HeyJaredMacabre : Dark History
Two women, too many dead people, and zero chill. MACABRE Dark History is a dark history podcast hosted by Blaire and Halley — covering the chilling, disturbing, and sometimes darkly hilarious corners of history that got left out of your textbook.
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Eugene Horsch Case- Modern Day HH Holmes? Macabre After Dark Bonus (opens the original)
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Are we dealing with a modern day HH Holmes? In 1896, a man was hanged in a Philadelphia prison yard. His name was Herman Webster Mudgett, but the country knew him as H. H. Holmes, and the story that outlived him was about a building. A hotel in Chicago with sealed rooms and chemical vats and a body count that grew every time the story was retold. Most of that story was invented. The building was ordinary. The legend was not. I'm telling you that first, because right now, one hundred and thirty y
Bathing, Forks, and Dancing: Top 10 Things History Called Sin (opens the original)
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Our ancestors thought everyone was sinning. You've probably sinned at least 10 times before really starting your day, according to some ancient religious beliefs(and listening to this episode counts as one way to sin). Join Blaire and Halley for the last episode before taking a brief hiatus---not to worry we will be back for SPOOKY Season. We hope you enjoy this unhinged episode on the top 10 Funniest ways to SIN . Loving MACABRE? If you think we’ve earned your 5 star review…we would “spoop” our
S is for Spiritualism | The Dark History of Séances & Victorian Mediums (opens the original)
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Long before Ouija boards and ghost-hunting shows, millions believed the dead could speak. Born in the wake of war, disease, and unimaginable loss, the Spiritualist movement promised grieving families something they desperately wanted, one more conversation with those they had lost. In this episode of MACABRE , we explore the rise of Spiritualism, the séance craze that swept Victorian society, the mediums who claimed to bridge the gap between life and death, and the extraordinary events that left
Top Ten History's Dumbest Wars — The Fights That Made No Sense (opens the original)
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History is full of legendary wars but some wars were fought for unbelievably ridiculous reasons. In this episode of MACABRE: Dark History , we're counting down the Top 10 Dumbest Wars in History , featuring the infamous War of the Bucket , the bizarre Milk War , the Shortest War in History , and more true stories that prove reality is often stranger than fiction. #10–#6 are available on our main podcast feed. Want to hear the five dumbest battles ever fought? #5–#1 are available exclusively on P
R is for Radium Girls - The True Story of the Women Killed by Radioactive Paint (opens the original)
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The glow was beautiful. The truth was deadly. In this episode of MACABRE: Dark History , we're diving into one of history's most horrifying industrial disasters: the tragic story of the Radium Girls . During the early 1900s, hundreds of young women were hired to paint glowing watch dials with radioactive radium paint, unknowingly exposing themselves to lethal levels of radiation. Encouraged to "lip-point" their brushes for precision, they ingested radioactive material every single day while thei
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