
Broadcast from the Belfry
An archive of curious tales across cultures.
New episodes @ 12am every Thursday.
Podcasting since 2024 • 56 episodes
Broadcast from the Belfry
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17. Can't Fight Against the Foot
Sometimes, you wonder where human evolution will take us. Are we to return to monke? Will we all become crab? When we ask where we'll go, we must look back at where we've been. Which direction did our hominid ancestors go? Perhaps........ Bigfo...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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55:59

16. Molasses Will Never Hurt You
What do you get when you cross anarchy, World War I, xenophobia, capitalism, and the slave trade? That's right: the Great Molasses Flood of 1919! Watch out, Boston - no one is safe in this perfect storm of 20th century ideals. Cr...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:08:23

15. A Boy Brushed Red Living in New Orleans
YIKES. It would have sucked to be an Italian grocer in New Orleans in 1918 and 1919. Do you believe the Axe Man was a singular person? Would you have jazzed it out in March 1919? Do you think Pepitone's widow killed the real Axe Man?C...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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49:24

14. Of All the Shirtwaist Factories in the World
Many girls experience a phase during their preteen years called the "Shirtwaist Factory Fire Era." Georgia did not experience this phase, so it's up to Hannah to give her the deets. Fire safety is feminist, and don't you forget it.Cre...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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43:05

13. Lincoln Park Cemetery is So Two Years Ago
People were buried under Lincoln Park in the 1800s? They were still finding bodies that hadn't been reinterred in the early 1900s?? They were STILL finding bodies in 1998??? What is going on?!?! Tune in this week to find out.Created a...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:00:13

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