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Strange Before Us: Forgotten History
by Strange Before Us
Strange Before Us uncovers the history that never made the textbooks: eerie true stories, bizarre trials and forgotten events from centuries past. Every episode is built on real documents and real people, from a 1732 army report on Serbian vampires to the German mortuaries where the dead were watched for signs of life. We follow the evidence, tell the story, then separate what we actually know from what became legend. The past is stranger than you think.
Episodes
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Hinterkaifeck: The Unsolved Murders Where the Killer Stayed Behind
In March 1922, a farmer in rural Bavaria found footprints in the fresh snow. They came out of the forest and led to his farm, and none led away. A few nights later, all six people living at Hinterkaifeck were dead: the farmer, his wife, their widowed daughter, her two young children, and a maid…
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Buried Alive: The Waiting Mortuaries Where the Dead Were Watched
The true history of the fear of being buried alive: for over a century, German cities kept their dead in heated "waiting mortuaries," with a bell tied to every body, in case one of them woke up. We follow the 18th-century panic over premature burial, the Weimar doctor who believed the only proof…
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The Real Vampire Case of 1732: Arnold Paole and the Army Report That Created Dracula
The true story of Arnold Paole and the 1732 vampire report: Austrian army surgeons opened the graves of a Serbian village and officially concluded the dead were vampires. Their document, Visum et Repertum, spread across Europe, brought the word "vampire" into English, and set the stage for…
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Welcome to Strange Before Us
Army surgeons who officially reported finding vampires. A German city that kept its dead under watch, with a bell tied to every body. True stories so strange they sound made up, and they're all in the historical record. Strange Before Us tells the history that never made the textbooks: eerie true...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Strange Before Us uncovers the history that never made the textbooks: eerie true stories, bizarre trials and forgotten events from centuries past. Every episode is built on real documents and real people, from a 1732 army report on Serbian vampires to the German mortuaries where the dead were watched for signs of life. We follow the evidence, tell the story, then separate what we actually know from what became legend. The past is stranger than you think.
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Strange Before Us uncovers the history that never made the textbooks: eerie true stories, bizarre trials and forgotten events from centuries past. Every episode is built on real documents and real people, from a 1732 army report on Serbian vampires to the German mortuaries where the dead were...
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