Buckle up, friends — this one's a double feature of pure historical insanity.

First, we're diving into Project X-Ray, the very real WWII plan where the U.S. government strapped tiny incendiary bombs to thousands of bats and planned to drop them on Japan. Yes, actual bats. Yes, it went exactly as wrong as you'd think. Spoiler: a test base may or may not have been set on fire by its own weapons.

Then we're stumbling into the bizarre, booze-soaked world of Tycho Brahe — the 16th-century rock star astronomer who mapped the stars from a castle, wore a metal nose after losing his real one in a duel over math, kept a psychic dwarf named Jepp under his dinner table, and had a pet moose that died falling down the stairs after getting drunk at a party. We're not making this up. History did.

🦇 This is a re-released bonus episode from our Patreon, where we drop our unhinged, extra-dark, extra-weird history content every month. If you love this kind of macabre, slurred, what-the-hell-did-I-just-learn storytelling, head to our Patreon for the full vault of supporter-only episodes — more drunken science, forgotten atrocities, and the historical horrors your textbook left out.

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Two men walked into history dripping in velvet, scandal, and an absolutely unhinged commitment to being the most interesting person in the room. One was a bisexual lord with a club foot and a bear named Thor who lived in his abbey. The other was a gay Irish playwright who once said “I have nothing to declare but my genius” at customs — and meant it. Neither one was going to survive being themselves. But God, what a show.

Join the Ladies of Macabre for this edition of Drunk History Gone WILDE.

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In this episode of MACABRE: Dark History, we descend into the unsettling origins of classic nursery rhymes.

Current vibes: Nursery rhymes… but make it ✨childhood trauma✨

This week we’re asking the important questions:— Who or what was Humpty Dumpty and why was he really on that wall?— What exactly were Jack and Jill doing up on that hill? 👀— And how does Henry VIII manage to ruin everything, including birds?

🎙️ Join the unhinged ladies of Macabre as we dig into the creepy, chaotic, and downright disturbing origins of the rhymes that raised us.

Perfect for fans of: Morbid, Last Podcast on the Left, My Favorite Murder, and anyone who loves a good true crime mystery with a side of comedy.

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Was the Montauk Project real… or just one of the most elaborate science fiction conspiracies ever told?

From whispers of secret military experiments to stories of mind control, time travel, and Nazi scientists folded into Cold War paranoia—this legend has it all. But how much of it actually holds up?

Join Halley and Blaire as they dig into the origins of the Montauk Project, unravel the myths, and attempt to debunk one of the U.S. military’s most bizarre and enduring mysteries.

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SOURCES:

🔗 SOURCES & FURTHER READING — THE MONTAUK PROJECT

• The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time — Preston B. Nichols & Peter Moon
  https://www.amazon.com/Montauk-Project-Experiments-Time/dp/0963188909
• Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity — Peter Moon & Preston B. Nichols
  https://www.amazon.com/Montauk-Revisited-Adventures-Synchronicity/dp/0963188925
• Pyramids of Montauk: Explorations in Consciousness — Peter Moon
  https://www.amazon.com/Pyramids-Montauk-Explorations-Consciousness/dp/0963188933

🌊 MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND & LOCAL LEGENDS

• Camp Hero & Montauk Air Force Station History
  https://www.nyparks.gov/parks/camphero/details.aspx
• Montauk Project Urban Legend Breakdown (Skeptical Analysis)
  https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4110

In the final chapter of The Macabre Feature: The Sinking of theTitanic, Blaire examines the aftermath of the disaster—uncovering the hubris that sealed its fate, the gripping court testimonies that followed, and the haunting lives of those who survived. As stories clash and reputations unravel, this episode reveals how survival came with a lasting cost, leaving many to carry guilt, grief, and the weight of that night for the rest of their lives.

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From the fatal collision to the first realization that the unsinkable ship was doomed, this episode unravels the confusion, disbelief, and growing terror as passengers and crew faced the unthinkable. We continue our tale of terror, the sinking of the Titanic through the recollections of the passengers and crew in this 3 part series.

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They called it unsinkable.

In Part I of our Titanic series, Blaire explores the ambition, luxury, and quiet warnings surrounding the ship before disaster struck.

Because the real story didn’t start with the iceberg…

It started long before anyone stepped on board. In this special feature, hear first hand accounts of passengers and crew of the Titanic.

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Self-proclaimed doctor Linda Hazzard believed starvation could cure disease. In the early 1900s, patients traveled to her Washington sanitarium known as Starvation Heights, where many were subjected to brutal fasting treatments that left them weak, skeletal, and sometimes dead. Join Halley and Blaire as they travel back in time, when medical treatments were deadlier than the disease.

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https://digitalarchives.wa.gov/Collections/TitleInfo/2508

https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/person/hazzard-linda-burfield-perry-1867-1938

https://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/olallas-starvation-heights-still-causes-chills-after-a-century-ep-418381772-357167181.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawQEUm5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3bFB4aTFGYjliOVg3OHhrc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHh-Bs5RwqwI2fNmPWey-BIVYlSsx3k2CnIpyKruOOSwYv2lNZB_kPfgQRkyN_aem_uDBJE6aDnsCpe12ZmyxBMg