The 1381 English Peasant's Rebellion

The 1381 English Peasant's Rebellion

Join Kelli as she goes over the history of the English Peasant's Rebellion, 1381. The Black Death had severely impacted England - not just in high mortality rates, but also its ability to function within its strict feudal order. To help compensate for the drop in workers, and to try and get the economy back on track, Edward III passes the Statute of Laborers in 1351. But what this did was set in motion a rage against feudalism, government intervention, and inequality that manifested as the Pe...

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The Victorian Houses of Death

The Victorian Houses of Death

Join Kelli as she talks about Victorian-era hospitals in London, known as the Houses of Death because of their fatality rates. These were the most unsanitary of places, and today we'll go into all the...

26 Touko 202429min

The Tale of Liver-Eating Johnson

The Tale of Liver-Eating Johnson

Join Kelli as she goes over the tale of Liver-Eating Johnson, a mountain man in the early 19th century American frontier who became legendary for how he avenged the murder and scalping of his Flathead...

12 Touko 202426min

The Order of the Pug

The Order of the Pug

Join Kelli as she dives into the world of the Freemasons, Secret Societies, Religious Tension, Political Conflict, and... pugs? In 1738, Pope Clement XII issued a papal bull denying any Roman Cathol...

28 Huhti 202424min

The Kentucky Cannibal

The Kentucky Cannibal

Join Kelli as she tells the story of Levi Boone Helm, a frontiersman-turned-outlaw who committed murders across the West at the height of the California Gold Rush. But that's not all this serial kille...

14 Huhti 202432min

The Werewolf of Bedburg

The Werewolf of Bedburg

Join Kelli as she goes over a trial from the peak years of Early Modern Europe's so-called werewolf panic - the trial of Peter Stumpp, the Werewolf of Bedburg. Peter confessed to all kinds of horrible...

31 Maalis 202427min

The Centralia Underground Mine Fire

The Centralia Underground Mine Fire

Join Kelli as she talks about the inspiration for the Silent Hill games and movies - the ghost town of Centralia! In 1962, a fire set the underground coal mines on fire, and they've been burning to th...

17 Maalis 202428min

The Lizzie Borden Hatchet Murders

The Lizzie Borden Hatchet Murders

Join Kelli as she takes a look at a historic killer - Lizzie Borden - who was accused of killing her father and stepmother with a hatchet in 1892. But despite everything pointing toward her, she was a...

3 Maalis 202430min

The Deadly Antarctic Expeditions

The Deadly Antarctic Expeditions

Join Kelli as she talks about THREE expeditions to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Exploration. The first, led by Roald Amundsen, was the first to reach the geographic South Pole. At the same time, Ro...

18 Helmi 20241h 2min

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