82: Legalized Murder: When The Purge Happened In America—Red Summer of 1919 | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Wed, 12 Apr
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Remember that movie, The Purge? The one where for one day only ...
81: Wanna Make 10 Million Dollars? Find This Painting: Craziest Art Heists in History | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Wed, 05 Apr
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Would you like to make an easy $10 Million? Well get in close, ...
80: A Nepo Baby’s Hollywood Castle: America’s Billionaire King William Hearst | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Wed, 29 Mar
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. We’ve talked about William Hearst on here before. He is one o...
79: Cannibalism, Child-Trafficking, and Strip-tease: the Truth that Disney Buried | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Wed, 22 Mar
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Princesses. They’re gorgeous, they’re happy, they’re all ...
78: When Beauty Kills: Secrets of the Plastic Surgery | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Wed, 15 Mar
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. How old do you think plastic surgery is? I thought it started l...
77: Why You'll Probably Fail the SATs | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Wed, 08 Mar
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Okay, so we can’t talk about SATs and college admission witho...
76: The Power of Hate- Death to Disco | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Wed, 01 Mar
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Would you believe me if I told you that one grumpy radio DJ fro...
75: That $7 Shirt Is Making You Sick: Fast Fashion vs. the World
Wed, 22 Feb
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Hi friends, happy Thursday! Welcome to the Dark History podcast. I feel like there is a new trend...
74: From Hoovers to Hentai: The Dark History of Porn
Wed, 15 Feb
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Hi friends, happy Thursday! Welcome to the Dark History podcast. PORN. Bom Chicka Wah Wah. We all k...
73: Tie me up Daddy - Top 5 Torture Techniques from Medieval Time
Wed, 08 Feb
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Hi friends, happy Thursday! Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Look torture is awful, but if ther...
72: Dying for Minimum Wage or Surviving on the Bare Minimum
Wed, 01 Feb
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Hi friends, happy Wednesday! Welcome to the Dark History podcast. I feel like every day there is som...
71: FYC: For your Corruption
Wed, 25 Jan
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Hi friends, happy Thursday! Welcome to the Dark History podcast. It’s Award Show Season Babbbyyy. ...
70: Luxury Fashion Haul!!-- Sleeping with the Enemy
Wed, 18 Jan
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. What do you think of when you think of “Luxury Fashion”? Gl...
69: The Princess of the Press vs. The Media, Mobs, and the Man
Wed, 11 Jan
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Have you ever been made to seem like the bad guy? Have you ever...
68: Horror, Heartbreak & Homicide- Happy New Year!!
Wed, 04 Jan
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. New Years. Honestly, not my favorite of the holidays. It’s ...
67: A Very Krampus Christmas: The Dark Spirits of Christmas Past
Wed, 21 Dec
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Is there anything as cozy as a Christmas tree? When you look at...
66: Death By Christmas Candle: What’s Really in Your Favorite Products?
Wed, 14 Dec
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Tis the season. And by season I mean scented candle season. Not...
65: How did we go from selling soap to selling our souls?
Wed, 07 Dec
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Have you always felt like someone is watching you? Well hate to...
64: F*ck, C*nt, B*tch, Sh*t, Where Does Cursing Come From?
Wed, 30 Nov
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. There’s nothing I love more than dropping a good ole F-bomb. ...
63: You've been Catfished. Who the hell is Betty Crocker?
Wed, 16 Nov
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. I love a good cake. And with cake mixes right from the store, y...
62: Cancer for Sale: When is it enough?
Wed, 09 Nov
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. If a product is dangerous, but it still sells well, is it reall...
61: Who Were the Bozos Before Bezos? When Money Ruins Everything
Wed, 02 Nov
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Freakin rich people, amiright? I’m not talking about that kid...
60: Dungeons, Dragons, and Satan Worship
Wed, 26 Oct
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. What scares parents more than anything else? It’s the Devil, ...
59: Cannibalism as Medicine?? The Wild trend of Mummy Powder
Wed, 19 Oct
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Mummies, we know em, we’ve love em. And they are quite exclus...
58: Clowns that Kill: the Dark History of Clowns
Wed, 12 Oct
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Clowns, you either like them or you hate them. There really isn...
57: The Witches are Coming - Hide Your Broom, Hide Your Goats
Wed, 05 Oct
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. It’s spooky season babbyyy. Ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and witc...
56: Ghost Ships, Sunken Cities, And a Triangle of Doom - Disappearances from the Deep Blue Sea
Wed, 28 Sep
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. The Bermuda Triangle, the most mysterious shape on the entire p...
55: Soft Drinks and Hard Drugs: Coca-Cola's Story is Soda-pressing
Wed, 21 Sep
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Did you know that fewer people know the recipe to Coca-Cola ...
54: Shave Your Head and Get In the Closet: Dark History of Marriage
Wed, 14 Sep
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. We’re going to the chapel and we’re going to get married! B...
53: From Mailing Babies to Mailing Bombs: The Postal Service Did What???
Wed, 07 Sep
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. What’s the craziest thing you’ve mailed? I feel like I reme...
52: Stop beating your meat with this tasty treat! THE DARK HISTORY OF GRAHAM CRACKERS
Wed, 31 Aug
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Some things are just meant to be together. Peanut butter and ...
51: She’s in OUR DNA?! Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Wed, 24 Aug
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. One of my favorite things about this podcast is learning abou...
50: Gossip, Glitter & Whimsical Disgrace - WTF is up with Lisa Frank?
Wed, 17 Aug
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. I’ve mentioned her many times before. I’ve tempted you ov...
49: Sex Toys: Sinful or Medicinal?!?!
Wed, 10 Aug
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Sex has been a part of humanity since the dawn of time. Do yo...
48: Blood, Butter, and BEHEADINGS?!?!?: Popcorn's Dark Past
Wed, 03 Aug
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. People used to be sacrificed for popcorn. Yep. The buttery go...
47: The Best of Dark History: The Joanie Awards
Wed, 08 Jun
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Dark History. It seemed like such a simple concept. Let’s talk about the things from history peopl...
46: Silence=Death: The Dark History of the AIDs Epidemic
Wed, 01 Jun
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The AIDs epidemic. We’ve all heard of it. But it seems to be discussed in hushed tones or people a...
45: Making the Band: Dark History of Boybands
Wed, 25 May
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Boy Bands. Don’t act like you don’t love them. Every generation has their boy band. But when did...
44: Signs, Seances, and the Stars: Dark History of Psychics and Astrology
Wed, 18 May
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What’s your sign, babe? How many times have you been asked that? How many times has someone blamed...
43: Cleopatra, Catherine, Jackie, And Yoko: Their True Stories
Wed, 11 May
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Women. We really get the short end of the stick don’t we. And it’s nothing new. In fact there ar...
42: Heroin & Cigarettes & Tapeworms: The Dark History of Diet Culture
Wed, 04 May
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Did you know that researchers have found that 98% of all diets are complete failures? Did you also k...
41: Diving Into The Dark Web: Dark History of Silk Road
Wed, 27 Apr
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The internet isn’t really that old. But that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t already started to ga...
40: Puff, Puff, Pass: Dark History of Cannabis
Wed, 13 Apr
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Weed is a gateway drug. How many of us were warned about this in middle school health class? Well di...
39: Is College Even Worth it?: The Dark History of Student Loans
Wed, 06 Apr
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Like pretty much everything we talk about, Student Loans started out as a great idea. A way to ens...
38: The Darkest Show on Earth: The Circus
Wed, 30 Mar
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Come one come all, gather around for the spectacle of the darkest show on earth. The circus is def...
37: The Government Poisoning Alcohol?!: Prohibition
Wed, 23 Mar
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Most people have heard of Prohibition, the time when America decided drinking was bad. But how much ...
36: The Shocking & Shady Past of Bananas
Wed, 16 Mar
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Bananas. That yummy yellow fruit. We love it. But let me tell you, this simple fruit has a COMPLICAT...
35: Pre-Tampon vs Post Tampon World: The Dark History of Menstruation
Wed, 09 Mar
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PERIODS. MENSTRUATION. VAGINA. All no-no words according to society. But also all words we’re gonn...
34: Private Prisons: Where Prisoners Become Profit
Wed, 02 Mar
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At this very moment, there are a bunch of business owners and investors in the United States who pro...
33: The TRUTH behind Central Park, Lake Lanier and Dodger Stadium
Wed, 23 Feb
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America, she’s always been stealing land. Grabbing what she wants. And stealing land has never sto...
32: Equal rights and Access FOR ALL: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 04:06:26 +0000
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Just how accessible are accessible parking spots, bathrooms, tables etc. And what had to happen in o...
31: How the US STOLE Hawaii
Wed, 09 Feb
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Would you believe me if I told you Hawaii was stolen? Well yeah of course, hi this is Dark History. ...
30: The Woman who REALLY Started Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Wed, 02 Feb
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Do you know who Sister Rosetta Tharpe is? Would you believe me if I told you she’s responsible for...
29: The Birth of Click Bait & Fake News: Yellow Journalism
Wed, 26 Jan
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Journalists are supposed to follow the principles of truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity and public ...
28: The Many Crimes of The Nestle Company
Wed, 19 Jan
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How did Nestle go from feeding babies to poisoning puppies? Well let me tell you it is a bumpy ride....
27: The Dark Side to the Golden Age of Hollywood
Wed, 12 Jan
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Hollywood, the place where dreams come true. But in reality, Hollywood, and especially during the “...
26: Women Were Poisoned by Their Job for Years: The Radium Girls
Wed, 05 Jan
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When Radium popped on to the scene in the early 1900s, it was called “liquid sunshine” and a “...
Bonus Episode: Death By Delicious Chocolate - Cordelia Botkin was WILD
Thu, 30 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000
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Hi Friends! There's no Dark History episode this week, but here's a bonus episode of a story I did f...
25: Twisted Holiday Tales You’ve Never Heard: Dark History Holiday Edition
Wed, 22 Dec
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Pour some hot coco, slide on those comfy socks and gather ‘round the fire because it’s chilly wi...
24: How Jazz Almost Wasn’t a Thing: The Dark History of Jazz
Wed, 15 Dec
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In the late 1800s, something really cool was happening down in New Orleans. A melting pot of culture...
23: Before COVID, there was Bubonic Plague in San Fran
Wed, 08 Dec
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121 years before COVID showed up, the U.S. nearly descended into chaos when the Bubonic Plague arriv...
22: Why 20,000 People Wanted Italian Immigrants Dead: Sicilian Lynchings
Wed, 01 Dec
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In 1891, 11 Italian people were murdered in the streets of New Orleans, becoming one of the largest ...
21: A Church vs. The Feds: Who Shot First?? The WACO Siege
Wed, 24 Nov
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In 1993, the quiet Texas town of Waco was turned into a bloody battlefield when an extremist religio...
20: Secrets buried in unmarked graves: Residential Schools
Wed, 17 Nov
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In June of 2021, a bombshell investigation uncovered the bodies of 215 Indigenous children in unmark...
19: Concentration Camps... IN AMERICA?!: Japanese Incarceration
Wed, 10 Nov
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After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, America became paranoid as hell, thinking every J...
18: Secret Medical Testing on People & the Government Knew?! The Tuskegee Experiment
Wed, 03 Nov
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In 1972, an article went viral before the internet existed. The headline read: “Syphilis Victims...
17: People Danced Until They LITERALLY Died?! - The Dancing Plague of 1518
Wed, 27 Oct
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In 1518, the peasants of Strasbourg, France began dancing and couldn’t stop. Because of it, 15 p...
16: From Riots and Raids to Gay Pride Parades: How Pride came to be
Wed, 20 Oct
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In 1969, the Stonewall Inn was just your typical, Mafia-backed queer bar in Greenwich Village, New Y...
15: Who gave the Philly Police a friggin’ BOMB?!: The 1985 MOVE Bombing
Wed, 13 Oct
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In 1985, after a chaotic shootout and an hours-long standoff, the Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb...
14: Gay Conversion Therapy: Pseudo Science is Destroying Innocent Lives
Wed, 06 Oct
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700,000 people have experienced some form of Gay Conversion Therapy over the years. Yet, survivors o...
13: The story of the first female President of the United States: Edith Wilson
Wed, 29 Sep
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A rowdy mountain girl inherits a million dollar jewelry business, drag races through the streets of ...
12: MKUltra: Mind Control, Drugs and Robocats
Wed, 22 Sep
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What if we told you the Government thought LSD could be used for mind control? What if we told you t...
11: Thomas Edison maybe killed a guy and other enlightening Edison tales
Wed, 15 Sep
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When people think of American innovation, one name always comes up: Thomas Edison. But, just like ev...
10: Who stole grandma’s body?!: The Doctor’s Riots of 1788
Wed, 01 Sep
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Modern medicine had to start somewhere, right? And where it started ain’t too pretty. In order to ...
9: When the American Dream Goes Up in Flames: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Wed, 25 Aug
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Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Today, we are going to talk about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire,...
8: The Trail of Tears: Not one, but many
Wed, 18 Aug
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Too many Americans think the Trail of Tears was just some difficult nature walk. Like, one path that...
7: Crack vs. Cocaine: Welcome to Incarceration Nation
Wed, 11 Aug
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America is an Incarceration Nation, locking more people up than any other country. That includes cou...
6: Mind Games - The Dark History of Lobotomy
Wed, 04 Aug
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What do the Kennedy’s (yes, those Kennedy’s), ice picks and depression all have in common? The l...
5: Let's Talk About The Dark History Of Birth Control. Buckle In.
Wed, 28 Jul
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Birth Control is in medicine cabinets all over the world, used by millions of women. But few know it...
4: Andrew Jackson
Wed, 21 Jul
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Today, Bailey dives deep into the story about Andrew Jackson, the master duelist, the man on the $20...
3: Rosewood Massacre
Wed, 14 Jul
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Murder, Destruction and Racism are all discussed as Bailey digs into the unsettling story of The Ro...
Dark History Relaunch Trailer
Wed, 23 Jun
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In this trailer, Bailey Sarian shares exciting updates on the relaunch of her #1 podcast "Dark Histo...
2: Zoot Suit Riots
Wed, 09 Jun
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On this week’s episode, Bailey explores the story behind the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 in Los Ange...
1: DuPont Chemical Scandal
Wed, 02 Jun
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On our premiere episode of Dark History, Bailey dives deep into a topic that still is affecting us...
Dark History Trailer
Thu, 20 May 2021 04:00:00 +0000
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Bailey Sarian, a professional makeup artist & true crime connoisseur, is taking her expertise fr...