Episode 22: Strange Historical Deaths

Strange historical deaths have a way of becoming bigger than the facts. This week, CC and Kitty look at Rasputin’s death myth, Edward II’s infamous rumor, and Edgar Allan Poe’s unresolved final days. Poison, politics, medieval gossip, cooping theories, and broken records all collide in an episode about how history remembers the dead. Subscribe for weekly disaster investigations, historical wreckage, and the aftermath that follows.Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-really-happened-during-murder-rasputin-russia-mad-monk-180961572/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/rasputin-penis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38386172/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II https://www.nps.gov/edal/learn/historyculture/people-poefamily.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/poe-death.htm https://catalystmag.umaryland.edu/rooted-in-history-175-years-later-mystery-still-shrouds-poes-death/ https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/wernicke-korsakoff-syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum