The Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo

Join Kelli as she goes over the Congo Free State, owned not by Belgium, but by its King - Leopold II. During the 19th century in Africa, seven European countries - Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, met to divide up Africa; they had already encroached on about 10% of it, mostly the coasts, but now they wanted more. In this episode we discuss why, and what happened to the Congolese men, women, and children who were suddenly under the control of King Leopold. Intro ...

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The Halifax Explosion

The Halifax Explosion

Join Kelli as she goes over the biggest, manmade, non-nuclear explosion in history - the Halifax Explosion. On December 6th, 1917, a French ship filled with explosives was heading into Halifax Harbor...

15 Loka 202324min

The Monongah Mine Disaster

The Monongah Mine Disaster

Join Kelli as she goes over the deadliest mine explosion in history - the Monongah Mine Disaster of 1907. In the industrial world of the early 20th century, there was little regulation over safety in...

1 Loka 202345min

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment

Happy First Birthday to the APHOUT podcast! It's been a wild ride full of cannibalism, adventures gone wrong, and all kinds of gore, and I can't wait to keep it going! --- Join Kelli as she discusse...

17 Syys 202346min

The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China

Kelli, along with Anna and Paul of the Engineering History Podcast, do another joint episode on the Great Wall of China! Join us as we tackle how and why the Great Wall was built, starting with the Qi...

3 Syys 20231h 29min

The Human Honey Candy

The Human Honey Candy

Join Kelli as she explores the myth of the mellified man, a medicinal candy made out of mummified, honeyed corpses. If you thought the Western Europeans were the only ones to consume their dead for me...

20 Elo 202317min

The Mongol Bone Pyramids

The Mongol Bone Pyramids

Join Kelli as she explores the history of the Mongol Empire and how we go from Genghis Khan to Timur, a Turco-Mongol leader who is responsible for building an empire off of the deaths of 17 million pe...

6 Elo 202327min

The Cannibal Plateau

The Cannibal Plateau

Join Kelli as she goes over the story of Alfred Packer, who was accused of killing and eating his five hiking companions in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. He definitely engaged in canni...

23 Heinä 202350min

The Mount Everest Rainbow Valley

The Mount Everest Rainbow Valley

Join Kelli as she explores Rainbow Valley, a place in the death zone of Mount Everest, high up above 8,000 meters (over 26,000 feet), where your body slowly dies off, cell by cell, because of the extr...

9 Heinä 202348min

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