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February 2 – The Night People Measured the Future by Firelight
February 2, known as Candlemas, was once one of Europe’s most important midwinter prediction nights, when people used candlelight and shadows to dete…
3 months ago
The Bretons: Celtic Origins, Breton Language, Ancient Lore, and the People Who Crossed the Sea With Their Stories Intact
In this epic mega episode of The Strange History Podcast, host Amy explores the haunting and resilient history of the Bretons, a Celtic people whose …
3 months ago
February 1 – The Day Movies Were Forced to Follow the Sun
On February 1, 1893, Thomas Edison opened the world’s first motion picture studio, the Black Maria, a rotating building designed to follow the sun fo…
3 months ago
January 31 – The Sound Some People Swear Exists
January 31 closes out the quietest month of the year with one of history’s most unsettling mysteries: the Hum, a low-frequency sound reported by peop…
3 months ago
January 30 – The Day the Future Suddenly Felt Too Close
On January 30, 1925, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated one of the first successful long-distance television transmissions, allowing a moving hum…
3 months ago
The Dot-Com Super Bowl Graveyard: Startups That Spent Millions and Vanished Overnight
At the height of the dot-com bubble, internet startups believed a Super Bowl commercial was the ultimate shortcut to legitimacy. Instead, it became a…
3 months ago
The Super Bowl Startup Curse Part Two: Modern Tech Companies That Rose and Collapsed
The dot-com bubble wasn’t the end of Super Bowl advertising disasters—it was only the beginning.
In Part Two of The Super Bowl Startup Curse, host Amy…
3 months ago
January 29 – The Poem That Wouldn’t Let Anyone Sleep
On January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was published, instantly becoming one of the most famous works in American literary history. …
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January 28 – The Day the Past Suddenly Got Much Longer
On January 28, 1929, scientists presented early findings that would lead to radiocarbon dating, allowing historians to measure the age of ancient org…
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January 27 – The Tiny Discovery That Quietly Changed Everything
On January 27, 1880, Louis Pasteur presented evidence supporting germ theory, the idea that microscopic organisms cause disease. In this episode of T…
3 months ago