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  • January 24 – The Day Gold Was Found and Everything Went Wrong

    January 24 – The Day Gold Was Found and Everything Went Wrong
    Jan 24 2026
    On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the events that would become the Gold Rush. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the deeper history of John Sutter, James Marshall, the failed attempt to keep gold a secret, and how the discovery that reshaped America ultimately ruined the men at its center.

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    5 mins
  • The Vanishing Regiment of Gallipoli: The Soldiers Who Walked Into a Cloud and Disappeared

    The Vanishing Regiment of Gallipoli: The Soldiers Who Walked Into a Cloud and Disappeared
    Jan 23 2026
    During the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, an entire British regiment was witnessed marching into a strange, stationary cloud—and never emerged. Observed by multiple Allied units and later confirmed by eyewitness statements, the soldiers vanished without gunfire, bodies, or prisoner records. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, we examine the battlefield accounts, postwar investigations, recovered remains that raised new questions, and why this disappearance remains one of the most disturbing unresolved mysteries of modern warfare.

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    8 mins
  • January 23 – The Day Things Started Falling and Nobody Could Explain It

    January 23 – The Day Things Started Falling and Nobody Could Explain It
    Jan 23 2026
    January 23 is associated with centuries of strange reports involving objects falling from clear skies — from fish and frogs to massive unexplained blocks of ice. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the historical accounts, folklore explanations, and modern scientific theories behind these unsettling events, and why winter skies have a habit of misbehaving.

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    4 mins
  • January 22 – The Experiment That Made Reality Feel Optional

    January 22 – The Experiment That Made Reality Feel Optional
    Jan 22 2026
    On January 22, 1896, experiments involving light and metal revealed behavior that classical physics could not explain, quietly laying the groundwork for quantum theory. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the experiment that suggested reality was not continuous, solid, or intuitive — and how one unsettling observation changed science forever.

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    4 mins
  • January 21 – The Day the Ocean Started Lying

    January 21 – The Day the Ocean Started Lying
    Jan 21 2026
    On January 21, 1954, the USS Nautilus became the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, allowing humans to remain underwater longer than ever before. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the unexplained underwater sounds detected during early nuclear submarine missions and how scientists eventually realized the ocean itself was distorting reality through sound.

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    4 mins
  • January 20 – The Night Folklore Told You the Truth (Whether You Liked It or Not)

    January 20 – The Night Folklore Told You the Truth (Whether You Liked It or Not)
    Jan 20 2026
    January 20 is known in European folklore as Saint Agnes’ Eve, a night believed to reveal the future through dreams, silence, and strange rituals involving shoes, fasting, and even hats. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the eerie traditions, unsettling dream accounts, and symbolic meanings behind one of folklore’s most curious nights — when people risked discomfort to glimpse what came next.

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    4 mins
  • The Siberian Stone Road: The Ancient Highway That Should Not Exist

    The Siberian Stone Road: The Ancient Highway That Should Not Exist
    Jan 19 2026
    Deep in the remote wilderness of Siberia lies a massive stone roadway built from enormous fitted slabs—stretching across terrain where no known civilization was ever meant to exist. With stones weighing thousands of tons and no historical records, legends, or builders attached to it, the Siberian Stone Road challenges everything we think we know about ancient engineering and lost civilizations. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, we explore the discovery, the scale problem, the theories no one agrees on, and why this impossible road was quietly ignored.

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    5 mins
  • January 19: Zeppelin Air Raids of 1915 — The First Civilian Bombing from the Sky

    January 19: Zeppelin Air Raids of 1915 — The First Civilian Bombing from the Sky
    Jan 19 2026
    On January 19, 1915, German Zeppelin airships carried out the first aerial bombardment of civilians in Britain, silently drifting over sleeping towns and changing warfare forever. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, Amy explores the strange true story of the Zeppelin raids, the fear they inspired, and how the night sky became a battlefield for the first time.

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    4 mins