From the Archive
Funny, absurd and serious stories from all of world history, told properly.
The Great Emu War
Western Australia, 1932
The army sent machine guns to fight the emus. Then Parliament asked about the medals.
The Great Moon Hoax
New York, 1835
A newspaper reported bat-people living on the Moon. It never took it back.
Operation Mincemeat
Spain, 1943
Britain fooled Hitler with a dead man, a briefcase of fake secrets and a letter from his bank about his overdraft.
The Harbour Bridge Opening
Sydney, 1932
Sydney opened its bridge twice. The first time was a man on a horse with a sword.
The Dancing Plague
Strasbourg, 1518
People in the street could not stop dancing. The officials' cure was more dancing.
Your hosts
Kit Fable
Historian, explorer, believer of documents. Kit reads the file and takes it at its word.
Scribe
A small teal dragon who never says a word. He checks the maths, and the look on his face usually says enough.
Why "every fact sourced"?
Most history videos ask you to trust them. Each Faded Scrolls episode has a page here listing the newspapers, parliamentary records, books and papers its script was checked against, with links where they're online. When a famous number is really just one person's claim, we say so.