Bonus Episode: Death By Delicious Chocolate - Cordelia Botkin was WILD
Hi Friends!There's no Dark History episode this week, but here's a bonus episode of a story I did for Murder, Mystery & Makeup (which is now a podcast!!) about Cordelia Botkin. Hope you enjoy it and i...
30 Dec 202149min
25: Twisted Holiday Tales You’ve Never Heard: Dark History Holiday Edition
Pour some hot coco, slide on those comfy socks and gather ‘round the fire because it’s chilly willy out there. Week after week, we talk about the most horribly dark stuff on this show. So, we’re switc...
22 Dec 202134min
24: How Jazz Almost Wasn’t a Thing: The Dark History of Jazz
In the late 1800s, something really cool was happening down in New Orleans. A melting pot of cultures was blending to form a new style of music. These incredible sounds inspired a music revolution tha...
15 Dec 202136min
23: Before COVID, there was Bubonic Plague in San Fran
121 years before COVID showed up, the U.S. nearly descended into chaos when the Bubonic Plague arrived in San Fran. The Black Death. When it began spreading in the city, politicians went to war with p...
8 Dec 202149min
22: Why 20,000 People Wanted Italian Immigrants Dead: Sicilian Lynchings
In 1891, 11 Italian people were murdered in the streets of New Orleans, becoming one of the largest mass lynchings in American history. Because of this, there were rumors of war between the United Sta...
1 Dec 202139min
21: A Church vs. The Feds: Who Shot First?? The WACO Siege
In 1993, the quiet Texas town of Waco was turned into a bloody battlefield when an extremist religious group and their leader went to war with the American Government. We’re talking assault weapons, h...
24 Nov 20211h 6min
20: Secrets buried in unmarked graves: Residential Schools
In June of 2021, a bombshell investigation uncovered the bodies of 215 Indigenous children in unmarked graves on a Canadian school’s property. Wait. WHAT?! Yeah, they were students at something called...
17 Nov 202141min
19: Concentration Camps... IN AMERICA?!: Japanese Incarceration
After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, America became paranoid as hell, thinking every Japanese person in the U.S. was a spy. News flash: they weren’t. But that didn’t stop one of the ugli...
10 Nov 202141min
