The USS Scorpion Disaster
Join Kelli as she goes over what happened to the USS Scorpion, a skipjack-class nuclear-powered attack submarine that disappeared in May of 1967. It was found five months later, 2 miles down on the At...
23 Aug 1h 10min
The Great Moon Hoax
Join Kelli for another weird episode where she looks at the Great Moon Hoax of 1835. For six days straight in 1835, the New York Sun (not the same publication as the one that exists today) published a...
21 Jun 30min
The Navajo (Diné) Long Walk
Join Kelli as she finally starts tackling the impact of westward expansion on indigenous populations in the United States. In this episode, we focus on the Navajo, or Diné, who were forcibly removed f...
31 Mai 54min
The Bloody Benders
Join Kelli as she talks about a serial killer out of Kansas in the post-civil war era. Taking advantage of westward expansion and a tense climate, the Bender family - Ma, Pa, John, and Kate - were res...
26 Apr 1h 3min
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster
Join Kelli as she goes over a very stinky situation that happened in 1184 in Erfurt, part of the Holy Roman Empire and home base of King (and later Emperor) Henry VI. As Henry gathered some squabbling...
5 Apr 29min
The Voynich Manuscript
Join Kelli in this shorter history on the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, an early Renaissance-era book written in a made up language (dubbed Voynichese) with strange diagrams that seem... out of this ...
15 Mar 22min
The Story of Peter the Wild Boy
Join Kelli as she goes over the story of a feral boy found in the woods outside of Hamelin, Germany. He was brought to King George I's court in England and named Peter, and he entertained curious onlo...
8 Feb 34min
The Cannibalism of Johan de Witt
Join Kelli as she goes over a strange event from the 17th century Dutch Republic - the time a political leader was killed, strung up, dismembered, and then cannibalized. As always, we set up the hist...
18 Jan 33min
