History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.
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The Infamous Aurora UFO Incident of 1897
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2022-04-14
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How The Evil May Day of 1517 Became the Perfect Propaganda Opportunity
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2022-04-12
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Day Drinkers (Sort of) Helped Stop Cholera in London
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2022-04-07
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The Much-Maligned Reign of Swedish Queen Maria Eleonora
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2022-04-05
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Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part II: Smoke Signals and Bottled Messages
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2022-03-31
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Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part I: Only a Pigeon Away
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2022-03-29
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That Time A Dead Guy Won an Olympic Medal
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2022-03-24
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Julia Barnett Rice Waged an Elitist War on Noise
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2022-03-23
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Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 2
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2022-03-17
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Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 1
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2022-03-15
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The Cobra Effect, Part 2: Four Pests and a Disastrous Success
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2022-03-10
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The Cobra Effect, Part 1: Snakes, Rats, and Unintended Consequences
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2022-03-08
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British Suffragettes Knew Jūjitsu
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2022-03-04
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A Tale of Two Hansons: Busting Myths About the 'First' US President
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2022-03-02
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Did Soldiers in World War I Really Team Up to Fight Wolves?
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2022-02-25
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Slum Tourists: When Wealthy People Toured Chinatown ‘For Fun’
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2022-02-23
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That Time Victorians Treated Seaweed like Pokemon
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2022-02-18
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Valentine's Day Is So Much Weirder Than We Thought
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2022-02-15
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Weirdest Celebrity Busts, Part II: Mr. David Lee Roth and a Drunken John Wayne
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2022-02-10
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Weirdest Celebrity Busts, Part I: Nixon Smuggled Weed, Arbuckle Was Innocent
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2022-02-09
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