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The Truth Is Weirder

The Truth Is Weirder

di Jamzel Studio

Storia Educazione per bambini

Stagione 1

The Pharaoh's Curse: Who Actually Died?

A sealed tomb. A boy king. A candle flickering in the dark, and a curse that promised death to anyone who dared step inside. When the men who opened it started dying, the newspapers had their story: the pharaoh's revenge. Cass has the spooky version ready to go. Pip has a simpler question: the man who actually opened the tomb and touched everything in it, when did the curse get him? Follow a mosquito bite and a pile of headlines to the trick for busting any curse: count the people it didn't happen to. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

Even Einstein Flunked: The Nicest Lie in School

A whole thousand years of history, and supposedly not a single proper bath. That's the Middle Ages everyone pictures: filthy, smelly, people so scared of water they thought a wash might kill them. Cass is certain. Then Pip starts counting, the public bathhouses, the soap-makers' guilds, the medieval writers nagging people to stay clean, and asks one awkward question: which century is that scary "nobody washed" quote actually from? A romp through cherry-picking, and why "a long time ago" is exactly where bad facts love to hide. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

The Great Unwashed: Did Nobody in the Middle Ages Ever Wash?

A whole thousand years of history, and supposedly not a single proper bath. That's the Middle Ages everyone pictures: filthy, smelly, people so scared of water they thought a wash might kill them. Cass is certain. Then Pip starts counting, the public bathhouses, the soap-makers' guilds, the medieval writers nagging people to stay clean, and asks one awkward question: which century is that scary "nobody washed" quote actually from? A romp through cherry-picking, and why "a long time ago" is exactly where bad facts love to hide. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

The Flat-Earth Prank: Who Really Made It Up?

One brave sailor stands before a room full of powerful people, all of them certain the world is flat, and warns that his ships could sail clean off the edge. He sets out anyway, and proves them all wrong. What a story. Almost none of it happened. Cass loves the tale. Pip points out that educated people had known the Earth was round for two thousand years, that the real argument was about something else entirely, and that the whole flat-Earth legend was cooked up by a spooky-story writer three hundred years too late. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

Thumbs Down: Did It Really Mean "Kill Him"?

The gladiator stands in the sand, exhausted, and the crowd roars. The emperor lifts his hand and turns his thumb down. Everyone knows exactly what that means. It's over for him. Or is it? Cass has seen the films. Pip wants one simple thing: which Roman actually wrote that down? What they find is a gap in the record you could drive a chariot through, a famous painting that quietly filled it in for everyone, and the bravest thing a historian can say: "we don't actually know." Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

Can You Really See the Great Wall From Space?

They say there's one human-made thing so enormous you can spot it from space with your bare eyes, maybe even the Moon: the Great Wall of China. You've heard it a hundred times. Cass swears by it. Pip points out the bit nobody mentions: the Wall is long, but it's skinny, and almost exactly the colour of the dirt around it. Along the way they meet the first astronaut to look down at China and completely fail to find it, and uncover a "fact" that was famous long before anyone could actually check it. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production. l46VC2lWWTusdePlGXm9

Little Boney: Was Napoleon Actually Tiny?

Picture the most famous emperor in history: the big hat, the hand tucked in the coat, and a furious little man barely tall enough to see over a table. The tiny tyrant. Everyone knows Napoleon was short. Cass is certain. Pip has one question: whose ruler did they measure him with? Follow the trail and the most famous short man in history turns out to be a maths mistake wearing a coat, with a cartoonist finishing the job. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

Put the Horns Away (Viking Helmets)

Close your eyes and picture a Viking. Big boat, big beard, and two great horns curling off the helmet. You can see them, can't you? Everyone can. There's just one problem. In over a thousand years of digging, not one horned war helmet has ever come out of a Viking grave. Not a single one. Cass is sure about the horns. Pip traces the most famous hat in history back to a German opera stage in 1876, then springs a trap: real horned helmets DO exist, just two thousand years and an entire civilisation away from any Viking. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

Frozen in Time? (Pompeii)

Nearly two thousand years ago, a mountain called Vesuvius explodes over the Roman town of Pompeii. Ash rains down. And there, in the museums today, are the people, frozen exactly where they stood, some seemingly still mid-bite. At least, that's the story everyone tells. Cass is certain. Pip has a letter written by a teenager who actually watched it happen, and a scribble on a wall that quietly breaks a "fact" every book has repeated for two thousand years. Turns out those frozen figures aren't quite what you think, and nobody's even sure what day the mountain blew. Got a myth you want us to put on trial? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.

You Sure About That? (Trailer)

You "know" a lot about history. Vikings wore horned helmets. Napoleon was tiny. The people of Pompeii froze solid, mid-bite. Everyone knows it. Hang on a minute. What if almost none of it is true? The Truth Is Weirder is the history show that checks the story. Cass tells it the way everyone remembers it. Pip goes looking for the actual evidence, a letter, a dig, an old painting, and the real story turns out stranger than the myth every single time. Famous "facts" on trial, for curious kids aged 9 to 13 and the grown-ups in the front seat. Got a myth you want Cass and Pip to bust? We'd love to hear it, email hello@thetruthisweirder.com. New episodes weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. A Jamzel Studio production.