Telling true stories from history’s stranger corners.

Shawn Spainhour is the creator and host of Strange Epochs. He spends his time digging up the oddest, most atmospheric moments in human history and turning them into a weekly narrative podcast. Instead of just rattling off dates, Shawn takes real, documented events—like a dead pope put on trial or the Tunguska blast—and builds them into slow, immersive stories meant for deep listening.

When he isn’t buried in old records scripting the next Tuesday release, he’s at home in Taylorsville, Utah, hanging out with his wife, Claire. He treats history as a way to sit quietly with the weirdest things humans have ever survived.