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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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02:19:31

Why the Crusades Were a Total Disaster for Everyone |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/10

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat really happened during the Crusades? Not the sanitized version — the real story. In this deep-dive documentary, we unravel the chaotic, violent, and often absurd history of the Crusades: from the First Crusade’s apocalyptic bloodbath in Jerusalem, to the Children’s Crusade (yes, that happened), to the unbelievable sack of Constantinople — by Christians, against other Christians.This isn’t a tale of chivalry and

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Concubine in Imperial China |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/09

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianEver wondered what it was really like to be a concubine in Imperial China? Spoiler: it wasn’t all silk robes and poetic moonlit evenings. In this sleep-friendly deep dive, you’ll step into the embroidered slippers of a palace concubine — chosen, trained, ranked, and slowly erased.From the ruthless selection process to the weaponized womb politics, from the silent war zones of the Inner Court to the terrifying power

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02:01:40

The BIZARRE Food of the Aztecs | Boring History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/08

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianEver wondered what the Aztecs actually ate? Spoiler: it wasn’t just corn and chocolate.In this deep dive into the bizarre, brilliant, and occasionally unsettling world of Aztec food, we explore everything from floating gardens and ritual stews to ant eggs, salamanders, and chili smoke punishments. Discover how the Aztecs used food not just for survival, but for ceremony, identity, and even cosmic balance.From sacred

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01:34:07

What Medieval Feasts Were REALLY Like | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/07

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the Feast (You’ll Regret It): A Medieval Sleep StoryTonight, you’ve been summoned to the grandest event in the kingdom: a medieval feast. Unfortunately, you’re not a knight or a noble. You’re somewhere in the middle — tolerated, unprepared, and already sweating through your borrowed tunic.In this immersive sleep story, you’ll experience the full descent: from awkward arrival to terrifying table manners,

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive as Bonnie and Clyde | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/06

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a legend. You’re not an outlaw. You’re Bonnie Parker — tired, limping, hungry, and far too deep to turn back. This isn’t the glamorous story they put in the papers. This is the slow, unraveling nightmare of life on the run in Depression-era America — filthy motels, cold beans, rotting wounds, and love that feels more like gravity than choice.In this immersive, second-person historical story, we

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Medieval Rabies Victim |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/06

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat happens when you're bitten by a rabid dog in the Middle Ages?No hospitals. No vaccines. No understanding of viruses. Just burning irons, toad burials, and prayers that won't be answered.In this grim, slow-burning historical journey, you’ll experience the full, unrelenting horror of rabies — from the first bite to the final breath — through the eyes of a medieval peasant who never stood a chance. Learn

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02:01:40

Why Food SUCKED in Ancient Rome | Boring History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/05

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the Roman Empire — where the architecture was advanced, the politics were brutal, and the food? Utterly depressing.In this immersive, slow-burning bedtime history video, we take you on a deeply unappetizing journey through the kitchens, street stalls, and banquet halls of Ancient Rome. From gritty bread and vinegary wine to fermented fish guts and stuffed dormice, this isn’t the culinary triumph you may

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Viking Slave | Boring History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/04

What did punishment look like when you had no rights, no voice, and no protection? In Viking society, discipline wasn’t about justice — it was about control. In this episode, we explore the brutal, calculated, and often arbitrary world of slave punishment in the Norse world. From daily humiliations to strategic cruelty, every act served a purpose: to remind you that you didn’t belong to yourself.This is not a tale of rebellion or redemption. It’s a grim look at the mechanics of domination —

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Plague Ship |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/03

Step aboard the worst cruise in history — a 14th-century merchant ship slowly rotting at sea, teeming with rats, disease, and sailors who’ve completely given up. In this immersive, darkly funny tale, you’ll experience life (and death) on a plague ship firsthand. From lice-infested hardtack to hallucinating crew members and the grim reality of drifting into a quarantined harbor, this is not your typical voyage. Spoiler: the rats win.This video is part of our Boring History for Sleep series — real,

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Plague that Made You Dance Until You Died...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/02

In 1962, a mysterious epidemic swept through a village in Tanganyika. It wasn’t a fever. It wasn’t a rash. It was laughter—violent, uncontrollable, and utterly joyless. Girls collapsed. Villagers shook with convulsions. Officials arrived. Doctors left. And the sound never really stopped.This is the chilling true story of the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic—a mass hysteria event that spread across communities, defied science, and left survivors questioning whether it ever really ended. Told in a calm,

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02:01:40

You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Molasses Flood (Yes,...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/01

In January 1919, a 50-foot steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of industrial molasses exploded in Boston’s North End. The result? A 25-foot wave of syrup moving at 35 mph, crushing buildings, drowning streets, and killing 21 people in one of the strangest and most preventable disasters in American history.This is not a joke. This is not a cartoon. This is the sticky, tragic, bureaucratically infuriating story of how corporate negligence, bad welds, and a desperate race against Prohibition led

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Native American in the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/31

What was it like to live through the slow, systematic erasure of your people? To lose your home, your language, your sacred rites — not all at once, but piece by piece, policy by policy, mile by mile?In this immersive sleep-friendly historical journey, we explore what it meant to be a Native American in 19th century America — through forced removals, broken treaties, boarding schools, massacres, and quiet acts of survival. This is not the story told in textbooks. This is the lived reality: the

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02:01:40

The BIZARRE Laughter Epidemic That Took Over a...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/30

In the summer of 1518, dozens of people in Strasbourg suddenly began to dance—and couldn’t stop. No music, no joy, just uncontrollable, exhausting motion that led to bruised feet, broken bodies, and even death. Was it mass hysteria? Poisoned bread? Divine punishment? Or something far stranger?This is your story now. You're there. You're sweating, twitching, collapsing in the square while monks chant, doctors bleed you, and no one really knows what’s happening. This slow, immersive bedtime story

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive an Australian Penal Colony |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/29

Life in a Penal Colony: The Brutal Truth Behind Australia’s Convict PastStep into the forgotten world of Australia’s earliest convicts — not the romanticized legends, but the grim reality of chains, labor, punishment, and survival. This immersive, slow-paced documentary dives deep into the daily horrors and quiet rebellions of those who built a nation but were never meant to be part of it.From forced labor to failed uprisings, cruel punishments to conditional "freedom," this video explores

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't "Survive" the Cadaver Synod | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/28

What happens when a pope puts a corpse on trial? You get one of the most absurd chapters in Church history: the Cadaver Synod.This is the true (and truly bizarre) story of Pope Formosus — posthumously exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial by his successor in a scene that can only be described as ecclesiastical theater of the grotesque.From political rivalries wrapped in scripture to medieval bureaucracy so intense it didn’t stop for death, this slow, immersive bedtime story walks you

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02:08:47

Why You'd Regret Joining the Donner Party | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/27

You join the Donner Party in 1846, chasing the American dream. What you find is starvation, snow, desperation, and one very bad shortcut. In this slow, immersive historical nightmare, we walk every brutal mile from Missouri to the Sierra Nevada — through dust, dysentery, hallucinations, and hard choices no one should have to make.This isn’t a lecture. It’s a descent into cold, hunger, and what happens when Manifest Destiny meets real life. Perfect for history lovers, dark bedtime thinkers, and

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02:08:47

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as Henry VIII’s Wife (Most...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/26

Step into the gilded nightmare of Tudor court life, where royal marriage meant danger, not devotion. In this immersive, darkly funny, and sleep-friendly historical story, we follow the tragic, terrifying, and occasionally absurd fates of Henry VIII’s six wives — from glittering ceremonies to execution scaffolds.Perfect for bedtime listening, this slow-paced narration blends dry humor, vivid sensory detail, and emotional depth to reveal why being queen wasn’t a fairy tale... it was a survival

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02:08:47

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Stone Age | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/25

Think you could survive the Stone Age? You wouldn’t. No food, no clothes, no words — just cold mornings, hungry wolves, and the constant threat of being trampled by something with tusks. In this episode of Drowsy Historian, we take you on a calm, miserable journey through prehistoric life. From failing to start a fire to accidentally insulting a stranger and getting hit with a rock, every moment is a reminder that modern problems really aren’t so bad.Perfect for unwinding, dozing off, or developing

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02:08:47

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Salem Witch Trials |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/25

In 1692, Salem lost its mind. You just lost everything.Step into the mud-soaked streets of colonial Massachusetts, where suspicion spreads faster than the pox and a single glare can get you executed. This is not a story about magic — it’s about fear. About a courtroom where dreams count as evidence. About neighbors who watch each other just a little too closely. About what happens when guilt is decided by consensus and survival is a coin toss with God.In this immersive, slow-burning sleep

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02:08:47

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Victorian Asylum | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/05/25

Take a soothing stroll through the corridors of a Victorian-era mental asylum — where the diagnosis is vague, the therapy is worse, and your odds of leaving are comfortably near zero. From surprise enemas to unpaid labor, from moral treatment that isn't to staff who definitely shouldn't — this video explores what life was actually like behind those ivy-covered walls.Whether you were a woman with opinions, a pauper with bad timing, or simply caught talking to yourself near a bakery,

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