Historical Blindness
Historical Blindness is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and misconceptions. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, baffling mysteries and unreliable historiography, host Nathaniel Lloyd searches for insights into modern religious belief and political culture.
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Pyramidiocy - Part Six: Pyramid Schemes
Addressing the scifi/fantasy brand of pyramidology popularized on the History Channel and Joe Rogan.
68 min
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Pyramidiocy - Part Five: The Curse of the Pharaohs
19th-century Egyptomania gives way to Tutmania and the fake news hoaxes of the early 20th century
42 min
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Pyramidiocy - Part Four: Egyptomania
Western culture becomes obsessed with all things Egyptian in the 19th century
37 min
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Pyramidiocy - Part Three: The Book of Thoth
The false stories about pyramids pass from Arabic folklore into European pseudohistory and the occult.
40 min
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Pyramidiocy - Part Two: The Pillars of Wisdom
How Western religions rewrote the history of the pyramids to suit their own beliefs.
41 min
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Pyramidiocy - Part One: Khufu's Tomb
Join me as I look into pyramid myths!
39 min
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All Is Number: Pythagoras and Numerology (An En...
A cult leader remembered as a great mathematician is credited with the invention of a form of "magic"
46 min
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Scatterbrained: The Bible Code Craze
Does a secret code embedded within the Torah really predict events in modern history? No.
37 min
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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakes...
The final installment of my weekly series on the Shakespeare authorship question.
44 min
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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakes...
A look at the claim that Edward de Vere wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare.
36 min
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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakes...
A look at the first candidate put forward as being the person who supposedly wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare
38 min
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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakes...
The first part of a special WEEKLY 4-part series on the Shakespeare authorship controversy.
33 min
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The Oak Island Scheme - Part Two: The Cursed Tr...
The extra-long conclusion to my series on the Oak Island "mystery."
84 min
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The Oak Island Scheme - Part One: The Legend of...
I drill down into the legendary Money Pit on Oak Island
56 min
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Before Columbus - Part Two: False Claims
Numerous false claims that inhabitants of the British Isles made the first journeys to the Americas
56 min
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Before Columbus - Part One: First Contact
A look at other claims of Pre-Columbian Trans-Oceanic Contact that precede the Norse claim.
51 min
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Introducing: Even the Royals
Introducing: Even the Royals
7 min
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West of Vinland: The Controversy of the Kensing...
The controversial runestone touted as evidence that Scandinavians reached much further inland than we otherwise have evidence to prove
40 min
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The Lost Colony - Part Two: The Dare Stones (UP...
My remastered exploration of the Dare Stones hoax, including more recent research
66 min
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The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle - Part Two: ...
The disappearance of Flight 19, whose vanishing led to the creation of the Bermuda Triangle urban legend
40 min
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The Lost Colony - Part One: The Secret Token (U...
A deeper dive into the mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
50 min
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The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle - Part One: ...
A look at how the legend of the Bermuda Triangle was born
38 min
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The Historical Jesus and the Myths of Christ My...
An examination of the fringe skeptical view that no such person as Jesus Christ ever existed.
53 min
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Special Presentation: The Constant's "The War o...
86 min
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The Mushroom Kingdom: The Entheogen Theory of R...
The idea that all religion was actually inspired by the use of hallucinogens.
49 min