Imagine being trapped 750 miles out in the Atlantic Ocean, knowing the person sitting next to you in the pitch black is an axe-wielding murderer. In 1896, this cinematic nightmare became a reality for the crew of the Herbert Fuller.What started as a standard maritime lumber run from Boston to South America quickly devolved into a brutal triple homicide, leaving the Captain, his wife, and the Second Mate butchered in their cabins. With no way on or off the ship, the nine remaining men were locked in a desperate psychological war for survival, eventually arriving in Canada with a rotting boat of bodies and a deeply fractured story.In this video, we put the investigation to the pub test. We break down the geographical absurdities of the survivors' stories, the class-based railroading of a mixed-race First Mate by the US legal system, the desperate prosecutorial blunders involving the Lizzie Borden trial, and a chilling theory about a calculated, bloodless clean-up.Throughout the breakdown, clear distinctions are made between verified historical facts drawn from the official trial records and unverified theories lacking corroborating evidence, ensuring you know exactly where the physical evidence ends and the speculation begins.Grab a drink, and let's figure out who really swung the axe.About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0

This is a Pub Test that hits close to home. For decades, the phrase "a dingo ate my baby" has been treated as a pop culture punchline. But the reality is one of the most terrifying miscarriages of justice, junk science, and media-driven witch hunts in history.In this feature-length deep dive, we put the Chamberlain case to The Pub Test. We separate the verified historical facts from the unverified theories to expose exactly how an innocent mother was sent to a maximum-security prison. We break down the terrifying biological reality of Australia’s apex predator, the catastrophic forensic blunders inside a Holden Torana, and the media frenzy that knowingly prioritized a good story over the truth.About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0

This is a Pub Test that hits close to home. For decades, the phrase "a dingo ate my baby" has been treated as a pop culture punchline. But the reality is one of the most terrifying miscarriages of justice, junk science, and media-driven witch hunts in history.In this feature-length deep dive, we put the Chamberlain case to The Pub Test. We separate the verified historical facts from the unverified theories to expose exactly how an innocent mother was sent to a maximum-security prison. We break down the terrifying biological reality of Australia’s apex predator, the catastrophic forensic blunders inside a Holden Torana, and the media frenzy that knowingly prioritized a good story over the truth.About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0

It is one of the most explosive and cinematic theories on the true crime boards: Jack the Ripper wasn't a random madman, but a humiliated Victorian newspaper editor named Francis Craig, creating a massive, bloody smokescreen just to mask the murder of his runaway wife. Today, we run the Craig and Elizabeth Weston Davies theory through the Pub Test. We are stripping away the internet rumors, looking strictly at the verified historical facts, and seeing if the timeline actually holds up, or if this wild narrative completely falls apart over a pint.About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0

The Locked-Room Poisoning That Baffled Victorian LondonA man is found dead in his bed in 1886 London. A toxicology report later confirms over an ounce of liquid chloroform is in his stomach—a massive, unequivocally fatal dose. But the autopsy reveals none of what you would expect if someone swallowed a caustic chemical: no burns in the mouth, no blistering in the throat, and a perfectly clear windpipe. How do you get 28 milliliters of burning liquid past the human gag reflex without leaving a single trace?Welcome back to The Pub Test. Today, we are cracking open the Pimlico Mystery (the case of Adelaide Bartlett) to see if we can solve the locked-room forensic paradox that frustrated the Victorian medical establishment.We will be looking at the bizarre cast of characters, the highly unconventional Bartlett marriage, and the ultimate courtroom betrayal. Throughout this breakdown, we will be strictly separating verified historical facts from the unverified theories and tabloid gossip that have clouded this case for over a century.Did Adelaide pull off the perfect, medically impossible murder, or was the answer sitting right in front of the jury the whole time? Let's put the evidence to the pub test.About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0

Why would a killer use 20 times the lethal dose of poison to kill one man?The murder of Charles Bravo remains one of the most famous "unsolved" cases in British history. Between the adultery, the financial takeover, and the high-society cover-ups, the truth was buried under layers of Victorian etiquette.Today, we dig into the verified facts and the unverified theories of the Balham Mystery. From the water jug left unguarded to the suspicious behavior of the house staff, we’re putting every suspect to the test. Is the most obvious answer the one the police missed entirely?About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0

When we hear "The Whitechapel Murderer," our minds immediately go to 1888 and the blood-soaked streets stalked by Jack the Ripper. But 14 years before the autumn of terror, the East End was rocked by a crime so gruesome, so shocking, and so hypocritical, it completely shattered Victorian society. Grab a pint, and welcome back to The Pub Test.In this episode, we peel back the respectable mask of Henry Wainwright—a wealthy Whitechapel brushmaker and lay preacher who was hiding a terrifying secret right beneath the floorboards of his warehouse. We dive into the desperate double life that drove him to financial ruin, the bizarre chemical blunder that perfectly preserved his victim, and the frantic, bizarre foot chase across London that finally brought him down.We also explore the fascinating forensic link between this 1874 case and the Jack the Ripper investigation, looking at the pioneering work of Dr. Thomas Bond—the exact same police surgeon who would later walk into Miller's Court to examine the remains of Mary Jane Kelly.About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0

The Beast of Gévaudan: The True Crime that Humiliated a KingdomBetween 1764 and 1767, the remote French province of Gévaudan was terrorized by a seemingly unstoppable predator that actively hunted women and children, leaving up to 300 people dead. The public believed it was a demon. The King’s elite soldiers claimed it was a bulletproof monster. But the truth is far more complex—and much darker.Welcome back to The Pub Test. Grab a drink as we cut through centuries of folklore, werewolf myths, and cryptozoology to look at the verified historical facts of the Beast of Gévaudan.In this episode, we break down the brutal reality of the attacks, analyze the actual autopsy reports of the two massive animals killed by the King's hunters, and reveal the massive royal cover-up that followed. Most importantly, we uncover how an 18th-century "news drought" turned this local tragedy into the world's very first true crime media frenzy—an event that accidentally helped spark the French Revolution.About the Host:Owen is a fiction writer who loves exploring real-life mysteries and forgotten stories.Check out his books 👇📚 The Power of History📚 Corporate Jungle🎧 Audio Credits:Bar Crowd – Logans Pub – Feb 2007.wav by lonemonk — License: Attribution 3.0OpenBeerDrinkIt.wav by samule44 — License: Attribution 4.0