History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianSo you’ve been mistaken for a monster hunter. Unlucky.Welcome to medieval Europe — a place where superstition bleeds into justice, rot masquerades as folklore, and anything that looks vaguely human but slightly off must be killed before it spreads its sin. In this slow, immersive descent, you’re a limping vagabond dragged into the role of reluctant exorcist, amateur tracker, and disposable scapegoat. You’ll fight beasts that might be wolves, men, myths, or nothing at all. And worse than the monsters are the villagers who sent you.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#MedievalHistory #MonsterHunter #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalHorror #Folklore #SleepStory #HistoricalFiction #SecondPersonNarration #DarkHistory #MedievalEurope #Scapegoat #YouWouldntSurvive #SleepWithHistory

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we’re heading back to ancient Olympia — land of laurel wreaths, oil-slicked ambition, and deeply questionable decision-making. You are not an athlete. But you think you could be. What follows is a journey of dust, dishonor, goat-related overconfidence, and one deeply unfortunate encounter with a sacrificial cake.This is not a story of Olympic glory. It’s a cautionary tale of what happens when civic pride, mild delusion, and an aggressively short tunic collide under the Mediterranean sun. From awkward oaths to surprise punches in the pancreas, you’ll come to understand — painfully and publicly — why some were born to be legends, and others to be cautionary pottery motifs.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#SleepStory #AncientGreece #Olympics #HistoryForSleep #FunnyHistory #HistoricalHumor #DrowsyHistorian #CalmNarration #OlympicDisaster #OilAndHumiliation

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight we descend into one of the most quietly horrifying roles of the Second World War: the flamethrower operator. Assigned not for courage or skill, but for quiet steadiness, you are handed a pressurized tank of burning fuel and told to clear bunkers, tunnels, and caves. No one trains you properly. No one asks how it feels. You are not celebrated — only used.This is not a story of heroism. It’s a slow erosion of identity, of being turned into a tool, then discarded when the seal breaks or the pressure fails. With dry British restraint and a focus on immersive historical detail, this episode explores what it meant to become a walking weapon in the Pacific Theater — and what gets left behind after the flame goes out.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#WWII #FlamethrowerOperator #DrowsyHistorian #PacificTheater #HistoricalSleepStory #ForgottenSoldiers #WarFatigue #SleepNarration #CalmHistory #MilitaryHistory

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn Victorian England, pregnancy outside of marriage wasn’t a scandal. It was a sentence.This immersive episode places you in the worn shoes of a young working-class woman whose quiet mistake becomes the end of her former life. From the first wave of nausea behind a scullery door to the final signature on a silence contract, we follow a path shaped not by sin, but by structure.There are no villains here — only matrons, midwives, charity workers, and factory forewomen — each performing their role in a system that valued correction over compassion. The child disappears. So do you. And history, as always, moves on without noting your name.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#VictorianHistory #HistoricalSleepStory #DrowsyHistorian #UnwedMothers #InstitutionalHistory #SleepVideo

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we explore the silent histories written not in ink, but in gestures, expectations, and silences — the intimate, often unseen realities of sex, duty, and power in Feudal Japan. This episode unfolds not as scandal or romance, but as structure: a world where every touch, every vow, and every gaze was shaped by law, custom, and fear of disgrace. From the wife of a weary merchant to the unseen labor of a housemaid, from the codes that punished desire to the quiet disappearance of lives unrecorded, this is a story not about passion — but about control. And like so many lives beneath the weight of a strict and beautiful system, most of what we know is what remains in the margins.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#FeudalJapan #HistoricalSleepStory #SexAndPower #DrowsyHistorian #HistoryOfSex #SleepNarrative #JapaneseHistory #SilentHistories #TatamiAndSilence #EroticControl #PowerAndGender

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we slip behind silk curtains and into the curated illusion of luxury in Renaissance Venice — but not as a noble, nor even a guest. You are a courtesan. Accomplished, admired, and utterly disposable. From powdered poise to private ruin, you endure the slow erosion of worth in a world that sells desire and punishes those who embody it. This is not a story of scandal or salvation. This is a life lived in borrowed gowns, under borrowed names, with no exit but silence.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#venicehistory #courtesan #renaissancevenice #historicalsleepstory #drowsyhistorian #femalefate #sleepwithhistory #womeninhistory #darkhistory #calmhistory #emotionalhistory #immersivestorytelling #venetianempire

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you're not curled in a dentist’s chair with soothing music and numbing gel. No — tonight, you're in a smoky cottage, jaw aching, vision blurring, and no one alive knows what a germ is. You’re a common laborer in medieval Europe, and something in your mouth has gone terribly wrong. Over the next hour, you’ll try poultices, fire, prayer, and the mercy of strangers with iron tongs. None of it will work.This is not a story of healing. This is a slow descent into swelling, superstition, and silent suffering — all narrated with calm, bitter historical detail. By the end, you may still have your tooth… but you’ll wish you didn’t.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#medievalhistory #drowsyhistorian #darkhistory #historicalsleepstory #toothache #plague #medievalmedicine #bedtimestoryforadults #historysleepaid #medievaleurope #dentalhistory #sleepstory #historicalnarration

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you're not fighting in a trench or trapped in a gilded palace. No — tonight, you are forgotten. You were born into the Paleolithic world under a cold, starless sky. No one wrote your name. No one carved your story into stone. But you lived. You bled. You gave birth by firelight. You buried your dead with moss. You survived in silence.This is the brutal, invisible life of a prehistoric woman — a life shaped by labor, hunger, cold, and a lineage that was never meant to be remembered.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#HistoryForSleep #Paleolithic #CaveWoman #DrowsyHistorian #PrehistoricLife #HistoricalSleepStory #DarkHistory #BoringHistory #IceAge

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story doesn’t end in glory. It doesn’t end with medals, or cheers, or even certainty. It ends somewhere above the sea, in silence. In this immersive historical narrative, you are a young Japanese man in World War II, “volunteered” for the Kamikaze Special Attack Unit. You will not return. From the moment the letter arrives, you begin a quiet unraveling — not heroic, not spectacular, just ceremonial. You train to die, not to fight. You fold your final letters. You sit through your last supper. You board your aircraft. And then, you disappear — honored, forgotten, and replaced.This is not a war story. It’s a story about national pressure, erasure, and the emotional silence between duty and death. A soft, slow descent into inevitability — told in the second person, with calm, respectful narration designed to help you fall asleep to the quiet horror of history.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#kamikaze #WWIIhistory #darkhistory #sleepstory #drowsyhistorian #calmhistory #kamikazepilot #quietlydevastating #immersivehistory #emotionalhistory #sleepaid

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not the heroine of a Victorian novel. You’re not even the tragic figure in a painting. You’re just a teenage girl who caught a cough that never quite went away — and now you’re being quietly buried beneath wool blankets, rose-scented water, and social expectations. In tonight’s slow descent, you’ll trade walks in the garden for lace-trimmed bedsores, embroidery hoops for glass medicine bottles, and visitors for silence. Your name won’t be written anywhere — but your decline will be documented all the same.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#SleepHistory #VictorianMedicine #HistoricalStorytelling #DrowsyHistorian #VictorianIllness #DarkHistory #SadStories #HistoricalSleepAid #VictorianEngland #InvalidLife

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were nobody. And yet you were there — powdered the Queen’s face, emptied her chamberpot, stood like a statue as Versailles crumbled around you.In tonight’s immersive historical story, you’ll step into the silk-lined prison of palace life at the height of the French monarchy — not as a noble, but as a forgotten maid. You’ll kneel on lice-ridden rugs, polish silver that no one notices, and witness the strange collapse of a world built on rituals, ribbons, and fear. Marie Antoinette will pass you without recognition. But when the palace falls… you’ll still be standing.This isn’t a tale of royalty. It’s the quiet, horrifying truth of the people history forgot.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#DrowsyHistorian #MarieAntoinette #FrenchRevolution #HistoricalSleepStory #Versailles #SleepNarrative #CourtLife #HistoryForSleep #FallOfVersailles #BoringHistory

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we’re not following kings, warriors, or saints. We’re following a tailor’s apprentice in Renaissance Europe… as his skin blooms with red sores, his neighbors whisper of sin and punishment, and the local barber-surgeon arrives with hot cups and mustard plasters.There are no miracles here. Just fever. Isolation. And a slow, painful transformation that leaves the body disfigured — and the memory quietly erased.This is the horrifying fate of a smallpox victim. And in the Renaissance, you wouldn’t need to be cursed or criminal to suffer it. Just unlucky.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#smallpox #renaissance #drowsyhistorian #historysleepstories #calmhistory #historicalillness #plague #barbersurgeon #historicalfiction #secondperson

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not chasing glory, or even survival. You’re just trying to make it through the Middle Ages without accidentally hallucinating yourself into sainthood.From moldy rye to poppy syrup, flying ointments to incense smoke, this journey through historical intoxication isn’t about rebellion—it’s about ritual. Poor harvest? Have some psychedelic bread. Sick child? Try opium tea. Feeling holy? That might be the incense talking.This isn’t a party. It’s prayer, fever, fermentation, and the desperate need to feel something other than cold.Lie back. Get comfortable. And if the walls start breathing halfway through… well, that’s historically accurate.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#MedievalHistory #SleepStory #DrowsyHistorian #Ergotism #HistoricalDrugs #DarkHistory #WeirdHistory #PsychedelicHistory #FlyingOintment #AncientMedicine #Opium #MadHoney #HistoryForSleep

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to ancient Rome, where cleanliness was a group activity, hygiene was a suggestion, and “refreshment” meant scalding your flesh off in communal steam. In this immersive second-person journey, you are not a senator, not a philosopher, not even particularly clean—you’re just an unlucky Roman citizen trying to survive a trip to the public baths.You’ll undress in full view of strangers. Scrape off oil and grime with a borrowed metal blade. Share foot fungus, overhear conspiracies, and try not to vomit while sipping wine in a room that smells faintly of mildew, boiled onions, and regret. The floors are slimy. The walls are dripping. And someone definitely just touched you on purpose.From the apodyterium to the frigidarium, this is public hygiene in the Roman Empire—efficient, horrifying, and deeply moist.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend: • Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#AncientRome #RomanBaths #DarkHistory #HistoricalHorror #SleepStory #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalSleepNarrative #RomanHygiene #BoringHistoryForSleep #WhyHistorySucks

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were told you'd be a hero. That the pills would help you march farther, shoot straighter, stay awake longer. That victory was a matter of stamina — and obedience. But what they didn’t say is that those white tablets were methamphetamine. And once they gave them to you, they never let you stop.In this quietly devastating descent, you are a young conscript in the German Wehrmacht during WWII — pushed into blitzkrieg, starvation, and psychological collapse, all while numbed by the stimulant known as Pervitin. You don’t sleep. You barely eat. You hallucinate. You commit things you don’t remember. And when your usefulness ends, so do you.This is not a story of politics or strategy. It’s a story of quiet ruin. Of men used until they vanished — erased not for what they believed, but for how fast they burned out.#wwii #wehrmacht #history #darkhistory #sleepstory #pervitin #historicalfiction #boringhistory #drowsyhistorian #warstory #blitzkrieg #ww2history #germany

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a villain. Not a victim. Not a statistic. You’re just one more man on the margins — coughing, limping, fading beneath the flicker of Seattle’s gaslamps in 1897. You didn’t mean to end up here. You only needed a place to sleep. But the basement was warm, the pipe was passed, and now the city forgets you one day at a time.This is the horrifying life of an opium addict in turn-of-the-century Seattle — told not through myth or morality, but through lived decay. From smoke-choked dens to alleyway “reform,” from Chinatown’s narrow alleys to the false comfort of a final cot, this story drifts slowly downward. Quiet. Unclean. And real.#DrowsyHistorian #HistoryForSleep #Opium #SeattleHistory #SleepPodcast #HistoricalStorytelling #DarkHistory #AddictionHistory #ChineseAmericanHistory

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a tyrant. Not a monster. Not some sneering villain in a powdered wig. You’re a working-class Redcoat — conscripted or tricked into wearing the uniform that history decided everyone should hate.This is not a story of glory. It’s a story of hunger, dysentery, marching through swamps, and being shot at by farmers who disappear into the trees before you can reload. It’s the slow unraveling of a life you never chose, in a war you never understood, for a king who won’t remember your name.From the freezing tents outside Saratoga to the humiliating surrender at Yorktown, this immersive bedtime story places you inside the war — not as a strategist or a statesman, but as the forgotten body in the coat that turned red long before the paint did.#HistoryForSleep #DrowsyHistorian #AmericanRevolution #Redcoat #SleepStory #HistoricalNarration #DarkHistory #BritishSoldier #ColonialAmerica #MilitaryHistory #RelaxingHistory

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou are beautiful. Obedient. Silent. And that is why they chose you.Tonight, you're not a prince, a scholar, or even a servant with a name. You're a male concubine—handpicked to please, trained to disappear, and slowly unmade inside the red-lacquered walls of the Forbidden City. In this quietly horrifying tale, we follow your life from selection to erasure: the whispered silks, the perfumed traps, the gaze of an emperor that flickers—and then vanishes. This is not a story of love, or power, or even tragedy. This is what happens when your only purpose is to be forgotten.#forgottenthings #imperialchina #darkhistory #sleepstory #drowsyhistorian#maleconcubine #historypodcast #palaceintrigue #historicalfiction #asmrhistoire

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story is not about kings or knights, but about the man in motley—the one forced to laugh, juggle, and mock his own suffering for the amusement of those in power. The story follows the path of a child dragged into court to play the fool, where every joke is a risk and every silence, a warning. Behind the bells and slapstick lies humiliation, isolation, and a constant tightrope walk between survival and spectacle.From his first performance to his last bow, the jester's life is one of exploitation disguised as entertainment. Laughter becomes currency. Dignity becomes optional. And when the world moves on, all that’s left is a mask, a costume, and the echo of forced applause.#medievalhistory #darkhistory #jester #historyforsleep #medievalcourt #drowsyhistorian #historicalstorytelling #bedtimestory #bleakhistory #medievaleurope

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a Roman. You’re not a senator or a soldier. You’re just a young Gallic villager—barefoot, underfed, and wholly unprepared for the storm that’s coming. Julius Caesar is crossing the Rubicon of your homeland, and his legions aren’t here for diplomacy.This is the horrifying, slow-motion collapse of your world—from the creaking palisades of your hillfort to the smoking ruins of Alesia. You’ll watch your friends vanish into Roman service, your village fall into silence, and your gods disappear without ceremony. And when the dust clears, no one will remember your name—just the empire that buried it.This isn’t a story of conquest. It’s a story of erasure.#FallOfGaul #DrowsyHistorian #SleepWithHistory #JuliusCaesar #RomanConquest #DarkHistory #HistoricalSleepStory #AncientHistory #BedtimeHistory #CaesarInGaul