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You’re a teenage girl in 1917. You’ve landed a coveted job painting glowing numbers onto watch dials — patriotic work, scientific work, the kind of job they say is good for you. But what they don’t say is what happens next. Your bones begin to ache. Your teeth fall out. And no one listens. Not until it’s too late.

This is the story of the Radium Girls — told in quiet detail and dark truth. It’s not a tale of triumph. It’s a slow unraveling of trust, health, and humanity. From factory floors to silent courtrooms, this immersive second-person narrative walks you through the beauty and horror of one of the 20th century’s most haunting labor tragedies.

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Beneath the marble streets of ancient Rome lies a world no one wants to remember — but someone had to live it.

In this immersive, second-person historical journey, you are not a senator, soldier, or citizen of renown. You are a Roman sewer worker — nameless, thankless, forgotten. You crawl through the Cloaca Maxima, Rome’s grandest sewer, surrounded by filth, rot, and the slow erosion of your body and soul. There is no glory here. Only endurance.

Told in a calm, slow voice with dark humor and brutal honesty, this 2-hour sleep video is not meant to lull you with fantasy — but to walk you gently into the truth of the past. Through disease, labor, decay, and death, you’ll learn what it meant to survive where history turns its face away.

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Step into the silent, bloodstained corners of medieval life — not as a noble, not as a knight, but as a village midwife. In this darkly immersive, second-person sleep story, you’ll experience the brutal truth of a role few survived and fewer were ever thanked for. From blood-soaked straw to whispered accusations of witchcraft, you walk the thin line between reverence and blame — holding lives in your hands while the Church watches, the villagers whisper, and death waits at every doorstep.

Told in a calm, haunting tone meant to lull you to sleep while leaving the candles of history flickering in your mind, this story isn’t about heroes. It’s about the forgotten women who showed up — and paid the price.

If you enjoy softly spoken history, quietly devastating detail, and the sharp contrast between survival and silence, this episode is for you.

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What was it like to be a servant in ancient Egypt? Not a scribe. Not a priest. Just one of the invisible laborers who scrubbed floors with broken brooms, hauled offerings through the heat, and died nameless beneath the very monuments they built.This is not the Egypt you’ll find in textbooks or museums. This is the view from the bottom — sunburned, overworked, and easily replaced. Across fifteen sections, we walk slowly through a life of endless toil, forgotten death, and the kind of civilization no one mourns from the servant’s quarters.Lie back. Close your eyes. And prepare for a quiet, uncelebrated descent into the parts of history we usually step over.

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Tonight on Drowsy Historian, we step into the slow-motion disaster that was the Dust Bowl — not as an outsider, but as someone living it. You’re not a pioneer. You’re not a symbol. You’re just one of thousands of ordinary farmers who watched the sky turn black, the earth turn to ash, and the future turn into something quiet and cruel.From the hopeful lies of the Homestead Act to the biblical arrival of dust storms, from coughing children and eroded dreams to the failed promise of California’s orchards, this is a story about what it means to survive something that doesn’t care if you do.We won’t glorify it. We won’t clean it up. This is what it looked like when the sky gave up on you — and the land did too.

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Tonight, you're not a Roman senator or a legendary survivor. You're just another ordinary resident of Pompeii — sunburned, exhausted, and entirely unprepared for the day your city vanishes beneath ash.

In this immersive, slow-burning historical sleep story, we follow the final hours of Pompeii not through myth or marble, but through the eyes of someone caught in the middle — choking, stumbling, too human to be heroic. From the first strange shadows in the sky to the moment the pyroclastic flow silences everything, this story traces the collapse not just of a city, but of every illusion its people clung to.

If you've ever wondered what it really felt like to live — and die — in the shadow of Vesuvius, you're in the right place.

Slow narration. Dry humor. Quiet horror. And no miracles.

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You arrive in Shanghai looking for adventure. You leave as a ghost no one remembers.
Welcome to the slow, smoky collapse of a life undone — not by war, but by commerce.

In this immersive, softly narrated historical story, you’ll follow the descent of one lost soul in 19th-century Shanghai as they fall into the grip of the British Empire’s most profitable addiction: opium. From your first drag in a crumbling den to your last breath beside a pile of forgotten bodies, this episode explores the quiet violence of colonial trade, imperial decay, and the ghosts left behind by both.

Perfect for bedtime listening, this story blends dry humor, dark history, and vivid sensory detail in the style of Calm History and Boring History for Sleep — with a tone that’s more whisper than lecture, and more unsettling than soothing.

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In tonight’s slow descent through history, we follow the brutal, bitterly pointless life of a Napoleonic soldier. From forced conscription and lice-ridden camps to frostbite in Russia and forgotten death in a tavern attic, this episode explores the war that promised glory and delivered silence.

Expect no romance. No glory. Just mud, blood, and the quiet unraveling of a man crushed by empire, forgotten by peace, and remembered by no one.

If you’re still awake at the end, you’re stronger than most.

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