In this episode, we’ll learn about a terrible winter, and a surprise storm that caught many unaware in the US Midwest in 1888. At a time when finding out the pending weather wasn’t as easy as turnin

You need to begin in Europe to uncover the precursors to the Tooth Fairy. Many cultures, ancient and modern, have developed rituals around losing teeth. Interestingly, these rituals often echo actual

Today on our show we’ll learn about female brewsters and the beer they created for religious ceremonies and as a practical beverage for the home. Their work dates all the way back to the stone age.

Today on our show we’ll learn about the “Six Triple Eight”; the only all-female, all-Black, Army battalion during WWII. Facing a manpower shortage as well as growing pressure to give Black women a m

Today on our show we’ll learn about child psychologist Margaret McFarland who served as a mentor to Fred Rogers of the PBS children’s television program, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”. Behind-the-sc

If you Google “worst jobs” you’re going to see things like crime scene clean up and sewer diver, but compared to medieval bell ringer? At least sewer divers can be hosed down. Bell ringers had to be h

Today on our show we’ll learn about The Great New England Vampire Panic which culminated in exhuming dead relatives in several rural towns and villages. Accusers, searching for vampires, rummaged ar

Today on our show we’ll learn about a time when poor women drinking tea in Ireland was considered as terrible as if they were chugging down a bottle or whiskey.

Today on our show we’ll learn about the Moulin Rouge, a famous Parisian cabaret that opened in 1899. Eccentrics, artists, and performers frequented cabarets, music-halls and cafes, joined by members o

Today on our show we’ll learn about Mudlarking, which was first described in the 18th and 19th centuries. The original mudlarks were utterly poor, searching for anything they could dig up and sell fro