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Weird Histories--told with class.
Michelangelo’s naked David caused quite a stir in old Florence. A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all projects and news. ☞ Check...
Ancient Romans worried about their overabundance of potency. Luckily there were things you could do against that. A show by podcastnik.com ,...
On January 1st, 1913 the US Parcel Post Service was set up in the United States. Shipped packages apparently included children. Add a postag...
An apparently quite lively Mummy causes a terrible state of affairs in Brandenburg. A Halloween Special! A show by podcastnik.com — visit th...
Cats. Today our purring family members - but the Middle ages and early modern period, the devilish beings who were in league with the devil....
Travis is no longer a tech writer and is now learning how to make candy in Germany, so he can start a business in Oregon. And he has a boyfr...
The world is ending. Again. The cause is not clear yet, but it doesn't matter either — we've always managed to keep going in the past. Even...
A monster is on the prowl in the British imperial capital. A monster with a knife, who is on the lookout for young women. To be more exact:...
Again a limb goes missing. This time: an important bit of pharao Tutankhamun. Spoiler: it was never actually gone. A show by podcastnik.com...
What deviates from the norm does not always have it easy, especially regarding appearance. In antiquity that could be an advantage in certai...
What's with the strange chair with a whole in the seat in the Vatican? Does it have anything to do with the supposed Popess Joan? Or did the...
The talk of Paris was Moulin Rouge's shows of “le Pétomane”, Joseph Pujol, end of the 19th century. He brought crowds to a laughing uproar w...
The sad and strange tale of Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy who was kept in the Bronx Zoo Monkey House in the early 20th century. This one was...
In 1939 Rex Keating of the BBC had the idea to have the trumpet of Tutankhamun -- which was silent for 3 millennia -- to once again be heard...
Romans didn't just wash their hands in innocence, but also their clothes in urine. How urine fits into the Roman fullon's job description, c...
Book stealing is going around. Not only today are losses at the Leipzig Book Fair a problem. Already to GDR times -- but not a loss to to th...
Pornographic film is about as old as cameras, and as soon as people started aiming them at each other. And it says a lot of the societies of...
Today: smelly or stinking church-goers, medieval garbage disposal, public waste carriers, and the perfect stink bomb. A show by podcastnik.c...
The Secret Cabinet goes ---under risk of life and sanity--- into deepest Albion, to get to know to of the most creative authors, Tolkien & L...
Today's offer: musically challenged worms, illformed noses and pro/con marriage lists. Special Guest: Mr. Charles Darwin The original "Das G...
Anthropodermic bibliopegy – The art of binding books with human skin. Often -- but not always -- with the donor's permission. A show by podc...
What shall we do with a drunken sailor? Tipsy sailors was not uncommon, since large amounts of alcohol used to be carried on board -- for he...
Magicians pull bunny rabbits out of their hats; Mary Toft pulled them out of her --- why don't you just have a listen? A show by podcastnik....
For women there were only few opportunities in the Early Modern period to get divorced. One recognized reason was the impotence of the husba...
Orphan, button maker, dyer, transvestite, prophet, soldier, husband, victim of justice. An unusual tale of an unusual women in the 18th cent...
You think Christmas is sh..? The Catalans also, but not quite as one might think. From nativity figures, scatological art history, productiv...
in 1561 a condemned Cologne citizen was given the choice between gallows and marriage---he chose the noose. How that ended and what the furt...
New York doesn't just consist of sky scrapers--also what's underground is very interesting: starting with a human-carrying pneumatic tube sy...
If you are not satisfied with the current government, simply become it yourself. That must be what Joshua Norton thought and proclaimed hims...
The mass-murderer Adolf Hitler surely had a whole number of deficiencies, but was he also missing something else decisive? A testical? On th...
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Those that can interpret them... uhm... can interpret them. A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all...
70 years ago Florence Foster Jenkins died, the worst singer of all time; but her fame lives on forever. A show by podcastnik.com — visit the...
Today's offer: blunt tools of the paleolithic, ancient greek tax evasion, enlargements of male anatomy according to the Kama Sutra, Chinese...
What do Hitchcock's "Psycho", "Silence of the Lambs", and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" have in common? They are based on the same story -- a tr...
Milk makes tired medieval saints chipper - but only Mary's Original™ A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all projects and news. Ch...
Secret Services have been using animals as spies for a very long time. In this episode The Secret Cabinet follows the trails of photographer...
Did medieval knights really encage their wives in chastidy belts before they went on their crusades? And how does this lead us to medieval b...
In 1836 17 mysterious miniature coffins with wooden dolls were found by playing children at Arthur´s Seat, a volcanic rock near Scotland's c...
Animal rights? My ass...em donkey! The Middle Ages and Early Modern Era went even further than that: They brought animals to court. A show b...
On one oft the weirdest relics of Christendom. A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all projects and news. Check out our new show,...
If it had not been for his mother-in-law, the French aristocrat and author would not be (in)famous for his libertine sexual novels but maybe...
How you could save your life by outrunning the gardener. A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all projects and news. Check out our...
The first episode deals with Napoleon´s best piece that has ventured further around the world than he ever did. A show by podcastnik.com — v...