In this haunting episode, we uncover the horrifying true story of The Radium Girls — the young women who were poisoned by the very substance they were told was safe. Hired to paint luminous watch dials during World War I, these workers were instructed to lick their brushes... unknowingly ingesting deadly radioactive radium every single day.Their bones glowed. Their jaws crumbled. And when they tried to speak out, they were silenced — even blamed. But their fight for justice would change the world.Join us as we explore one of the most shocking corporate betrayals in American history — a story of glowing ghosts, bone-deep decay, and the deadly cost of silence.

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In this chilling episode of Grim Chapters of History, we journey to 19th-century Austria to uncover the horrifying legend of the Austrian Leather Man — a figure cloaked in mystery, stitched horror, and human skin. Was he a forgotten criminal, a misunderstood wanderer, or something far more sinister? Fraser peels back the gruesome layers of fact and folklore in one of Europe’s most disturbing forgotten tales.

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In the shadow of the Ottoman Empire, Christian families across the Balkans lived in dread of a knock at the door. The Devshirme — or "blood tax" — was a state-enforced system of child abduction. Boys were taken by force, converted, and reshaped into elite soldiers known as Janissaries. But behind the empire's glory was a trail of broken families, vanished children, and centuries of psychological terror.

In this episode of Grim Chapters of History, we explore one of history’s most chilling forms of human theft — and the legacy of those stolen boys who became the sword of the empire.