The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

54 The Uses and Abuses of Mummies

Posted October 29, 2015 • 00:15:06

For years, mummies were a commodity. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Europeans used mummy dust (as in real, actual, ground-up human corpse) as a...

One Year Later

Posted October 27, 2015 • 00:06:42

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53 Bathory

Posted October 22, 2015 • 00:13:32

Elizabeth Bathory is one of history's most notorious killers. Supposedly, the Bloody Countess (as she is sometimes called) murdered an unknown number...

52 Little Kill House on the Prairie

Posted October 15, 2015 • 00:15:37

It's October. For the next three weeks, we'll be focusing on bloody, violent, and generally horrifying historical episodes. This week: The Bloody Benders,...

51 The Ultimate Palindrome

Posted October 8, 2015 • 00:14:51

The Sator Square is a level of palindromic perfection untouched by other palindromes. It reads perfectly backward, forward, up, and down. The inconsequential...