Historical Blindness
Historical Blindness is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and misconceptions. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, baffling mysteries and unreliable historiography, host Nathaniel Lloyd searches for insights into modern religious belief and political culture.

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Episoder(241)

Stranger Things Have Happened - Part One: MK-Ultra and CIA Mind Control

Stranger Things Have Happened - Part One: MK-Ultra and CIA Mind Control

In this series, I explore the historical and pseudohistorical basis of the Netflix program, Stranger Things. In Part One, I look at U.S. intelligence's human experimentation programs focused on develo...

26 Jul 202244min

Gun Violence in America: A Cultural History

Gun Violence in America: A Cultural History

In this episode, I look at the history of gun culture in America, gun ownership as a social identity, and the long history of gun control legislation passed in response to outrageous acts of gun viole...

12 Jul 20221h 1min

The Deluge and the Ark Seekers

The Deluge and the Ark Seekers

Have you ever been told that the Flood of Genesis really happened exactly as described and that Noah's Ark really exists and is waiting to be recovered? This episode is all about those arguments and w...

21 Jun 202250min

The Secrets of Enoch - An Apocryphal Catechism

The Secrets of Enoch - An Apocryphal Catechism

In this new Apocryphal Catechism--first since my episode on Gnosticism 2 years ago!--I delve into the mysteries and problematic details of the Book of Enoch and Enochic traditions. In it, I discuss th...

7 Jun 202242min

The Myth of a Lost Mound Builder Race

The Myth of a Lost Mound Builder Race

In this episode, I tackle a topic that I have already edged around in several different episodes: the myth that the ancient earthworks of America were not built by Native Americans but rather by some ...

24 Mai 202254min

No Bones About It! Part Two: GIANTS in the "New" World

No Bones About It! Part Two: GIANTS in the "New" World

In the conclusion of my series on claims that giants actually existed in antiquity, I focus on claims about Native Americans being giants and on giant bones being excavated from indigenous burial moun...

10 Mai 202250min

No Bones About It!  Part One: GIANTS in the Old World

No Bones About It! Part One: GIANTS in the Old World

In part one of this series, I look at biblical and mythological claims about giants as well as more modern cases of giant bones supposedly having been discovered.  Pledge support on Patreon for ad-fre...

26 Apr 202241min

The Lost Empire of Tartaria

The Lost Empire of Tartaria

A lost civilization. A worldwide catastrophe. A global cover-up. In this episode I tell an incredible tale, and I connect it to the rhetoric behind Putin's invasion of Ukraine.  Pledge support on Patr...

5 Apr 202248min

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