deadliest diseases in human history. Known as “consumption,” it slowly destroyed the lungs and killed mill…
3 months ago