Join Kelli as she explores the Celtic roots of Halloween - from Samhain and Celtic mythology, to Puritan fun-sponges, to Irish immigration, and into Spirit Halloween stores, we'll learn the history behind the second biggest holiday in the US!

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Join Kelli as she goes over the biggest, manmade, non-nuclear explosion in history - the Halifax Explosion.

On December 6th, 1917, a French ship filled with explosives was heading into Halifax Harbor, in Nova Scotia, Canada. At the same time, the Norwegian ship Imo was leaving to pick up supplies from New York to ship over to Europe to help with WWI. Unfortunately for thousands of people at Halifax, both at sea and on land, the two collided. The ensuing explosion killed upwards of 1,600 people, injured over 9,000 more, demolished the town, and cemented itself as the biggest (non-nuclear) explosion.

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Join Kelli as she goes over the deadliest mine explosion in history - the Monongah Mine Disaster of 1907.

In the industrial world of the early 20th century, there was little regulation over safety in the workplace or fair wages. The Monongah mine in West Virginia was no exception. Fine coal dust in the air, coupled with pockets of methane gas, made conditions incredibly unsafe. When the rail carting mine cars out of the mine snapped, 19 beds filled with coal went careening back into the deep Appalachian mine. Sparks ignited the coal dust and methane, and the result was a massive explosion, felt over 8 miles away, which killed somewhere between 362-500 men and boys.

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Happy First Birthday to the APHOUT podcast! It's been a wild ride full of cannibalism, adventures gone wrong, and all kinds of gore, and I can't wait to keep it going!

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Join Kelli as she discusses the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, a test during WWII where 36 unpaid volunteers willingly starved themselves half to death to get concrete data on starvation and how to rehabilitate the starved.

Though nobody died from starvation... the results were pretty shocking. And of course, cannibalism makes an appearance.

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Source referenced:
The Great Starvation Experiment by Todd Tucker

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Kelli, along with Anna and Paul of the Engineering History Podcast, do another joint episode on the Great Wall of China! Join us as we tackle how and why the Great Wall was built, starting with the Qin Dynasty and then tracing it through the Ming Dynasty. While Kelli muses on the legitimacy of dead bodies in the walls, Anna explores the engineering of sticky rice and Paul enthuses about the Mongols and the reasons for wall building in the first place.

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Join Kelli as she explores the myth of the mellified man, a medicinal candy made out of mummified, honeyed corpses. If you thought the Western Europeans were the only ones to consume their dead for medicine, well... get ready to hear what Li Shizhen has to say about mellification.

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Join Kelli as she explores the history of the Mongol Empire and how we go from Genghis Khan to Timur, a Turco-Mongol leader who is responsible for building an empire off of the deaths of 17 million people in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. His infamous calling card? Leaving pyramids and towers made of the skulls of the dead he killed at the entrance to each city, a powerful reminder not to cross him or his empire.

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Join Kelli as she goes over the story of Alfred Packer, who was accused of killing and eating his five hiking companions in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. He definitely engaged in cannibalism, but he disputed the murder charges. Was he a murderer? Or did he just eat his fellow man to survive in the harsh winters of the Colorado Rockies?

This is the story of the man who inspired Matt Parker and Trey Stone's 1993 cult classic Cannibal! The Musical. So get ready to be grossed out with this latest episode of wild west cannibalism!

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Join Kelli as she explores Rainbow Valley, a place in the death zone of Mount Everest, high up above 8,000 meters (over 26,000 feet), where your body slowly dies off, cell by cell, because of the extreme cold and lack of oxygen. The Rainbow Valley is made colorful by the jackets of the dead climbers that you'll have to climb over on your way to the peak of our world, the summit of Mount Everest.

Oh, also, many other disgusting things litter the mountain other than body parts and corpses - TONS of trash and piles of human feces. And it only has one way to go from the top - down to the people living below.

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Join Kelli as she explores the history of the Irish Potato Famine. We know that a fungal disease, blight, swept through Ireland in from 1845 to 1852, wiping out most of the potatoes. But where did blight come from? Did it only affect the Irish? If blight was elsewhere, why were they the ones so badly affected? Was it only potatoes affected? And if so, why were there not alternative food sources? How bad did it really get during the peak years of the famine? And what do the British have to do with all of this?

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Sources referenced:
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly

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