The Weird History Podcast
The Weird History Podcast explores the out-of-the-way, obscure, weird, and overlooked corners of history. New episodes appear every Thursday.
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162 Michael P. Daley on Bobby Bluejacket
Michael P. Daley is the author of Bobby Bluejacket, a book about a man who, in 1948, was the subject of one of the most covered trials in Tulsa history....
161 North Korea Part Eleven, The Tomb of the Eternal President
The 1980s and early 1990s were a bad time for North Korea. The DPRK had to endure South Korea hosting the 1988 Olympics, the country sunk billions of...
160 North Korea Part Ten, “Meanwhile, in South Korea!”
For years South Korea was a dysfunctional military dictatorship under leaders like Rhee Syngman and Park Chun Hee. Assassination, martial law, and political...
159 Spaghetti Trees
On April 1st, 1957 a BBC One news program ran a straight-faced and ostensibly real report on Switerzerland’s spring spaghetti crop, and convinced...
158 North Korea Part Nine, The DMZ, Assassinations, and the USS Pueblo
During the Cold War, North Korea primarily interacted with South Korea and the United States via building the DMZ, several assassination attempts on...
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