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Extra History Topic Suggestions are OPEN until 5/6!
🕑 Added 2024-04-29 23:12:16 +0000 UTCHello Historians, our next Extra History theme is Halloween: Magic, The Occult &. Spook Vibes!
Trick-or-Treat Extra Historians! This next vote will be for a series launching in October, and that lets us tee up our very first Halloween-themed full series! Think witch trials and werewolf panics, Spiritualism, and the dead. This would be the perfect theme to suggest Elizabeth Bathory, Edgar Allan Poe, John Dee the birth of horror films (like Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari) or anything gothic and weird. Just remember that vibe is important here—it should be Halloween enough to bleed orange and black.
You can enter YOUR suggestions for the topic HERE in this form.
Some notes about suggestions:
Suggestions should feature content before the 1930s
If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a full series, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
Only one suggestion per person, please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed. Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 5/6.
We can't wait to read all your suggested topics!
Comments
Rodrigo Barrio
The conquest of Constantinopla
Vivian Griffith
History of Voodoo! A religion with origins in African tribal worship mixed with Native American spiritualism whose cultural connotation is one of evil spirits and magic. would be perfect for October!
Jacob White
It would be a stretch, but it's not unheard of, just look at the author "Mark Twain" who was born under a comet, and died when that comet returned.
Jacob White
When you get the moniker of "Wickedest Man On Earth" you know you're doing something that is, in the opinions of others, "not quite right".
Jacob White
It could be an interesting one, but then Extra Credits could begin to explore other holidays mutated by Christianity to become the holidays as we know them today. It'd be opening a whole different can of worms for Extra Credits, so I have to ask'em, you lot up for that?
Jacob White
Bedlam will have to make an appearance, or get a mention in your idea, the asylum that was home to King George 3rd and gave us the term "Bedlam" meaning chaotic uproar
Nimrod
History of the Asylums - Hell on Earth! Also require a one-off for Nellie Bly and her cover story of the asylum.
Jacob White
Aleister Crowley, this man needs his own series, and his occult obsession and life should get fully explained, even if it's just a one off episode.
Joshua Evans-Lowell
It's a bit of a stretch but maybe a bioseries on Harry Houdini, who famously died on Halloween. His life touched a lot of really interesting events and trends in the 19th and 20th century, from the experiences of Jewish immigrants to Vaudville to his famous clashes with spiritualists.
Extra History
Oh that one would be fun!
David Chipman
History of Samhain?
