The Weird History Podcast

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87 Stalin’s Nonexistent Human/Chimp Hybrid Supersoldiers

Posted June 30, 2016 • 00:18:55

One of the most bizarre myths about the Soviet Union is that Joseph Stalin attempted to create human/chimp hybrid supersoldiers. This bit of pseudohistory...

86 Mandeville, Part Three

Posted June 23, 2016 • 00:18:19

No one knows who wrote The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. There is no record of an English knight alive at the right time with that name who could...

85 Mandeville, Part Two

Posted June 16, 2016 • 00:22:15

As the Travels of Sire John Mandeville move away from the familiar and the Holy Land, they get progressively more bizarre. The laws of convention and...

84 Mandeville, Part One

Posted June 9, 2016 • 00:13:39

Supposedly, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is about an English knight who sets out for the Holy Land in the 1330s. However, the journey to Jerusalem...

83 Bill Lascher on Eve of a Hundred Midnights

Posted June 2, 2016 • 00:38:55

This week’s episode is an interview with author Bill Lascher about his upcoming book Eve of a Hundred Midnights, about two American war correspondents...