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Echo Ridge Media 142 - The Witch Trials That Killed 900 People Over 50 Years - Making Salem Look Tame by Comparison

Dive into the curious corners of the past with Weird History! From peculiar people to baffling events and mysterious places, this podcast unravels fascinating tales that are as bizarre as they are true. If you're a fan of the unexpected, join us for a journey through history's strangest stories.New episodes are released on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

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פורסם 07 אוג' 2026

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142-

The Witch Trials That Killed 900 People Over 50 Years - Making Salem Look Tame by Comparison

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07 אוג' 2026

141-

The Man Who Escaped the Inescapable Prison and Seduced His Way Across Europe as a Con Artist Spy

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31 יולי 2026

140-

The Russian Tyrant Who Created a Secret Police Force That Wore Black and Carried Dogs’ Heads as Symbols

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24 יולי 2026

139-

The Young Pilots Who Volunteered to Fly Planes Into Ships - And Left Letters Saying They Were Honored to Die

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08 יולי 2026

138-

When Prague’s Solution to Political Problems Was Throwing Enemies Out Windows - Three Separate Times

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01 יולי 2026

137-

The Toxic Fog So Thick It Was Dark at Noon - And Killed 12,000 People in Five Days

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29 יוני 2026

136-

The Plague That Killed 1/4 of Athens and Made People Abandon Their Families to Die Alone

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24 יוני 2026

135-

European Monarchs Claimed They Could Cure Disease by Touching People - And Millions Believed Them

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22 יוני 2026

134-

The Fake Healer Who Convinced Wealthy Europeans He Had Magical Powers - And Accidentally Invented Hypnotism

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19 יוני 2026

133-

The Poet Who Kept a Pet Bear at Cambridge and Had to Flee England for His Scandalous Affairs

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16 יוני 2026

132-

The Astronomer With a Metal Nose Who Kept a Drunk Pet Moose That Died Falling Down Stairs

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12 יוני 2026

131-

The Brilliant Philosopher Who Starved Herself to Death in Solidarity With Her Country

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10 יוני 2026

130-

The Philosopher Who Lived in a Barrel and Told Alexander the Great to Get Out of His Light

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08 יוני 2026

129-

The Rebellion That Nearly Destroyed China - And Killed Millions in Eight Years of War

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05 יוני 2026

128-

The Greatest City in Medieval Asia - That Vanished Into the Jungle for 500 Years

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03 יוני 2026

127-

How Britain Started a War to Force China to Buy Opium - And Won

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01 יוני 2026

126-

When John Calvin Turned Geneva Into a Religious Police State - Where Dancing Could Get You Executed

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29 מאי 2026

125-

The WWI Soldiers So Gassed They Should Have Been Dead - But Kept Fighting Anyway

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27 מאי 2026

124-

The 1904 Olympic Marathon: The Most Disastrous Race in History Where the Winner Rode in a Car

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22 מאי 2026

123-

The Flu That Killed 100 Million People in Two Years - And Made Victims Drown in Their Own Blood

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20 מאי 2026

122-

The Six Weeks When Japanese Soldiers Killed 300,000 Chinese Civilians - And the World Watched

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18 מאי 2026

121-

Geishas Weren’t Prostitutes - They Were Elite Artists Trained From Childhood in a Brutal System

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15 מאי 2026

120-

The Victorians Who Paid to Gawk at ’Freaks’ - And How Some Performers Made Fortunes

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13 מאי 2026

119-

The Boys Castrated Before Puberty to Sing Like Angels - And Became Opera Superstars

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11 מאי 2026

118-

The Samurai Ritual Where You Disembowel Yourself While Someone Waits to Behead You

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08 מאי 2026

117-

The Hindu Tradition Where Widows Were Burned Alive on Their Husband’s Funeral Pyres

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06 מאי 2026

116-

The African Warrior King Who Revolutionized Warfare - Then Ordered 7,000 People Killed When His Mom Died

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04 מאי 2026

115-

The Japanese Unit That Experimented on 200,000 Living Humans - And America Let Them Go Free

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01 מאי 2026

114-

The Mongols Threw So Many Books in the River That It Ran Black With Ink for Months

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29 אפר' 2026

113-

The Chinese Concubine Who Allegedly Killed Her Own Baby to Frame a Rival - And Became Emperor

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27 אפר' 2026

112-

The Chinese General Who Fed 30,000 People to His Army During a Year-Long Siege - And Became a Hero

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24 אפר' 2026

111-

The Christian Extremists Who Competed to Be the Most Miserable - One Lived on a Pillar for 37 Years

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22 אפר' 2026

110-

The Chinese Practice of Breaking Girls’ Feet and Binding Them for Life - That Lasted 1,000 Years

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20 אפר' 2026

109-

The Victorian Men Who Hunted for Treasure in London’s Sewers - And Sometimes Found Fortunes Deep in It

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17 אפר' 2026

108-

The Plague That Killed 12 Million People Over a Century - And San Francisco Burned Down Chinatown to Stop It

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15 אפר' 2026

107-

The Medieval Job That Paid a Fortune - But You Had to Clean Human Waste and Risk Drowning in. ”It”

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13 אפר' 2026

106-

When London Smelled So Bad Parliament Had to Soak Curtains in Chemicals Just to Breathe

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10 אפר' 2026

105-

The Year Summer Never Came - When a Volcano Caused Snow in July and Created Frankenstein

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08 אפר' 2026

104-

The Dead Homeless Man British Intelligence Dressed Up and Dumped in the Ocean to Trick Hitler

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06 אפר' 2026

103-

The Russian City in China Where Exiles Built Cathedrals, Nightclubs, and a Secret Spy Network

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03 אפר' 2026

102-

The 600-Year-Old Book Written in a Language No One Can Read - With Drawings of Plants That Don’t Exist

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01 אפר' 2026

101-

The Doctor Who Won a Nobel Prize for Scrambling People’s Brains With an Ice Pick

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30 מרץ 2026

100-

The Cult That Ended With 918 People Drinking Poisoned Kool-Aid in the Jungle - Including 304 Children

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27 מרץ 2026

99-

The Largest Man-Made Explosion Before Atomic Bombs - That Flattened a City in Seconds

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25 מרץ 2026

98-

Humans Have Been Drilling Holes in Their Skulls for 10,000 Years - And Some Survived

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23 מרץ 2026

97-

The Plague That Made 400 People Dance Until They Died - And Authorities Made It Worse

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20 מרץ 2026

96-

The Christian Heretics Who Starved Themselves to Death - And the Pope Who Ordered ’Kill Them All”

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18 מרץ 2026

95-

The Japanese Monks Who Mummified Themselves Alive Over 3,000 Days - And Their Bodies Are Still On Display

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16 מרץ 2026

94-

The Day a Persian Warlord Looted India So Hard He Didn’t Tax His Country for 3 Years

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13 מרץ 2026

93-

The Ancient Persian Execution Method That Took Weeks - Trapped Between Boats While Insects Ate You Alive

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11 מרץ 2026

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