He Beheaded The Polar Bear Sex Doll | Oskar & Alma | 1920 Vienna
In 1920, police in Dresden, Germany responded to what appeared to be a murder scene: a headless, blood-soaked body in an artist's garden. The "victim"? A life-size doll. The perpetrator? Famous Expres...
22 Jan 1h 7min
King Henry VIII | Everyone Enabled This
Henry VIII didn’t just have “wife drama” he turned his midlife crisis into national policy. In this episode of Barely Historical, Jo and Amanda break down how one insecure man with too much power went...
15 Jan 39min
Stranger Things Works Because the '80s Were Actually Horrifying | MKUltra, Satanic Panic, & Why Eddie Munson Had to Die | Midwest 1980s
What if Stranger Things isn’t just a nostalgic monster show, but a remix of real government experiments, moral panic, and 1980s paranoia?In this episode of Barely Historical, Amanda and JoLynne ruin t...
8 Jan 1h 8min
NYE | Glitter, Midnight & Superstitions
New Year’s Eve has never been chill.In this episode of Barely Historical, hosts JoLynne and Amanda explore the strange, dark, and often unhinged history of New Year’s Eve superstitions from around the...
30 Dec 202536min
Anastasia & The Romanovs | Basements, Bats, & Bayonets
There are two types of people in the world:People who accept that Anastasia Romanov died in 1918…and people who saw the animated movie once and said absolutely not.In this episode, Amanda and Jo final...
23 Dec 20251h 7min
The Stolen History of Christmas | Mistletoe Sex, Jesus Stickers, & Audacity
🎄 How Christmas Was StolenThis week on Barely Historical, Amanda and JoLynne are sharing a full Patreon-style deep dive for free as a Christmas gift.Christmas history is messier than most people real...
19 Dec 202556min
336 CE Rome: Constantine, Arius, and the First Dec 25 Christmas
Welcome back to Barely Historical, the comedy history podcast where we ruin the past one year at a time. This episode drops us into 336 CE Rome and the chaos of the late Roman Empire, when Christianit...
16 Dec 202538min
Patreon Sneak Peek | Frogs, Festivity, & Freakouts
Victorian Christmas cards were not cozy snowmen and Hallmark hearts. They were dead robins, frogs with firearms, demonic turnips, Krampus kidnappings, and families roasting in hell… all wishing you a ...
12 Dec 20253min
