The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

177 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Okay With Ghost Tours

Posted October 9, 2018 • 00:14:43

Some reflections on giving tours, ghost tours, and how the Philip experiment is kind of like Dungeons and Dragons.

176 The Cadaver Synod

Posted September 30, 2018 • 00:17:27

In 897 Pope Stephen VI put the corpse of one of his predecessors, Formosus, on trial. The current pope ordered that the former pope’s dead body be...

175 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part Two

Posted September 23, 2018 • 00:35:38

From 1954 until 2011 the Comics Code Authority exercised control over what could and couldn’t be in comic books. The first version of the code was...

174 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part One

Posted September 14, 2018 • 00:26:37

From 1964 until 2011 comic books were nominally approved by a content regime called the Comics Code Authority. The Authority grew out of anti-comic...

173 Roanoke

Posted August 28, 2018 • 00:30:33

The disappearance of the Roanoke colony is one of America’s oldest mysteries. However, the story of the Roanoke colony was only a major pillar of...