A Popular History of Unpopular Things

A Popular History of Unpopular Things

A podcast that makes weird, gross, gory, and just generally “unpopular” history more fun and accessible

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The Romans in Gaul

The Romans in Gaul

In a special joint podcast, Kelli from APHOUT joins Anna and Paul from the Engineering History Podcast to talk about the history and engineering behind the Battle of Alesia, a decisive battle between Julius Caesar and his Roman forces against Vercingetorix and the Gauls in 52 BCE. Together we explore the intersection of history and engineering in Ancient Rome! Follow The Engineering History Podcast wherever you listen, or click on the link below: The Engineering History Podcast Intro and Ou...

16 Apr 20231h 15min

The Catacombs of Paris

The Catacombs of Paris

Join Kelli as she explains how and why the French built their famous Catacombs, an Ossuary filled with the bones of possibly 6 million, anonymous people. Skulls and femur bones line the walls of this grotesquely beautiful, and immensely famous, Parisian attraction. But where did the bodies come from? And why were they put into the tunnels under Paris? Find out in the latest episode of A Popular History of Unpopular Things! Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast?...

2 Apr 202337min

The Jonestown Massacre

The Jonestown Massacre

Join Kelli as she explores the worst mass-murder suicide in history. Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple cult, brought more than 900 of his followers to a remote agricultural compound in the Guyanese jungle. As he started to lose control of his followers, and with the government investigating allegations of abuse, he directed (and in some cases forced) them to drink a cyanide-laced punch. In one day, 918 people were killed. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own pod...

19 Mar 20231h 2min

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 music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast? Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up! Sources: Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England Vampires by Michael Bell The Great New England Vampire Panic by Abigail Tucket for the Smithsonian ...

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 music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast? Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up! Living the Dream with CurveballOn the living the dream with curveball podcast I interview guests that inspire.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Support the sho...

19 Feb 202332min

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. The history of cannibalism just got even more unpopular. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast? Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up! Sources referenced in the podcast: Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of...

5 Feb 202332min

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 16 survivors emerged from the mountains. To survive, they had to do the unthinkable - they had to cannibalize the flesh of their dead friends and relatives. This is a story of resilience, survival, and how far one will go to make it out alive. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to star...

24 Jan 202355min

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 and artifacts left behind tell a chilling story of how far some men will go to survive - even if all hope is lost. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast? Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up! Sources referenced in t...

9 Jan 202348min

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