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Historium Unearthia: Unearthing History's Lost and Untold Stories

Historium Unearthia: Unearthing History's Lost and Untold Stories

37 Episodes • By Crystal Ponti • historiumunearthia.com
Have you ever heard of Louis Congo? What about the forgotten Downwinders or The Devil’s Bible? These are just a few examples of people, events, and things from our past that have been lost to time. They’re important in the greater context of our understanding of the world and how our past shaped our ...more
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Historium Unearthia: Unearthing History's Lost and Untold Stories
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Episode 34: The Government Program that Imprisoned "Promiscuous" Women
In the United States, the war against women took a ... more
Sep 18 2019 29m
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Episode 33: This Influential Female Author and Anthropologist Blazed a Trail for Women
This trailblazer became the most successful and sign... more
Apr 3 2019 40m
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Episode 32: This Strange Civil Disturbance Changed How Americans Study Medicine
In the US, doctors are held in high esteem. But that... more
Mar 13 2019 42m
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Episode 31: Before Modern Medicine, These Female Healers Cured What Ailed
In the days before modern medicine, the sick, injure... more
Feb 18 2019 33m
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Episode 30: The Mysterious Life and Supposed Murder of Vincent van Gogh
On July 27, 1890, a painter sustained a single gunsh... more
Jan 31 2019 47m
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Episode 29: All You've Needed to Know and Then Some Since 1818
Throughout history there have been countless methods... more
Jan 8 2019 23m
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Episode 28: A Doctor Claimed the Springs Could Cure in This Lost Missouri Town
Greene County, Missouri was once home to many bustli... more
Dec 21 2018 26m
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Episode 27: The Flying Santas Who Airdrop Christmas Cheer to America’s Lighthouse Keepers
In the 1920s, one aviation pioneer launched a thank-... more
Dec 8 2018 18m
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Episode 26: This Double-Crossing General Deceived America and Walked Away
After the Revolutionary War, at a pivotal moment whe... more
Nov 29 2018 37m
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Bonus Episode: A Thanksgiving Ghost Story
For years, on Thanksgiving, one former railroad work... more
Nov 16 2018 15m
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Episode 25: Utah's Forgotten National Park is Rich in History and the Unexplained
In the heart of southeast Utah, water and gravity ha... more
Nov 9 2018 56m
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Bonus Halloween Episode: A New England Ghost Story
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills its... more
Oct 24 2018 16m
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Episode 24: Decades Before Lizzie Borden Gained Notoriety, This Woman was Dubbed the "Witch of Staten Island"
On Christmas night in 1843, a horrific crime rattled... more
Oct 17 2018 33m
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Episode 23: Before Chatty Cathy, Edison Gave Us the Ultimate Creepy Doll
Before Chatty Cathy made us flinch, the Wizard of Me... more
Oct 2 2018 53m
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Episode 22: Black Wall Street was Obliterated During 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
In 1921, a white mob entered an affluent district kn... more
Sep 19 2018 1h 12m
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Episode 21: Dracula's Best Friend was a Fierce Warrior with an Impressive Library
In the Late Middle Ages, the Kingdom of Hungary rose... more
Sep 5 2018 1h
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Episode 20: A Great Molasses Flood Swept Through Boston in 1919
Slow as molasses in January is a common American idi... more
Aug 19 2018 49m
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Episode 19: These Events of 1811 and 1812 Caused Series of Strange Phenomena
A series of unexpected events in 1811 and 1812 cause... more
Aug 5 2018 37m
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Episode 18: The Myth of Maine's Red Paint People
In 1892, Charles C. Willoughby became the first arch... more
Jul 22 2018 44m
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Episode 17: This Great Warrior Escaped Slavery and Established America's First Free Black Community
More than a century before the United States was eve... more
Jul 10 2018 54m
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Episode 16: Unsuspecting Men were "Shanghaied" Through Port Townsend's Secret Underground
At the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth cen... more
Jun 27 2018 1h
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Episode 15: This Road-Trippin' Housewife Became First Woman to Drive Across U.S.
On June 9, 1909, as rained poured down on New York C... more
Jun 12 2018 48m
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Episode 14: The Dark Legend of the Devil's Bible
Centuries before the devil reached mainstream popula... more
May 30 2018 33m
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Episode 13: A Hidden World Runs Rampant Under St. Louis
There’s a hidden world running rampant under the str... more
May 16 2018 48m
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Episode 12: The Forgotten "Downwinders" of America's Nuclear Testing Program
The United States conducted its last nuclear test on... more
Apr 27 2018 1h 2m
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