117 Episodes

  1. You’re Trapped on the Roof During the LA Riots (And No One’s Coming to Help) | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/15/2025
  2. The HORRIFYING Fate of a Congolese Rubber Worker Under King Leopold | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/14/2025
  3. The BRUTAL Life of a Continental Soldier | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/14/2025
  4. Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/13/2025
  5. The Bloody Life of a Maid in Anne Boleyn’s Household | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/13/2025
  6. The HORRIFYING Truth About Medieval Gynecology | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/12/2025
  7. The BRUTAL Fate of a Beast Fighter in the Colosseum | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/12/2025
  8. The HORRIFYING Fate of WWI's Canary Girls | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/11/2025
  9. The HORRIFYING Fate of a Lobotomy Patient in the 1940s | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/11/2025
  10. The Delicate Brutality of Chinese Foot Binding | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/10/2025
  11. The DISGUSTING Life of a Rat-Catcher in Georgian London | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/10/2025
  12. The BRUTAL Life of a Geisha in Edo Japan | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/9/2025
  13. Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Torture Chamber | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/9/2025
  14. The Horrifying Fate of a Child Sacrificed to Baal | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/8/2025
  15. What It Was Like to be Trapped in Jonestown | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/8/2025
  16. Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Panama Canal | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/7/2025
  17. Why Being a Harlot in 1890s New Orleans Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/7/2025
  18. Why Being a Castrato Was a Beautiful, Horrifying Prison | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/6/2025
  19. The Miserable Life of a Renaissance Noble Woman | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/6/2025
  20. Why You Wouldn't Survive a Tsunami in 15th-Century Japan | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/5/2025

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