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The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser - One
Jun 21, 2026
27m 51s
The Storm
May 30, 2026
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Apr 10, 2026
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| 6/21/26 |  The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser - One | This week, on Tales we’re in Nuremberg, Bavaria: The year is 1828. A young man has appeared as if from out of nowhere with a horrific tale of captivity. Some wonder if he is some deposed price - but be warned, the following is no fairytale. Part one of a Two parter. Content Warnings: Discussion of war, death, child neglect and imprisonment, violence, conspiratorial thinking and social deception. Sources Include: Kaspar Hauser: The Foundling of Nuremberg by Paul Anselm von FeuerbachThe Great Pretenders by Jan BondersonNapoleon the Great by Andrew RobertsAnd Historical Blindness’ excellent Two-Part podcast on Hauser, created by Nathaniel Lloyd. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 27m 51s | ||||||
| 5/30/26 |  The Storm✨ | stormhistory+4 | — | Daniel Defoe’s The Storm | England | stormEngland+5 | — | 33m 40s | |
| 5/8/26 |  The Sacred Band -Three✨ | LGBTQI+ historypolitical violence+5 | — | The Sacred BandLives… | Thebes | The Sacred BandThebes+5 | — | 44m 21s | |
| 4/10/26 |  The Sacred Band -Two✨ | The Sacred BandThebes+4 | — | The Sacred BandLives… | Thebes | Sacred BandThebes+5 | — | 31m 18s | |
| 3/21/26 |  The Sacred Band - One✨ | ancient historyThe Sacred Band+4 | — | SpartaThe Sacred Band+1 | Thebes | The Sacred BandThebes+5 | — | 27m 32s | |
| 2/23/26 |  The Tichborne Claimant - Two✨ | Tichborne Claimantidentity+3 | — | The Man Who Lost HimselfThe Tichborne Claimant | — | Tichborne ClaimantTom Castro+4 | — | 51m 53s | |
| 1/18/26 |  Tales From The Patreon✨ | Patreon contenthistory+3 | — | The Stolen IslandHumankind+1 | — | Patreonbonus episodes+3 | — | 29m 18s | |
| 1/11/26 | Update: The 2025 Season Cliffhanger✨ | healthpersonal update+2 | — | — | — | updatehealth+4 | — | 1m 26s | |
| 12/19/25 |  The Miser of Marcham Park - Revisited✨ | Charles DickensJohn Elwes+4 | — | BBCScottish Poetry Library+3 | Canongate GraveyardEdinburgh+1 | Charles DickensJohn Elwes+5 | — | 15m 05s | |
| 12/13/25 |  The Tichborne Claimant - One✨ | Tichborne ClaimantAustralian history+3 | — | Robyn Annear’s The Man Who Lost HimselfRohan McWilliam’s The Tichborne Claimant | Wagga WaggaAotearoa/New Zealand | Tichborne ClaimantTom Castro+5 | — | 37m 10s | |
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| 11/17/25 |  The Polaris Expedition - Two✨ | Arctic explorationhistorical events+4 | — | New York TimesFatal North+2 | — | Polaris ExpeditionCharles Francis Hall+8 | — | 40m 43s | |
| 10/27/25 |  The Halifax Gibbet✨ | historypunishment+4 | — | A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great BritainHalifax and It’s Gibbet Law Placed in A True Light | HalifaxEngland | Halifax Gibbetbeheadings+4 | — | 10m 14s | |
| 10/16/25 |  The Polaris Expedition - One✨ | Polaris ExpeditionNorth Pole+4 | — | Fatal NorthArctic Experiences…+2 | — | Polaris ExpeditionCharles Francis Hall+6 | — | 28m 36s | |
| 9/23/25 |  The Hammersmith Ghost | Last week when I covered the Tale of Spring Heeled Jack, I mentioned a couple of people in passing without explanation… Apologies all, I’ll be coming back to a few of those people sometime in the near future… But with regards the Hammersmith Ghost, there is a Patreon minisode from back in 2022. I re-recorded the episode over the weekend. The following minisode comes to you by way of the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Content warnings: Gun violence. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 6m 44s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 |  Spring Heeled Jack | This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to an episode from the first season to give it a new coat of (red) paint… speaking of, we’re going back to London in 1837 to discuss newspapers, the death of ‘Silly Billy,’ ‘painting the town red’ and a mysterious sex pest whose legend took on a life of it’s own throughout the remainder of the century… Content warnings: This week we discuss a sexual abuser. Sources Include: I failed to keep a list on this one back in 2020, (apologies all) and mostly built it up from online articles and a Reader’s Digest book on Mysteries … but Mike Dash’s ‘Spring Heeled Jack: To Victorian Bugaboo from Suburban Ghost Was a given. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 27m 35s | ||||||
| 8/30/25 |  Murder in Belgravia | This week on Tales of History and Imagination we discuss a murdered nanny, the murderer… his awful ancestors, and said murderer’s mysterious disappearance. Trigger warnings: murder. Sources Include: A Different Class of Murder by Laura ThompsonAnd several dozen news articles, including this piece from Lynn Barber interviewing John AspinallThis one from Steven Morris on the many theories on Lord Lucan’s disappearanceThis one (Morris and Angelique Chrisafis) on Jungle Barry (sometimes called Jungley Barry)This article (author not listed) from the Whanganui Chronicle on an unpleasant man named Roger Woodgate This article by Gary Nunn on John StonehouseThis Daily Mail article by Laura Thompson on the Taxi Driver hypothesis And a handful of documentaries I never recorded at the time of writing the first attempt at this script a few years ago… Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 43m 28s | ||||||
| 7/25/25 |  The Batavia: Part Four - Batavia’s Graveyard | This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return one last time to the wreck of the Batavia. This is where things, finally, go all ‘Lord of the Flies’ on Batavia’s Graveyard. This is part four of a four parter - thanks for hanging in there with me all… I promise a load of one parters in the back half of the year. Trigger warnings: murder, rape, descriptions of death by dehydration, a pitched battle and a handful of executions. Sources Include: Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike DashAnd Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 42m 34s | ||||||
| 7/6/25 |  The Batavia: Part Three - The Longboat | This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to the wreck of the Batavia. In part two we follow the adventures of the 48 in the longboat as they make their way along Australia’s Western coast; learn a little more about Francisco Pelsaert, and speak of the first of the murders on Batavia’s Graveyard. This is part three of a four parter. Trigger warnings: Murder, colonialism, accidental poisoning. Sources Include:Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike DashAnd Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 25m 48s | ||||||
| 6/22/25 |  The Batavia: Part Two - The Heretic | This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to the wreck of the Batavia. In part two we discuss heresy, and the harrowing life of under-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz. This is part two of a four parter. Trigger warnings: Murder, colonialism, child mortality, religious extremism. Sources Include:Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike DashAnd Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 31m 00s | ||||||
| 6/6/25 |  The Batavia: Part One - The Shipwreck | This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to Australia for a real life soap opera that was considerably more bloody than Neighbours or Home and Away. First we need to take a cruise on a Dutch VOC flagship called The Batavia, the year 1629. In part one of a four parter, we discuss the voyage; how and why folk took such risks to travel to the end of the earth like this - and the voyage itself, right up until the ship wrecked on Houtman’s Abrolhos. Note: Apologies all, as you can hear my voice is still a little scratchy on this one… I’ve had a bit of a nasty cold, and figured better to get this out now, than keep you waiting a month and a half to start this. Part two should be less so… Trigger warnings: Murder, colonialism, attempted genocide and sexual assault. Sources Include: Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike DashOcean by John HaywoodAnd Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 38m 39s | ||||||
| 5/11/25 |  The Ballad of Tom Wills | This week we travel to Australia for a game of Marn Grook, to discuss origin stories; perhaps the archetypal troubled sportsman - and horrific massacres. Trigger warnings: Murder, suicide, colonialism, and to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people listening to this episode - I discuss some of your origin legends as best I can, and play a brief excerpt of a speech from an Aboriginal elder. Sources Include: Australia’s Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes This University of Newcastle Article on Aboriginal massacres, quoting studies by Professor Lyndall RyanThis NSW State Library piece on The ‘First Fleet’This article on Edward WillsFirst Contact by Anita HeissThis piece on the Dreamtime. The deplorable (alleged) Neo-Nazi interruption of tribal elder Mark Brown, care of the GuardianSpeeches from Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese on election night 2025, care of SBS News. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 31m 06s | ||||||
| 4/19/25 |  The Cancellation of Ilda Orme | The American actress Ilda Orme knew a thing or two about being cancelled, a long, long time before social media put the cancel button in the hands of the public at large. Her cancellers, she suspected were two hateful former in-laws and a theatre manager in their pocket. Her cancellation was nearly literal - culminating in an assassination attempt. What does one do when cancelled? If you’re Ilda Orme, you seek revenge in the most public way possible. Trigger warnings: Gun violence and false accusations leading to incarceration. Note: This fortnight’s episode is a little shorter than usual in the hope that doing a quick firebreak episode will get me back on a two-weekly schedule. Next fortnight should be back to around half an hour again. Sources Include: The Battered Body Beneath The Flagstones and Other Victorian Scandals by Michelle Morgan The Madness of Ilda Orme by Dr Nell Darby Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 11m 40s | ||||||
| 4/7/25 |  Archias The Exile Hunter | On, or around 11th June 323 BC Alexander the Great died in Babylon. While there are mysteries surrounding his passing - did an Indian holy man prophesy his passing a year prior while self immolating in Alexander’s presence? Was he poisoned? Did somebody entomb him while still alive? - He is just a cameo in this Tale. This week we travel to Athens - then chafing under the Macedonian yoke - as they make a bid for freedom. Trigger warning: some swearing, talk of three suicides. We discuss the fall of two mighty empires and one despot. Sources Include: Ghost On The Throne by James RommA History of Greece To 322 BC by N.G.L Hammond Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination has ‘X-it-ed’ from Musk’s hellsite, sorry Twitter folk. But I can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 28m 04s | ||||||
| 3/22/25 |  The Fall and Rise of Aimee Semple McPherson | On May 18th 1926 the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson took a trip to Santa Monica Beach, California to work, seek inspiration and have a little fun in the sun. However, the day would end in tragedy when Aimee disappeared without a trace. Was her disappearance all it appeared? Sources Include:The Vanishing Evangelist by Lately Thomas Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination has ‘X-it-ed’ from Musk’s hellsite, sorry Twitter folk. But I can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 36m 51s | ||||||
| 2/27/25 |  The Ace of Spies - Two | Hi all, welcome back (again) - sorry it’s a week later than planned… a few ongoing voice issues from the cold. This week we conclude the tale of Sidney Reilly and the ‘Red Terror.’ Sources Include: R.H. Bruce-Lockhart ‘Memoirs of a British Agent’Sidney Reilly + Pepita Bobadilla ‘ Adventures of a British Master Spy’ James Palmer ‘The Bloody White Baron’ Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination has ‘X-it-ed’ from Musk’s hellsite, sorry Twitter folk. But I can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky | | 31m 51s | ||||||
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