The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

109 Moose Cavalry

Posted December 8, 2016 • 00:15:20

In this episode we tackled one of the major issues of our time: Why haven’t more countries used moose as Cavalry? Sweden tried it. The Soviet Union...

108 How Not to Kill Fidel Castro

Posted December 1, 2016 • 00:16:29

Fidel Castro, after being in power in Cuba since the 1950s, is finally dead. Castro was known for his long reign as Cuba’s dictator, but he was also...

107 Squanto, Tisquantum

Posted November 24, 2016 • 00:15:39

Squanto and other Native Americans are a fixture of popular depictions of what has retroactively been termed the First Thanksgiving, such as in the...

106 Live at the Jack London, the Portland Vice Scandal

Posted November 17, 2016 • 00:30:05

In 1950s Portland, police and racketeers worked hand-in-hand to provide the city with gambling, protitution, and other in-demand vices such as pinball....

105 The Giants of Patagonia

Posted November 10, 2016 • 00:12:41

For about 250 years, Europeans thought that giants lived in Patagonia. The inventor of this myth was Antonio Pigafetta, a member of the Magellan expedition...