History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.
War and Candy: The Infamous Tootsie Roll Air Drop
30 mins; September 11, 2018
The Man Who Assassinated Abe Lincoln's Assassin
33 mins; September 06, 2018
The Cock Lane Ghost: Haunting, Hoax, Hysteria… or Hilarious?
38 mins; September 04, 2018
Roland the Farter and the Weird World of Professional Flatulence
33 mins; August 30, 2018
Gregor MacGregor Invented a Country and Convinced People to Invest in It
55 mins; August 28, 2018
Angry Feds and Deadly Booze: The Story of the Chemists' War
28 mins; August 23, 2018
Project A119: The Cold War Plan to Nuke the Moon!
26 mins; August 21, 2018
Adidas Versus Puma: A Tale of Two Brothers
41 mins; August 16, 2018
Fanny and Stella: The Cross-Dressing Scandal of Victorian England
34 mins; August 14, 2018
Kansas Imprisoned Women For Having STDs
30 mins; August 09, 2018
The WWII Naval Battle Won Using Potatoes
31 mins; August 07, 2018
The Korean Soldier Who Fought for 3 Armies During WWII
22 mins; August 02, 2018
Oregon Was a White Supremacist Paradise
41 mins; July 31, 2018
Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
30 mins; July 26, 2018
The 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis Hosted a Racist 'Special Olympics'
32 mins; July 24, 2018
When Heineken Made Bottles That Could Be Used as Bricks
31 mins; July 19, 2018
Why British Soccer Players Saluted the Nazis
39 mins; July 17, 2018
The United States That Never Were
43 mins; July 12, 2018
Philadelphia's Transylvanian Doomsday Cult: The Cave of Kelpius
44 mins; July 10, 2018
Enough About Us: What About You?
36 mins; July 05, 2018
Weird Wars Fought For Dumb Reasons
44 mins; July 03, 2018
The FBI's Quest to Understand 'Louie, Louie'
46 mins; June 28, 2018
The Time a Soviet Premier Was Banned From Disneyland
42 mins; June 26, 2018
Kidnapping, Binge Drinking and Costumes: Voter Fraud in the 1800s
32 mins; June 21, 2018
Why don't Americans use bidets?
29 mins; June 19, 2018
The Earliest Recorded Mooning Killed Thousands
35 mins; June 14, 2018
The Presidential Reason Fido Became the Default Name for a Generic Dog
37 mins; June 12, 2018
Dock Ellis and the Legend of the LSD No-hitter
36 mins; June 07, 2018
Maryland’s State Song was a Diss Track
38 mins; June 05, 2018
The Story of Max, South Africa's Famous, Crime-fighting Gorilla
48 mins; May 31, 2018
How Santa Anna Lost His Leg Twice, and Held a Funeral for It
41 mins; May 29, 2018
That Time Chewbacca Needed Bodyguards
40 mins; May 24, 2018
Napoleon Bonaparte Was Attacked by Bunnies -- And Lost
35 mins; May 22, 2018
California Was Named for a Fictional Island Ruled by a Black Amazon Queen
31 mins; May 17, 2018
Ancient Mayan Ritual Alcohol Enemas
48 mins; May 15, 2018
Vermont Was an Independent Republic
43 mins; May 10, 2018
The Capture of Guam Was Bloodless and Quick, All Due to a Misunderstanding
38 mins; May 08, 2018
Are all US Presidents actually related?
30 mins; May 03, 2018
What's the deal with two-dollar bills?
56 mins; May 01, 2018
How James Bond Created a Mexican Dia de los Muertos Tradition
25 mins; April 26, 2018
Did Richard Nixon Unwittingly Smuggle Drugs for Louis Armstrong?
36 mins; April 24, 2018
3 Times Society Refused to Accept New Books on Science
49 mins; April 19, 2018
That Time We Erased a (HUGE) Waterfall
27 mins; April 17, 2018
The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold
31 mins; April 12, 2018
Japan, Baseball and the Curse of the Colonel
35 mins; April 10, 2018
That Time the US Built a Flying Aircraft Carrier
31 mins; April 05, 2018
Yes, Those Are Corpses in the Diorama
37 mins; April 03, 2018
Weird People Who Built Weird Things
34 mins; March 29, 2018
What was the West Point Eggnog Riot?
41 mins; March 27, 2018
Lyndon Johnson Chatted on the Phone More than a Teenager
26 mins; March 22, 2018
When Germany Sacrificed Sausage For War
26 mins; March 20, 2018
Arsenic: The Assassin's Dream Weapon
36 mins; March 15, 2018
The Killer Marketing Campaign Behind Guy Fawkes
44 mins; March 13, 2018
When Ancient India Beat Machiavelli to the Punch
27 mins; March 08, 2018
The Rise of Harvey Wiley's Poison Squad
33 mins; March 06, 2018
Step Aside, James Bond: The Strange Stories of Espionage Animals
53 mins; March 01, 2018
How MLK influenced Star Trek
29 mins; February 27, 2018
What was the 'Great Stink' of London?
38 mins; February 22, 2018
How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network
31 mins; February 20, 2018
The Strange Story of Canadian Margarine Bootleggers
39 mins; February 15, 2018
When People Waged War Over Eggs
37 mins; February 13, 2018
The Wild West Was Actually Pretty Chill
31 mins; February 08, 2018
How A Grudge Match Launched the Ford GT40
45 mins; February 06, 2018
Vitamin Donuts Were A Real Thing
29 mins; February 01, 2018
The Rotten, Sausagey Secret Origin of Botox
30 mins; January 30, 2018
The Weird World of Meat Jell-O (Gelatin Origin Story)
35 mins; January 25, 2018
London Made a Train for the Dead
31 mins; January 23, 2018
Roald Dahl: Children's Author and Secret Agent
36 mins; January 18, 2018
When did ALL-CAPS type become YELLING?
34 mins; January 16, 2018
Why does the Guinness Beer Company Track World Records?
29 mins; January 11, 2018
Digging Up James K Polk (For the Third Time)
33 mins; January 09, 2018
Presidents Love Their Ridiculous Pets
31 mins; January 04, 2018
The Atomic Whoops: When the US Air Force Bombed South Carolina
29 mins; January 02, 2018
Waging War With Hallucinogenic Honey
22 mins; December 28, 2017
Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet
28 mins; December 26, 2017
The Strange History of Antarctic Fruitcake
27 mins; December 21, 2017
When the Puritans Canceled Christmas
27 mins; December 19, 2017
Baguettes and Vacation: France versus Bakers
24 mins; December 14, 2017
What's the deal with smashing cake at weddings?
27 mins; December 12, 2017
Conquest via Bird Poop: One Island at a Time
30 mins; December 07, 2017
When Scientists Hid Under Beds To Spy On Kids
35 mins; December 05, 2017
When People Thought They Were Made of Glass
26 mins; November 30, 2017
Nazis, Churchill and Chocolate
26 mins; November 28, 2017
When (and why) did the US start calling its citizens consumers?
39 mins; November 23, 2017
Does the US Confederacy still exist in Americana, Brazil?
32 mins; November 21, 2017
Did a real-life rainmaker almost drown San Diego?
27 mins; November 16, 2017
X-Rays, Songs and Soviets: The Stilyagi Story
30 mins; November 14, 2017
Who solves murders in Antarctica?
26 mins; November 09, 2017
How White America Tried to Destroy Chinese Restaurants
