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 New England Vampire Panic

The New England Vampire Panic

Join Kelli as she explores the exhumation and re-killing of Mercy Brown, a girl suspected of being a vampire feeding off of her living relatives in a small town in Rhode Island, 1892. Intro and Outro...

5 Mar 202323min

The Dancing Plague

The Dancing Plague

Join Kelli as she looks back at the dancing plague of 1518, when residents of Strasbourg all started to dance for days and weeks on end - and some of them danced to their deaths. Intro and Outro musi...

19 Feb 202331min

The Corpse Medicine

The Corpse Medicine

Join Kelli as she teaches you about a very common but forgotten medical practice in Europe during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods - consuming the skin, bones, and blood of corpses as medicine. ...

5 Feb 202331min

The Andes Flight Disaster

The Andes Flight Disaster

Join Kelli as she tells the amazing story of Uruguayan Flight 571, where 45 people crashed into the snowy peaks on the Andes Mountains on the border of Argentina and Chile. After ten weeks, two of the...

24 Jan 202354min

The Lost Franklin Expedition

The Lost Franklin Expedition

Join Kelli as she explains what happened to the Terror and Erebus, the doomed ships of Captain Sir John Franklin's 1945 expedition, where all 134 men perished, most of whom were never found. The bones...

9 Jan 202347min

The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Join Kelli as she teaches how nuclear power plants work, and why the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986 - the worst nuclear incident in history. Intro and Outro music credit: Ne...

20 Des 202248min

The London Cholera Epidemic

The London Cholera Epidemic

Join Kelli as she discusses the roots of the Cholera epidemic in London in the 1850s, and how a particularly smelly year in 1858 known as the "Great Stink" forced Parliament to fix London's sanitation...

20 Nov 202232min

The Lost Roanoke Colony

The Lost Roanoke Colony

Join Kelli as she discusses the history surrounding the lost Roanoke colony, the first English attempt at colonizing the New World. In addition to discussing what happened to the colonists, Kelli will...

30 Okt 202231min

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