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For our 13th Episode, we are taking a look at perhaps the unluckiest man there ever was, in the true story of Roy Sullivan, the Spark Ranger or Human Lightning Rod. Between 1942 a...

Send us a message. We would love to hear from you and your spooky stories by emailing at banteringbanshees@gmail.com We are slipping into the shadows to read chilling real life par...

Tracy dives into the history of sex work in the settlement of the Canadian prairies. Here she talks about how sex workers were foundational to the economic and cultural function of...

When disaster strikes, leaders have one job: show up. In this episode of This, Again, Mallory Faust unpacks three centuries of leaders who failed the optics test - from Marie Antoi...

Send us Fan Mail A DC-9 lifting off for a 35-minute hop shouldn’t end in a cornfield, but Eastern Airlines Flight 212 becomes a brutal lesson in how fast “normal” can collapse. We ...

Once known to the Romans as Arabia Felix – Blessed Arabia – The lands of present-day Yemen were famed for their wealth, incense, and prosperity. In our very first episode, we journ...

Send us a message. We would love to hear from you and your spooky stories by emailing at banteringbanshees@gmail.com Perched high above the town of Proctor, Wilson Castle rises lik...

Send us a text A headlining tour, a hit record, and a tired airplane came together over Mississippi—and the result reshaped rock history. We trace Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1977 crash from ...

We have a heck of an episode for you.  Arthur is turning 17 and our episode is inspired by the right wing pushback against Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'.  We dig into the origi...

The Monk, the Malt, and the First Written Record of Scotch Whisky On 1 June 1494, a monk named John Cor made an entry in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland ordering eight bolls of mal...

When Boris Yeltsin came to the United States in 1989 to speak, visit with the President and see the Statue of Liberty, his entire outlook on the world changed in one :20 minute mom...

Season 2 of The Webby-nominated Geekstorians continues with one of the strangest survival stories in geek culture. In ‘The Wilderness Years’, Dave looks at what happened after Doct...

In the 1980s, a strange new box arrived in our living rooms — the VHS player. It was noisy, chunky, and occasionally tried to eat your favourite film… but it changed everything.In ...

Send a text A window shatters at 32,000 feet, oxygen masks fall, and a 737 lurches into a violent roll. We walk through the harrowing chain of events aboard Southwest Flight 1380, ...

Episode 15 of The Oddities Department cracks open another tour of historical chaos. This week’s tour contains six stories that are equal parts fascinating, horrifying, and deeply, ...

In this episode, we dive into the wild, worldwide PR machine known as Hasbara, Israel's official strategy to shape global opinion, rewrite narratives, and "explain" things that pro...

In Part One of a two-part series on the Athens Marathon, Emily and Cam dive into ancient Greek legend and history as they explore the origins of the modern marathon race. They disc...

History for the Reckoning is a podcast that dives deep into the history that’s hard to hear, but critical to understand. Each season is devoted to understanding a piece of history ...

Sunday, June 28th, 2026 — Today is National Tapioca Day, but today’s stories are anything but ordinary.In this episode, we explore an alleged plot to assassinate George Washington ...

This episode was re-recorded and re-uploaded on 04/03/2023 30-JULY-1943 Serving as a Stretcher Bearer in the 2/5th Infantry Battalion Second Australian Imperial Force, Cpl Leslie ...

Étienne Brûlé was one of the most important young men in the early days of New France. He acted as an interpreter and liaison between the Wendat Confederacy and the French traders ...

“They call it Southern Hospitality. I call it white supremacy with a smile.”Thanks for reading Sai’s Newsletter! This post is public so feel free to share it.Tennessee doesn’t just...

Send us Fan Mail A wide-body jet goes quiet at 41,000 feet, the cockpit starts losing systems, and the crew has to fly a Boeing 767 like a glider with no engines. That sounds impos...

CW: Sexual Assault- This episode contains a discussion of the murder of women and allegations of sexual assault in war. The sexual assault is isolated to the end of the episode, wi...

From Baroda’s treasure rooms to Sotheby’s glass cases, from the Mona Lisa stolen in 1911 to a daylight jewel heist at the Louvre in 2025, this is a story about ego, erasure, and th...

Send us a text A silent ship in open water, a missing crew, and a century of wild theories—this is the story that made “ghost ship” part of our vocabulary. We pull the lens wide, s...

Water park meets model railroad as Mike & Kate share a nerd date at the San Francisco Bay Model, an enormous mid‑century scale model that once tested radical plans to dam and pave ...

In the 1960s, NASA-funded experiments led by neuroscientist John C. Lilly saw researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt live with a bottlenose dolphin named Peter in a flooded house to try t...

Fall in line with Monday Morning Generals - where we march into history's boldest battles and biggest blunders to get a deep dive. Join US Army Veteran and Historian James, alongsi...

The pre flood era was not just defined by human disobedience, but rather by a systemic dismantling of the natural world. Ancient texts describe a profound corruption that followed ...

This episode was re-recorded and re-uploaded on 7-10-2021 27-SEPTEMBER-1917. Serving in the 45th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, The Souvenir King of the AIF. Pte Jo...