Histories Uncharted

Send us Fan Mail    Welcome to the second episode in our Holiday series, today we are discussing all of the things that go bump in the long winter night and all of the frightful ways we terrify each other during the holiday season. Join the Histories Uncharted team as they explore all of the dark and gruesome goblins and ghosties that we have celebrated and hidden from through the ages. Happy holi...

Send us Fan Mail      We hope you enjoy our Tasty Meals episode, just in time for Thanksgiving! We have curated a menu sure to delight your morbid curiosities surrounding the ripe history of humans eating humans. Our look at the lighter side of cannibalism (is there one?) is sure to give you some fun facts to share at the holiday dinner table.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We here at Histories Unc...

Send us Fan Mail     This episode explores one of the most independent and courageous women leaders, the Egyptian Queen that made herself Pharaoh, Hatshepsut. Join the Histories Uncharted team as they discuss the life and accomplishments of an amazing woman that showed the ancient world that a woman could be a devoted, competent, and compassionate leader just  as any man, and probably even better....

Send us Fan Mail      Welcome back to Histories Uncharted, today the team will be discussing one of the most evocative and controversial empresses of the medieval world, Theodora. Join us as we discuss her unprecedented journey from one of societies lowest classes to the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire. 

Send us Fan Mail       Welcome back to another episode with Histories Uncharted. This episode discusses the political and religious background behind the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The Histories Uncharted team will explore the actions of the conspirators and the consequences of the most famous failed plot in history. 

Send us Fan Mail         Welcome back to another episode of Histories Uncharted and our last episode in our spooky Halloween series. We could not end a series about murder, mayhem, and all of the things that go bump in the night without including witches. However, this is not the same old witch trials we Americans are used to, this German witch hunts! Explore the dark truths and the tragic endings...

Send us Fan Mail       Welcome back to Histories Uncharted as we continue with our spooky Halloween episodes that explore the dark and macabre. This is the second episode in our two part series, Fun with Executions. Join the Histories Uncharted team as they complete the rest of the alphabet and delve into the past and examine all of the horrific and graphic ways we have implemented justice through...

Send us Fan Mail     Welcome back to Histories Uncharted as we continue with our spooky Halloween episodes that explore the dark and macabre. This is episode one of a two part series, Fun with Executions. Join the Histories Uncharted team as they discuss the numerous and disturbing methods of execution used throughout the years. From the Blood Eagle to the Wheel, we embark on a journey of murder a...

Send us Fan Mail     Join the Histories Uncharted team as they discuss the various forms of torture that have been used through the ages. Devices such as the Boot and the Crocodile Shears are examined as well as a look into the poor unfortunate souls that had the misfortune to be on the receiving end of some of history's most excruciating forms of torture. This episode is number 4 in our spoo...

Send us Fan Mail     Welcome back as we continue the second half of our two part episode discussing the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. In this episode, the Histories Uncharted team will delve into the dark and macabre as they explore the poems and short stories that focus on the death, regret, and lost love that made Poe’s works irresistible to readers for over 200 years. Continue listening as...

Send us Fan Mail      Come join us as we continue our spooky Halloween season with a journey into the twisted,  gruesome, and morbid mind of none other than Edgar Allan Poe. In this two-part episode we will first take an in depth look into the life of one of the most illustrious gothic writers. Then take a trip with us into the mysterious and macabre as we explore the death, regret, and lost love...

Send us Fan Mail     Join us at Histories Uncharted as we begin our first in a series of spooky and macabre episodes this Halloween season. We begin our tales of terror with none other than the infamous Vlad the Impaler. Vlad became notorious in his own times when he adopted the method of impaling people as his signature form of punishment and execution. He used this brutal form of torture and exe...

Send us Fan Mail     Constantinople was a city that had stood for a thousand years, first under the rule of the Pagan Romans, then the Christian Byzantines, finally succumbing to the might of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. The city’s immense walls and protective seaside have ensured its safety and survival through countless attacks over the centuries. That is, until the combination of advanced technol...

Send us Fan Mail     Welcome back to the conclusion of this two part episode discussing 16th century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, eastern Europe’s most notorious female serial killer and alleged vampire. In part one, we discussed how Elizabeth was accused of the murder and torture of somewhere between 120 and 650 young girls so she could bathe in the blood of her innocent victims to stay...

Send us Fan Mail     This episode discusses 16th century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, eastern Europe's most notorious female serial killer and alleged vampire. Elizabeth was accused of the murder and torture of young girls, and can boast of a death toll of somewhere between 120 and 650 victims. The aging widow was said to have traveled the Hungarian countryside in search of young fle...