Weird History

Discover the true story behind PROMETHEUS - a primitive African tribe with extraordinary, impossible knowledge of far-off star systems.

What's it like to have the flesh ripped from your skull? Robert McGee lived to talk about it.

An Italian American civil rights group took exception to the portrayal of Italians in THE GODFATHER. The group just happened to be run by the head of one of the Five Families. 

The story of how a 14 year old girl killed a big time Los Angeles mobster, and how Sean Connery thought he might get whacked for it.

As a national debate about birth control breaks out, let's look back at the days before The Pill.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had a rivalry that lasted right up until the day they died - on July 4th, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

London has been beset by Great Plagues and Great Fires. But did you know about the Great Beer Flood that killed eight?

The Rapture is upon us tomorrow. Here are some other times the end of the world has come and gone, and how the prophets dealt with being wrong.

It turns out ancient Egypt didn’t have any ‘no mummification’ shelters.

69 years ago the skies over Los Angeles erupted with anti-aircraft fire. What happened that night? And how did it influence Steven Spielberg’s 1941 and the new film BATTLE: LOS ANGELES?

Today they drink pints. Back then they drank FROM SKULLS.

LBJ ordered his clothes over the phone, and he did it in a very LBJ kind of way. We have the audio proof.