A Popular History of Unpopular Things

Kelli Beard

A podcast that makes weird, gross, gory, and just generally “unpopular” history more fun and accessible

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A Popular History of Unpopular Things

Episodes (77)

Today The Erfurt Latrine Disaster
Mar 15th The Voynich Manuscript
Feb 8th The Story of Peter the Wild Boy

A Popular History of Unpopular Things

Apr 5, 2026
29 minutes
20 MB

Join Kelli as she goes over a very stinky situation that happened in 1184 in Erfurt, part of the Holy Roman Empire and home base of King (and later Emperor) Henry VI. As Henry gathered some squabbling nobles to deal with a petty land dispute, the building they were in collapsed under the weight of 60+ people. And two stories below, in the basement of the building, was a cesspit full of... well, you know. It was a putrid predicament, a malodorous mess, a nauseating nightmare. Get ready for another gross episode with lots of tangents and...

A Popular History of Unpopular Things

The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

Kelli Beard

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