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Weird History — 121 episodes
The Flu That Killed 100 Million People in Two Years - And Made Victims Drown in Their Own Blood
The Six Weeks When Japanese Soldiers Killed 300,000 Chinese Civilians - And the World Watched
Geishas Weren't Prostitutes - They Were Elite Artists Trained From Childhood in a Brutal System
The Victorians Who Paid to Gawk at 'Freaks' - And How Some Performers Made Fortunes
The Boys Castrated Before Puberty to Sing Like Angels - And Became Opera Superstars
The Samurai Ritual Where You Disembowel Yourself While Someone Waits to Behead You
The Hindu Tradition Where Widows Were Burned Alive on Their Husband's Funeral Pyres
The African Warrior King Who Revolutionized Warfare - Then Ordered 7,000 People Killed When His Mom Died
The Japanese Unit That Experimented on 200,000 Living Humans - And America Let Them Go Free
The Mongols Threw So Many Books in the River That It Ran Black With Ink for Months
The Chinese Concubine Who Allegedly Killed Her Own Baby to Frame a Rival - And Became Emperor
The Chinese General Who Fed 30,000 People to His Army During a Year-Long Siege - And Became a Hero
The Christian Extremists Who Competed to Be the Most Miserable - One Lived on a Pillar for 37 Years
The Chinese Practice of Breaking Girls' Feet and Binding Them for Life - That Lasted 1,000 Years
The Victorian Men Who Hunted for Treasure in London's Sewers - And Sometimes Found Fortunes Deep in It
The Plague That Killed 12 Million People Over a Century - And San Francisco Burned Down Chinatown to Stop It
The Medieval Job That Paid a Fortune - But You Had to Clean Human Waste and Risk Drowning in. "It"
When London Smelled So Bad Parliament Had to Soak Curtains in Chemicals Just to Breathe
The Year Summer Never Came - When a Volcano Caused Snow in July and Created Frankenstein
The Dead Homeless Man British Intelligence Dressed Up and Dumped in the Ocean to Trick Hitler
The Russian City in China Where Exiles Built Cathedrals, Nightclubs, and a Secret Spy Network
The 600-Year-Old Book Written in a Language No One Can Read - With Drawings of Plants That Don't Exist
The Doctor Who Won a Nobel Prize for Scrambling People's Brains With an Ice Pick
The Cult That Ended With 918 People Drinking Poisoned Kool-Aid in the Jungle - Including 304 Children
The Largest Man-Made Explosion Before Atomic Bombs - That Flattened a City in Seconds
Humans Have Been Drilling Holes in Their Skulls for 10,000 Years - And Some Survived
The Plague That Made 400 People Dance Until They Died - And Authorities Made It Worse
The Christian Heretics Who Starved Themselves to Death - And the Pope Who Ordered 'Kill Them All"
The Japanese Monks Who Mummified Themselves Alive Over 3,000 Days - And Their Bodies Are Still On Display
The Day a Persian Warlord Looted India So Hard He Didn't Tax His Country for 3 Years
The Ancient Persian Execution Method That Took Weeks - Trapped Between Boats While Insects Ate You Alive
The Medieval Death Cult That Invented Political Assassination - And Terrorized Kings From Mountain Fortresses
The Russian Cult Where 100,000 People Voluntarily Castrated Themselves for Salvation
The Plague That Killed Half the World - And Bodies Piled So High They Ran Out of Graves
The Real Dracula Who Created a Forest of 20,000 Impaled Bodies and Dined Among the Dying
The Medieval Christians Who Were Sealed Alive in Tiny Cells - And Stayed There for Decades
The Indian Death Cult That Ritually Strangled 2 Million Travelers Over 600 Years
The Religious Cult That Took Over a German City, Made Polygamy Mandatory, and Hung Their Leaders in Cages
The Medieval Death Cult That Whipped Themselves Bloody in the Streets to Stop the Black Death
The Byzantine Empire Blinded Its Enemies Alive - Because You Can't Be Emperor If You Can't See
When Thousands of Children Marched to 'Reclaim Jerusalem' - And Were Sold Into Slavery
The Countess Who Tortured 650 Young Women to Death and Bathed in Their Blood to Stay Young
The 'Holy Man' Who Controlled Russia's Royal Family, Survived Poison and Bullets, and His Penis is in a Museum
The Chinese Martial Artists Who Believed They Were Bulletproof - And Started an International War
The Concubine Who Murdered Her Way to Ruling China for 47 Years - And Nearly Destroyed an Empire
The Frozen Mummies Found in a Greenland Cave - And the Heartbreaking Stories They Revealed
What Really Happened at Roman Feasts - Sex Shows, Exotic Animals, and the Truth About Vomitoriums
The Venice Courtesan Who Slept With Kings, Wrote Erotic Poetry, and Beat the Inquisition
The Ancient Greek Army of 150 Gay Couples Who Were Undefeated for 33 Years
The Outcasts Who Ate Meals Off Dead Bodies to Absorb Their Sins - And Were Shunned for Life
The Woman Who Married Three Geniuses and Drove a Famous Painter to Make a Life-Size Sex Doll of Her
The American Pioneers Trapped in the Snow Who Had to Eat Each Other to Survive
When Britain Lost 11 Days Overnight and People Rioted Demanding 'Give Us Our Eleven Days Back!
Why Victorians Told Ghost Stories at Christmas - And How We Forgot This Creepy Tradition
When Celebrating Christmas Could Get You Arrested - And America Banned It for 22 Years
The Day WWI Soldiers Stopped Fighting, Played Soccer in No Man's Land, Then Went Back to Killing Each Other
The Laughter That Wouldn't Stop - When 1,000 People Laughed Uncontrollably for Months
The Woman Who Disguised Herself as a Man, Became Pope, and Gave Birth During a Procession
The Man With an Endless Stomach Who Ate Live Cats, Puppies, and Possibly a Baby
The Medieval Army That Catapulted Plague-Infected Corpses Over Walls - And Accidentally Started the Black Death
The Ottoman Empire Kidnapped Christian Boys and Turned Them Into Elite Soldiers Who Ruled the Empire
The Mothers and Wives Who Secretly Ruled the Ottoman Empire - And Murdered Each Other for Power
The Castrated Men Who Ruled China's Forbidden City - And Became More Powerful Than Emperors
The Massive Stone City So Impressive That Europeans Refused to Believe Africans Built It
When Thanksgiving Was Like Halloween - The Forgotten Tradition of Ragamuffin Day
The Man Who Claimed to Be Jesus's Brother and Started a War That Killed 30 Million People
When 388,000 Gallons of Beer Flooded London Streets and Killed 8 People
The Men Who Dug Up Fresh Corpses for Money - Until They Started Making Their Own
The Victorian Rat Catchers Who Became Celebrities - And Their Bizarre Methods for Killing Thousands
The Brown Bear Who Became a WWII Soldier, Carried Ammunition, and Drank Beer With Troops
When Australia Declared War on Birds and Lost - The Great Emu War of 1932
The Mongolian Princess Who Won 10,000 Horses by Beating Men in Wrestling - And Never Lost
The Emperor Who Made His Horse a Senator and Declared War on the Ocean - Rome's Most Insane Ruler
The Teenage Emperor Who Married Five Times, Worshipped a Rock, and Scandalized Rome Before Being Murdered at 18
Joan of Arc's Companion Became History's Most Notorious Serial Killer - The Dark Fall of a War Hero
The Murder Scandal That Rocked Louis XIV's Court - When French Aristocrats Poisoned Each Other at Black Masses
The Genius Artist Who Murdered a Man Over Tennis and Painted Masterpieces on the Run
The Australian Outlaw Who Built His Own Armor and Fought 30 Cops in an Epic Final Battle
The Opera Singer Who Burned Down a Convent for Love - And Killed Men in Duels for Fun
When the Sun Attacked Earth: The Carrington Event That Could Happen Again
How Medieval Men's Fashion Nearly Broke Society - The Rise and Fall of History's Most Outrageous Clothing
When the Sky Rained Meat: The Bizarre Kentucky Mystery That Baffled Scientists for 150 Years
The Creepy Victorian Tradition of Posing Dead Bodies for Family Photos - And Why Everyone Did It
The Severed Ear That Started a 9-Year War - And Why Parliament Kept It in a Jar
The Cannibal Family That Terrorized Scotland for 25 Years - And You Won't Believe How They Were Finally Caught"
The Man Who Lived on a Pillar for 37 Years: The Bizarre Story of Saint Simeon Stylites
The Man Who Wouldn't Die: How 5 Killers Failed to Murder the Unkillable Mike Malloy
Haunted by Guilt: The Heiress Who Built a Mansion to Appease Ghosts?
The Island That Worships America: Inside the Strange Religion Still Waiting for 'John From' to Return
The Cursed Treasure Trap That’s Killed Six—And Might Hold Billions!
The Iceberg Aircraft Carrier: Churchill's Secret Plan to Build Warships Out of Frozen Water
The Battle of Los Angeles: The Secret UFO Panic the Military Still Won’t Explain!
The Runaway Nun Who Became a Conquistador: The Wild True Story of History's Deadliest Transgender Outlaw
Japan's Atlantis: The Shocking Truth About the 10,000-Year-Old Underwater Pyramid Hidden Off Yonaguni Island!
The War America Forgot: How Michigan and Ohio Almost Killed Each Other Over Toledo
They Said They Found Unicorns and Man-Bats on the Moon… And Everyone Believed It!
Nourie Hadig: The Shocking Armenian Cinderella Story You Were Never Told!
The Corpse That Fooled Hitler: How a Dead Body Won World War II
The War of the Bucket: The Most Ridiculous Military Conflict in Human History
Meet the World's Greatest Scammer: He Sold National Monuments and Fooled Al Capone
The Last Soldier: How a Japanese Officer Fought World War II for 29 Years After It Ended
The Forgotten Marriage Tradition That Would Be a Crime Today
Sex Cult Apocalypse: How Religious Fanatics Turned a German City Into a Bloody Dystopia
Stealing Sunlight: The Bizarre History of How Daylight Saving Time Turned Into a 100-Year Fight
She Gave Birth Mid-Battle: The Untold Story of Ireland's Most Feared Female Pirate
The Great Stork Derby: Canada’s Bizarre Baby-Making Contest of the 1920s
The Lost Arctic Dracula: How Iceland's Secret Version of the Vampire Classic Was Darker Than the Original
The Billion-Dollar Diamond Field That Never Existed: The Greatest Gem Scam in History
The Coup America Never Saw: How Wealthy Businessmen Tried to Overthrow FDR
Cats, Conspiracy, and Papal Fiction: Debunking the Great Cat Massacre Myth
The Man Who Ruled San Francisco: How a Bankrupt Dreamer Became America's Self-Proclaimed Emperor
The CRAZY Science of Skull Bumps
The Only Surgery in History with a 300% Death Rate
From Fugitive Nazi POW to Tennis Pro: The 40-Year Secret Life of Georg Gärtner
Blood Sails and Black Ships: The Noble Lady Who Became France's Deadliest Pirate
Doomsday No-Show: The Religious Prophecy That Left Thousands Homeless
The Enigma of The Green Children of Woolpit
The Day Molasses Turned Deadly: A Tale of Engineering Failures and Sweet Destruction.
Napoleon vs The Bunnies - One of History's Most Epic Battles?
The Cadaver Synod - Digging Up a Dead Pope
"Lord" Timothy Dexter - History's Best Terrible Investor