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America's Craziest Election Night

The Blue Tsunami in the 2026 midterms has nothing on the 1854 elections that took place in St. Louis. The 1854 Election Riots in the Gateway to the West pitted Irish immi

Strangest Things To Happen At The Vatican

From a murderous elephant to the ghost of Julius Caesar we talk about the most bizarre and lesser known stories from the Eternal City. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

The Enfield Poltergeist

In 1977, in North London, a single British mother and her four children begin experiencing violent supernatural events. The poltergeist attacked the children, the mother,

The Blackbird of Chernobyl

Today we talk about a modern cryptid story claiming that a large, dark, winged humanoid creature—similar to West Virginia's Mothman—was spotted by workers and residents n

The Stabbing Ghost | The Amherst Mystery

It's Nova Scotia, Canada. 1878. An 18-year-old girl named Esther Cox has a traumatic experience. Soon after, a poltergeist starts tormenting her. Dozens of witnesses watc

Lizzie Borden Had An Axe

The unsolved murders of Andrew Borden and his wife Abby Gray in 1892 have become a bit of American myth and legend. Andrew's daughter Lizzie was the only suspect in the v

Will America Fall Like Rome? (ft. Jeremy Ryan Slate)

Host of "The Roman Pattern" Jeremy Ryan Slate joins the show to talk about the parallels he sees between Rome's fall and America's current place in history. Subscribe to

Combat Of The Thirty

After a Duke refuses to clearly name an heir on his deathbed, a family feud breaks out in Brittany in the midst of the 100 year war. It all culminated into a tournament b

The Time An Immigrant Took The President's Job

Kyle Bandujo, host of the "From Phenom to Farm" and "Big Screen Sports" podcasts, joins the show to discuss the illiterate Polish immigrant who President Grover Cleveland

The Original Lindsay Clancy

Constance Fisher was a 20th century mother and paranoid schizophrenic who drowned her three children on two separate occasions. You didn't read that wrong. She repeated t

David and the Goliath-Sized Pile of Foreskin

One of the most famous stories of the Old Testament is David's slaying of the Philistine giant Goliath. But, that's not even the most impressive thing David did. After ta

Germany Bombed The Statue of Liberty?

Jack Mandaville joins the show to talk about a forgotten terrorist attack on American soil that helped push the US into war. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Softcore H

Modern Serial Killers Have Nothing On The Middle Ages

Forget Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. Forget Jack the Ripper. One serial killer in 16th-century Germany was so prolific and horrifying that he puts all our modern true cri

The Orphan Who Became A Globetrotting Mining Tycoon And US President

Herbert Hoover is remembered as a total bozo whose term in office is defined by the Great Depression. But, Herbie lived an insanely eventful and rewarding life before and

TV’s Greatest Pervert

Bob Crane was known best for his titular role on the sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. But behind the scenes the man was a s*x addicted freak who filmed nearly every one of his conq

The King Addicted To Gooning

Christian VII of Denmark is a relatively unknown monarch from the 1700s, save for one thing — he loved cranking it. The gooning addiction got so bad his advisors had to h

When Cross-Dressers Took Down The Spartans

In 379 BC, exiled government officials from Thebes devised a plan to retake the city-state from their Spartan captors. It involved a seven man military crew who disguised

Why Bastille Day Is Stupid

Much like the French Revolution as a whole, the event that kicked it all off, the Storming of the Bastille, was a sh*tshow that was in no way about what everyone involved

The Peg Legged Playboy Who Helped Write The Constitution

Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman, framer of the Constitution, and one of the most under appreciated Founding Fathers of the United States. He also had a peg le

The Massacre At Frank Lloyd Wright's Love Cottage

The most famous architect in American history might have been agenius, but he was also a real piece of sh*t. After his wife refusedto grant him a divorce, Frank Lloyd Wri