All Episodes
The Weird History Podcast — 255 episodes
238 In the Garden of Monsters with Crystal King
237 A Danger Shared with Bill Lascher
236 Piracy in the South China Sea with Rita Chang-Eppig
235 Shakespeare Versus Hedgehogs
234 Lupercalia
233 The Golden Fortress with Bill Lascher
232 Navigating the Asian Maritime World with Eric Tagliacozzo
231 The History of Archaeology with Ann R. Williams
230 The Adventures of Mussolini’s Corpse
229 Douglas Wolk on All of the Marvels
228 The Mustache Strike
227 The Rasputin Disclaimer
August 2021 Announcement
226 Sara and Jack Gorman on Denying to the Grave
225 Los San Patricios
224 Carlton F.W. Larson on Treason in the U.S.
223 Grand Guignol Part Two: Tales of Terror!
222 Grand Guignol Part One: Theater of Horror!
221 Sasha Abramsky on Lottie Dod
220 Michel Paradis on Last Mission to Tokyo
219 Patient Zero
218 Juneteenth
An Update From Joe
217 The War of 1812 Part Two: Other Causes
216 The War of 1812, Part One: Surface Causes
215 Vortex One: An Excerpt From Storied and Scandalous Portland, Oregon
214 In Which Loki Ruins a Dinner Party
Bonus: A Visit From the Spirit of Vengeance or Ghost Rider Saves Christmas
213 Where Does Santa Claus Come From?
212 St. Nicholas
211 Stonehenges
210 Soviet Pepsi
209 The Ribbon Around Her Neck
208 Nosferatu
207 Les Klinger on H.P. Lovecraft
206 The Adventures of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Severed Head
205 Live at Rose City Comic Con: Roy Lichtenstein, Comics Stealer
204 The Life and Lies of George Psalmanazar
203 Iran-Contra Part, Four: Fallout
202 The Solitude of Michael Collins
201 Duncan Ryuken Williams on American Sutra
200 Q&A Dinosaur Party Extravaganza!
199 Melissa Kwasny on Putting on the Dog
198 Iran-Contra, Part Three: Secret Wars
197 Joshua Specht on Red Meat Republic
196 Iran-Contra Part Two: The Boland Amendments
195 Iran-Contra, Part One: Revolution in Nicaragua
194 Shakespeare Was Shakespeare
193 The Many Lives of Notre Dame
192 False Alarm
191 The Black Paintings
Very Important Announcement
190 Faro, the Hottest Game in the West
189 Thom Wall on The History of Juggling
188 Swingin’ on the Flippity-Flop
187 Presidential Pets
186 Crystal King on The Chef’s Secret
185 The Georgia Guidestones
184 Is Taiwan a Country?
Big News for 2019
183 Krampus and Friends
182 Atlantropa, the Plan to Drain the Mediterranean
181 Thanksgiving Mummery
180 Lucy Bellwood on Sailor Tattoos
179 Buried Alive!
178 Wendigo
177 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Okay With Ghost Tours
176 The Cadaver Synod
175 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part Two
174 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part One
173 Roanoke
172 Live at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, The Tempest and the New World
171 Live at Floyd’s, The Mythical Geography of the Pacific Northwest
170 Phreak Out!
169 The Telharmonium
168 Dorothy and Friends
167 North Korea Part Fifteen, How North Korea Ends
166 North Korea Part Fourteen, How to Escape From North Korea
165 Happy Defenestration Day!
164 North Korea Part Thirteen, How North Korea Got Nukes
163 North Korea Part Twelve, Kim Jong Il and the Arduous March of Famine
162 Michael P. Daley on Bobby Bluejacket
161 North Korea Part Eleven, The Tomb of the Eternal President
160 North Korea Part Ten, “Meanwhile, in South Korea!”
159 Spaghetti Trees
158 North Korea Part Nine, The DMZ, Assassinations, and the USS Pueblo
157 North Korea Part Eight, Juche
156 North Korea Part Seven, The Good Old Days
155 North Korea Part Six: War and No Peace
154 North Korea Part Five, The Spark of War
153 North Korea, Part Four: Red(ish) Dawn
152 North Korea, Part Three: Collaborators, Resistors, and Kim Il Sung
151 North Korea, Part Two: Japanese Occupation
150 North Korea, Part One: The Peaceful Peninsula
149 Sarah Fraser on The Last Highlander
New Series Announcement
148 In Which Your Christmas Decorations Are Wrong and Spain is Into Some Weird Stuff
147 David Goldfield on The Gifted Generation
146 The Lost City of Vanport
145 Bonnie MacBird on Unquiet Spirits
Thankful
144 The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem
143 Brandon Seifert on Werewolves
142 Icelandic Dracula
141 How Dracula Was Dracula?
140 The Adventures of Oliver Cromwell’s Severed Head
139 Rosenstrasse
September
138 Confederate Statues
137 Isaac Newton and the Cat Door
136 Durer’s Rhinoceros
135 Pad Thai, Nationalism, and Mandatory Hats
134 The Imaginary Islands of Benjamin Morrell
133 Hachiko
132 Crystal King on Feast of Sorrow
131 Polyamory, Polygraphs, and Wonder Woman
130 Human Mail
129 Phantom Time, the Dumbest Conspiracy Theory Ever
128 Quest For Thundercows
127 Bummer and Lazarus, the San Francisco Superdogs
126 Jenni L. Walsh on Becoming Bonnie
125 Italian Fascism Part Fourteen, The Fall of Fascism
124 Italian Fascism Part Thirteen, Italy in WWII
75 Redux, About Mussolini and Those Trains…
123 Italian Fascism Part Twelve, Eve of Destruction
122 Italian Fascism Part Eleven, Race and Racism in Mussolini’s Italy
121 Italian Fascism Part Ten, Mussolini and Hitler
120 Italian Fascism Part Nine, War With Ethiopia
119 Italian Fascism Part Eight, Illusions of Empire
Monday is the New Thursday
118 Italian Fascism Part Seven, Meagan Zurn on Antonio Gramsci
117 Italian Fascism Part Six, Church and State
Plague Has Taken Me
116 Italian Fascism Part Five, “All Within the State”
115 Italian Fascism Part Four, Voter Suppression and Murder
114 Italian Fascism Part Three, The March on Rome
113 Italian Fascism Part Two, What is Fascism, Anyway?
112 Italian Fascism Part One: The Idea of Italy
111 Heather Arndt Anderson on Chilies
Mystery Series Announcement!
110 Years of the Reaper
109 Moose Cavalry
108 How Not to Kill Fidel Castro
107 Squanto, Tisquantum
106 Live at the Jack London, the Portland Vice Scandal
105 The Giants of Patagonia
104 Thomas Jefferson, Mastodon Hunter
103 How Gothic Got Goth
102 Five Scary Clowns
101 Kara Helgren on Witches, Puritans, and the Salem Tourist Experience
100 Q & A
99 Live Your Life Like You’re Examining a Platypus
98 Blood and Types
97 American Exiles
I’m Not Dead
96 Funeral on the Moon, the Story of Fallen Astronaut
95 Live at the Jack London Bar: Teddy Roosevelt and the Mystery of the Missing Time Capsule
94 The Know-Nothings, Part Two
93 The Know-Nothings, Part One
92 We Don’t Know Things About the Mesoamerican Ball Game
91 Kory Bing on Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Megafauna
90 The Fiji Mermaid
89 Live at the Jack London, Robertson V Baldwin
88 The Unknown Origins of Pasta, A Wonder of the World
87 Stalin’s Nonexistent Human/Chimp Hybrid Supersoldiers
86 Mandeville, Part Three
85 Mandeville, Part Two
84 Mandeville, Part One
83 Bill Lascher on Eve of a Hundred Midnights
82 For Amusement Only
81 Dancing Goats and Other Coffee Legends
80 Live at the Jack London, the Rise and Fall of Claymation
79 Cecelia Otto on the Music of the Lincoln Highway
78 A Statue of Crazy Horse
77 Molly Newman on Crafting Good Trivia Questions
76 The Yellow Kid
75 About Mussolini and Those Trains…
74 The Wizard of Oz, Populism, and Dubious Fan Theories
73 Jamie Jeffers on the Dating of Easter
72 There’s No Such Thing As Lemuria
71 Live at the Jack London, The Story of Oregon Trail
70 Shirtless Zeus-Like George Washington Versus Alexander Hamilton
69 Kingdom of the Mahdi, Part Three
68 Kingdom of the Mahdi, Part Two
67 Kingdom of the Mahdi, Part One
66 Longest War Ever
65 The Amazing Oceanic Adventure of 28,800 Adorable Rubber Duckies
64 Yesterday’s Tomorrows
63 The Forty-Seven Ronin, Part Two
62 The Forty-Seven Ronin, Part One
The Future!
Remasters and an eBook
61 Puritans Versus Christmas
60 The Goose’s Crusade
59 Man of Flames
58 Malthus, Borlaug, and Feeding the World
57 The Mysterious Affair of the Irish Crown Jewels
56 Live at the Jack London, Lewis and Clark Through History
55 The Pig War
54 The Uses and Abuses of Mummies
One Year Later
53 Bathory
52 Little Kill House on the Prairie
51 The Ultimate Palindrome
50 The Rise and Fall of Nauru
49 Destroy All Emus!
48 The Swedish Titanic
47 Live at the Jack London Bar, The Postmodern Icon
46 Paper Theater, Golden Bat
45 The White City of the Monkey God
44 Live at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, Thoughts on Richard III
43 Medusa
42 An Invention of Writing! Maybe.
41 His Majesty Gregor MacGregor, King of Con-Men and Cacique of Poyais
40 Prison of the Mind
39 How to Steal the Mona Lisa
38 The Secret Plan to Nuke the Moon
37 Roberts Versus Boswell
36 Thirteen Ships
35 Clairvoyance and Free Love on Campaign Trail ’72
34 Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
33 Live at Velo Cult, the Legend of Polybius
32 There’s No Such Thing as an Iron Maiden
31 The Kingdom of North Sudan
30 The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, Part Two
29 The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, Part One
28 Attack the Rock
27 King of Jewels and Centaurs
26 Joseph Barker on Artificial Intelligence, Strategy, and Games
25 Clockwork Genius
24 The Raider, the Playboy, the Sultan, and Roosevelt
23 A Dinosaur Named Sue
22 Live at the Clinton Street Theater: How Arthurian Legend is Like Comic Books
21 Shanghaied!
20 The Lost Empire of Scotland
19 Hey Big Spender
18 The Tulsa Race Riot
17 Jaime Kirk on Piratical History
16 The Siege of the Grand Mosque
Announcement!
15 Heather Arndt Anderson on the History of Breakfast
14 Nellie Bly Versus Phileas Fogg
13 Nellie Bly and the Asylum
12 Shortest War Ever
11 Maps of Time
10 The Habsburg and Juarez, Part Two
09 The Habsburg and Juarez, Part One
08 Sealand
07 The Mountain Range That Wasn’t There
06 Franksgiving
05 The Puppet Kingdom
04 BONE WARS!
03 Incorrect Ideas About Olmecs
02 Axe Murder
01 Ancient Propaganda