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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

By: Drowsy Historian
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History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing. Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t. Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying pDrowsy Historian World
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  • The HORRIFYING Fate of a Roman Legionnaire in the Teutoburg Forest | History For Sleep
    Jul 31 2025

    Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian


    In this quietly devastating, sleep-friendly video, you experience the horror of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest from the inside — not as a general, not as a historian, but as a legionnaire with mud in your sandals, hunger in your gut, and fog choking your lungs. Day by day, the forest closes in. Food runs out. Orders stop making sense. The line dissolves. And the enemy? You don’t even see them coming.


    This is not a war story. It’s a slow-motion disappearance.


    #TeutoburgForest #RomanLegionnaire #SleepHistory #DarkHistory #BoringHistoryForSleep #HistoricalStorytime #ASMRHistory #Legionnaire #DrowsyHistorian

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • The HORRIFYING Fate of a WWII Comfort Woman | History For Sleep
    Jul 31 2025

    Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian


    In tonight’s story, you walk through the life of a young Korean girl taken during World War II and forced into the horrors of a military brothel. What follows is not loud, but it is devastating: the silence of survival, the emptiness of return, and the long shadow cast by a world that never wanted to remember.


    #ComfortWomen #WWIIHistory #ForgottenVoices #DarkHistory #BoringHistoryForSleep #HistoricalSleepStory #DrowsyHistorian #HistoryNotTaught #SurvivorVoices #HistoricalTruth

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Night with the Bloody Benders | History For Sleep
    Jul 30 2025

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    Tonight, you’re not a hero, a villain, or even a particularly interesting footnote. You’re just a traveler — tired, hungry, and walking the wrong trail at the wrong time. The inn ahead looks like salvation: a warm fire, a hot meal, a kind smile. But this is Kansas in the 1870s. And the Bloody Benders are home.

    This slow, immersive descent follows your final journey down the Osage Trail and into the arms of America’s first serial killer family. With calm narration, grim detail, and bitter historical accuracy, you’ll experience the quiet horror of a world where law doesn’t reach and politeness might just kill you.

    So lie back. Get comfortable. And don’t mind the curtain behind your chair.


    #SleepHistory #HistoricalHorror #BloodyBenders #DarkHistory #TrueCrimeHistory #YouWouldntSurvive #DrowsyHistorian

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
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