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.
The Hidden History of Jewish Pirates, Part 2: Famous Privateers
40 mins; August 13, 2020
The Hidden History of Jewish Pirates, Part 1: Escaping Europe
21 mins; August 11, 2020
Ridiculous "Remedies" of the Spanish Flu: The Rise of the Lemon
43 mins; August 06, 2020
That Time Rebellious Freemasons Starting Kissing Porcelain Pug Butts
45 mins; August 04, 2020
Clever Hans, Part 2: The Rise and Fall of Hans
26 mins; July 30, 2020
Clever Hans, Part 1: The Equine Mathematician
30 mins; July 28, 2020
Henry VIII and That English Sweat, Part 2: A Disease and a King
25 mins; July 23, 2020
Henry VIII and That English Sweat, Part 1: A Pandemic
33 mins; July 21, 2020
The Hobo King: Leon Ray Livingston, Chapter Two
38 mins; July 16, 2020
The Hobo King: Leon Ray Livingston, Chapter One
33 mins; July 14, 2020
The Vikings Made a Fortune in the 'Unicorn' Trade
45 mins; July 09, 2020
Did People Really Throw Tar And Feathers On Each Other?
38 mins; July 07, 2020
Kate Warne, the Pinkerton Detective Who Saved Abe Lincoln, Part 2: To Rescue A President
39 mins; July 02, 2020
Kate Warne, the Pinkerton Detective Who Saved Abe Lincoln, Part 1: The Origin Story
34 mins; June 30, 2020
What is Fudge, Part 2: The Rebellion
25 mins; June 25, 2020
What is Fudge, Part 1: The Science, The Curious Name
26 mins; June 23, 2020
The North Pole, Part 2: The Chase To The North
43 mins; June 18, 2020
The North Pole, Part 1: Maps and Legends
29 mins; June 16, 2020
The Mysterious Origin of (and Disturbing Problems with) the "Wolf Whistle"
35 mins; June 11, 2020
World War I and the Rise of the Peat Moss Bandage
35 mins; June 09, 2020
Flashback: Unforeseen Consequences Throughout History: Part 2
28 mins; June 04, 2020
Flashback: Unforeseen Consequences Throughout History: Part 1
39 mins; June 03, 2020
Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part 2
44 mins; May 28, 2020
Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part 1
31 mins; May 26, 2020
Feedsack Fashion: How Thrifty Inventiveness Transformed America
36 mins; May 21, 2020
Emperor Tiberius Was Debauched, Deranged and Probably Not Fun At Parties
43 mins; May 19, 2020
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 2: Flexcessiveness
27 mins; May 14, 2020
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 1: 2 Flex 2 Furious
41 mins; May 12, 2020
The Authors Of Curious George Were On The Run From Nazis
29 mins; May 07, 2020
People Used To Straight Up Drink Gold
31 mins; May 05, 2020
New Zealand's Tragic (And Pretty Hilarious) Exploding Pants Epidemic
30 mins; April 30, 2020
That Time Trainwrecks Became a Spectator Sport
33 mins; April 28, 2020
Miguel de Cervantes and the Case of the Fake Don Quixote
35 mins; April 23, 2020
The CIA Paid War Spies with Stuff From the Sears Catalog
28 mins; April 21, 2020
The Bottle Jumping Hoax (And Riot)
32 mins; April 16, 2020
The Bizarrely Disturbing History of People Jumping Out of Cake
45 mins; April 14, 2020
HL Hunley: The Mysterious Demise of a Civil War Submarine, with Rachel Lance
43 mins; April 09, 2020
Dromomania: The Wanderlust Disease
35 mins; April 07, 2020
Key West, Florida Declared a One-Minute War on the United States
45 mins; April 02, 2020
That Time the US Literally Banned Sliced Bread
51 mins; March 31, 2020
Two Green Children Mystified Woolpit, England
47 mins; March 26, 2020
Pepsi Briefly Became the Sixth Largest Navy in the World
53 mins; March 24, 2020
The Ponzi Scheme with Chelsea Ursin
49 mins; March 19, 2020
The History of MREs with Jacqueline Raposo
51 mins; March 17, 2020
Donald Crowhurst Faked a Race Around the World
35 mins; March 12, 2020
Calvin Coolidge Skipped Town and Went Fishing for Three Months (While He was President)
36 mins; March 10, 2020
The Presidential Dinner That Scandalized America
31 mins; March 05, 2020
Was the Lone Ranger Inspired by a Black U.S. Marshall?
41 mins; March 03, 2020
Night Soil Men Were the Unsung Heroes of Urban Sanitation
49 mins; February 27, 2020
The Tiny Spanish Town That Went To War With France For 100 Years
33 mins; February 25, 2020
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 2
21 mins; February 20, 2020
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 1
34 mins; February 18, 2020
'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 2
34 mins; February 13, 2020
'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 1
28 mins; February 11, 2020
Erasto Mpemba: The High School Student Who Disproved Thermodynamics
33 mins; February 06, 2020
The Straw Hat Riots of 1922
40 mins; February 04, 2020
The Legend of Tarrare, the Insatiable Glutton Who Ate a Quarter of a Cow Daily
41 mins; January 30, 2020
Why Genghis Khan's Great-Great Granddaughter Was Just as Badass
35 mins; January 28, 2020
That Time Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Started His Own Country
46 mins; January 23, 2020
The Ersatz Wild West Shootouts of Palisade, Nevada
34 mins; January 21, 2020
The Great Goldfish Gulping Craze That (For Some Reason) Swept America
38 mins; January 16, 2020
Pneumatic Tubes: The 'Futuristic' Transport System That's Over 150-Years-Old
40 mins; January 14, 2020
Violet Jessop, the Unsinkable Stewardess Who Survived Three Famous Shipwrecks
34 mins; January 09, 2020
Abandoned Ship: What Really Happened Aboard the "Mary Celeste"?
41 mins; January 07, 2020
That Time America Fell In Love With Competitive Walking
39 mins; January 02, 2020
The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols
34 mins; December 31, 2019
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 2
24 mins; December 26, 2019
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 1
29 mins; December 24, 2019
Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels
47 mins; December 19, 2019
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 2
21 mins; December 17, 2019
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 1
26 mins; December 12, 2019
The Strange Tradition that Forced Everyone in New York to Move House on the Same Day
39 mins; December 10, 2019
French Waiters Once Had to Strike for Their Right to Wear Mustaches
38 mins; December 05, 2019
The Honey Trap: Sex in Espionage Throughout History
29 mins; December 03, 2019
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 2
21 mins; November 28, 2019
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 1
30 mins; November 26, 2019
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 2
33 mins; November 21, 2019
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
32 mins; November 19, 2019
How Bertha Heyman Conned Her Way Into Show Business
42 mins; November 14, 2019
That Time Germany Got Obsessed With Polar Bear Photos
42 mins; November 12, 2019
Rose Mackenberg: Houdini's Ghostbuster
39 mins; November 07, 2019
Science and Spiritualism: Why were ghost stories so popular in the 1800s?
43 mins; November 05, 2019
John of Bohemia, the Blind King Who Charged Into Battle
31 mins; October 31, 2019
KakigĹŤri: The Story of Japan's Famous Shaved Ice
31 mins; October 29, 2019
John Edmonstone: The Man Who Trained Darwin
32 mins; October 24, 2019
The Death of Luxury Air Travel
41 mins; October 22, 2019
The Bizarre Capitulation of Stettin
23 mins; October 17, 2019
John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln's Son
27 mins; October 15, 2019
John Clem: The 12-year Old Civil War Hero
30 mins; October 10, 2019
Christopher Columbus Was Such A Jerk That Even Spain Turned Against Him
38 mins; October 08, 2019
The Kaiser’s Plan to Invade the United States
33 mins; October 03, 2019
How Uncle Tom's Cabin Became One of the Most Popular Books in China
38 mins; October 01, 2019
Tom Watson Gordy: How One Uncle’s Adventures Inspired Jimmy Carter to Join the Navy
47 mins; September 26, 2019
Teddy Bears, Rhinos, Safari and Everywhere Else: A Conversation with Daniel Scheffler
39 mins; September 24, 2019
The Gaspee Affair: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary “Tea Party”
23 mins; September 19, 2019
Otto Rahn, The Nazi Occultist Who Hated Nazis and Inspired Indiana Jones
27 mins; September 17, 2019
4 Times Women in the US Were Actually Arrested for Wearing Pants
49 mins; September 12, 2019
Sir Francis Drake and the Great Iowa Swindle
38 mins; September 10, 2019
Around the World in a Model T: The Story of Aloha Wanderwell
