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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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01:39:42

The STRANGE History of Halloween: From Ghosts to...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/05

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianFrom bonfires on Celtic hillsides to candy corn on suburban porches, Halloween has always been more than just costumes and sugar. It’s a patchwork of ancient rituals, medieval prayers, Victorian séances, and Hollywood monsters—stitched together into the strange night we know today. In this video, we’ll wander through the centuries of Halloween’s transformations, exploring how a night once meant to ward off restless

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01:48:58

The HORRIFYING Life of a WWII B-17 Tail Gunner

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/05

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe life of a WWII tail gunner was not glory, but cold, noise, and isolation inside a glass bubble at the back of a Flying Fortress. Chosen for being small enough to fit, tail gunners endured -40°C temperatures, oxygen masks freezing to their faces, and the constant roar of engines and guns rattling their bones. They were the first target for enemy fighters, the last to be reached if wounded, and most never

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03:44:45

The ENTIRE History of Ancient Rome

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/04

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianRome liked to call itself eternal. In reality, it was a thousand-year exercise in exhaustion, a city that stumbled from myth to monarchy, from Republic to Empire, from marble to rubble. This is the full story of Rome — not as a parade of glory, but as a slow-motion disaster dressed in togas and temples. From wolves and twins on the Tiber, to senators stabbing one another, to emperors sulking on islands, to

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01:56:33

Why You’d REGRET Living in a Medieval Castle

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/03

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianLife in a medieval castle wasn’t the fairy tale of knights, banners, and warm feasts we imagine today. Behind the high walls and soaring towers lay a world of cold stone, smoky halls, rancid food, lice-ridden beds, and garderobes that emptied straight into the moat. This video explores the grim reality of castle life — the damp chambers, contaminated wells, endless noise, and the slow decay of fortresses that

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01:31:35

The HORRIFYING Life of a 1970s Quaalude Addict

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/02

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the 1970s, Quaaludes were sold as harmless relaxation, marketed by doctors as safe sleep and glamorized on the disco dance floor. But behind the glitter and neon was a much darker truth. This is the story of how a small white pill, passed casually between friends and strangers, promised freedom but delivered silence. From the first swallow under the mirrored ball to the isolation of the 1980s, Quaaludes erased

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02:05:07

The Strange, Brutal Myths of the Greek Gods

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/10/01

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe Greek gods are remembered in marble and museums as noble, serene figures—but their myths tell a far darker truth. From Cronus devouring his children to Zeus’s endless betrayals, from Hera’s cruel vendettas to Apollo’s plague-bearing arrows, the Olympians were not moral guides but reflections of chaos, lust, jealousy, and violence. This weary walk through their stories reveals how worship in ancient Greece was

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01:45:21

Why You’d REGRET Going to Woodstock 1969

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/30

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWoodstock 1969 is remembered as three days of peace, love, and music. The reality was three days of mud, sewage, and bad sandwiches. In this video, we step into the festival as it really was: the endless traffic, the collapsing toilets, the bread riots, and the bad trips—all narrated in the calm, dry sarcasm of the Drowsy Historian.Forget the myth of a harmonious countercultural utopia. What you’ll actually find is

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01:58:47

What Daily Life Was REALLY Like in Ancient Egypt

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/29

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep away from the golden masks and monumental pyramids, and into the mudbrick homes where most ancient Egyptians actually lived. This is not the Egypt of eternity carved in stone, but the Egypt of sand-filled bread, sour beer, smoky hearths, and endless labor.In this episode, we’ll explore the daily grind of the Nile Valley — from the grinding stones that wore teeth to stumps, to the cramped homes crawling with

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01:45:14

The Horrifying Life of a Medieval Barber-Surgeon

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/28

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the dim, uneasy world of the medieval barber-surgeon — where the same razor that scraped a chin might, moments later, open a vein. In this slow, immersive descent, you’ll live through the life of an apprentice turned master of the trade, where grooming and crude medicine blurred into one grim routine. From sweeping up hair tangled with blood, to sawing through limbs on the battlefield, to returning home

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01:49:42

The Dark Origins of the Werewolf Myth

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/27

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianFrom ancient Greek kings cursed by the gods, to Celtic families condemned to wander as wolves, to the burning stakes of sixteenth-century France and Germany — the werewolf has stalked the European imagination for centuries. Far older than Hollywood transformations under a full moon, the werewolf was once a terrifying explanation for famine, madness, and unthinkable violence. This video traces the dark origins of

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01:48:48

The HORRIFYING Life of an Appalachian Moonshiner

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/26

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight we descend into the unforgiving hollers of Appalachia, where poverty, hunger, and suspicion push men into a trade that can only end in ruin. You are a moonshiner in the late 19th to early 20th century, dragging copper into the woods, hiding jars beneath sacks of corn, and listening for revenuers in the dark. The corn you grow feeds not your family but the fire in a shack that threatens to consume you with

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01:49:15

Did Medieval Warriors Get PTSD?

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/25

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWarriors of the Middle Ages are often remembered as fearless knights in shining armor — paragons of courage, duty, and faith. Chronicles tell us they rode boldly into battle, defended castles with honor, and fought without hesitation. But the reality, as always, was far darker. Behind the myths of chivalry lay sieges marked by starvation, raids that left villages burning, and battlefields where the noise of steel

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01:42:12

The HORRIFYING Life of a Viking Berserker

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/24

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the fire-lit halls and frost-choked battlefields of the Viking Age, where the berserker legend was born. Far from the glorified verses sung by skalds, the life of a berserker was one of isolation, suspicion, and ruin. Feared by enemies, distrusted by comrades, and consumed by a frenzy that promised strength but delivered only exhaustion, their reality was harsher than the myths suggest. This is not a

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01:45:42

The HORRIFYING Life of a 90s Grunge Rocker

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/23

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we descend into the rise and fall of a 1990s grunge rocker — a nameless figure swallowed by the noise of Seattle’s scene. From damp basements and dive bars to major label contracts and blinding stages, the dream of authenticity curdles into exploitation, exhaustion, and erasure. Along the way, duct-taped amps, thrift-store flannel, and cracked voices are transformed into a marketing scheme sold in malls,

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01:41:05

How did Renaissance People Get High?

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/22

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe Renaissance is remembered as an age of clarity, reason, and rediscovered beauty — but it was also an age lived through smoke, drink, and tincture. From wine-soaked debates in Florentine taverns to incense-thickened chapels, from apothecary jars of opium and mandrake to the first bitter sips of coffee, this was a world where enlightenment often arrived through a haze. In this video, we wander through the

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01:48:17

The HORRIFYING Life of a Coal Miner with Black Lung

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/21

Step into the suffocating darkness of the Victorian coal mines, where children as young as nine were sent underground and men spent their lives breathing in dust that slowly turned their lungs to stone. This is the horrifying story of a coal miner’s life — from boyhood in the pits to the slow, breathless death of black lung. Industry promised progress, but for miners, progress meant hunger, accidents, and a cough that never left.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your

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02:01:24

The HORRIFYING Life of a Tiger Tank Commander on the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/20

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s descent takes us inside the belly of the Tiger I, the most feared tank of the Second World War — and one of the most miserable to command. You are a young German officer on the Eastern Front, handed the “honor” of leading a Tiger. From the outside, it appears invincible, a fortress of steel and fire. Inside, it is suffocating, deafening, and endlessly hungry for fuel, repairs, and human strength.Through

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01:48:45

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Squire

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/19

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the shadows of medieval life—not as a knight in shining armor, but as the boy who carried his burdens. In this immersive historical story, you’ll experience the world of a squire: taken from home as a child, bent beneath endless chores, beaten into obedience, and erased from history in service to another man’s glory. Far from the tales of honor and chivalry, the reality was mud, bruises, silence, and the

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02:01:26

How Colonial Families Survived BRUTAL Winters

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/18

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the harsh reality of a colonial winter, where survival was never guaranteed and every day was a contest against hunger, cold, and isolation. Through vivid scenes and wry historical narration, we explore the relentless work of preparing for the freeze, the drafty homes that could never quite keep the cold out, the monotonous meals that kept families alive, and the moments of community that broke the

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01:34:49

The HORRIFYING Life of a Heroin Addict After WWI

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/17

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the long shadow of the First World War, a quieter battle was being fought in back rooms, boarding houses, and rain-soaked streets. This story follows one forgotten life through the interwar years — from the first dose to the slow, irreversible descent that follows.This is not a tale of vice or rebellion, but of survival measured in paper packets, pawned possessions, and the relentless ticking of a clock between

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