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 this day. Experts believe that the fires will continue to burn underneath Centralia for another 250 years! While Silent Hill and its scares don't exist, the horrors inflicted on Centralia may be even scarier... Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Find him on all streaming services and YouTube, a...
17 Maalis 202428min
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 acquitted by the jury. Kelli offers up an explanation as to why she was not found guilty of a crime she most likely committed, and it (of course) has to do with the historical context! What was life like in New England in 1892? And how did that contribute to her acquittal? Intro and Outro music c...
3 Maalis 202430min
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, Robert Falcon Scott was leading his own expedition to the South Pole, but Amundsen beat him there. Unfortunately for Scott, his expedition faced extreme weather and bad luck on the way back, and none returned alive. The third, led by Douglas Mawson, was an attempt to map out more Antarctic land, bu...
18 Helmi 20241h 2min
The Jamestown Colony
Join Kelli as she goes over the difficulties of the early years of the first successful English settlement in North America - Jamestown. From the bloody flux to survival cannibalism, brutal executions to starvation and madness, the foundation of what would later become the United States was built on all the gross, nasty stuff we love here on the APHOUT podcast. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Find him on all streaming services and YouTube, and check out his newest album, Sparrow Factory...
4 Helmi 202452min
The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Join Kelli as she goes over what happened to the USS Indianapolis, the ship that brought atomic bomb parts to Tinian Island so they could be assembled - and dropped - on Hiroshima. Though the ship completed her mission, making Oppenheimer's and the Manhattan Project's work come to life in the form of a nuclear bomb, the USS Indianapolis suffered a catastrophic - and fatal - blow when it crossed paths with a Japanese submarine. This is the story of the ship. Kelli discusses its importan...
21 Tammi 202453min
The Kuru Cannibal Disease
Join Kelli as she talks about a prion disease called Kuru. Prion diseases occur when misfolded proteins duplicate and clog up the brain, and cause things like Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and Kuru. Kuru was specific to the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, and at its peak, killed 200 women and children people a year. But to get Kuru, they must have consumed the brains of the infected dead... Let's dive deep into the Fore peoples, prion diseases and more cannibalism. New year, ...
7 Tammi 202431min
The Inca Mummies
Join Kelli as she discusses the Inca Empire and their religious practices - including capacocha, the practice of sacrificing children and leaving them to mummify on mountain peaks. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Find him on all streaming services and YouTube, and check out his debut EP, Yello Kake! Audio Credit: Carlos Carty, Pan Flute Solo Support the show Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric | Yello Kake Follow me on Instagram! @beardhistory If you want to support the show, donate...
24 Joulu 202331min
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Join Kelli as she discusses the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, an experiment on black men (without their consent) where the US Public Health Service and the CDC allowed them to live with untreated syphilis infections for 40 years - despite there being a cure: penicillin. In this episode, Kelli goes over the scientific context of what syphilis is and how one contracts it, then ties it to the historical context of why the US government allowed 399 black men to suffer from late-stage syphilis when th...
10 Joulu 202344min
