Plot Twisted History Podcast
1) 030: Those Who Fell - High-Altitude Fall Survivors
Five times, an unlucky man or woman was thrown into the sky at immense altitude to plunge toward the earth with no parachute. And five times, the impossible happened. This episode recounts the tales o...Show More
2) 029: The Year Without a Summer - Mary Shelley
When a band of oddball characters take a road trip holiday to Switzerland, they expect to party away the summer. However, the most miserable summer weather on record forces them indoors and into an in...Show More
3) 028: Here Lie Monsters - The Beast of Gevaudan
A rural region of 18th century France is under attack from a beast that seems like no creature on earth. As the deaths mount, the citizens of Gevaudan look to their king for help. However, when the ef...Show More
4) 027: Stand Against Darkness
During the darkest hours of World War II in Poland, a Polish countess risks her life time and again to stand against the Nazis who run a nearby extermination camp, freeing thousands of prisoners and f...Show More
5) 026: The Hollywood Ending
The sieging of walled cities by invading armies is a dismal tale as old as history. However, one siege stands out from them all – as if it had been scripted by Hollywood screenwriters for its surreal ...Show More
6) 025: Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare?
Though he is considered the greatest and most influential English language writer of all time, William Shakespeare’s authorship of the plays that bear his name has been doubted for at least two centur...Show More
7) 024: Into The Fire - Augustina of Aragon
Faced with certain death from the guns and bayonets of attacking French troops, a young woman supplying water to Spanish soldiers should have joined the defenders in fleeing the battle. However, her i...Show More
8) 023: Death Angels - The Nyos Disaster
When a mass death event strikes a remote region of Africa in 1986, the initial facts are so freakishly weird that even those most skeptical of anything supernatural pause to reconsider with the questi...Show More
9) 022: The Problem Solver - Hedy Lamar
Graced with a stunning face that could launch a thousand ships, Hedwig Kiesler ricocheted repeatedly between fame and scandal. But while no one was looking, she created an innovation so startling that...Show More
10) 021: The Man Who Wouldn't Die - Iron Mike Malloy
During the darkest days of The Great Depression, three men plot to kill a local drunk, make it look like an accident, and collect insurance money on the corpse. However, the plan goes comically awry w...Show More