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Welcome to the Feast (You’ll Regret It): A Medieval Sleep Story

Tonight, you’ve been summoned to the grandest event in the kingdom: a medieval feast. Unfortunately, you’re not a knight or a noble. You’re somewhere in the middle — tolerated, unprepared, and already sweating through your borrowed tunic.

In this immersive sleep story, you’ll experience the full descent: from awkward arrival to terrifying table manners, from eel in aspic to drunken jester acrobatics, all the way through the chaos, carnage, and leftovers. Whether you’re watching nobles chew symbolically or dodging airborne jelly castles, one thing is clear — this isn’t your average bedtime fairytale.

Perfect for falling asleep to slow storytelling, dry humor, and vivid historical absurdity. Just try not to dream of rennet pudding.

In January 1919, a 50-foot steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of industrial molasses exploded in Boston’s North End. The result? A 25-foot wave of syrup moving at 35 mph, crushing buildings, drowning streets, and killing 21 people in one of the strangest and most preventable disasters in American history.This is not a joke. This is not a cartoon. This is the sticky, tragic, bureaucratically infuriating story of how corporate negligence, bad welds, and a desperate race against Prohibition led to one of the most bizarre catastrophes ever recorded.In this immersive, slow-paced bedtime story — with a touch of dark humor and a lot of sugar — we walk you through the full disaster: the warning signs, the collapse, the cleanup, the lawsuits, and the legacy that still clings to Boston’s bricks today.Perfect for history lovers, insomniacs, and anyone who enjoys their bedtime stories with a little syrup and a lot of sarcasm.

What happens when you're bitten by a rabid dog in the Middle Ages?No hospitals. No vaccines. No understanding of viruses. Just burning irons, toad burials, and prayers that won't be answered.

In this grim, slow-burning historical journey, you’ll experience the full, unrelenting horror of rabies — from the first bite to the final breath — through the eyes of a medieval peasant who never stood a chance. Learn how the disease hides, strikes, and destroys, long before anyone knew what it was or how to fight it.

This isn’t a story of survival. It’s a story of suffering, isolation, and what it meant to die terrified, misunderstood, and alone.

Perfect for bedtime... if you're into that sort of thing.

Welcome to the Roman Empire — where the architecture was advanced, the politics were brutal, and the food? Utterly depressing.

In this immersive, slow-burning bedtime history video, we take you on a deeply unappetizing journey through the kitchens, street stalls, and banquet halls of Ancient Rome. From gritty bread and vinegary wine to fermented fish guts and stuffed dormice, this isn’t the culinary triumph you may have imagined. Whether you were a starving pleb or a gout-ridden noble, your meals were more punishment than pleasure.

Perfect for sleeping, studying, or spiraling into historical despair.

What did punishment look like when you had no rights, no voice, and no protection? In Viking society, discipline wasn’t about justice — it was about control. In this episode, we explore the brutal, calculated, and often arbitrary world of slave punishment in the Norse world. From daily humiliations to strategic cruelty, every act served a purpose: to remind you that you didn’t belong to yourself.

This is not a tale of rebellion or redemption. It’s a grim look at the mechanics of domination — physical, psychological, and social. And if you think it couldn’t get worse… just wait until the silence starts to feel like safety.

Step aboard the worst cruise in history — a 14th-century merchant ship slowly rotting at sea, teeming with rats, disease, and sailors who’ve completely given up. In this immersive, darkly funny tale, you’ll experience life (and death) on a plague ship firsthand. From lice-infested hardtack to hallucinating crew members and the grim reality of drifting into a quarantined harbor, this is not your typical voyage. Spoiler: the rats win.

This video is part of our Boring History for Sleep series — real, absurd history told in a slow, immersive tone designed to help you unwind, zone out, or passively learn something morbidly fascinating.

In 1962, a mysterious epidemic swept through a village in Tanganyika. It wasn’t a fever. It wasn’t a rash. It was laughter—violent, uncontrollable, and utterly joyless. Girls collapsed. Villagers shook with convulsions. Officials arrived. Doctors left. And the sound never really stopped.This is the chilling true story of the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic—a mass hysteria event that spread across communities, defied science, and left survivors questioning whether it ever really ended. Told in a calm, immersive tone, this long-form narrative invites you to lie back, close your eyes, and sink into the strangest outbreak you’ve never heard of.

What was it like to live through the slow, systematic erasure of your people? To lose your home, your language, your sacred rites — not all at once, but piece by piece, policy by policy, mile by mile?In this immersive sleep-friendly historical journey, we explore what it meant to be a Native American in 19th century America — through forced removals, broken treaties, boarding schools, massacres, and quiet acts of survival. This is not the story told in textbooks. This is the lived reality: the hunger, the silence, the whispered prayers, and the stories that refused to die.Told in a calm, slow voice meant to help you rest, this isn’t just history. It’s memory. It’s grief. And it’s survival — against all odds.