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
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
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
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
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 Dec 202248min
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
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
The Great Molasses Flood and the Kentucky Meat Shower
Join Kelli for this double-feature episode as she looks into two weird food stories - the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 and the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Wan...
23 Okt 202224min
