Happy Halloween, everyone!! Today we want you to enjoy this compilation of the spookiest, creepiest and sometimes real life horror stories we have explored through the years! Cheers! Chapters:00:00:00-00:11:32 – American Ghosts 00:11:32-00:23:03 – Scary Urban Legends You Didn’t Realize Are Based On Real Stories 00:23:03-00:33:26 – The Most Haunted […]
Henry VIII is perhaps best known for being a terrible husband, but marrying six times wasn’t the only thing about him that was extreme. A closer look at small facts about King Henry VIII’s reign reveals the larger-than-life English king to be an even more intense, over-the-top monarch than previously […]
Kings and queens wield a lot of power – and sometimes, they let that power go to their heads. Just look at the petty figures of historical royalty who started wars over minor slights, or publicly snubbed people for upsetting them. Queen Victoria ignored her daughter Beatrice for months after […]
If one were to base knowledge of Roman history on film and television, it’d be easy to think the entire civilization was a giant “adult get-together” interrupted by the occasional gladiator match. But sexuality in ancient Rome was actually far more complicated than lustful parties. It played an important part […]
Finally past the midpoint of the decade, today Weird History travels back to the year 2006! Some funny reporter named Borat graced the silver screens across America, beloved Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin left us, and SO much more! Take a trip with us as we look at all the news, […]
Most people will, at one point or another, wonder about the worst and most painful ways to die – which includes scientists. But these particular scientists decided to think outside of the box. Through this work, they have realized these excruciating ways to die are incredibly unlikely to happen. Still, […]
A Golden Age is defined as being a period of “peace, prosperity, and happiness.” Early Greek and Roman poets used the phrase to describe how people lived in an almost idealized time and place. It is a point in history where art, science, and philosophy thrive, and where economic growth […]
Most history classes leave out one of the best parts of the past: all the crazy parties. The biggest bashes in history included a punch bowl so huge that a boy rowed a boat in it and an ancient Egyptian tradition where everyone got black-out drunk on beer – and […]
These days, when people think of reality TV, shows like The Bachelor and Love is Blind typically come to mind. The genre is associated with heightened interpersonal drama – often centering around romance, competition, or lifestyles that are slightly out of the ordinary – yet there’s been a slew of […]
Today on Weird History we are diving into the year 2007! This is the year! The year that The Sopranos ended, Phil Jackson got his 900th win with the L.A. Lakers, Rihanna released her massive single ‘Umbrella’, and so many, many other things happened in the span of 365 days! […]
