The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part One: Zetetic Astronomy
In part one of a new series on the history of Flat Earth Theory, I talk about ancient conceptions of the Earth's flatness, ancient proofs of...
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The Historical Blindness podcast is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and forgotten truths. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, ba...
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Listen to Historical Blindness, a Society & Culture podcast by Nathaniel Lloyd. Stream 242 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part Two: Dignifying Lunarcy
In part two of my series on the long-lived claims that the Apollo program was a hoax, I look more closely at the "evidence" of denialists an...
Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part One: An Astronomical Amount of Evidence
In part one of a two-part series, I review all the positive evidence proving humanity reached the Moon to refute long-lived claims that the...
Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part Two, The Bell Hoax
In part 2 of my series on the myth that Nazis developed supertechnology, I look at the growth of this conspiracy theory and later hoaxes, li...
Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part One, The Vril Fiction
In part 1 of a 2-parter, I explore the myth that Nazis developed supertechnology, like flying saucers, looking at both the reality of German...
Versailles Time-Slip: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident
In this episode, I look into an early 20th century claim of a supernatural encounter with the past. Did two Oxford dons really see Marie Ant...
Under the Pink Triangle: Transgender Experience in Interwar Germany
In this episode, I continue to look at the topic of women's persecution under fascism then pivot, in observation of International Trans Visi...
The Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria
In this episode, I kick off women's history month with the story of the much mythologized but undeniably symbolic and important Hypatia of A...
The Gun Controllers: Freedom, Firearms, and Fear of Black Power
In this episode, I talk about the history of gun rights and gun control as a history of systemic racism. Check out the sho...
Crispus Attucks, American Martyr
In this episode, I talk about Crispus Attucks, a figure in Black history both lauded as the first martyr of American liberty and maligned as...
Doomsday Deferred: The Failed Predictions of American Millennialism
In this episode, I recount TikTok's recent brush with rapture predictions and then survey America's deep history of failed millennialist pre...
The Great Alignment Lie
In this year's season premiere, I return to my series on the myths and legends of the Indiana Jones franchise, this time examining the ideas...
The Origins of the Christ (Another Very Historically Blind Xmas!)
In my annual holiday special for 2025, I examine discrepancies in the gospels relating to Jesus's lineage and parentage, as well as the gosp...
Special Presentation: The Devil You Know
This week I'm sharing an episode of a new podcast from CBC, called The Devil You Know. In The Devil You Know, Sarah Marshall explores the ta...
Think of the Children - Part Two: Satanic Panic
In the conclusion of my series on the moral panics of the eighties, I look at the development of the Satanic Panic and consider its resurgen...
Think of the Children - Part One: Stranger Danger
In this episode, I look at the development of the Stranger Danger moral panic as a precursor to right wing conspiracist claims today. This e...
Hunting the Highgate Vampire
In this episode, I tell the story of a hysteria in 1970s London, involving claims of ghosts, Satanists, and vampires, as well as two dueling...
Poltergeist in Rosenheim
In this episode, I tell the story of a haunting in Bavaria that was claimed to be the first in which paranormal phenomena was scientifically...
Standing Army, Sitting President: The Posse Comitatus Act and the Domestic Deployment of the Military
In this new episode, I talk about America's long history of resenting domestic policing by the military especially when the military is used...
Cracked and Packed: A History of Gerrymandering
After Texas's recent mid-decade partisan redistricting, representing a blatant power grab for the Republican Party undertaken at Trump's beh...