Episode 154 - The Surprising History Of The Christmas Tree
From their roots in ancient pagan celebrations of the winter solstice to their ban in colonial America, the history of the Christmas tree is longer and more complicated than most people realize. http...
17 Dec 202537min
Episode 153 - The Inside Story Of The Manson Murders
During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. https://allthatsinteresting.com/manson-murders Lear...
25 Nov 202559min
Episode 152 - Inside History's Most Chilling Real-Life Frankenstein Experiments
In 1818, Mary Shelley published her classic novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his disturbing experiments with reanimation — but the stories of these seven scientists from history prove that reality ...
12 Nov 202536min
Episode 151 - What Happened To Edgar Allan Poe? Inside The Famous Writer's Mysterious Demise
After suffering from mysterious hallucinations for four days straight, Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore at age 40 on October 7, 1849. https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-did-edgar-...
29 Okt 202540min
Episode 150 - 'Mignonette': A Harrowing Story Of Cannibalism At Sea
Again and again, in desperate times throughout history, people have turned to desperate measures and committed what many societies consider to be the worst of all human sins — cannibalism. Members of ...
15 Okt 202541min
Episode 149 - The Stories Of History's Eeriest Ghost Ships
Throughout maritime history, sailors have reported sightings of ghost ships with eerily similar details — empty vessels appearing out of the blue, with no one aboard and no sign of what happened to th...
1 Okt 202547min
Episode 148 - Snallygaster: The Bird Monster That Haunts Maryland
In February 1909, just around one month after the first newspaper reports about the Jersey Devil were published, the Maryland-based Middletown Valley Register published a report about a local who enco...
17 Sep 202534min
Episode 147 - The Cadaver Synod: When A Medieval Pope Put His Predecessor's Corpse On Trial
The Catholic Church has put many people on trial, including Galileo, Joan of Arc, and Martin Luther. But the strangest trial in church history took place in the ninth century. Known as the Cadaver Syn...
3 Sep 202531min
