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Telling interesting stories of the past to inherit their ingenuity and avoid their mistakes. Sleepless History is now on Patreon. Follow for free to get bonus content as it rolls out — patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory If this show has helped you in any way or you're feeling generous, you can donate to the show here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/b6cefc39-5137-4e61-a570-59bb4da590c5/donations I create history stories that are interesting enough to fall asleep to. I independently research, review, and edit all the content for this podcast. Don't forget to follow!

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    The St. Francis Dam Disaster: California's Forgotten Deadliest Night | Sleep History

    Two and a half minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam gave way. Within 70 minutes, a wall of water and concrete had erased everything in the Santa Clara River Valley from San Francisquito Canyon to the Pacific. More than 400 people died in their beds. It remains the second-deadliest disaster in California history, and almost no one remembers it. Tonight on Sleepless History, we tell the complete story of the Saint Francis Dam collapse and the man who built it: William Mulholland. A self-taught immigrant ditch-digger from Belfast who taught himself hydraulic engineering by candlelight, brought water to a desert city, and made Los Angeles possible. For thirty years his judgment was treated as infallible. In one night, it cost hundreds of lives and destroyed him. This is a full-length sleep history documentary, narrated slowly and calmly over gentle rain sounds. There are no jump scares, no dramatic music stings, and no volume spikes. Just a quiet voice, steady rainfall, and a story to drift off to. If you fall asleep before the end, that's the point. Come back to it tomorrow night. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR TONIGHT The rise of William Mulholland from Irish sailor to the most powerful man in Los Angeles. The building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the bitter Owens Valley water war that followed. How the St. Francis Dam was raised twice during construction without a single recalculation of its base. The dissolving gypsum, the ancient landslide, and the buried fault line nobody surveyed. The muddy leak reported on the morning of March 12, and the inspection that declared the dam safe twelve hours before it failed. The flood itself, the switchboard operators who stayed at their posts to warn strangers, and the motorcycle officer who rode toward the water instead of away from it. The coroner's inquest, the verdict, and Mulholland's quiet ruin. And the reforms born from the wreckage, from California's dam safety program to the independent geological surveys that made the Hoover Dam safe. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Intro: Two and a Half Minutes Before Midnight 00:01:33 Part One: The King of Water 00:09:34 From Belfast to the Los Angeles Ditch 00:17:32 Fred Eaton and the Owens River Scheme 00:22:16 Building the Los Angeles Aqueduct 00:29:26 The Owens Valley Water War 00:33:23 Part Two: Hubris in Concrete 00:37:38 Raising the Dam Twice 00:46:04 Gypsum, Landslide, and Fault Line 00:50:25 The Muddy Leak, March 12, 1928 00:54:34 Part Three: The Midnight Deluge 01:04:46 Warnings in the Dark 01:08:47 Dawn Over the Santa Clara Valley 01:14:17 Part Four: The Inquest and Ruin 01:22:36 The Coroner's Jury Verdict 01:26:14 The Ruin of William Mulholland 01:27:28 Dam Safety Reform and the Hoover Dam 01:35:37 The Canyon Today 01:36:36 Closing Reflections SUPPORT THE SHOW Sleepless History is fully independent, with no network behind it. If these stories have become part of your nightly routine, you can support the show on Patreon. Members get early access, ad-free listening, and clean versions of episodes with no background rain. Support the show here!: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory If Patreon isn't for you right now, that's completely fine. Following the show and leaving a comment or review helps just as much, and costs nothing. New episodes every Sunday and Wednesday. All research, writing, and editing is done by Sleepless History. Topics: Sleep history, history for sleep, bedtime history stories for adults, calm history narration, rain sounds for sleeping, sleep documentary, insomnia relief, relaxing history podcast. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    The St. Francis Dam Disaster: California's Forgotten Deadliest Night | Sleep History

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    The Great Wall of China: Two Thousand Years of Stone and Sand | History For Sleep

    Tonight we walk the full length of the Great Wall of China — not one wall, but two thousand years of packed earth, fired brick, and millions of quiet, anonymous hands. Settle in with steady rain and let this one carry you off. Most people picture a single stone ribbon curling over the ridgelines north of Beijing. The truth is stranger and slower than that. The Great Wall was never one wall. It was a long, layered, unfinished conversation between dynasties, deserts, and mountains — begun by rival kingdoms stacking earth against each other, connected by an emperor who unified a continent, extended west along a corridor of silk and jade, abandoned for centuries, and finally rebuilt in brick by a dynasty haunted by the memory of conquest. In this full-length episode we begin in the Warring States period, watch Qin Shi Huang stitch scattered defenses into a single frontier, follow Han beacon fires and Silk Road caravans out into the Gobi, sit with the Ming builders and their sticky rice mortar, and stand at Shanhai Pass in the spring of sixteen forty-four, when the greatest wall ever built was undone by a single opened gate. We also talk honestly about the cost — the conscripts, the convicts, the soldiers, the families who never got their sons back — and about Meng Jiang Nu, the widow whose grief, the story goes, brought a section of the wall down. And at the very end, gently, we settle the oldest myth in popular science: no, you cannot see it from space. One hour and thirty-nine minutes of calm, historically grounded narration over rain. No jolts, no music stings, no ad breaks in the middle of a sentence. Just a long story to fall asleep to. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 4:33 Chapter One – The Qin Unification 27:00 Chapter Two – The Han Dynasty and the Silk Road 52:44 Chapter Three – The Ming Dynasty Reconstruction 1:14:52 Chapter Four – Labor, Loss, and the Legend of Meng Jiang Nu 1:35:05 Chapter Five – Legacy, Myth, and the Space Visibility Debunk 1:59:58 Closing New sleep history episodes every week. Best with headphones or a speaker, low volume, lights off. Join the Patreon here!: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory Topics: great wall of china, great wall of china history, history of the great wall, qin shi huang, ming dynasty, han dynasty, silk road, meng jiang nu, shanhai pass, sleep history, history podcast for sleep, bedtime story for adults, sleep story with rain sounds, calm history narration, fall asleep to history, ancient china history, chinese history podcast, rain sounds for sleeping, long history podcast, sleepless history Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    The Great Wall of China: Two Thousand Years of Stone and Sand | History For Sleep

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    The Ice King: The Forgotten History of the Global Ice Trade

    Before refrigerators, before ice makers, before the idea of a cold drink on a hot day was something you could take for granted, a young Bostonian named Frederic Tudor nearly bankrupted himself trying to sell frozen pond water to the tropics. Nearly everyone who heard the idea called it madness. He proved them wrong in the most unlikely way possible: by shipping a slice of a New England winter sixteen thousand miles by sailing ship, around the tip of Africa, to the sweltering colonial city of Calcutta. This is the true, almost entirely forgotten story of the global ice trade. From the ancient ice pits of Persia and the snow markets of imperial Rome, to Tudor's ruinous first shipment to Martinique, to the four-month voyage of the ship Tuscany and the birth of an industry that shipped New England's frozen ponds to four continents. Along the way: sawdust insulation, horse-drawn ice saws, Henry David Thoreau watching harvest crews work Walden Pond, a shop window on the Strand in London, and the slow, quiet decline of an entire industry once electric refrigeration made it obsolete. Narrated slowly and calmly over gentle rain sounds, this long-form episode is built to help you unwind and drift off, whether you're dealing with insomnia, decompressing after a long day, or just love falling asleep to true history. No jump scares, no dramatic music stings. Just a detailed, accurate story told slowly. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 — Introduction 00:03:33 — Chapter One: When Ice Was Magic 00:14:29 — Chapter Two: A Boston Dreamer and a Doomed First Voyage 00:28:44 — Chapter Three: The Long Voyage to Calcutta 00:43:24 — Chapter Four: Sawdust, Saws, and an Empire of Cold 00:56:17 — Chapter Five: The Long Melt If Sleepless History has become part of your nightly routine, following or leaving a quick rating helps the show more than you'd think. Early access, ad-free episodes, and versions with different or no background sound are available for supporters on Patreon. Join here!: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory Sleepless History is a slow, detailed, sleep-focused history podcast released twice weekly, narrated over ambient soundscapes for history lovers, insomniacs, and anyone who wants a calm, factual bedtime story. Topics Covered: Frederic Tudor, Ice King, history of the ice trade, Calcutta ice house, New England history, sleep podcast, history podcast for sleep, bedtime history stories, rain sounds podcast, relaxing history podcast, sleep stories for adults, insomnia relief podcast, long form history podcast, boring history podcast, history of refrigeration, colonial India history, Walden Pond history, fall asleep podcast, calm narration history, Sleepless History Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    The Ice King: The Forgotten History of the Global Ice Trade

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    A City Divided: The Berlin Wall | Sleep History with Rain Sounds

    A slow, detailed history of the Berlin Wall, narrated quietly over rain sounds to help you fall asleep. Nearly two hours of calm bedtime history — no music, no sudden noises. Tonight we spend some time in a city that was cut in half. For twenty-eight years, two months and twenty-seven days, Berlin was divided by concrete, and this episode is about what that actually felt like on both sides of it. We begin in the rubble of 1945 and the four-power carve-up of the city, the Berlin Airlift, and the open border years when tens of thousands simply walked west. Then the barbed wire of August 1961. From there we go inside daily life in East Berlin — the slab apartments, the fifteen-year wait for a Trabant, the Intershops, the Stasi and its informants, and the West German television almost everyone secretly watched. We cross to West Berlin, the subsidized island city with no closing time, its squatters and guest workers, its ghost stations and David Bowie at Hansa Studios. We walk the death strip itself, the signal fences and the tunnels and the people who died within sight of the other side. And we finish with the autumn of 1989: Hungary, the candles in Leipzig, and the evening a spokesman read the wrong line from a piece of paper and opened the border by accident. TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 — Introduction 00:02:59 — Chapter One: The City They Cut Into Pieces (1945 to the night the wire went up) 00:20:05 — Chapter Two: The Other Side of the House (daily life in East Berlin) 00:39:55 — Chapter Three: The Island (life in West Berlin) 00:58:48 — Chapter Four: The Ground Between (the death strip and the escapes) 01:20:41 — Chapter Five: The Evening It Ended (1989 and the fall of the Wall) 01:47:34 — Closing Sleepless History is long-form narrated history for sleep, insomnia and relaxation, released twice a week with rain sounds in the background. Follow or subscribe so new episodes arrive quietly in your feed. Supporting the show on Patreon gets you early access, ad-free listening and alternate background audio Join Here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory Topics covered: sleep history, boring history for sleep, history for sleep, bedtime history, sleep podcast, rain sounds, fall asleep fast, insomnia, relaxing history, calm voice narration, berlin wall, cold war, east germany, west berlin, german history, 1989, stasi, sleep stories for adults, long form history, deep sleep, white noise, bedtime stories for grown ups, history documentary, sleepless history Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    A City Divided: The Berlin Wall | Sleep History with Rain Sounds

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    The House Edge: How the Mob Built Modern Sports Betting | Sleep History

    Tonight, the long and largely illegal road that runs from the back-room bookmaking parlors of the eighteen hundreds to the sports betting app glowing on your nightstand. This is the story of the men who built the machinery of modern sports gambling; almost none of whom ever did it with a license. The ledger and the overround. The telegraph wire that turned a horse race a thousand miles away into a live betting market. Arnold Rothstein, the Black Sox scandal, and the blueprint he left behind. Moses Annenberg, the newspaper circulation man who became one of the richest and most feared figures in the country by selling information instead of taking bets. The wire service wars, the killing of James Ragen, and the Chicago Outfit's takeover of the national information pipeline. Then the mathematics: layoff betting, the vig, and the elegant invention of the point spread by a Chicago math teacher named Charles McNeil: the single number the entire modern industry is still organized around. The Kefauver hearings and Frank Costello's famous hands. Robert Kennedy and the Wire Act. Nevada's turf clubs, the punishing federal excise tax that nearly strangled legal bookmaking in its crib, Jackie Gaughan, Bob Martin, Jimmy the Greek, and Lefty Rosenthal at the Stardust. Offshore sportsbooks and the internet. The Sports Protection Act, New Jersey's long fight, and the Supreme Court decision that finally opened the floodgates. By the end, one uncomfortable truth: the point spread, the eleven-to-ten pricing, the layoff, even shopping for the best number across apps, nearly every mechanic of the legal, publicly traded, television-advertised sportsbook industry was worked out decades earlier by men trying to stay one step ahead of the police. No jump scares, no loud stings, no urgency. Just a long, quiet walk through a hundred and fifty years of history, paced for drifting off. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 - Introduction: The Phone in Your Pocket 00:03:47 - Chapter One: The Ledger and the Wire 00:18:47 - Chapter Two: The Wire and the Syndicate 00:33:32 - Chapter Three: The Invention of the Line 00:50:01 - Chapter Four: Neon Legitimacy 01:06:05 - Chapter Five: From Contraband to Commonplace 01:19:41 - Closing Thoughts and Goodnight ABOUT THE SHOW Sleepless History is a sleep podcast for curious minds. Every episode is a carefully researched, historically accurate story told in a slow, calm voice over ambient background sound. Designed to be genuinely interesting if you stay awake, and gentle enough to carry you off if you don't. New episodes Sundays and Wednesdays. SUPPORT THE SHOW Sleepless History is fully independent, with no network behind it. Early access, ad-free listening, and alternate or no background audio are available to supporters on Patreon. If that's not for you right now, following the show and leaving a comment helps just as much. Join Here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory Covered: sports betting history, history of gambling, organized crime podcast, mafia history, point spread history, bookmaking, Arnold Rothstein, Moses Annenberg, Las Vegas history, sleep podcast, bedtime history, history for sleep, rain sounds, deep sleep stories, calm narration, fall asleep fast, insomnia relief, boring history to fall asleep to. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    The House Edge: How the Mob Built Modern Sports Betting | Sleep History

  6. 23 ago

    The Mary Celeste: The Ship Found Empty in the Atlantic | Sleep History with Rain Sounds

    On a November morning in 1872, a cargo ship left New York carrying her captain, his wife, their two-year-old daughter, and seven experienced sailors. Twenty-seven days later she was found drifting alone in the mid-Atlantic; sails half-set, breakfast things still in the galley, a child's sewing resting on the machine, and not one living soul aboard. Tonight on Sleepless History, we take our time with the entire story of the Mary Celeste: the most famous ghost ship in maritime history, and one of the very few unsolved mysteries that is genuinely, thoroughly documented rather than merely repeated. We begin at Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia, in 1861, where she was launched under a different name, the Amazon, and promptly began a run of bad luck so relentless her first captain died before her maiden voyage ended. We follow her rebuild, her renaming, and her final crossing under Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs: a sober, devout New England shipmaster who trusted the voyage enough to bring his wife Sarah and their little girl Sophia along. We sit with the last log entry of November 25th, near the Azores: perfectly ordinary, no distress, no warning; and then with the ten empty days that follow. Then we board her with Oliver Deveau of the Dei Gratia and walk the whole ship, room by room: the missing yawl, the loose main hatch, three and a half feet of water in a hold that was in no danger of sinking, the damaged compass, the missing sextant and chronometer, 300 feet of frayed rope trailing from the stern, and a sword under a berth with a stain that everyone assumed was blood. Finally we go to the Vice-Admiralty Court in Gibraltar, where Attorney General Frederick Solly-Flood chased mutiny, murder, and insurance conspiracy for months and proved none of it. And we work carefully through what is actually left: the waterspout theory, the seaquake, and the alcohol-vapor explanation that quietly makes more sense than any of them. And because every good mystery has an afterlife, we finish with the ship's cursed final decades, the 1885 insurance fraud that ended her on Rochelais Reef, Clive Cussler's 2001 search for the wreck, and the young unknown writer named Arthur Conan Doyle who invented so much of what the world still believes — including the misspelling "Marie Celeste." No jump scares. No dramatic music. Just a calm, carefully researched history read slowly over steady rain, made to be listened to in the dark. Sleep well. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 — Welcome & Tonight's Story 00:03:05 — Chapter One: The Cursed Beginnings 00:16:26 — Chapter Two: The Final Voyage 00:24:37 — Chapter Three: The Discovery 00:34:45 — Chapter Four: The Inquiry and the Theories 00:49:52 — Chapter Five: The Ship's Afterlife and the Legend 00:59:00 — Closing & Goodnight SUPPORT THE SHOW Sleepless History is fully independent — no network, just research and quiet evenings. Early access, ad-free listening, alternate background audio (this episode has wave sounds available), and bonus stories are on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory If this helped you sleep, following the show and leaving a rating is the single biggest thing you can do for it. It's how tired people at two in the morning find us. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    The Mary Celeste: The Ship Found Empty in the Atlantic | Sleep History with Rain Sounds

  7. 19 ago

    The Texas City Disaster | America's Worst Industrial Accident | Sleep History Documentary with Rain Sounds

    On the morning of Wednesday, April 16th, 1947, a French freighter sat at Dock O in Texas City, Texas, loaded with 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. A thin ribbon of smoke rose from one of her holds. Within the hour, the SS Grandcamp had detonated with a force that flattened the waterfront, killed the entire volunteer fire department where it stood, and knocked two small aircraft out of the sky. Tonight, we walk slowly through the deadliest industrial accident in United States history. Narrated gently, over steady rainfall, to help you drift off. This is a full, five-chapter history of the Texas City disaster, told at a pace built for sleep. We begin with Galveston Bay itself and the ambitious little port that grew up in the shadow of the 1900 hurricane, then follow the oil boom and the wartime chemical industry that turned a speculative real estate project into a working industrial town of sixteen thousand people. From there we move to the Grandcamp herself, a surplus Liberty ship reflagged to France; and to the single, entirely reasonable decision that made everything worse: a captain who did not want to soak his cargo, sealed the hatches, and pumped steam into a hold packed with an oxidizer that carries its own oxygen inside its molecules. We stay with the town through the hours that followed: a community facing catastrophe with no fire department left, ruptured oil tanks burning across the harbor, and convoys of volunteers driving toward a disaster rather than away from it. Then comes the second blast, the steamship High Flyer, burning quietly through the night with a thousand tons of ammonium nitrate and two thousand tons of sulfur in her holds. Finally, the accounting: 581 confirmed dead, only 398 of them ever positively identified, the landmark lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court, the Texas City Disaster Special Relief Act, and the safety codes and mutual aid agreements that exist today because of what happened on that dock. No spectacle, no sudden noises. Just careful research, a calm voice, and rain. If you fall asleep partway through, that is exactly the point. The story will still be here when you wake up. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 - Welcome to Sleepless History 00:03:10 - Chapter One: A Young Port on Galveston Bay 00:15:10 - Chapter Two: Smoke Over the Harbor 00:27:44 - Chapter Three: A Town Without Firemen 00:33:54 - Chapter Four: The Second Blast 00:41:31 - Chapter Five: Counting the Dead, and What Came After 00:54:16 - Closing Reflections 00:55:34 - Goodnight from Sleepless History SUPPORT THE SHOW Sleepless History is fully independent: no network, no studio, just careful research and quiet evenings. You can support the show on Patreon for early access to new episodes, ad-free listening, and alternate or no background audio on your favorite episodes: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory If Patreon isn't for you right now, following the show and leaving a rating helps just as much. NEW EPISODES Wednesdays and Saturdays. TOPICS: Texas City disaster, SS Grandcamp, SS High Flyer, ammonium nitrate explosion, Galveston Bay, 1947, Monsanto Chemical Company, Liberty ship, industrial disaster history, Dalehite v. United States, Federal Tort Claims Act, American history for sleep, bedtime history, rain sounds for sleeping, calm narration, sleep aid podcast. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    The Texas City Disaster | America's Worst Industrial Accident | Sleep History Documentary with Rain Sounds

  8. 16 ago

    The Purple Gang: Detroit's Mafia and the Bloodiest Battle for Prohibition's Deadliest River (True Crime History for Sleep)

    Detroit, 1920s: a city separated from a legal Canadian whiskey supply by half a mile of river. For thirteen years, that narrow crossing called the Windsor-Detroit Funnel carried an estimated 75% of all the illegal liquor smuggled into the United States. And running it wasn't the Italian-American families most people picture when they think of Prohibition. It was the Purple Gang: a loose, ferociously violent syndicate of Jewish-American sons of Russian immigrants, many still in their teens, who rose out of a Detroit neighborhood called Little Jerusalem to control liquor, gambling, and narcotics across the city; and whose reputation was fearsome enough that even Al Capone chose partnership over a turf war. Tonight's episode tells the Purple Gang's full story, slowly and thoroughly, as a bedtime narration over gentle rain sounds: the Sugar House Boys and the five competing explanations for where the "Purple" name actually came from; the ice-bridge smugglers and doctored eggs of the Windsor-Detroit Funnel; the Cleaners and Dyers War and the acquittal that convinced Detroit the gang was untouchable; the Milaflores Massacre and Detroit's first recorded use of a Tommy gun in a gangland killing; the Collingwood Manor Massacre of 1931, where the gang's own internal betrayal finally brought it down; and the slow, decade-long unraveling that ended with Detroit's underworld absorbed into the rising Sicilian-American Detroit Partnership. This is a long-form history episode, built to help you settle in and drift off. Factual, carefully researched, and read at a slow, calm pace, with the harder edges of the violence handled without dwelling on gore. If your mind wanders partway through, that's exactly what it's here for. In tonight's story: The Burnstein brothers and the immigrant neighborhood that produced the gangHow the Ontario Temperance Act's export loophole created the Windsor-Detroit FunnelSpeedboats, ice bridges, and the "whiskey six" — how the smuggling actually workedThe Purple Gang's uneasy alliance with Al Capone's Chicago organizationThe Cleaners and Dyers War and the Milaflores MassacreThe Collingwood Manor Massacre of 1931 and the informant who broke the gangWhat happened to the Burnstein brothers, and how the gang's territory passed to Detroit's Sicilian-American organized crime familyThe Purple Gang's surprisingly thin pop-culture footprint, from Raymond Chandler to The Blues Brothers Chapters / Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction — Detroit's forgotten Prohibition secret 00:04:35 Chapter One — Little Jerusalem and the Sugar House Boys 00:21:49 Chapter Two — The Windsor-Detroit Funnel 00:44:28 Chapter Three — Blood on Hastings Street 01:05:49 Chapter Four — The Unraveling 01:18:55 Chapter Five — Echoes on the River If this show is part of your wind-down routine, it helps enormously if you follow or subscribe so new episodes reach you automatically, and a comment or rating goes a long way for a small independent show. Sleepless History is fully independent, with no network behind it just research and quiet evenings. If these episodes have become part of your nightly routine, you can support the show on Patreon for ad-free listening, versions with different or no background audio, and early access to new episodes. Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory Further reading: Paul R. Kavieff, The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit, 1910–1945; Gregory A. Fournier, The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sleepless-history/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    The Purple Gang: Detroit's Mafia and the Bloodiest Battle for Prohibition's Deadliest River (True Crime History for Sleep)
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Telling interesting stories of the past to inherit their ingenuity and avoid their mistakes. Sleepless History is now on Patreon. Follow for free to get bonus content as it rolls out — patreon.com/cw/SleeplessHistory If this show has helped you in any way or you're feeling generous, you can donate to the show here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/b6cefc39-5137-4e61-a570-59bb4da590c5/donations I create history stories that are interesting enough to fall asleep to. I independently research, review, and edit all the content for this podcast. Don't forget to follow!

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    Sleepless History
  • Anni di attività
    2026
  • Puntate
    102
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    Sleepless History: Sleep Documentaries
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