Ostara | Easter, Rabbits & the Truth About Spring
Every spring, humans suddenly feel the urge to reset their lives. We clean our houses, change our routines, and convince ourselves we’re becoming better people overnight. But this isn’t random. It’s a...
3 Huhti 58min
NASA Trusted Her With Space But Not A Bathroom | Katherine Johnson & The Colored Computers Sign | 1950s Virginia"
Imagine being so good at math that the federal government trusts you to calculate whether astronauts survive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.Orbital mechanics. Launch windows. Trajectory equations. Re...
4 Maalis 44min
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre | Fake Cops, Highball the Dog, Raccoon Bootlegger
This Valentine’s Day, Barely Historical is skipping the roses and going straight to the gunfire.In this episode, Jo and Amanda dive into one of the most infamous crimes in American history: the St. Va...
11 Helmi 56min
Dear Abby, Dissociation, & Don Draper | Rerelease
Welcome to the full unhinged version of Mother’s Little Helpers, where mid-century America dressed women in pastels and then medicated them into silence.JoLynne and Amanda ruin the real history behind...
5 Helmi 1h 3min
Salem Witch Trials | Marshall Mathers, Pre-Teen Girls, & Piss Cakes | Rerelease
The year is 1692. Massachusetts is cold, paranoid, and running on bad carbs. Two girls start convulsing, the town loses its collective mind, and suddenly everyone’s a witch — or about to be.This is th...
28 Tammi 53min
He Beheaded The Polar Bear Sex Doll | Oskar & Alma | 1920 Vienna
In 1920, police in Dresden, Germany responded to what appeared to be a murder scene: a headless, blood-soaked body in an artist's garden. The "victim"? A life-size doll. The perpetrator? Famous Expres...
22 Tammi 1h 7min
King Henry VIII | Everyone Enabled This
Henry VIII didn’t just have “wife drama” he turned his midlife crisis into national policy. In this episode of Barely Historical, Jo and Amanda break down how one insecure man with too much power went...
15 Tammi 39min
Stranger Things Works Because the '80s Were Actually Horrifying | MKUltra, Satanic Panic, & Why Eddie Munson Had to Die | Midwest 1980s
What if Stranger Things isn’t just a nostalgic monster show, but a remix of real government experiments, moral panic, and 1980s paranoia?In this episode of Barely Historical, Amanda and JoLynne ruin t...
8 Tammi 1h 8min
