Episodes 8
Avg. Duration 13m
Activity Active
Since Jan 2026
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
55%
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anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

History's weirdest, wildest, and most jaw-dropping moments—unpacked, dissected, and brought to life in ways your textbooks never dared. The audio companion to Obscurarium newsletter, where we crack open obscure tales with extra dirt, bonus chaos, and juicy details that didn't make the written piece. Forgotten inventors who changed everything. Bizarre events that sound like fiction. People who did unhinged things that shaped our world. We dig where others don't. Want stories that make you say "how have I never heard of this?" Let's get weird. www.obscurarium.com

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Recent Episodes

The Battle of Karasebes: When an army defeated itself

Mar 11, 2026 12m

September 1788. An Austrian army of 100,000 men marches through Romania, ready to fight the Ottoman Turks. By the next morning, thousands are dead or wounded.The enemy? Themselves.This is the story…

the Antikythera Mechanism

Feb 27, 2026 14m

Spring 1900. A storm drives Greek sponge divers to shelter near a barren rock called Antikythera. When the weather clears, they dive—and discover a Roman shipwreck filled with marble statues and…

The Living Chain: The Orphan Boys Who Carried Salvation Across the Sea

Feb 21, 2026 13m

November 1803. La Coruña, Spain. Twenty-two orphan boys, the youngest only three years old, board a ship called the María Pita. They're told they're going on a grand adventure to the New World—maybe…

The Dancing Plague of 1518

Feb 10, 2026 12m

July 1518. Strasbourg. A woman named Frau Troffea steps into the street and begins to dance. No music. No celebration. Just compulsive, uncontrollable movement.Within days, dozens join her. By…

Welcome to 1565: Population 500

Jan 31, 2026 10m

There's a place in Europe where no car has ever driven, where, until 2008, you needed permission from a feudal lord to get married or divorced, and where one man owned the entire island.This isn't a…

The Great Emu War

Jan 25, 2026 12m

November 1932. Western Australia. The Australian military mobilizes with Lewis machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition to face a devastating enemy: 20,000 emus with an unfortunate taste for…

The Pirates Who Looted The Reich's Pride

Jan 22, 2026 13m

Bartholomäus Schink was sixteen when the Nazis hanged him without trial beneath a railway overpass in Cologne. His body was left swinging for days as a warning.His crime? Membership in the Edelweiss…

The Great Guano Madness | The Forgotten Scramble That Gave America Its Imperial Playbook

Jan 22, 2026 14m

Bird poop. That's what built America's empire in the Pacific.In 1856, while Europe was carving up Africa, the U.S. Congress passed one of the most audacious laws in American history: any citizen who…

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