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All Episodes

Weird History — 64 episodes

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1

Fake Trees, Dazzle Ships, and Exploding Rats

2

A WWII Soldier With a Sword and Bow, Operation Paul Bunyan, and Castle Itter

3

Telegraph Sparks, Halley’s Comet Fear, and Europe’s Volcanic Fog

4

The Great Moon Hoax, The Cardiff Giant, and The Fairy Photographs That Fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5

The Blood Rain Panic, The Man Who Sold Fake Moon Land, and The Queen Who Kept a Human Zoo

6

Ghost Ship Court, 21 Grams, and the Town That Banned Kissing

7

The Great Animal Trial, The File Hidden in a Cake, and The Cemetery That Charged Rent

8

A Corpse Trial, a Royal Toilet, and a Ghost Marriage

9

The Great Stink of London, the Man Who Sold the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Coffins With Safety Bells

10

The Great Emu War, The Pope Who Dug Up His Predecessor, and The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs

11

The War Over a Bucket, The Corpse Synod, and The City That Put Animals on Trial

12

The Dancing Plague, Window Taxes, and Chocolate Medicine

13

How Ketchup Was Once Sold as Medicine, The Forgotten Art of Tattooing Mummies, and The Highwayman Who Became a Folk Hero—and Then a Member of Parliament

14

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, The Time a Meteor Was Declared a Religious Relic, and The Town That Tried to Build a Giant Dome to Block Out the Sky

15

The Lighthouse That Disappeared Overnight, The Pope Who Had a Pet Elephant Named Hanno, and The Victorian ‘Cure’ That Involved Sitting on Radioactive Sand

16

How Stalin Tried to Breed Half-Man, Half-Ape Soldiers, The Grave Robbers Who Invented Modern Surgery, and The Island That Declared War on Germany—and Won

17

The Time a Zoo Mistook a Human for an Ape—And Put Him on Display, How Ketchup Was Once Sold as Medicine, and How the CIA Tried to Use Psychic Spies

18

The Medieval Laws That Outlawed Time Travel (Sort Of), How a Fake Country Joined the Olympics, and The Pope Who Resigned by Dressing as a Monk

19

The Hidden History of the World's Oldest Vending Machine Scam, Why People in the Middle Ages Thought Beavers Bit Off Their Own Testicles, and The Town That Turned a Bear Into a Police Officer

20

The Hidden Graveyard Beneath New York’s Washington Square Park, The Hidden History of the World’s First Recorded Serial Killer, and The Mystery of the Skeleton Found Sitting in a London Wall

21

The Weaponized Plague Letters of the 1600s, The Emperor Who Declared Himself God—Then Married His Horse, and The Mystery of the Skeleton Found Sitting in a London Wall

22

The Scottish Cannibal Family That Lived in a Cave for 25 Years, The Forgotten Border War Between the U.S. and Canada, and The Inventor Who Died Testing His Own Bulletproof Cloth

23

The Town That Accidentally Celebrated the End of the Wrong War, The 1800s Hoax That Claimed the Moon Was Inhabited, and The Forgotten Cult That Worshipped Electricity

24

Why People in the Middle Ages Thought Beavers Bit Off Their Own Testicles, How the French Tried to Measure the Earth With a Giant Stick, and The Time People Feared Tomatoes Were Poisonous

25

Emperor Norton: San Francisco’s Self-Proclaimed Emperor, The Time the U.S. Tried to Train Dolphins for War, and The French Soldier Who Could Eat Anything—Literally

26

The Forgotten Utopia Where Everything Was Free, How a Con Man Built a Pyramid Scheme Around a Real Pyramid, and The Ghost Army of World War II

27

The Forgotten Egyptian Who May Have Discovered Electricity, The Mystery of the People Who Disappeared Into the Sky, and The Surgeon Who Performed a Self-Amputation With No Anesthesia

28

When Sparrows Were Hunted, Napoleon Was Exiled, and a River Died

29

Exploding Pants, the Great Moon Hoax, and the First Serial Killer Hotel in History

30

Funeral Rivers, Buried Palaces, and the Man Who Preserved His Wife

31

The King Who Fought the Ocean, the Typo That Almost Started a War, and the Medieval Beaver Myth

32

Self-Testing Inventors, Explosive Plots, and the Prison with a Royal Butler

33

Strange Impostors, Impossible Survivals, and the Most Brazen Con in History

34

Strange Claims, Unlikely Laws, and Forgotten Scandals of the Past

35

Renounced Power, Forbidden Beliefs, and the Day the Sun Defied History

36

Impossible Appetites, Absurd Wars, and Dangerous Victorian Cures

37

A Skeleton in the Wall, History’s First Serial Killer, and Secret Mind Control Experiments

38

Preserved Bodies, Secret Experiments, and Royals Who Vanished from History

39

Pirate Nations, Imperial Vampire Hunts, and the Ghost Army of War

40

Deadly Inventions, Sacred Stones, and Hidden Builders of History

41

Secret Rituals, Pseudoscience Experiments, and Bizarre Hygiene of the Past

42

Preserved Soldiers, Morbid Obsessions, and the Chicken That Refused to Die

43

Hidden Pyramids, Cursed Effigies, and Royals Who Tried to Ban a Color

44

Royal Zoos, Dangerous Map Errors, and the Wars That Followed

45

Vanishing Islands, Cosmic Cults, and the Lawsuit That Followed a Falling Meteor

46

Lost Kings, Disturbing Rituals, and the Town That Made a Bear an Officer

47

Invented Nations, Lost Discoveries, and the City That Burned Itself for Freedom

48

Impossible Births, Accidental Victories, and the Fashion Panic That Gripped a Nation

49

Mass Panics, Plague Masks, and the Bizarre History of Medicinal Mummies

50

Battleships Versus Storms, Medieval Medical Breakthroughs, and Towns That Outlawed Mirrors

51

Prophetic Foods, Forgotten Border Wars, and Impossible Architectural Dreams

52

Accidental Borders, Unlikely Witnesses, and Battles Fought by Animals

53

Absurd Taxes, Sacred Remains, and the Jester Who Changed a Kingdom

54

Bizarre Taxes, Forbidden Experiments, and the Army Defeated by Nature

55

Mistaken Victories, Vanishing Trains, and Papal Declarations Gone Wrong...

56

Pirate Politicians, Sacred Science, and Wars History Still Can’t Explain

57

Forgotten Inventions, Failed Invasions, and the Viking Discovery of America

58

Competitive Beard Growing, How the Eiffel Tower Was Sold—Twice & Fake Emperors

59

Phantom Airships, Absurd Wars, and the Strangest Spy Experiments

60

Escaping Islands, Exploding Volcanoes, and How a Typo Nearly Caused World War III

61

Witch Hunters, Meat Storms, and the Summer That Never Came

62

Nuclear Cover-Ups, Catastrophic Experiments, and a President’s Nearly Lost Body

63

Mass Hysteria, Unthinkable Survival, and America’s Forgotten Hemp History

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Weird History — Official Trailer