Casual History

Sorry for the delay folks, Its been a busy few days. Today's 5 minute history is a fun book-end on our first podcast ever "The Lost Colony Of Roanoke" A new discovery seems to have solved the case. I...

20 Aug 20203min

Billy the Kid was the most notorious gunmen in the wild west, his murders turned him into the nations most wanted man. In myth he's a lone outlaw, in reality his story is a lot more murky. Who was Bil...

16 Aug 20201h 5min

It may be apocryphal, a retrofitted fiction crafted by the Spaniards to facilitate their conquest but, given the prevalence of the returning god or king in different mythologies around the world, it c...

13 Aug 20204min

In a single day and night of misfortune, the island known as Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea. Today we discuss one of the biggest mysteries still left unknown.. or is it.. Follow alo...

10 Aug 202053min

More than 200 years after the Salem witch trials, ripples of a new hysteria gripped New England.. the fear of vampires. If you like what you hear make sure to give us a rating and review! New 5 mi...

6 Aug 20203min

In January 1692, 9 year old Elizabeth Paris and 11 year old Abigail Williams began having fits, including violent contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After a local doctor, William G...

3 Aug 20201h 5min

Between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago, massive sheets of ice covered Earth's Northern hemisphere. During the so-called "last glacial maximum". At least 13,000 years ago those glaciers started to recede...

29 Jul 20204min

A middle aged man, accompanied by a paltry group of followers, sought refuge from the hounds of their oppressors in a remote mountain fastness. For decades their people had been persecuted by one of t...

26 Jul 202051min