Our Fake History
A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
- Website
- http://ourfakehistory.podbean.com
- Description
- Historical Myths Relished and Ruined!
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-19 12:12
- last episode published
- 2025-02-18 17:23
- publication frequency
- 8.98 days
- Contributors
- ourfakehistory
- Author
- Sebastian Major
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 391
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-18 | In this throwback episode Sebastian take you back to Season One and Episode #24. Ty Cobb has been remembered as one of baseball’s greatest villains. Despite being universally recognized as one of the game’s most talented players, Ty Cobb is mostly reme... | |
| 2025-02-11 | In the early 19th century central India was one of the most dangerous places a person could travel. Murders and robberies were incredibly common. Every year dozens, sometimes hundreds, of bodies were found in shallow graves near the highways. These unf... | |
| 2025-01-28 | In 1830 an anonymous letter was published in the Calcutta Literary Gazette warning that India was being threatened by a horrifying cult of murderers. These stranglers were known as Thugs and according to the letter they represented the single greatest ... | |
| 2025-01-14 | The story of Mulan might be the best known piece of Chinese folklore. In China the story has been around for over 1500 years and has inspired dozens of poems, songs, plays, and films. Thanks to Disney, Mulan has become an international icon. The story ... | |
| 2025-01-07 |
OFH Throwback- Episode #47- Who Was the Queen of the Pirates? In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to Season 2 and Episode #47. Piracy on the high seas has existed for as long as human beings have had boats. For most of history these maritime marauders were almost exclusively men. However, there hav... |
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| 2024-12-30 |
Episode #218- Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part III) The second Arab siege of Constantinople should probably just be called the "real" Arab siege of Constantinople. In 717 the Umayyad Caliphate seriously threatened the continued existence of the Roman Empire by besieging the capital from both land and se... |
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| 2024-12-17 |
Episode #217- Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part II) In the 670's something was brewing in the eastern Mediterranean. The Umayyad caliphate had built an impressive navy and was scoring victories at sea over the Roman empire. It looked like the Caliphate was ready to make a move against the Roman capital ... |
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| 2024-12-16 | Check out this trailer for a new history podcast from the BBC. Actress Nicola Coughlan, from Bridgerton and Derry Girls, hosts History’s Youngest Heroes – a podcast telling twelve true stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth. Nicola C... | |
| 2024-12-03 |
Episode #216- Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part I) When the capital of the Roman empire was moved from Rome to the city of Constantinople, the city on the Bosporus strait became one of the most important places on planet earth. One top being the heart of Roman religious, political, and cultural life fo... |
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| 2024-11-26 |
OFH Throwback- Episode #34- Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray? In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to Season 2 Episode #34 - Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray? Archimedes was one of the ancient world’s most important mathematicians. His discoveries would form the foundation upon which all future wes... |