The Strange History Podcast

On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the events that would become the Gold Rush. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the deeper history of John Sutter, James Marshall, the failed attempt to keep gold a secret, and how the discovery that reshaped America ultimately ruined the men at its center.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History...

January 23 is associated with centuries of strange reports involving objects falling from clear skies — from fish and frogs to massive unexplained blocks of ice. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the historical accounts, folklore explanations, and modern scientific theories behind these unsettling events, and why winter skies have a habit of misbehaving.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History PodcastFollow The Str...

During the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, an entire British regiment was witnessed marching into a strange, stationary cloud—and never emerged. Observed by multiple Allied units and later confirmed by eyewitness statements, the soldiers vanished without gunfire, bodies, or prisoner records. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, we examine the battlefield accounts, postwar investigations, recovered remains that raised new questions, and why this disappearance remains one of the most disturbing unresolved mysteries of modern warfare.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love...

On January 22, 1896, experiments involving light and metal revealed behavior that classical physics could not explain, quietly laying the groundwork for quantum theory. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the experiment that suggested reality was not continuous, solid, or intuitive — and how one unsettling observation changed science forever.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History PodcastFollow The Str...

On January 21, 1954, the USS Nautilus became the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, allowing humans to remain underwater longer than ever before. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the unexplained underwater sounds detected during early nuclear submarine missions and how scientists eventually realized the ocean itself was distorting reality through sound.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History Podcast...

January 20 is known in European folklore as Saint Agnes’ Eve, a night believed to reveal the future through dreams, silence, and strange rituals involving shoes, fasting, and even hats. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the eerie traditions, unsettling dream accounts, and symbolic meanings behind one of folklore’s most curious nights — when people risked discomfort to glimpse what came next.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas...

On January 19, 1915, German Zeppelin airships carried out the first aerial bombardment of civilians in Britain, silently drifting over sleeping towns and changing warfare forever. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the Zeppelin raids, the fear they inspired, and how the night sky became a battlefield for the first time.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History Podcast...

Deep in the remote wilderness of Siberia lies a massive stone roadway built from enormous fitted slabs—stretching across terrain where no known civilization was ever meant to exist. With stones weighing thousands of tons and no historical records, legends, or builders attached to it, the Siberian Stone Road challenges everything we think we know about ancient engineering and lost civilizations. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, we explore the discovery, the scale problem, the theories no one agrees on, and why this impossible road was quietly ignored.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.sp...

On January 18, 1778, Captain James Cook became the first European to record contact with the Hawaiian Islands, placing them onto global maps for the first time. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of that encounter, the misunderstandings of “discovery,” and how one moment of contact reshaped the future of an entire island chain.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History P...

On January 17, 1997, a rocket carrying a GPS satellite exploded just 13 seconds after liftoff at Cape Canaveral. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story behind the launch failure — the tiny defect that caused a massive explosion, the raining debris, and the aerospace lessons learned from a mission that ended almost as soon as it began.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange...

On January 17, 1773, Captain James Cook and his crew became the first humans to cross the Antarctic Circle, sailing into a region no one had ever explored. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy tells the strange true story of the voyage that shattered myths about a southern continent and revealed the frozen limits of human exploration.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History Podcast...

On January 16, 1909, explorers led by Ernest Shackleton reached the Magnetic South Pole — a constantly moving point on Earth where compasses stop working properly. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of this elusive destination, why it refuses to stay in one place, and how a scientific triumph became one of the most unusual achievements in the history of exploration.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit...

In February 1855, a heavy snowfall revealed something impossible across southern England: a single trail of hoof-like footprints stretching for more than forty miles. The tracks crossed rivers, climbed walls, appeared on rooftops, and entered locked gardens without explanation. Calmly documented by Victorian newspapers and witnessed by clergy, magistrates, and entire villages, the Devil’s Footprints remain one of history’s most unsettling unsolved mysteries. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, we examine what the newspapers actually reported, why the explanations fail, and what may have walked through England one snowy night — leaving only questions behind.Become a supp...

On January 15, 1943, the Pentagon officially opened — even though construction was still underway. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the world’s largest office building and the myths it accidentally created. From rumors of secret tunnels and missing floors to Cold War legends, endless hallways, and a courtyard once nicknamed “Ground Zero,” discover how a temporary wartime structure became a permanent symbol wrapped in folklore. A fascinating look at how scale, secrecy, and confusion can turn a building into a legend.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podc...

On January 14, 1986, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and revealed one of the strangest planets in the solar system. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the shocking discoveries made during the flyby — from Uranus’s extreme tilt and chaotic magnetic field to its fractured moons — and why scientists are still trying to understand this distant, rule-breaking world.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History Podcast<br...

On January 13, 2018, residents of Hawaii received an emergency alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile — and for 38 minutes, believed the worst was about to happen. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story behind the false alarm, the human error that caused it, and what those minutes of fear revealed about modern technology and human behavior.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Str...

On January 12, 1967, psychology professor James Bedford became the first human to be cryonically frozen after death, launching one of the strangest scientific experiments in history. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the origins of cryonics, the controversial preservation process, and the unsettling question of whether death might one day be reversible. A fascinating true story at the edge of science and belief.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submi...

In the 12th century, two green-skinned children appeared in an English village claiming to be from a twilight land called St Martin’s Land. Recorded by medieval historians, their story defies explanation and raises disturbing questions about parallel worlds, lost civilizations, and early encounters with the unknown.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History PodcastFollow The Strange History Podcast wherever you listen and never miss an...

On January 11, 1922, doctors administered insulin to a dying teenager for the first time in medical history. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy tells the strange true story of Leonard Thompson, the experimental injection that nearly failed, and the breakthrough that transformed diabetes from a fatal disease into a survivable condition. A powerful reminder of how quiet moments can change the world.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas...

On January 10, 1863, London opened the world’s first underground railway, forever changing how cities move. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the Victorian subway — from steam engines in brick tunnels to fears of madness and suffocation — and how one bold experiment reshaped urban life across the globe.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-strange-history-podcast--5773362/support.🎧 The Strange History Podcast Love bizarre true stories, forgotten scandals, and history’s most unhinged moments?Submit your ideas for The Strange History PodcastFollow The Strange...