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Softcore History episodes
- America's Craziest Election Night
The Blue Tsunami in the 2026 midterms has nothing on the 1854 elections that took place in St. Louis. The 1854 Election Riots in the Gateway to the West pitted Irish immigrants against Nativist Know-Nothings and saw the city burn for three days, with looting and pitched battles taking place throughout. And it all started because of a polling place stabbing.
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The Show
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Rob Fox
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Dan Regester
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58 min - Strangest Things To Happen At The Vatican
From a murderous elephant to the ghost of Julius Caesar we talk about the most bizarre and lesser known stories from the Eternal City.
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The Show
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Rob Fox
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Dan Regester
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1 hr 5 min - The Enfield Poltergeist
In 1977, in North London, a single British mother and her four children begin experiencing violent supernatural events. The poltergeist attacked the children, the mother, and multiple credible witnesses who showed up after the disturbances were reported to the police and the press. Eventually, the entity possessed one of the daughters, an 11-year-old girl named Janet. Over 30 people, including a police officer who signed a sworn statement, witnessed the activity. The Enfield Poltergeist remains one of the UK's best documented hauntings.
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The Show
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Rob Fox
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https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree
Dan Regester
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1 hr 7 min - The Blackbird of Chernobyl
Today we talk about a modern cryptid story claiming that a large, dark, winged humanoid creature—similar to West Virginia's Mothman—was spotted by workers and residents near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shortly before the April 26, 1986 disaster.
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The Show
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Rob Fox
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Dan Regester
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1 hr 12 min - The Stabbing Ghost | The Amherst Mystery
It's Nova Scotia, Canada. 1878. An 18-year-old girl named Esther Cox has a traumatic experience. Soon after, a poltergeist starts tormenting her. Dozens of witnesses watch over the course of months as she's stabbed with pins and knives wielded by no one. Matches are lit and dropped to try to burn down her home. A death threat is etched into her wall by an unseen entity, in front of witnesses. This is The Amherst Mystery.
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The Show
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Rob Fox
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https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree
Dan Regester
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1 hr 15 min - Lizzie Borden Had An Axe
The unsolved murders of Andrew Borden and his wife Abby Gray in 1892 have become a bit of American myth and legend. Andrew's daughter Lizzie was the only suspect in the vicious hatchet killings in Fall River, Massachusetts but was acquitted after a botched investigation and trial. We talk about the true story that has been romanticized by the media for over a century.
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The Show
https://www.instagram.com/softcorehistory
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Rob Fox
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https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree
Dan Regester
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1 hr 27 min - Will America Fall Like Rome? (ft. Jeremy Ryan Slate)
Host of "The Roman Pattern" Jeremy Ryan Slate joins the show to talk about the parallels he sees between Rome's fall and America's current place in history.
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Rob Fox
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Dan Regester
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1 hr 30 min - Combat Of The Thirty
After a Duke refuses to clearly name an heir on his deathbed, a family feud breaks out in Brittany in the midst of the 100 year war. It all culminated into a tournament between the rivaling factions where a 30 on 30 battle royal took place for no real reason outside of hate for the other side.
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Rob Fox
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Dan Regester
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54 min - The Time An Immigrant Took The President's Job
Kyle Bandujo, host of the "From Phenom to Farm" and "Big Screen Sports" podcasts, joins the show to discuss the illiterate Polish immigrant who President Grover Cleveland paid to take his place in the Civil War after our (then future) Commander in Chief was drafted in 1863. The man's name was George Brinski. He took $150 to join in Cleveland's stead and suffice it to say his time during the war, and his life after, were not super fun.
Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes.
Rob Fox
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https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree
Dan Regester
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1 hr 21 min - The Original Lindsay Clancy
Constance Fisher was a 20th century mother and paranoid schizophrenic who drowned her three children on two separate occasions. You didn't read that wrong. She repeated the same murder on another set of three kids -- killing six in total -- after she was released from a mental asylum and her husband gave her a second chance at a family.
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Rob Fox
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Dan Regester
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About Softcore History
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A podcast for the casual fan of history. The Wikipedia reader. The kids who grew up with a dad who watched the same 10 hours of World War II specials on The History Channel. Join Dan Regester, Rob…
Fox, and a weekly guest as they tastefully insert themselves into the past. The only thing we don’t show is our research.
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