The Corpse Medicine
Join Kelli as she teaches you about a very common but forgotten medical practice in Europe during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods - consuming the skin, bones, and blood of corpses as medicine. The history of cannibalism just got even more unpopular. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast? Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up! Insta: @beardwrites Sources referenced in the podcast: Mummies, Cannibals and Vam...
5 Feb 202331min
The Andes Flight Disaster
Join Kelli as she tells the amazing story of Uruguayan Flight 571, where 45 people crashed into the snowy peaks on the Andes Mountains on the border of Argentina and Chile. After ten weeks, two of the 16 survivors emerged from the mountains. To survive, they had to do the unthinkable - they had to cannibalize the flesh of their dead friends and relatives. This is a story of resilience, survival, and how far one will go to make it out alive. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to star...
24 Jan 202354min
The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Join Kelli as she teaches how nuclear power plants work, and why the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986 - the worst nuclear incident in history.Intro and Outro music credit: NedricWant to start your own podcast?Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up!Insta: @beardwritesSources referenced in the podcast:Illinois Energy Prof YouTubeAdam Higginbotham - Midnight in ChernobylSupport the show
20 Dec 202248min
The London Cholera Epidemic
Join Kelli as she discusses the roots of the Cholera epidemic in London in the 1850s, and how a particularly smelly year in 1858 known as the "Great Stink" forced Parliament to fix London's sanitation infrastructure.Intro and Outro music credit: NedricWant to start your own podcast?Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up!Insta: @beardwritesSupport the show
20 Nov 202232min
The Lost Roanoke Colony
Join Kelli as she discusses the history surrounding the lost Roanoke colony, the first English attempt at colonizing the New World. In addition to discussing what happened to the colonists, Kelli will look into the history of the period to understand why Roanoke failed in 1587, but Jamestown survived only 20 years later. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start your own podcast? Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up! Insta: @beardwri...
30 Okt 202231min
The Great Molasses Flood and the Kentucky Meat Shower
Join Kelli for this double-feature episode as she looks into two weird food stories - the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 and the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876. Intro and Outro music credit: NedricWant to start your own podcast?Click this link to get set up with Buzzsprout and you'll get a $20 credit to sign up!Insta: @beardwritesSupport the show
23 Okt 202224min
The Ghost Ship
A look at the mysterious disappearance of all ten crew members and passengers of the Mary Celeste in 1872. Halfway between the Azores and Portugal, a brigantine carrying alcohol bound for Italy was found floating adrift by another ship, completely empty of people - a Ghost Ship. Help Kelli solve the puzzle as she goes over the evidence to make sense of what happened to the Mary Celeste, one of the world's most enduring mysteries of the sea. Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric Want to start...
16 Okt 202233min
