Sleepytime History

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, we sail into the age of exploration for the remarkable true story of Ernest Shackleton. In 1914, as the world slipped into war, the Shackleton Endurance expedition steered the Endurance ship toward Antarctica, bound across the most hostile, icebound continent on Earth. But deep in the frozen W...

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, drift off to the legend of King Arthur, the warrior king said to have held a crumbling Britain together after Rome sailed away. Let this gentle telling carry you from the true history of a Dark Age war-leader into the shining world of Arthurian legend, where a boy pulls the sword in the stone...

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, drift off to the remarkable true story of Jacob Waltz, the mysterious prospector known as the Dutchman, and the lost gold mine that became one of the greatest unsolved legends of the American West. For more than a century, whispers have carried through the dusty winds of the Arizona desert, te...

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, we explore the man in the iron mask, one of the most haunting unsolved historical mysteries ever set down on paper. This is the man in the iron mask true story: a real masked prisoner whose face was hidden for decades by order of the king, and whose name has never been uncovered. Carried by co...

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, settle in and unwind with history as one of our calming audiobooks explores the Holy Grail history that has stirred the human imagination for eight hundred years. The story begins in twelfth-century France, where the poet Chrétien de Troyes first set down the word graal, describing not a g...

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, drift off with the Jeanne Baret story, a true tale from 18th century France. Born to a poor farming family with a gift for plants, Jeanne Baret became assistant to the naturalist Philibert Commerçon. When he won a place on the Bougainville expedition to sail around the world, the French na...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, drift off to the remarkable true story of Spartacus, a slave and gladiator from the wild country to the north of Greece who would come to humble the greatest military power the ancient world had ever known. Among the history legends that get sleepy listeners settled, few make for such tranquil...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, settle in and unwind with the remarkable true story of the Cottingley Fairies, one of the most charming and famous hoaxes in history. In the summer of 1917, in a peaceful Yorkshire village, two young cousins, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, kept slipping down to the beck behind the house an...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, we journey out across the great grasslands of Eurasia in search of the Amazons — those legendary warrior women whose name has echoed for thousands of years. For centuries they lived chiefly in the imagination of the Greeks, riding down from the distant shores of the Black Sea, raising temples a...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we drift back to ancient Egypt and into the remarkable true story of King Tut — the nearly-forgotten boy pharaoh whose successors tried to erase him from history, never imagining that his modest tomb would one day yield the greatest treasure hoard the world has ever known. Tutankhamun came to th...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we travel to the wild Atlantic edge of Ireland for the remarkable true story of Grace O’Malley, Ireland’s Pirate Queen, also remembered as Gráinne Mhaol, Granuaile, and the Clew Bay pirate queen. In this calming audiobook style episode, made for history for sleep, history for serenity, and histo...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we journey to the windswept Flannan Isles for the Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery, one of Scotland’s most enduring maritime mysteries. In December 1900, three experienced lighthouse keepers — James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald McArthur — vanished from their lonely Atlantic post, leaving behi...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we journey into the strange and beguiling legend of El Dorado, a story woven through history legends and whispered across the ages, perfect for those who love to unwind with history and get sleepy as the past slowly unfolds. Beginning high in the Colombian Andes with the Muisca people and th...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, in a tranquil history journey through the Green Children of Woolpit, we enter a medieval mystery set in twelfth century England, where two frightened children appeared near the Suffolk village of Woolpit speaking an unknown tongue and bearing skin of an eerie green hue. This episode blends audi...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, unwind with history as we explore the Unsolved Mystery of the Oak Island Treasure Hunt, a tale of Oak Island, the Oak Island treasure, and the Oak Island mystery that has drawn dreamers, diggers, and believers to the cold Atlantic shore for generations. In this tranquil history journey, perfect...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we explore the remarkable Nikola Tesla biography — the story of a visionary genius, prolific creator, and something of a sci-fi wizard often referred to as the Inventor of the Twentieth Century. Born during a lightning storm in a small Croatian village, Tesla would go on to reshape the history o...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, in this audiobook and one of our calm audio books to help you unwind with history, we follow Henry VIII through the polished world of Tudor England, from the deep wooded hunting grounds of his youth to the glittering danger of the Tudor court. This is Henry VIII history told as tranquil history...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we journey high into the Himalaya in search of one of history’s most enduring legends — the mysterious yeti. For generations, stories carried through Nepal and Tibet have described a towering, shaggy presence moving through the high mountain passes, a creature sometimes called the Abominable Sno...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we drift into an audiobook calm that feels like audio books for the sea-worn soul, a way to unwind with history as you get sleepy with tranquil history at your bedside. This is history for serenity and harmony, and it carries one of the most enduring history legends ever set afloat: The Mary Cel...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, settle in with a gentle audiobook voyage to Atlantis. These audio books are made to unwind with history, get sleepy, and invite history for serenity and harmony: tranquil history, history legends, audiobooks, history for serenity, history to soothe the mind, and history for sleep. We drift thro...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we drift gently into the long, fascinating story of alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone, a tranquil history journey that blends history legends, early science, and the greatest minds in history into a soothing narrative designed to help you unwind with history. This audiobook-style exploration o...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we drift into a tranquil history journey through the origins of early alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone, told like an audiobook made for history for sleep. As we unwind with history, we’ll follow the old human hope for longevity and immortality, the risky search for an elixir of life through a...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, drift into a tranquil audiobook-style journey through history as we follow Sir Hubert Wilkins and his doomed expedition beneath the Arctic, a tale of ambition, endurance, and quiet failure told to help you unwind with history. This episode blends history for serenity and harmony with the suspen...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight we drift into the life of Mark Twain, the American voice behind so many history legends, a man who loved his country fiercely enough to question it in public and in print. In this audiobook episode, we follow Samuel Clemens from the misted bends of the Mississippi River to the bright salons of A...

Welcome to Sleepytime History — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest. Tonight, we explore the remarkable life of Joan of Arc, one of the most enduring history legends and a figure who continues to shape how we understand medieval France, women in history, and the strange intersection of faith and power. Told as a calming audiobook-style narrative, this episode invites you...