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.
John Willis Menard: The First African American Elected To US Congress
26 mins; August 29, 2019
The Bloody Revenge of Saint Olga of Kiev
36 mins; August 27, 2019
The Super Fight: When Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano Had A Fight That Never Happened
34 mins; August 22, 2019
Shame and Fish: The Embarrassing and Tragic Story of François Vatel
34 mins; August 20, 2019
Creature Feature: Go Home Nature, You're Drunk
92 hours 22 mins; August 15, 2019
Hunting Fireflies for Fun (and Profit)
37 mins; August 13, 2019
The Listener Mail Extravaganza
34 mins; August 08, 2019
That Time Ancient Monks Waged War Over A Copyright
26 mins; August 06, 2019
Ye Xian: The Story of China's Cinderella
27 mins; August 01, 2019
The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis: How One Lucky Forger Almost Destroyed A Nation's Economy
34 mins; July 30, 2019
Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds
30 mins; July 25, 2019
Castle Itter: When Germans and Americans Joined Forces in World War II
24 mins; July 23, 2019
A Grave Mistake: The Story of Patton's "Abandoned Rear"
24 mins; July 18, 2019
Did the US Mafia actually start in New Orleans?
27 mins; July 16, 2019
Meet Albert Cashier, the Trans Man Who Fought for the Union in the Civil War
27 mins; July 11, 2019
Operation Northwoods: How the US Planned to Attack Itself and Start a War with Cuba
41 mins; July 09, 2019
That Time Irish Separatists Invaded Canada
27 mins; July 04, 2019
The Night Witches: How an All-female Soviet Bomb Squad Terrorized Nazi Germany
30 mins; July 02, 2019
Bug Wars: When We Tried to Turn Insects into Soldiers
30 mins; June 27, 2019
Yasuke, the African Samurai
28 mins; June 25, 2019
The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I Tried To Make An Army of Super Tall Soldiers
32 mins; June 20, 2019
Playboy, Progressive Politics and Stand-up: The Dick Gregory Story with Wayne Federman
49 mins; June 18, 2019
I Modi: The Scandalous Erotic Blockbuster Banned By The Vatican
33 mins; June 13, 2019
Patriots, Prisoners and Plants: The World of Political Body Doubles
49 mins; June 11, 2019
Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada
33 mins; June 06, 2019
The Duke of Edinburgh is Literally a God in Vanuatu
24 mins; June 04, 2019
The Honorary Citizens of the United States
41 mins; May 30, 2019
The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams
39 mins; May 28, 2019
The Return of Listener Mail
31 mins; May 23, 2019
That Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went To War
32 mins; May 21, 2019
The Rise and Fall of Local Scrip: Alternative Currencies of the Great Depression
37 mins; May 16, 2019
The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs
34 mins; May 14, 2019
Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Hoax
43 mins; May 09, 2019
Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery)
24 mins; May 07, 2019
How the Black Death Came To Norway On A Ghost Ship
33 mins; May 02, 2019
Susanna Caroline Matilda: The Colonial Grifter Princess
53 mins; April 30, 2019
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 2
26 mins; April 25, 2019
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 1
30 mins; April 23, 2019
How Robert 'The Fastest Knife in the West End' Liston Conducted a Surgery With a 300% Mortality Rate
28 mins; April 18, 2019
How Oliver Cromwell Got Executed Several Years After His Death
25 mins; April 16, 2019
Hong Xiuquan: The Younger Brother of Jesus Christ Who Led a Bloody Rebellion in China
36 mins; April 11, 2019
How Big Bill Speakman Fought Off North Korea With Beer Bottles
23 mins; April 09, 2019
Teddy Roosevelt May Just Have Saved Modern (American) Football
23 mins; April 04, 2019
Prohibition, Prescriptions and the Rise of 'Medicinal' Booze
30 mins; April 02, 2019
Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials?
28 mins; March 28, 2019
California Schoolchildren and the Great Squirrel War
27 mins; March 26, 2019
When West Virginia Begged the USSR for Foreign Aid
29 mins; March 21, 2019
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 2
36 mins; March 19, 2019
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 1
48 mins; March 14, 2019
The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt
32 mins; March 12, 2019
Agent Garbo: The Strange Tale of the Man Who Saved D-Day
39 mins; March 07, 2019
The War of the Stray Dog: How Far Would You Go For Your Pet?
34 mins; March 05, 2019
The Tragic Origin Story of Morse Code
33 mins; February 28, 2019
Operation Gunnerside: How a Crew of Military Skiers Ruined the Nazi Bomb
25 mins; February 26, 2019
How far did Isaac Newton go to hunt down forgers?
27 mins; February 21, 2019
How Admiral Horatio Nelson Ended Up Dead in a Barrel of Brandy
33 mins; February 19, 2019
English Men Used to Sell Their Wives
22 mins; February 14, 2019
How Louisiana Almost Became a Hippo Ranching Hub
40 mins; February 12, 2019
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 2
31 mins; February 07, 2019
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 1
42 mins; February 05, 2019
Who was the highest paid athlete in history?
28 mins; January 31, 2019
Clara, The World's Most Famous Rhinoceros
44 mins; January 29, 2019
How the Monopoly Board Game Became a World War II Escape Kit
28 mins; January 24, 2019
Idiomatic For The People, Part 1
62 hours 7 mins; January 22, 2019
Was there a real-life Rapunzel?
27 mins; January 17, 2019
Benjamin Franklin's Advice on 'Finding a Mistress'
29 mins; January 15, 2019
What does 'Idaho' actually mean?
22 mins; January 10, 2019
Uncle Sam Tried to End World War II With Bat Bombs
34 mins; January 08, 2019
The American Soldiers Who Defected to North Korea and Became Movie Stars
33 mins; January 03, 2019
How a Broken Toilet Foiled a German Sub
23 mins; January 01, 2019
Creature Feature: The Dark Tetrad
62 hours 42 mins; December 27, 2018
Gustaf Broman Tried to Cross the Atlantic in a Canoe . . . Or Did He?
37 mins; December 25, 2018
The Weird, Surprisingly Recent Origin of the Tooth Fairy
26 mins; December 20, 2018
When Vikings Loot The Wrong Town
37 mins; December 18, 2018
Were Tulips Really The Bitcoin of the 1600s?
29 mins; December 13, 2018
(Some of) History's Dumbest Military Prototypes
54 mins; December 11, 2018
The Forty Elephants: London’s All-Female Jewel Thieves
41 mins; December 06, 2018
The Malleus Maleficarum: A Real-life Witch Hunter's Bible
32 mins; December 04, 2018
The Great London Beer Flood of 1814
25 mins; November 29, 2018
Dr. Seuss Wrote His Most Famous Book On A Bet
34 mins; November 27, 2018
Feral Children and the True Story Behind The Jungle Book
28 mins; November 22, 2018
When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth
31 mins; November 20, 2018
The Laxative-laden Journey of Lewis and Clark
29 mins; November 15, 2018
The Strange and Spectacularly Disgusting Story of the Great Kentucky Meat Shower
34 mins; November 13, 2018
The Bizarre Origin of the Oxford English Dictionary
43 mins; November 08, 2018
How Conman Victor Lustig Sold The Eiffel Tower (Twice)
60 hours 23 mins; November 06, 2018
George Carlin Gets Quoted in the Supreme Court: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman
24 mins; November 01, 2018
The People vs. Lenny Bruce: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman
31 mins; October 30, 2018
The Life and Times of Ol' Knife Hand
27 mins; October 23, 2018
The Ridiculous Story of the World’s First (Documented) Serial Killer
34 mins; October 18, 2018
Back When the Rich Ate Corpses
34 mins; October 16, 2018
The Mummies of Guanajuato
28 mins; October 11, 2018
The Curious Rise of SPAM
45 mins; October 09, 2018
The Smooth-talking Takeover of Tabor Bridge
29 mins; October 04, 2018
History's Coolest (Non-Human) Political Candidates, Part I
53 mins; October 02, 2018
Attack of the Aswang: How the CIA Used Vampires as Weapons of War
29 mins; September 27, 2018
A Dead Pope Goes To Court
25 mins; September 25, 2018
Who are the Hartlepudlian Monkey Hangers?
31 mins; September 20, 2018
William Walker: Filibuster and (Fantastically Bad) President
40 mins; September 18, 2018
Lawsonomy: How the Father of the Modern Airline Started His Own Religion
