Mind-Blowing History
Eye-opening facts from history, science, and culture.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 23
- Years Active
- 2025
Episode 23- Roosevelt's Hyena – The Strange Animals of the White House
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia explores one of the strangest episodes in presidential history: when Theodore Roosevelt kept a live hyena at the White House. Discover how exotic ani…
Episode 22- The Orange Canoe War – When a Border Dispute Almost Sank the U.S. and Canada
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia tells the story of one of the most unusual and peaceful border disputes in North American history: the Orange Canoe War. In 1870, tensions flared ove…
Episode 21- Cat Mummies and Sacred Animals – The Bizarre World of Ancient Egyptian Pet Worship
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia unpacks one of the strangest chapters in ancient history: the mummification of animals in ancient Egypt. Why did Egyptians mummify millions of cats, …
Episode 20- Spartan Secrets: The Truth Behind the Warrior Society
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia dives into the real story behind ancient Sparta’s warrior culture. Were Spartans truly the ultimate soldiers history paints them as? Or is there more…
Episode 19- The Green Children of Woolpit – England's Medieval Mystery
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia explores the strange tale of the Green Children of Woolpit. In 12th-century England, two mysterious children appeared in a village, speaking an unkno…
Episode 18- The Great Escape Tunnel – How WWII POWs Dug Their Way to Freedom
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia tells the incredible true story of how Allied prisoners of war in Nazi Germany planned and executed one of the most daring escape attempts in militar…
Episode 17- Dancing Mania – When Europe Couldn't Stop Moving
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia examines one of the strangest phenomena in medieval Europe: the Dancing Mania. Across towns and villages, people were gripped by an uncontrollable ur…
Episode 16- The Day the Sun Disappeared – The Mystery of the 1780 Dark Day
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia explores a mysterious event from early American history: the Dark Day of 1780. In the middle of the Revolutionary War, broad daylight turned to pitch…
Episode 15- The London Beer Flood of 1814 – When Ale Turned Deadly
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia takes us back to industrial London, where one of the strangest disasters in history occurred. A giant vat of beer ruptured, releasing a tidal wave of…
Episode 14- The Explosion That Shook the World – The Halifax Disaster of 1917
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia takes us to the Canadian port city of Halifax in 1917, where a tragic accident between two ships caused the largest human-made explosion before the i…
Episode 13- The CIA’s LSD Mind Control Program – Project MK-Ultra
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia uncovers one of the most chilling and secretive experiments in American history: Project MK-Ultra. What began as a Cold War-era effort to control min…
Episode 12- The Real-Life Count of St. Germain – The Immortal Alchemist of Europe
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia explores the mysterious life of the Count of St. Germain, a man who dazzled 18th-century Europe with his intellect, wealth, and bizarre claim to immo…
Episode 11- The Radium Girls – The Women Who Glowed and Fought Back
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia uncovers the haunting story of the Radium Girls—young women who worked in luminous watch factories in the early 1900s, unaware they were being poison…
Episode 10- The Tunguska Event – The Mysterious Explosion That Flattened a Forest
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia investigates one of the most powerful explosions in recorded history—the Tunguska Event of 1908. What caused a blast that flattened 80 million trees …
Episode 9- The Phantom Time Hypothesis – Did 300 Years of History Never Happen?
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia dives into one of the strangest and most controversial historical conspiracy theories ever proposed: the Phantom Time Hypothesis. Could the early Mid…
Episode 8- Operation Acoustic Kitty – The CIA’s Spy Cat Experiment
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia uncovers one of the CIA’s strangest Cold War experiments: Operation Acoustic Kitty. Learn how America’s top intelligence agency tried to turn an ordi…
Episode 7- Project Habakkuk – The WWII Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia delves into one of the most outlandish military proposals of World War II—Project Habakkuk, a British plan to build an aircraft carrier out of ice. L…
Episode 6- The Great Molasses Flood – Boston’s Sticky Disaster
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia investigates the Great Molasses Flood of 1919—when a massive wave of thick, sticky syrup tore through the streets of Boston, leveling buildings and c…
Episode 5- The Most Over-the-Top Tree Cutting in History
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia explores the incredible 1976 military showdown over a poplar tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. What started as a routine pruning turned into a f…
Ep 4- The Dancing Plague of 1518 – When Hundreds Couldn't Stop Dancing
In this episode of Mind-Blowing History, Historia uncovers one of the most baffling mass events in history: the Dancing Plague of 1518. What caused hundreds of people in Strasbourg to suddenly dance …