199 Episodes

  1. How did Renaissance People Get High?

    Published: 22/09/2025
  2. The HORRIFYING Life of a Coal Miner with Black Lung

    Published: 21/09/2025
  3. The HORRIFYING Life of a Tiger Tank Commander on the Eastern Front

    Published: 20/09/2025
  4. The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Squire

    Published: 19/09/2025
  5. How Colonial Families Survived BRUTAL Winters

    Published: 18/09/2025
  6. The HORRIFYING Life of a Heroin Addict After WWI

    Published: 17/09/2025
  7. The Entire History of Ireland

    Published: 16/09/2025
  8. The HORRIFYING Life of a Soviet Conscript at Stalingrad

    Published: 15/09/2025
  9. How Victorians Got High: Opium Dens, Cocaine & More

    Published: 14/09/2025
  10. Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Medieval Exorcism

    Published: 13/09/2025
  11. Why You Wouldn’t Survive a WWI Gas Attack

    Published: 12/09/2025
  12. Why Being a Civil War Soldier Was a Living Hell

    Published: 11/09/2025
  13. The HORRIFYING Life of a Child Emperor in the Forbidden City

    Published: 10/09/2025
  14. The BRUTAL Life of a Sumo Wrestler in Edo Japan

    Published: 9/09/2025
  15. How Did Medieval People Flirt?

    Published: 8/09/2025
  16. The 12 WORST Times to Be a Man in History

    Published: 7/09/2025
  17. The HORRIFYING Life of a Polio Patient in an Iron Lung

    Published: 6/09/2025
  18. Why You'd Regret Being a Wild West Outlaw

    Published: 5/09/2025
  19. The HORRIFYING Life of a Laudanum Addict in Georgian London

    Published: 4/09/2025
  20. The HORRIFYING Life of a Plague Doctor in Renaissance Prague

    Published: 3/09/2025

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