Strange Epochs • Weird History

Strange Epochs: History's Most Extraordinary True Stories History is full of events so remarkable, so inexplicable, that they seem like they couldn't possibly be real. And yet they are. Every week, host Shawn Spainhour takes you deep inside one of history's most extraordinary true stories. Not the events you studied in school — the ones that got left out. The ones historians still argue about. The ones that make you question everything you thought you knew about the past. From medieval mass hysteria to unsolved disappearances, from forgotten wars to events that defied every reasonable explanation — Strange Epochs brings history to life the way it actually felt to the people who lived it. Immersive. Atmospheric. Completely true. This isn't a history lecture. It's an experience. Episodes explore stories like: The Dancing Plague of 1518 — when hundreds of people danced uncontrollably for days and couldn't stop