The Holmesburg Prison Experiments

The Holmesburg Prison Experiments

Join Kelli as she goes over yet another example of US doctors experimenting on their own people. Starting in the 1950s, dermatology Dr. Albert Kligman came to the Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia and experimented on its prisoners. What started as a simple cure for an athlete's foot outbreak turned into a decades-long series of experiments, ranging from testing lotions and cremes to hallucinogenic drugs to the toxic compounds found in Agent Orange. Though the experiments eventually stopped ...

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The Ball of the Burning Men

The Ball of the Burning Men

Join Kelli as she goes over the Ball of the Burning Men, an event during King Charles VI's reign in France where 6 men - charivari dancers dressed as wild men in very flammable costumes - caught fire....

8 Joulu 202423min

The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man

Join Kelli as she goes over the history of the Wicker Man! The Wicker Man was popularized first by the Christopher Lee movie from 1973, and later with Nicholas Cage's remake. The first was folk horro...

24 Marras 202425min

The Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil

Join Kelli as she goes over New Jersey's most famous cryptozoological son - the Jersey Devil. Though the Jersey Devil was the devil-born son of the Leeds Family, not much is known about it; it lives i...

10 Marras 202422min

The Headless Horseman

The Headless Horseman

Join Kelli as she goes over the mythology of the Headless Horseman. Most of us associate the headless horseman with Washington Irving's book, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. But the idea of a ghostly rid...

27 Loka 202418min

The Pendle Witches

The Pendle Witches

Join Kelli as she goes over the Pendle Witch Trial of 1612, England's most infamous trial. 12 people from the Pendle Hill Area in Lancashire were accused of witchcraft in James I's England, a monarch ...

13 Loka 202426min

The Original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler

The Original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler

Join Kelli as she goes over the ORIGINAL Dracula- Vlad Dracula, the Impaler. Although the fictional character is only loosely based on Vlad, the two are inextricably linked forever because of Bram Sto...

29 Syys 202429min

The Delphine LaLaurie Murder Mansion

The Delphine LaLaurie Murder Mansion

Join Kelli as she goes over the legend of Madame Delphine LaLaurie, a torturess from New Orleans who tortured, mutilated, and killed at least 20 slaves at her mansion on 1140 Royal Street. But like ...

15 Syys 202425min

The Mignonette Shipwreck

The Mignonette Shipwreck

Join Kelli as she goes over ANOTHER shipwreck that ended in cannibalism - that of the Mignonette, a sailing yacht that went down in the South Atlantic. But the Mignonette wasn't really seaworthy, and ...

1 Syys 202427min

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