History Is a Crime Scene | Meet Velvet Guillotine

What if everything you learned about history was the cleaned-up version?Velvet Guillotine is a dark history podcast that goes where textbooks don't — into the mechanisms of power, the bodies that paid for progress, and the stories that got buried so the wrong people could put their names on buildings.In this intro episode, host April Rain explains what Velvet Guillotine is, what it isn't, and why engaging seriously with dark history isn't morbid curiosity — it's a moral obligation.Coming up in Season One: the Dancing Plague of 1518, the body trade that built modern medicine, the witch trials as a tool of social control, medical experimentation on enslaved women, the Great Fire of London, and much more.This is not a murder podcast. Not a ghost story podcast. Not a conspiracy theory podcast. It's documented, sourced, deeply researched history — which is stranger and more disturbing than any of those things.New episodes drop three times a week.