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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

By: Drowsy Historian
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History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing. Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t. Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying pDrowsy Historian World
Episodes
  • Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Flight 571 Disaster | History For Sleep
    Jul 28 2025

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    In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed into the Andes mountains. What followed was not a tale of triumph, but of endurance—cold, slow, and horrifying. This is not a story of heroes. It’s a story of what survival really costs when the world forgets you exist. You’ll live the disaster moment by moment: the crash, the silence, the hunger, and the unthinkable decisions that followed. This is the Flight 571 disaster, told from the inside—slow, immersive, and unflinching.


    #DisasterHistory #Flight571 #Survival #AndesCrash #CannibalismHistory #DrowsyHistorian #SlowHistory #SleepStory #ImmersiveHistory

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Locust Swarm of 1875 | History For Sleep
    Jul 27 2025

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    This is not a story of triumph. It’s not a tale of defiance, or vengeance, or victory. It’s the quiet unraveling of a life built on promises the earth never agreed to keep. In the wake of the 1875 Rocky Mountain locust swarm—the most devastating insect plague in American history—one settler family watches their world erode into silence. There are no heroes here. Just weathered hands, chewed-up fields, and the slow, suffocating persistence of survival without reward.


    Told in immersive second person, this video walks you through the days, then weeks, then years after the swarm—where the wind carries more than dust, and memory becomes heavier than hunger.


    If you're still here by the end, thank you. You weren't meant to win. But you endured anyway.


    #SleepHistory #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalHorror #RockyMountainLocusts #AmericanHistory #DarkHistory #PrairieLife #ForgottenHistory #YouWouldntSurvive #NarratedHistory

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Why You'd REGRET Being a Loyalist in the American Revolution | History For Sleep
    Jul 27 2025

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    You didn’t pick up a musket. You didn’t burn a town or raid a rebel camp. You just stayed loyal—to the king, the crown, the world you thought would endure. And for that, you lost everything.


    In this slow, immersive journey, we follow the quiet unraveling of a Loyalist during the American Revolution. No glory. No recognition. Just confiscated land, public humiliation, and the kind of exile that erases your name one generation at a time.


    This is not the story they celebrate on the Fourth of July. It’s the one history leaves out—on purpose.


    #SleepHistory #AmericanRevolution #Loyalists #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalSleepStory #ForgottenHistory #ColonialAmerica #QuietHistory #SleepNarration #ASMRHistory

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
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