Why You’d REGRET Living in Kowloon Walled City
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the Kowloon Walled City — once the most densely populated place on Earth. In this immersive journey, you’l...
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Why the Black Death Was WORSE Than You Think
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe Black Death is often remembered as a single medieval catastrophe — a four-year nightmare between 1347 and 1351 tha...
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in a Khmer Rouge Reeducation Camp
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the late 1970s, Cambodia was torn apart by the Khmer Rouge, a regime that promised “reeducation” but delivered only...
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Medieval Leech Collector
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story takes you to the edges of medieval Europe, where survival meant offering your own body to the swamp. A...
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Sokushinbutsu Monk (Self-Mummification)
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story takes us deep into the mountains of Japan, where silence and devotion could lead a monk down a path fe...
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What It Was REALLY Like to Sail with Columbus in 1492
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s voyage takes you back to 1492, when you step aboard the Santa María with Columbus and his crew. At first, th...
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The HORRIFYING Life of an Opium Addict in Victorian London
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the fog of Victorian London, where one man’s ordinary life as a clerk unravels into shadows and smoke. What ...
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The HORRIFYING Reality of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat starts as $15 a day for easy money quickly descends into one of the most infamous psychological studies in histor...
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