Leigh’s favorite band has had their ups and downs. Aleister Crowley, the occult, magik, summoning bandmates using the dark arts, […]
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Episode 16: The Halifax Explosion
Our special guest Craig Baird from Canadian History Ehx takes us to World War 1 Halifax, and the largest accidental […]
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Episode 15.5: Tragedy Tuesday – The Smalls Lighthouse
If you’re looking to get away… from everything… consider taking a job as a wickie in a lighthouse. Come with […]
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Episode 15: Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Early English attempts at colonizing the Americas went real well. Take a journey back to the lost colony of Roanoke, […]
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Episode 14.5: Tragedy Tuesday – Cerebus the Aardvark
In 1977, Dave Sim created a new kind of comic book anti-hero: a three-foot-tall, bipedal, anthropomorphic aardvark. Over the course […]
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Episode 14: The Black Death – Part 2
Templar curses, corpse-eating pigs, and waking up to a house full of death. We rejoin our Genoese heroes as they […]
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Episode 13.5: Tragedy Tuesday – Apollo One
The path to any great success is paved in failure… it’s about what you do in the face of that […]
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Episode 13: The Black Death – Part 1
Every story starts somewhere. In the case of the Black Death, it starts with Mongol hordes, smug Italians, diseased rodents, […]
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Episode 12.5: Tragedy Tuesday – Satanic Panic and the PMRC
In the 80s and 90s, our youth were being corrupted by Satan and his apostles: heavy metal, Prince, and Madonna. […]
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Episode 12: Egyptian Famine
When your empire dates back six thousand years, odds are it’s been through a lot. Still, history didn’t prepare the […]