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The Salem Witch Trials Debunked

We're back with our MOST requested episode yet -- the Salem Witch Trials! Join us to hear us unpack the biggest misconceptions, implications, and causes of the witch hunts and trials that plagued Salem, Massachusetts between February 1692 – May 1693. We cover famous trials, shock ...  Show more

We Thought the World Was Ending? Y2K Explained

Everyone jokes that Y2K was fake. It wasn’t. It was stopped.In this episode, we break down how a tiny design choice made decades earlier put banks, power grids, hospitals, air traffic control, and even nuclear systems on edge as the clock approached January 1, 2000. We explore wh ...  Show more

Shrooms, Rome, and Reddit: 10 Christmas Tradition Origins

Come with us on a holly jolly holiday episode on debunking 10 Christmas traditions and their origins. This episode is a little different, though -- you'll be in charge of guessing if each of the 20 traditions is "Real or Reddit." That's right, Kendyl did her trademark Reddit deep ...  Show more

They Were the Richest People in the World, then the Murders Started: The Osage Nation

Imagine becoming the richest community in America overnight—only for people around you to start turning up dead.This episode uncovers the stunning rise of the Osage Nation during the Oklahoma oil boom: how they strategically secured “worthless” land that sat on massive oil reserv ...  Show more

The Dancing Plagues - There Wasn't Just One...

In this episode, we get into the absolutely unhinged Dancing Plague of 1518 — the real moment when hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced for days, weeks, and sometimes literally to death.We look at the dance manias that came before, the political and religious chaos that had ev ...  Show more