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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

Drowsy Historian

History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing. Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t. Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying p

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02:01:40

Why You’d REGRET Being Henry VIII’s Physician |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/29

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were the king’s physician — and nothing more than a shadow with steady hands. In the dark corridors of Henry VIII’s court, survival had nothing to do with medicine, and everything to do with keeping your head down while the leg rotted. The wound festered. The politics shifted. The crown watched.This is the story of what it meant to tend to a dying king and a dying empire — one quiet dressing at a time. You didn’t

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02:01:40

Why You’d Regret Being a Noble During Vlad the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/29

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the dim halls and bloodstained courtyards of 15th-century Wallachia, where being a noble wasn’t a privilege — it was a warning sign. In this slow, immersive descent through paranoia, performance, and political cruelty, you experience firsthand what it meant to dine in Vlad the Impaler’s court… and how quickly a feast turned into a funeral.This is not a tale of rebellion. This is not a story of villains and

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Roman Peasant During the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/28

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the dying days of the Roman Empire, glory was just a rumor—and survival was the only triumph. This is not the story of emperors or generals, but of a forgotten peasant watching his world crumble, piece by piece. War, famine, fire, silence. He doesn’t witness the fall of Rome with grandeur. He endures it with dirt under his nails and smoke in his lungs. If you're still listening by the end, thank you—for bearing

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Flight 571 Disaster |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/28

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed into the Andes mountains. What followed was not a tale of triumph, but of endurance—cold, slow, and horrifying. This is not a story of heroes. It’s a story of what survival really costs when the world forgets you exist. You’ll live the disaster moment by moment: the crash, the silence, the hunger, and the unthinkable decisions that followed. This is the Flight

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Locust Swarm of...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/27

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThis is not a story of triumph. It’s not a tale of defiance, or vengeance, or victory. It’s the quiet unraveling of a life built on promises the earth never agreed to keep. In the wake of the 1875 Rocky Mountain locust swarm—the most devastating insect plague in American history—one settler family watches their world erode into silence. There are no heroes here. Just weathered hands, chewed-up fields, and the slow,

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02:01:40

Why You'd REGRET Being a Loyalist in the American...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/27

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou didn’t pick up a musket. You didn’t burn a town or raid a rebel camp. You just stayed loyal—to the king, the crown, the world you thought would endure. And for that, you lost everything.In this slow, immersive journey, we follow the quiet unraveling of a Loyalist during the American Revolution. No glory. No recognition. Just confiscated land, public humiliation, and the kind of exile that erases your name one

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02:01:40

The Horrifying Fate of the Man in the Iron Mask |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/26

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the cell, sit with the silence, and try to remember your own name.This is not the story of a king or a hero. This is the story of a man—real or imagined—who was erased not with violence, but with procedure. Who may have committed no crime, but became a secret anyway.In this slow, immersive journey into the life and death of the Man in the Iron Mask, you’ll encounter the quiet horror of anonymity, the

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01:42:13

Why You'd REGRET Trying Street Food in 14th-Century...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/26

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn this slow, grim journey through 14th-century Delhi, you—barefoot, sunburnt, and starving—make the worst possible decision: trusting the street food. What begins as curiosity and hunger soon spirals into a full-body betrayal. From open sewers and reused oil to explosive regret and final delusion, this is a historical descent into microbial madness.Narrated in a calm, softly spoken tone, this immersive second-person

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Pyramid...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/25

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat was it really like to build the Great Pyramid of Giza? Spoiler: you wouldn’t survive. Forget aliens, secret tech, or romantic tales of ancient glory. This is the story of the nameless, sunburnt men who carved limestone until their hands bled, dragged blocks until their bodies broke, and died in the dust without ceremony. Told in immersive second-person narration, this grimly educational sleep video takes you

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive Inside a WWII Tank | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/25

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we climb inside the steel coffin that was a WWII tank — not as a general, not as a hero, but as a nameless crewman choking on diesel and waiting to die. From brutal training grounds to the suffocating stink of combat, from broken radios to broken minds, this is the story behind the myth. The tanks didn’t win the war. The men inside them just survived long enough to be forgotten.If you're still awake by the

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01:42:13

The BRUTAL Life of a Cowboy on a Cattle Drive |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/24

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to another slow descent into history's dustier corners. In this episode, you’re not a gunslinger or a folk hero. You’re just another worn-out young man hired to move 2,000 pounds of beef across a thousand miles of miserable. No one tells you about the dysentery. Or the stampedes. Or what hardtack does to your teeth. They just hand you a rope and tell you to ride.This is the brutal, unromantic reality of life

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Female Pirate | History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/24

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianA teenage girl stands alone at the edge of a sun-bleached dock, watching the sea stretch endlessly before her. The ship she arrived on is gone. The port is indifferent. No one is waiting. No one is coming back.This is the forgotten aftermath of piracy — not adventure, but abandonment. In this calm, sleep-friendly historical story, we explore the quiet, lingering fate of a girl left behind by her crew. With soft

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Christian Missionary in...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/23

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou arrive in Japan in the mid-1500s, a Portuguese Jesuit full of zeal, convinced you’ve come to save souls. Instead, you find a fractured land locked in war, where your crucifix means less than your cargo, and your sermons confuse more than they convert. The daimyō smile, the peasants nod, and the silence thickens.This is not a triumphant mission. It is a slow unraveling — of purpose, of faith, of self.Walk the

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Life of a Medieval Irish Bard |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/23

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the brutal, sacred world of the medieval Irish bard — a figure both feared and revered, whose words could crown kings or destroy reputations. In this immersive, second-person sleep story, you’ll live the life of a child chosen not for their sword arm, but for their tongue. You’ll endure ten years of darkness, memorize poetry like scripture, and wield satire as a legal weapon capable of drawing real

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Vestal Virgin in Ancient Rome |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/22

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the heart of ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins were revered as sacred — but their lives were far from divine. Taken from their families as children, forbidden from love, speech, or personal freedom, these girls served a city that praised their purity while watching them like prisoners. This immersive story walks you through the life of one such Vestal — from the moment her veil is placed, to the moment she walks

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a CIA Mind Control Test...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/22

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou wake up in a room you don’t remember entering. There’s a clipboard on the desk with your name misspelled, a camera blinking in the corner, and a bitter taste on your tongue that you didn’t choose.This is the story of what it might have felt like to live — and unravel — as a test subject in Project MK-Ultra: the CIA’s real, declassified program of mind control experiments during the Cold War. In this immersive,

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02:01:40

Why Being a Victorian Chimney Sweep Was a Death...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/21

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianMost histories won’t dwell here. But this is the story of soot-slicked brickwork, twisted flues, and the boys who were sent in after them. You were small, so you were useful. You were quiet, so you were forgotten. This immersive, second-person narrative puts you inside the life of a Victorian climbing boy — from the cellar where you slept to the shaft where you might die.This episode explores what it meant to be

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a British Opium Factory in...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/21

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a merchant. Not a rebel. Not a soldier. You’re a laborer — pulled into a British opium factory in colonial India, where the air poisons slowly and the ledgers remember more than your name ever will. In tonight’s immersive historical sleep story, you’ll walk through a day in the life of an invisible worker. You’ll process poppy gum until your hands stain. You’ll cough through the fumes. And you’ll realize

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Truth About the Marian Persecutions |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/20

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThis is not the story of a martyr. It's not the tale that ends in triumph or memorial. It’s the forgotten life behind the fire — the nameless prisoner in the cell beside the famous one. In the time of Queen Mary’s Marian Persecutions, hundreds were silenced, erased, or made into examples. You’re one of them.Told from the second-person perspective, this immersive historical sleep video places you in the shoes of an

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Woman Captured by Genghis...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/20

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn tonight’s story, you are a woman from a quiet Central Asian village — and today is the last day you will ever be free. As Genghis Khan’s army descends, the world you knew is razed to ash, and you are pulled into the machinery of conquest — not as a warrior, but as a resource.This is not a tale of survival. It’s not about triumph or resistance. It’s about what happened to tens of thousands of women swept into an

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