Real History with Doctor Hans

The masonic history series is a little less sarcastic and cynical. Taken from my own research, this episode explores the evidence linking Boston's Lodge of St. Andrew's Freemasons Lodge with the Boston Tea Party, the event that ultimately sparked the American Revolution. Conspiracy theorists have claimed for centuries that the Freemasons planned the Boston Tea Party - in this case, they mi...

The masonic history series is a little less sarcastic and cynical. Taken from my own research, this episode explores the very close connections between colonial American Freemasons and the radical Sons of Liberty who led the American Revolutionary. Was the Revolution a Masonic conspiracy? No. Did Masonic conspiracies alter the course of the American Revolution? It sure seems like it.

Forget communism and capitalism, Russia's real economy is all about alcoholism! For centuries, the biggest source of government revenue in Russia has been selling the hard stuff to it's own people. Learn all about why keeping your peasants drunk for 500 years isn't the best way to keep your economy afloat. This episode is one of the more fun and entertaining ones!

In our inaugural History's Most Badass Death Tournament, we pit three of the most legendary die hards: Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Captain Ed "Blackbeard" Teach, and 81 year old Puritan farmer and accused Salem witch Giles Corey against each other in a head - to head competition to determine who really pulled off the manliest death in history. Warning: You'll learn a little about the...

In our inaugural History's Most Badass Death Tournament, we pit three of the most legendary die hards: Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Captain Ed "Blackbeard" Teach, and 81 year old Puritan farmer and accused Salem witch Giles Corey against each other in a head - to head competition to determine who really pulled off the manliest death in history. Warning: You'll learn a little about the...

In our inaugural History's Most Badass Death Tournament, we pit three of the most legendary die hards: Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Captain Ed "Blackbeard" Teach, and 81 year old Puritan farmer and accused Salem witch Giles Corey against each other in a head - to head competition to determine who really pulled off the manliest death in history. Warning: You'll learn a little about the...

Everybody loves the Spartans! Spartan races, Spartan Football, Spartan Youth Hockey, America is all about the Spartans: Those slavery loving, inbreeding, baby leaving on the mountainside, Greek Warriors who missed the Battle of Marathon and eventually got themselves beaten by the Sacred Band - an elite Theban unit composed of 150 committed gay couples- only to be turned into a Roman tourist attrac...

All's fair in love and war, and Arthur "Duke of Wellington" Wellesley crushed Napoleon Bonaparte at both by stealing the Emperor's two favorite mistresses in the months leading into the battle. Meanwhile, Nathan Rothschild and his brothers financed Wellington's army while establishing one of the world's first international financial corporations, only to be blamed for eve...

King Henry VIII started out as a star athlete, author, composer, and all around great guy. Four sports related head injuries later, he beheaded two wives, divorced a couple others, and persecuted over 50,000 Catholics and political enemies.