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Tonight on Drowsy Historian, we’re traveling back to Tudor England — but not for courtly intrigue or royal gossip. No, tonight’s horror is on your dinner plate.

From plague-ridden pottage and gravel-filled bread to aristocratic sugar sculptures laced with lead, Tudor cuisine was less about flavor and more about survival (or not). Whether you were a peasant gnawing on stale rye or a noble choking on a swan stuffed with a goose stuffed with regret, one thing was certain: dinner was always a gamble.

In this slow, immersive, second-person journey, you'll live a dozen lifetimes across the Tudor table — scraping out stew, eyeing dubious pies, and trying not to think about the rat under the bench. It’s educational. It’s disgusting. And it’s narrated in a calm, dry tone designed to lull you to sleep… while quietly ruining your appetite.

Lie back, close your eyes, and try not to dream of eel pies.

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You were just a starving child in 1212—barefoot, malnourished, and following a boy who claimed God would part the sea. He didn’t.

Welcome to the tragic, surreal nightmare that was the Children’s Crusade. In this immersive, slow-paced historical journey, we walk in your tattered footsteps—through mud, hunger, disease, betrayal, and blind faith. There’s no glory here. No salvation. Just the long, fading echo of a forgotten march.

This isn’t a legend. It’s a footnote.
And like thousands of real children in medieval France and Germany…
you never came home.

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Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a soldier. You’re not a scientist. You’re just a name on a list — and that list just sent you into the worst nuclear disaster in human history.Tonight, we follow your footsteps as a Chernobyl liquidator: drafted with no briefing, dressed in gear barely fit for gardening, and handed a dosimeter that might as well be a paperweight. You’ll clear radioactive graphite by hand. You’ll sleep in tents that reek of iodine and fear. You’ll be celebrated, then forgotten.This isn’t fiction. This happened. To thousands.

And tonight, in quiet tones and slow unraveling horror, it’s happening to you.

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we’re crawling into the suffocating underworld of the Vietnam War — not as a general, not even as a soldier with a fighting chance, but as the smallest guy in the platoon. You’ve been “volunteered” to belly-crawl into pitch-black tunnels full of traps, snakes, and silence thick enough to crush your thoughts. Armed with a pistol, a dim flashlight, and a healthy fear of everything, you're about to discover why no one brags about this job — and why so few made it out unchanged.This immersive, slow-paced historical descent walks you through the psychological toll, tactical nightmares, and inhuman conditions faced by real-life tunnel rats. Perfect for insomnia, curiosity, or those craving a calm voice narrating horrifying truths in the dead of night.

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You are a medieval English peasant — poor, tired, and already halfway broken by life. And now your body has decided to finish the job. One limb at a time. Without warning. Without mercy. You’re not cursed. You’re not possessed. You’ve just been born with one of the rarest, cruelest medical conditions in human history: Stone Man Disease.This immersive, second-person bedtime documentary walks you through the terrifyingly slow progression of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva in a time before diagnosis, compassion, or indoor plumbing. Experience the physical pain, the social isolation, the religious confusion, and the sheer absurdity of turning into a statue — while your neighbors blame faeries and your priest offers advice worse than the disease.Perfect for fans of darkly funny, slow-paced historical storytelling.

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Being a teenager has never been easy — but in medieval England, it was a waking nightmare. In this immersive, second-person sleep video, we drag you through the miserable, mucky reality of adolescence in a time without privacy, plumbing, or pity. You’re not a hero, not a chosen one — just another forgettable teen lost in the system, where puberty meets porridge and hope dies quietly beside a freezing hearth.From body odor and bad food to arranged marriages and religious guilt, this video explores the gritty truth of growing up in a world that barely noticed you were there. Perfect for history lovers, insomniacs, and anyone curious about just how bad it could get.

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Welcome to the brutal reality of medieval Ireland.
In this immersive, darkly funny sleep-history video, we take you through the slow, rain-soaked misery of daily life as an ordinary peasant — from the moment you’re born screaming into a mud hut, to the moment you die forgotten beneath the gray sky. You’ll live through hunger, cold, disease, religious guilt, clan feuds, English invasions, and the general indignity of surviving one of the least romanticized eras in Irish history.

Told in second-person and narrated in a calm, sarcastic tone, this descent is part historical education, part existential dread, and part bedtime story — if your bedtime stories came with moldy bread and blood prices paid in livestock.

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Welcome to the Tower. You’re not here for a tour. You’re here to disappear.

In this immersive, second-person historical narrative, we guide you through the grim, claustrophobic reality of life (and death) inside one of Britain’s most infamous prisons: the Tower of London. From your arrival through Traitors’ Gate to the cold stone of your cell, the hunger, the interrogations, the ghosts, and finally — the block — this is not the romanticized past. This is the Tower as it truly was: slow, crushing, and indifferent.

Told in a calm, darkly poetic voice, this 2-hour sleep video blends brutal history with sensory immersion, designed to lull you into sleep while quietly unsettling you with the quiet horrors of the past.

💤 Perfect for history lovers, insomniacs, and those who enjoy falling asleep to soft voices and uncomfortable truths.

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You were born a prince — but that’s where the good news ends.

In this slow-burning descent through silk-draped paranoia, we explore the terrifyingly elegant prison that was the Ottoman imperial Cage (Kafes). From your birth in silence to your death in ceremonial isolation, every step of your life is gilded, guarded, and watched — not for protection, but for control. You’re not a boy. You’re a threat. You’re not raised to rule. You’re trained to wait… indefinitely.

Tonight’s immersive historical story follows the tragic cycle of confinement, succession, and psychological decay behind palace walls — where every concubine is a spy, every gift is a warning, and your only inheritance is fear.

So tuck yourself in, breathe deeply, and prepare for a bedtime story steeped in velvet, suspicion, and imperial dread.

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Before anesthesia, surgery wasn’t just dangerous — it was a waking nightmare. In this immersive historical journey, we take you inside the dim, blood-soaked world of 19th-century surgery, where pain was the procedure and speed meant survival. From grim operating theaters to infection-ridden recovery wards, this episode explores the brutal reality of being cut open when mercy hadn’t been invented yet.

Told in a slow, calm voice with dark humor and haunting detail, this is a bedtime story you won’t forget — even if you wish you could.