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Ridiculous History Presents: Criminalia
Season 1 Episode 1
If you like Ridiculous History, check out this iHeartRadio & Shondaland Audio podcast – Criminalia.
On Criminalia, hosts Holly Frey and Maria Trimarc…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Case of the Greenbrier Ghost, Part 1: An 'Everlasting Faint'
When Elva Zona Heaster passed away, the town doctor attributed the death to a heart attack. Elva's mother disagreed. Convinced that her daughter visi…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Hand of Glory, Part 2: Recipes, Necropants and Toes
Like any recipe, instructions for creating a Hand of Glory often varied - which one was considered legitimate? Also, the guys explore the odd, morbid…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Hand of Glory, Part 1: A Thief's Theme
If you were an enterprising thief in the days of yore, there were few legendary tools as valuable as the grisly Hand of Glory -- the severed hand of …
5 years, 5 months ago
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 2: Inquisitions and Iniquity
Could the stereotype of witches on broomsticks actually be a drug reference? Join Ben, Noel and Casey as they continue digging through the history an…
5 years, 5 months ago
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 1: A Killer in the Rye?
Most people are familiar with the stereotypical image of a witch: a haggard, often older individual with a peaked hat, black robes, a demonic familia…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 2: The Birth of a Grisly Legend
As the investigation into the Beast became a national obsession, the French monarchy stepped in, offering rewards (and threats) in their attempt to c…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 1: Murders In France
For three years, a monster terrified the backwater region of Gévaudan. From 1764 - 1767, people found the mutilated corpses, one by one, across the c…
5 years, 6 months ago
The BBC Convinced People Spaghetti Grows on Trees
On the first of April in 1957, cameraman Charles de Jaeger's childhood dream came true: Panorama, Britain's most popular news program, aired a segmen…
5 years, 6 months ago
The US Waged War on Pinball for Decades
Today, pinball is seen as a sort of retro novelty -- it's enjoyable, kitschy and wholesome. Yet for decades, political officials in cities across the…
5 years, 6 months ago