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Mandy Gardner
What went bump in the night a thousand years ago? Explore all the creepy, lost and just plain weird corners of history with me every Saturday!
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This evening, we take a look at some compelling cases of reincarnation.
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Perhaps you know him better as H. H. Holmes? Under a variety of names, this slick character swindled dozens of people out of their money, their properties, and even their lives.
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Keeping on with the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel!
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A reading from The New York Times' April 19, 1886 edition.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum was a businessman from a tender age, his first venture having been a general store. A move to New York City in his early 20s--and a chance happening upon a highly marketable human being--changed everything for Barnum and the people he would eventually employ.
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Not many people realise that the queen of the mystery novel has her own mystery that not even Arthur Conan Doyle could solve.
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Wolfsschanze was the Nazi headquarters in Poland during the Second World War, as well as the residence of Herman Goring. Now, a potentially lost war crime has been unearthed from the renowned historical site.
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The new Christian religion clashes with ancient Norse gods during Leif Ericson's expedition to Vinland.
Please enjoy the final chapters of this spellbinding historical fiction novel from Henry Myers while your host and the coven of cats finish up a few podcast-adjacent projects this month.
As always, thanks for listening :)
The new Christian religion clashes with ancient Norse gods during Leif Ericson's expedition to Vinland.
Please enjoy the final chapters of this spellbinding historical fiction novel from Henry Myers while your host and the coven of cats finish up a few podcast-adjacent projects this month.
As always, thanks for listening :)
The new Christian religion clashes with ancient Norse gods during Leif Ericson's expedition to Vinland.
Please enjoy the final chapters of this spellbinding historical fiction novel from Henry Myers while your host and the coven of cats finish up a few podcast-adjacent projects this month.
As always, thanks for listening :)
The new Christian religion clashes with ancient Norse gods during Leif Ericson's expedition to Vinland.
Please enjoy the final chapters of this spellbinding historical fiction novel from Henry Myers while your host and the coven of cats finish up a few podcast-adjacent projects this month.
As always, thanks for listening :)
The new Christian religion clashes with ancient Norse gods during Leif Ericson's expedition to Vinland.
Please enjoy the final chapters of this spellbinding historical fiction novel from Henry Myers while your host and the coven of cats finish up a few podcast-adjacent projects this month.
As always, thanks for listening :)
The new Christian religion clashes with ancient Norse gods during Leif Ericson's expedition to Vinland.
Please enjoy the final chapters of this spellbinding historical fiction novel from Henry Myers while your host and the coven of cats finish up a few podcast-adjacent projects this month.
As always, thanks for listening :)
Real or not, they did the trick for Mary Todd Lincoln!
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A special presentation by Minnie Mew.
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The English Civil War claimed the King, and malaria claimed the Protectorate. But, one of those men got to keep his body.
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Have you heard the music...err...noise, in the sky? Perhaps we'll all die.
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Not many know--in fact, no one really does--how the king of goth literature died that day.
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This week I delve into the journal of botanist and explorer Mary Shaffer, who took on the hard and unforgiving Canadian Rocky Mountains in the early years of the 20th century.
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Creepy genetic mutations affect our teeth, arteries and the likelihood of survival in the tropics. Do come in and help yourself to a biscuit!
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Back to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1873 classic pirate novel, Treasure Island!
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From early attempts to capture radio signals from Mars to current debate on the 1977 WOW! signal, let's talk radio telescopes!
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Do you ever feel heavy from the weight of your musings on existence? You aren't alone!
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Very Happy New Year, everyone! Enjoy this ochre-dyed creation story and its literal counterpart, uncovered from the sands of Egypt. I bring you Sekhmet, the Lionness!
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Please enjoy the entire story of Scrooge and his ghosts! Perhaps best consumed over the coming weeks, A Christmas Carol is 3.5 hours long and does not actually involve Kermit the Frog OR Michael Caine.
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Merry holidays, everyone!
Hello! This is your happy host, Mandy Gardner. Unfortunately, a demon has taken up residence in my throat this week, so I have decided to share a few pre-recorded chapters of my science fiction novel, Mission to Mars, with you tonight. As luck would have it, this very book and its predecessor, Letters to Earth, are currently on sale as whole audiobooks through Endless Ink Publishing. Please do buy yourself a copy! Thank you as always for tuning in, leaving great reviews, sharing episodes with your friends, and just being your lovely selves. Remember to subscribe through www.Patreon.com/historyobscura any time for ad-free episodes! Have a wonderful evening. Goodnight!
Does what it says on the tin! A Canadian soldier's paranormal experience during WWI.
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Baby farming wasn't always an evil side hustle--or was it? This is the story of Minnie Dean, neé McCulloch, a Scottish-born settler of southern New Zealand in the 19th century.
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Bonus weekly episode! Chapter Two of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel, Treasure Island.
The antiquated yet fascinating tale of humankind's religious awakening, as told by Life Magazine in 1955! Ah, the obsolete anthropological theory! Golly, the complete omission of all femalekind! That's what we call the history of history, friends. Do enjoy ;)
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Very Happy Hallowe'en to all of you special people! Thank you so much for joining me this season and every other season! There was great witchery afoot tonight; don't mind the lykoi's howling and jingling along with the conclusion of this classic spooky tale. It's their Hallowe'en, too ;)
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Not exactly as told by The Simpsons ;) Enjoy the Monkey's Paw short series this Hallowe'en season!
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Halloween & Day of the Dead may epitomise the spooky season in Europe and North America, but Asia has its own terrifying annual festival in which swarms of ravenous spirits with bad karma flood into the land of the living.
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Hear what American industry experts of 1955 had to say about the world of the future in 1980!
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Today's reading is from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel, Treasure Island.
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Who was "Eadberg", and does she represent a lost class of literate women in medieval England's nunneries? We don't know much yet, but a spark of personality has been discovered in the pages of a 1,200-year-old text!
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The Mayan people did not disappear; in fact, they fought long and hard for their land and culture, which can once more be seen in Mexico's beautiful Quintana Roo and the Yucatan.
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King Henry VII had a lot on his plate after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, but he wasn't expecting a new plague to be one of them.
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A brief biography of autumn's favourite fallen deity...Satan, Lucifer, or the Devil, if you will!
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One night in 1666, it all started at a bakery in Pudding Lane....
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From the Ancient Greeks to modern extraterrestrial and UAP/UFO theory...is there really life out there?
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Chapter 20 of Henry Myers' amazing historical novel, The Utmost Island! You can now find the entire audio of the book at the Historical Fiction Book Club. More to follow, so subscribe to the feed!
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Human sacrifice was an architectural feature of feudal Japan, it seems.
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Two great authors of the 19th century kept up a friendship writing letters for 9 years--until one day, the fairytale king came to stay with the London novelist.
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The timeline for original human migration into the Americas is becoming more complex as researchers explore new ways to track early settlers.
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Medical students were long prohibited from studying human anatomy from the naked form itself--especially when the subject was dead. Once the study was begrudgingly accepted, however, everyone wanted a first-hand look.
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How many airships does it take to be called a "Flap?" You tell me.
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18th-century explorer Alexander Humboldt found the vestiges of a dead South American language in the most unusual host!
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Another chapter from Henry Myers' novel, The Utmost Island. Enjoy!
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Did the Middle Ages really exist?
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Imagine that you are at the precipice of life and death, and suddenly a voice speaks clearly in your ear....or, a presence manifests beside you in support of your endeavour. This phenomenon has been documented many times in history.
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It's difficult to keep your dead monarchs neat and orderly in their tombs when they go around getting themselves beheaded, buried anonymously or tossed into the sea.
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From landscape and geological changes over millennia to the emotional turmoil of colonisation, Australia's indigenous people recorded their history not with written words but in oral tradition and song.
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Poor Henry VI was the weak link in the Lancastrian chain that brought on the Wars of the Roses--but his was a truly remarkable life, and afterlife!
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Hello friends! This week's episode is a taste of what you'll get if you sign up for the Patreon bedtime stories/antique news club at www.patreon.com/historyobscura!
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Some of the most important pieces of history have been cooked up, chewed, swallowed and passed through the digestive system. Welcome to a brief history of food!
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Just what were our cave-dwelling ancestors like, anyway? A look at the Lascaux Caves and others in France and Spain reveals some surprising clues.
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Today I'm sharing a very special sneak peek into my latest novel, Mission to Mars, Book Two of The Last Diaspora!
"Aldi was raised to be a Seer, a Diviner, a Fortune-Teller. Now that she is living out of the darkness, she is confronted by a world of new experiences, the possibility of entering the land of the gods, and with the realization that even her own future is one she cannot predict."
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In this week's episode, I delve back into the pages of Henry Myers' The Utmost Island--the semi-true tale of Lief Erikson and his accidental discovery of Newfoundland, Canada.
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Welcome back and happy 2023! This week's episode is a reading and review of Ian Mortimer's lovely book, "The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England". Feast on a selection that will prepare you for supper at the table of the peasantry or the guest lodgings at a monastery.
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A quick read from the Belfast News Letter, published on December 1, 1874. The investigation of a body found quite dead on the beach!
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Happy Halloween! Here's an oldie but a goody, a scary Halloween story by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher...
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More from our favourite historical fiction this week! It's one divorce, one wedding and a funeral.
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With the passing of QEII, many questions are at the forefront of our minds. What now? How much are we paying the monarchy, as British citizens or members of the Commonwealth? What is the meaning of all this pomp? And, just what is the delightfully controversial past of the first two King Charles?
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NDEs are not a new phenomenon, it seems! Spying a light at the end of a tunnel, masses of dead headed for heaven and hell, and floating above your own dead body has been documented for thousands of years in the stories of philosphers, artists, and doctors.
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Taken from the fine work of Rosemary Neering in "The Canadian Housewife, An Affectionate History," this episode of History Obscura delves into the depression, physical illnesses and endless cleaning of infestations that plagued the early settler women of Canada.
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The new Christian religion clashes with ancient Norse gods during Leif Ericson's expedition to Vinland.
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Thor and Odin's world are on the precipice of Ragnarok as the Viking ship inches its way closer to Greenland.
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Contemporary stories from 18th-century London, straight from John O'London's Stories of London!
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Our adventure through the 19th-century NYC Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum has come to an end, dear friends. Please enjoy the final chapters!
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You'll remember Christopher Columbus' glowing letter to the Spanish monarchs in 1493, bragging of his discoveries. Would it shock you to learn his legacy and the exploits of those who came afterwards were more evil than good? No? Well, just in case, here's Bartolomeo de las Casas to convince you. This episode contains some gruesome scenes.
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Nellie Bly's 12th-14th chapters of 10 Days in a Mad House describe bitter cold and brutal treatment at the hands of the asylum's sorely underqualified nurses.
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Brain surgery is not the modern miracle you may think it is! Tune in for all kinds of evidence to the contrary, including plenty of ancient trepanation.
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Is the Panacea Society really holding the true Southcott Box, or was that disappointing container opened by Harry Price in the 1920s the real thing? And why didn't the world end in 2004?
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More from our dear 19th-century gentlewoman, Nellie Bly, as she spies within the inner workings of New York City's Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. This week's sponsors are Athletic Greens and EndlessInk Books!
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Hear ye hear ye, as one boasts of his triumphant life in service of the great Pharoah! These tales are straight from the ancient Egyptian papyri and stone.
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Haunted dolls, masks, detailed Greek sculpture, medieval paintings and corpses all play large roles in the history of the Uncanny Valley. This episode covers Lilly from Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum, Springheel'd Jack, Moskvin's Russian Dolls, and more.
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In 1880s New York, the last thing any woman wanted was to be committed to the infamous lunatic asylum at Blackwell's Island. Except for Nelly Bly, investigative reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. In this episode, we continue Bly's personal account of her time as an inmate within those walls.
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The Falcon Lake Incident and the Shag Harbour UFO are two unforgettable stories from another historical year full of unidentifiable craft sightings. The UFOs of 1967 came thick and fast, and left good evidence in their wake.
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Witness the ducking of a witch from the front row of the assembled villagers! This episode is all witch, all the time. Dive in (but try not to float.)
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Checking in again on the utter Filth of the Victorians...turns out things weren't any better in the rest of Europe. A feud between medical surgeons actually led to an effective boycotting of clinical sanitary codes.
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The two famous friends, Houdini and Conan Doyle, had a bad falling out over a seance gone wrong.
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Did a bunch of meddling kids really fool the great Harry Price, ghost hunter?
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I'm back at the Jack the Ripper case for a fresh, modern spin on things!
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Hoaxer? Innocent victim? Nobody knows for sure who the mysterious Kaspar Hauser really was, but his story of neglect and intrigue still fascinates all who hear it.
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In lieu of donning a robot voice to overcome the power outage and microphone problems of this Christmas, here's a heartwarming fantasy story I recorded some time ago. Best to you this season! May your belly be full and your dear ones near. Seasons greetings from Mandy and the coven!
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Happy Halloween, All Souls Day, and Day of the Dead!
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Anatoly Moskvin was a Russian historian and cemetery expert with a very unique collection of dolls...
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The Victorians are fascinating for many reasons, not least their fascination with death.
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Whether or not you've been looking forward to a bountiful meal this weekend, join me for a few of the finer points on Canadian Thanksgiving.
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The Victorians were so keen on a good ghost story that they peppered their newspapers thoroughly with them!
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This week's bedtime story spans a fantastic two centuries of extraterrestrial history in Japan.
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More than 2300 years ago, a man named Kalanos poured fuel over his body, stood voluntarily upon a pyre, and set himself aflame. The last words he spoke to his grief-stricken companion were, "We shall meet in Babylon." In conclusion, rumours of Alexander the Great's death may have been exaggerated.
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Edgar Cayce could solve any mystery, so long as he could sleep on it.
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Edgar Mitchell had an off-planet epiphany that changed his life.
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Anyone fancy a meat pie?
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A lot can happen when gold-rush Australians go exploring.
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Can you guess the extra-special ingredient? No, it's not love...
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There's plague about in the estate. Whilst I avoid the deadly miasma, here's a lovely prerecorded chapter of The Utmost Island.
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Would you believe reports of so-called "little animals" living in your drinking water?
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This is the story of a very lucky, very intelligent, and sometimes quite foolish Renaissance Man.
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Everyone knows about his hard-headed, serial-marrying son, but what of the founder of the dynasty himself?
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Here are a few brief kitty tales to soothe us all to sleep.
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The War of the Roses and the Step-Tudor who was a Mad King.
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This epic tale begins in Wales, some 800 years ago...
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This is the story of our dearly departed mutual cousin...or, aunt?
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Doctor Jules Cotard was the first physician to research and describe a specific type of psychosis in which patients believe they do not exist, or, that they are dead. These are collected stories of various patients from the last 200 years.
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RIP Prince Philip, consort of Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, once 6th in line to the throne of Greece and Denmark!
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Once upon a time, one Patrick Maude was executed for murder. But first, he had no end of blame to throw about with his final speech.
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Canadian soldier Ralph Niessen and his brother were captured by German soldiers in occupied Holland near the end of the war and imprisoned together.
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A zip-zoop-zabulous announcement followed by further tales of the lost world of the Vikings!
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William Herschel discovered something bright, shiny and exciting two centuries ago in the night sky.
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Today's forgotten history comes from the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, where female warriors were very much in vogue.
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Nellie is on her way to the final destination!
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Alexei Leonov took the first spacewalk in orbit around the Earth in 1965. In case things went terribly wrong, he had an emergency plan...
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Malin Matsdotter was a principle defendant of the Swedish Witch Trials of the late 17th century.
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Declared insane!
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In which Nelly Bly is taken to the police for apparent lunacy.
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The second part of Nellie Bly's story of her intentional commitment to a New York insane asylum in the 1860s.
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"Ten Days in a Mad House" is the true account of one Nellie Bly, a 19th-century reporter for a New York newspaper. What was it really like inside those walls?
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Here concludes the tale of Scrooge. Do consider supporting the podcast with a wee cup o' tea? Thank you ever so much! Merry Christmas! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bXdjrqt
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Meet the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come!
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Part Three of Charles Dickens' best-known Christmas story.
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Part Two of Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and all through the house verily every strange creature stirred! We like it that way. Make way for a classic Victorian holiday ghost story, written by Charles Dickens.
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Happy Halloween! As a special treat, I've decided to share Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher," published in 1884. Though perhaps this story is not quite true, it IS based upon the very real Ressurectionist industry that plagued Scotland during the Victorian era.
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Thunder provided by Lord Samhain, in conjunction with our own trickster-cryptid, Colonel Butler.
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Ever wondered if there are really bones in your fancy bone china set?
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London's famous New Scotland Yard details its investigation of the missing woman, Mrs. Durand-Deacon, in 1954.
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Suffolk's green children have remained in local folklore for nearly 1,000 years--two little figures even adorn the village sign.
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Who knows what treasures are to be found in the folds of a pretty Victorian-era letter? Well, not usually these.
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Once upon a time, the Florentine Academy put its resources together to locate Hell and determine its exact dimensions.
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The British were obsessed with finding a seaway from Canada's east coast to its west coast, and by the mid-19th-century they had begun exploring the Arctic Ocean for that purpose. Things got a bit too chilly for many unlucky people who found themselves in Arctic waters, never to return home.
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This rather judgemental ghost encounter comes from Normandy in the year 1091...
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While conducting mysterious experiments with electricity in Colorado and his New York laboratory, electrical scientist Nikola Tesla received some exciting unearthly signals.
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Once upon a time, in a little Hungarian village, there was a merry widow who wanted to help her fellow womenfolk be free from their abusive husbands...
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Continuing the reading from Henry Myers' amazing Norse historical fiction.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star...like a tea tray, in the sky...It's the summer of 1947 and the skies of Washington are packed!
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Just a quick announcement, friends, and the chance to download my novel, "Letters to Earth," for half price :)
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....A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, whenever it appears.
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Do you know how Margaret Mitchell died? Does anyone, really?
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Nazis didn't simply murder millions of people--some of their victims were tortured and experimented on before facing death, or in some cases, liberation.
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The last true ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt--one Farouk bin Fuad--had a bit of an indulgence problem.
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What more can a great emperor ask than to have dominion over the entire known world? Well, eternal life, for one...
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Once upon a time, an Egyptian queen became KIng--pharaonic beard and all.
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Continuing on with Henry Myers' novel of 11th-century Icelandic explorer, Leif Erickson.
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Only a Victorian could write such a story with the perfect mixture of awe and tasteless xenophobia all at once. This is a partial retelling of the stories of Roman Emperors Antonine Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodore.
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A young Pliny (nephew to Pliny the Elder) witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius--which buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD--and compiled the reports his uncle made during those chaotic days under a black cloud.
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Moving right along with the second chapter of Henry Myers' fictionalized recounting of Leif Erickson's life, "The Utmost Island!"
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In 1951, Henry Myers published "The Utmost Island," a beautiful tale of Leif Erickson's life and voyage to Newfoundland, Canada.
This is the first chapter.
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You probably don't think of da Vinci as one of the great war-mongers of history, but wait until you hear what he had to promise his employer in order to get a job where--one day, hopefully--he'd be able to build beautiful pieces of art.
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John Schmidt, or Johann Otto Hoch--or any number of this German man's pseudonyms throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries--was a male version of the classic Black Widow. He hunted for brides through the classifieds and made off with their worldly savings as soon as the arsenic had done its work.
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Having claimed some 25 million lives in England alone, the Black Death is the most infamous pestilence in history. It sparked a million "cures," generations of religious fanatics and eventually, modern scientific germ theory.
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"On the fourth day, the patient is either as well as he ever was, or pneumonia and other complications assert their dangerous presence. A harsh cough is a frequently encountered symptom. The patient thus hacks and sprays forth lots of the microbes which spread the infection quickly unless handled with the greatest precaution."
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When European explorers discovered the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui in the 18th century, the island's once-flourishing ecosystem had been ravaged nearly to the point of no return. So too had the tiny remaining population of a mysterious tribe.
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Hey listeners, I wrote a book! Tune in to hear the first chapter of my science fiction novel :)
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With the world seemingly crumbling at our feet, here's a reminder of the times humanity saw it all before--and kept right on kicking and screaming for equality. <3
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The papacy was not the well-oiled machine you might expect it was in the early Medieval period--in fact, poisonings, wars, coups and in this case, all those things plus a corpse trial could characterize one's rule over the Roman Catholic Church.
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Sure, there are probably more theories as to the identity of Jack the Ripper than there were victims--but here's a good one!
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A tale of adventure, sign-language, colonialism and "negroes."
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On several occasions, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper witnessed UFO activity that he claims was subsequently overlooked or covered up by Project Blue Book.
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In 1959, Sweden artist Friedrich Jurgenson was trying to record birdsong on tape. Upon playback, however, he heard something very strange. That was the beginning of EVP research as we know it today, which is used by ghost hunters, reincarnationists and other people hunting for an unseen truth.
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In 1547, Hans Staden set out on an adventure that very nearly got him eaten by the Tupinambá people of Brazil.
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Christopher Columbus was certain he had discovered a short route between Spain and India in 1492. This is his letter to the King and Queen of Spain upon returning to Europe, in which he tells of all the marvels he has found in the "Indian islands."
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Countess Elizabeth Bathory is the first documented female serial killer, with a penchant for horrific homemade youth serums.
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UFOs and supernatural phenomenon in three accounts, from the 10th century to the 17th!
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When Great Britain industrialized, its population boomed--as did cases of disease and piles of garbage. Several commissions had to be arranged to assess the filth of the nation and figure out how to deal with it.
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The Heaven's Gate cult members referred to themselves as The Class, and believed that following their deaths, their souls would be transported to a spaceship following the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997. This is one of the public "Earth Exit Statements" published by a member of the Class just prior to the group's mass suicide.
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It all started with the fundamental Buddhist belief in minimalism and meditation. After 10 years of eating wood, Zhang Liuquan mummified himself in salt to become a rare Living Buddha.
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As a child, this Austrian archduchess bore little resemblance to her elder self; it took a team of 2 French stylists and 1 persistent tutor to transform her into a princess "worthy" of the French court.
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Painted in 1434 by the famous Jan Van Eyke, the Arnolfini Portrait is both extremely strange and extremely cryptic. Just who were the people in the double portrait, and what was the biggest secret concealed in Van Eyke's brush strokes?
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All hail the almighty and ancient Cat! Did you realize that Egyptians were not actually the first people to welcome kitties into their homes? Welcome to a very special episode of History Obscura!
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Tea pouring sound from Cori Samuel
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Meowing by our very own Dorian Grey
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You've probably heard of his famous theorem, but did you know Pythagoras had his own vegetarian cult?
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Achille and Gian Battista Judica-Cordiglia built their own radio tower in Turin, Italy, intent on listening in on Soviet space missions. The recordings they produced seem to have been the horrifying last moments of many unnamed cosmonauts whose existence the Soviet Union strictly denied.
The first 2 audio clips (played before the episode intro) are allegedly the breathing and heartbeat of a dying Russian Cosmonaut. The recording at the very end of the episode is allegedly the final message of a female Russian cosmonaut as her craft goes out of control.
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In 16th-century Italy, being astoundingly intelligent could really take you places--like a hot bonfire, with you as the entertainment. Giordano Bruno is a man we should all know!
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Today I'd like to share the story of Robert Fortune, a 19th-century Scottish botanist who has almost certainly affected your life. That is, unless you prefer coffee ;)
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It's a monster that at first glance looks like a tall, distinguished Victorian gentleman...but Spring-heel'd Jack is anything but!
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