The Bones in Ben's Basement
We know a lot of stories about Ben Franklin and his role in many of America's most historic founding moments. But in the earth below his London home t...
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With an enduring fascination with all things weird, long time friends Jen and Robin delve into history's most peculiar people and extraordinary events.
The Mystery of Olive
In this episode Robin will tell you the tale of Olive Ann Oatman. If you haven't heard of her don't feel bad, but hers is a story dripping with Wild W...
The Price of Rubber: Mass Murder in the Congo
Countless atrocities took place during Imperialist endeavors but some of the most horrible were committed in the Belgian Congo. In this episode, Jen w...
The Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is a term used to describe the route that was traveled during the forced removal of over 100,000 Native Americans in the Southeast ...
Warrior Queen
After the death of her husband and the rape of her daughters, Queen Boudica would not lie down and allow the Romans to take her land, her people. In t...
Racism on Display: The History of Human Zoos
Curiosity is natural, and humans are just as curious as any other animal. In the late 19th century as travel and exploration boomed the curiosity abou...
Shark Repellent and Souffle: Julia Child
While most of us know Julia Child as the great television cooking personality she had quite an interesting start to her career. In this episode, Robin...
Humanity Lost Part Two: Andersonville
This week in Part Two of our look into Civil War POW camps we will learn about the most notorious of the camps: Andersonville. In this savage and lawl...
Humanity Lost Part One: Camp Douglas
For the next two episode we are going to take a deep dive into two of the worst Civil War prisoner camps, one Union and one Confederate. The starvatio...
Atlantropa: Genius or Madness
In the 1920s a German architect named Herman Sorgel had a plan change the landscape of Europe, Asia and Africa. On the heels of such massive undertaki...