November 7, 2025 • 12 mins
Step into the mud, madness, and absurdity of the First World War with The Strange History Podcast. Host Amy uncovers 20 of the strangest, funniest, and most unbelievable facts from World War I. From carrier pigeons that saved hundreds of lives to goats who became decorated war heroes, and from glowing wounds to beer pipelines in the trenches, these true stories show just how weird history can be. Discover the legendary Christmas Truce of 1914, the bizarre “dazzle camouflage” ships that looked like Picasso paintings, Lawrence of Arabia’s camel sabotage missions, fake trees hiding snipers, and the surprising role of women telephone operators known as the “Hello Girls.” Hear about the Red Baron’s chivalrous funeral, Claude Choules—the last WWI combat veteran with a bullet in his skull, and the phantom guns that tricked entire battalions. Funny, shocking, and strangely human, this mega-episode blends humor, storytelling, and fake ads that will make you laugh while learning about the quirkiest corners of WWI history. If you thought WWI was just trenches and treaties, think again—this is history’s strangest side.
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This episode of The Strange History Podcast was lovingly crafted with the help of ElevenLabs.io — the magical technology that gives Amy her time to sleep, eat, work and spend time with her dog Jack. While some might say she sounds too good to be true, we assure you, Amy is absolutely a real person… who just happens to have access to studio-grade AI vocal cords and an unnatural ability to pronounce “necromancy” without flinching. Any resemblance to an AI is purely coincidental — and mildly flattering. Dan the announcers name is really Bill and Patrick, the fake ad guy who thinks he is funny? well he is questionable at best. So yes, AI was used but the people are real and the shinanigans are.... well.... shinanigans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to the Strange History Podcast,
where we travel back in time and rummage through history's
attic only to find something weird and covered in mud.
Today we're diving into the Great War. Yes, World War One,
the war that gave us trenches, tanks, and some of
the strangest stories you'll ever hear. Because let's be honest,
(00:22):
World War One wasn't just politics in generals, it was
pigeons wearing medals, goats saving lives, and soldiers who literally
glowed in the dark. And yes, as always, today's show
is proudly sponsored by fake companies that never existed. So
strap on your steel helmet, grab your trench whistle, and
let's get weird.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The war started with a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's nineteen fourteen in Sarajevo. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his
wife Sophie are on a goodwill tour. Unfortunately, goodwill is
not on the menu for the group of Serbian nationalists
who want him dead. One of them, Gavrilo Princy, already
missed his chance earlier that morning. He's sulking, stomach growling
(01:05):
and decides to grab a sandwich at a little cafe.
Now here's the kicker. While he's sitting there, the Archduke's
car takes a wrong turn and literally stops right in
front of the cafe. Prinsip, sandwich in hand, looks up,
sees his target, and bang. World history changes forever. Some
(01:25):
historians argue about whether it was a sandwich or a pastry,
but the point is this a bad lunch break sparked
a world war.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This portion of the show is brought to you by
Princip's Delhi changing the course of history since nineteen fourteen.
Try the Archduke Combo comes with chips, a drink, and
just a dash of world conflict.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The Christmas Truce of nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's Christmas Eve in the trenches. The mud is ankle deep,
the rats are everywhere, and the smell let's just say
o to decomposing mule is not going to catch on
at Sephora. Suddenly, British soldiers hear German voices singing, still Enacht.
The Brits respond with silent night. Before long. Men climb
(02:15):
out of trenches, meet in no man's land and exchange
small gifts, cigarettes, chocolate, tins of food. One British soldier
wrote in his diary, it was like a dream. We
shook hands, wished each other Merry Christmas, and played football
in the mud For a few hours. The war stopped.
(02:35):
Commanders on both sides hated it, because if soldiers see
each other as human, it gets a lot harder to
order them to shoot. By New Years, fighting resumed, but
for one night, humanity briefly won.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Exploding pigeons.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The unsung heroes of World War One weren't generals or kings.
They were pigeons. Thousands of them carried messages across enemy
fire when radios failed. One named Shaer, a me, saved
nearly two hundred men by flying twenty five miles with
a bullet wound and one leg dangling. She delivered the
message strapped to her good leg, collapsed, and became a
(03:14):
decorated war hero. The Germans were so desperate to stop
pigeon mail that they trained hawks to intercept them, and yes,
sometimes they strapped tiny bombs to captured pigeons in the
hopes they'd fly back home and blow up their own loft.
It rarely worked, but the fact that they tried tells
you how serious pigeon warfare was.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Need to send a message. Forget texting, try pigeon plus
guaranteed delivery unless intercepted by a hawk. Extra charges may
apply if your bird explodes on arrival.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The fake tree snipers trench warfare meant spying was a nightmare.
So what did engineers do. They built hollow steel trees,
painted them to look charred and dead, and place them
at night in no man's land. Inside a sniper or
observer would climb up and peer out through hidden slits.
(04:06):
Belgian soldier Louis Lejeune described it as sitting in a coffin,
listening to the war through bark. If the enemy spotted
the fake tree, good luck. You were basically sitting in
a tin can waiting for artillery. Its camouflage meets horror
movie set design.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Russia's Lost Division.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
In nineteen sixteen, Czar Nicholas the Second sent an entire
Russian expeditionary force to help France. They fought bravely at
Champagne and Verdun. Then the Russian Revolution happened. Back home,
Suddenly these men had no country. Some refused to fight,
some joined the French Foreign Legion, Others were interned in camps.
(04:46):
Their paperwork was such a mess that later historians joked
the division simply disappeared. The reality they became a ghost army,
forgotten by their homeland, abandoned in a foreign war.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The Hello Girls.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Picture a general in France yelling into a phone, get
me artillery support, and on the other end, a nineteen
year old American woman, fluent in French, calmly rooting the call.
Over two hundred Hello Girls worked twenty four to seven
on switchboards. They handled thousands of calls, often while shells
exploded nearby. General Pershing called them as essential as the soldiers.
(05:27):
After the war, the army told them they were civilian
contractors and denied them benefits. It wasn't until nineteen seventy seven, yes,
sixty years later, that they were finally recognized as veterans. Ladies,
you ran a world war on wires, and you had
better diction than any general.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Glow in the dark wounds.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Soldiers noticed something eerie. Some of their wounds glowed faintly
blue at night. Doctors discovered it was bioluminescent bacteria fodor
habdis luminescence. Turned out, these glowing microbes killed more harmful bacteria,
so glowing wounds often healed better. Troops called it the
angel's glow. Imagine lying in a trench leg glowing like
(06:12):
a firefly while your buddy jokes, hey, mate, you're lighting
up my book here. Creepy, yes, but it saved lives.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
The Paris Taxi army.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The Germans were closing in on Paris in nineteen fourteen. Desperate,
the French government commandeered six hundred Renault Taxis soldiers piled
in rifles, sticking out windows like frat boys in a
clown car. The sight of endless taxis streaming out of
Paris became a symbol of resistance. Did it change the battle?
(06:45):
Not much, but morale skyrocketed. Paris had literally ubered its
army to the front.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Lawrence of Arabia and explosive camels T. E.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, led air Arab
rebels and sabotage missions. They blew up Ottoman railways constantly,
often using camels to carry dynamite. Sometimes the camels bolted,
dropping explosives in all the wrong places. Lawrence himself admitted
it wasn't foolproof, but it worked enough that Ottoman trains
(07:17):
became moving targets of paranoia. Picture an engineer jumping every
time a camel sneezed beer pipelines In Flanders, soldiers were miserable, mud, blood,
and no beer, so brewers built a literal pipeline to
the front lines. Gallons of beer flowed underground into the trenches.
(07:37):
Soldiers said it tasted muddy, but hey, better than water
full of cholera. Sadly, shell fire soon destroyed the pipeline.
War may be hell, but losing your beer supply that's worse.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Today's show is sponsored by Trench brew Now with thirty
percent fewer rat droppings. Drink responsibly or irresponsibly, not your
commanding officer.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Sergeant Bill the Goat.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Canada's fifth Battalion had a goat named Bill who wasn't
just a mascot. He was a life saver. He sensed
gas before humans did, bleeded warnings, and once shoved a
soldier into a trench just before an artillery shell exploded.
He even headbutted enemy soldiers. Yes, this goat fought in combat.
When he returned home, Sergeant Bill was decorated as a
(08:27):
war hero, and he probably still demanded snacks.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Em You feathers.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Australian soldiers wore emu feathers in their hats as a
sign of pride. The birds symbolized toughness and survival in
the outback. But here's the twist. Twenty years later, veterans
fought the Great Emu War back home. They used machine
guns against actual EMUs and lost. Turns out the birds
(08:53):
were faster, smarter, and had better battlefield tactics. The Wipers
Times sold and ePRESS stumbled on a printing press. Instead
of producing propaganda, they published The Wiper's Times, a satirical
trench newspaper. It mocked officers, printed fake ads like mud
for sale, and joked about rats, lice and death. Humor
(09:17):
kept them sane. One soldier wrote, we live like kings.
Mud for breakfast, shells for supper, rats for dessert. Honestly,
it sounds like college dorm food.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Gramophone submarine detectors.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Before sonar, Britain used gramophone horns underwater to listen for submarines.
Picture sailors lowering a giant victrola horn into the sea.
Did it work? Sort of? They could sometimes hear propellers,
but it also meant confusing fish noises with U boats captain,
I hear movement, relaxed Jenkins, that's a dolphin fart. Dazzled
(09:55):
camouflage ships painted in cubis stripes looked like floating optical illusions.
It didn't hide them, but it made torpedo targeting nearly impossible.
German U boat captains complained they couldn't tell which way
the ships were moving. One sailor joked, our ship looks
like Picasso had a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The Red Baron's funeral.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Manfred von Richthoven, the Red Baron, was shot down in
April nineteen eighteen. Feared by all, he had eighty confirmed kills,
but when he died, the British buried him with full honors.
Soldiers lined his grave, placed wreaths, and saluted their fallen enemy.
Chivalry may have been outdated, but for one day, respect
(10:38):
for bravery transcended borders.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Gas Masks for animals.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Dogs carried messages, horses hauled supplies. Both needed gas masks.
Photos showed giant rubber contraptions strapped to animals faces. They
looked like horror movie props, but they saved countless lives.
One horse named Warriors, survived dozens of battles and poison
gas attacks. He returned home a decorated veteran, though I
(11:06):
bet he never looked at a feedbag the same way again.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Claude Shools bullet headed veteran.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Claude Shools was shot in the head during World War One.
The bullet stayed lodged in his skull for life. He
went on to serve in World War II as a
demolition expert in Australia, lived to one hundred ten and
became the last combat veteran of World War One. When
asked about war, he said it was a terrible waste.
(11:33):
Simple honest from a man who lived through two phantom guns.
Both sides used deception, fake cannons made of wood, loudspeakers
blasting fake gunfire, phantom camps with dummy fires to fool
aerial recon. One German officer wrote, we bombarded shadows for
(11:53):
two days before realizing our mistake. That's like rage quitting
a video game after realizing you've been shooting at a wall.
The first tanks to hide their invention, the British called
armored vehicles tanks, pretending they were water carriers when they
rolled onto the battlefield. Germans panicked, calling them devil's chariots.
(12:14):
Were they effective barely? They were slow, broke constantly, and
smelled like an iron furnace, But psychologically they terrified the enemy,
and the name tank stuck. And there you have it, folks,
Twenty of the strangest, quirkiest, and most jaw dropping facts
from the war that was supposed to end all wars.
(12:36):
From goats to glowing wounds, beer pipelines to pigeon heroes,
World War One proves that history is always weirder than
we think.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
This episode was also brought to you by Mud, the
official sponsor of World War One. Mud, It's in your boots,
your food, your bed, and now your soul.
Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to the Strange History Podcast,
where we travel back in time and rummage through history's
attic only to find something weird and covered in mud.
Today we're diving into the Great War. Yes, World War One,
the war that gave us trenches, tanks, and some of
the strangest stories you'll ever hear. Because let's be honest,
(00:22):
World War One wasn't just politics in generals, it was
pigeons wearing medals, goats saving lives, and soldiers who literally
glowed in the dark. And yes, as always, today's show
is proudly sponsored by fake companies that never existed. So
strap on your steel helmet, grab your trench whistle, and
let's get weird.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The war started with a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's nineteen fourteen in Sarajevo. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his
wife Sophie are on a goodwill tour. Unfortunately, goodwill is
not on the menu for the group of Serbian nationalists
who want him dead. One of them, Gavrilo Princy, already
missed his chance earlier that morning. He's sulking, stomach growling
(01:05):
and decides to grab a sandwich at a little cafe.
Now here's the kicker. While he's sitting there, the Archduke's
car takes a wrong turn and literally stops right in
front of the cafe. Prinsip, sandwich in hand, looks up,
sees his target, and bang. World history changes forever. Some
(01:25):
historians argue about whether it was a sandwich or a pastry,
but the point is this a bad lunch break sparked
a world war.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This portion of the show is brought to you by
Princip's Delhi changing the course of history since nineteen fourteen.
Try the Archduke Combo comes with chips, a drink, and
just a dash of world conflict.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The Christmas Truce of nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's Christmas Eve in the trenches. The mud is ankle deep,
the rats are everywhere, and the smell let's just say
o to decomposing mule is not going to catch on
at Sephora. Suddenly, British soldiers hear German voices singing, still Enacht.
The Brits respond with silent night. Before long. Men climb
(02:15):
out of trenches, meet in no man's land and exchange
small gifts, cigarettes, chocolate, tins of food. One British soldier
wrote in his diary, it was like a dream. We
shook hands, wished each other Merry Christmas, and played football
in the mud For a few hours. The war stopped.
(02:35):
Commanders on both sides hated it, because if soldiers see
each other as human, it gets a lot harder to
order them to shoot. By New Years, fighting resumed, but
for one night, humanity briefly won.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Exploding pigeons.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The unsung heroes of World War One weren't generals or kings.
They were pigeons. Thousands of them carried messages across enemy
fire when radios failed. One named Shaer, a me, saved
nearly two hundred men by flying twenty five miles with
a bullet wound and one leg dangling. She delivered the
message strapped to her good leg, collapsed, and became a
(03:14):
decorated war hero. The Germans were so desperate to stop
pigeon mail that they trained hawks to intercept them, and yes,
sometimes they strapped tiny bombs to captured pigeons in the
hopes they'd fly back home and blow up their own loft.
It rarely worked, but the fact that they tried tells
you how serious pigeon warfare was.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Need to send a message. Forget texting, try pigeon plus
guaranteed delivery unless intercepted by a hawk. Extra charges may
apply if your bird explodes on arrival.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The fake tree snipers trench warfare meant spying was a nightmare.
So what did engineers do. They built hollow steel trees,
painted them to look charred and dead, and place them
at night in no man's land. Inside a sniper or
observer would climb up and peer out through hidden slits.
(04:06):
Belgian soldier Louis Lejeune described it as sitting in a coffin,
listening to the war through bark. If the enemy spotted
the fake tree, good luck. You were basically sitting in
a tin can waiting for artillery. Its camouflage meets horror
movie set design.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Russia's Lost Division.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
In nineteen sixteen, Czar Nicholas the Second sent an entire
Russian expeditionary force to help France. They fought bravely at
Champagne and Verdun. Then the Russian Revolution happened. Back home,
Suddenly these men had no country. Some refused to fight,
some joined the French Foreign Legion, Others were interned in camps.
(04:46):
Their paperwork was such a mess that later historians joked
the division simply disappeared. The reality they became a ghost army,
forgotten by their homeland, abandoned in a foreign war.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The Hello Girls.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Picture a general in France yelling into a phone, get
me artillery support, and on the other end, a nineteen
year old American woman, fluent in French, calmly rooting the call.
Over two hundred Hello Girls worked twenty four to seven
on switchboards. They handled thousands of calls, often while shells
exploded nearby. General Pershing called them as essential as the soldiers.
(05:27):
After the war, the army told them they were civilian
contractors and denied them benefits. It wasn't until nineteen seventy seven, yes,
sixty years later, that they were finally recognized as veterans. Ladies,
you ran a world war on wires, and you had
better diction than any general.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Glow in the dark wounds.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Soldiers noticed something eerie. Some of their wounds glowed faintly
blue at night. Doctors discovered it was bioluminescent bacteria fodor
habdis luminescence. Turned out, these glowing microbes killed more harmful bacteria,
so glowing wounds often healed better. Troops called it the
angel's glow. Imagine lying in a trench leg glowing like
(06:12):
a firefly while your buddy jokes, hey, mate, you're lighting
up my book here. Creepy, yes, but it saved lives.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
The Paris Taxi army.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The Germans were closing in on Paris in nineteen fourteen. Desperate,
the French government commandeered six hundred Renault Taxis soldiers piled
in rifles, sticking out windows like frat boys in a
clown car. The sight of endless taxis streaming out of
Paris became a symbol of resistance. Did it change the battle?
(06:45):
Not much, but morale skyrocketed. Paris had literally ubered its
army to the front.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Lawrence of Arabia and explosive camels T. E.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, led air Arab
rebels and sabotage missions. They blew up Ottoman railways constantly,
often using camels to carry dynamite. Sometimes the camels bolted,
dropping explosives in all the wrong places. Lawrence himself admitted
it wasn't foolproof, but it worked enough that Ottoman trains
(07:17):
became moving targets of paranoia. Picture an engineer jumping every
time a camel sneezed beer pipelines In Flanders, soldiers were miserable, mud, blood,
and no beer, so brewers built a literal pipeline to
the front lines. Gallons of beer flowed underground into the trenches.
(07:37):
Soldiers said it tasted muddy, but hey, better than water
full of cholera. Sadly, shell fire soon destroyed the pipeline.
War may be hell, but losing your beer supply that's worse.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Today's show is sponsored by Trench brew Now with thirty
percent fewer rat droppings. Drink responsibly or irresponsibly, not your
commanding officer.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Sergeant Bill the Goat.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Canada's fifth Battalion had a goat named Bill who wasn't
just a mascot. He was a life saver. He sensed
gas before humans did, bleeded warnings, and once shoved a
soldier into a trench just before an artillery shell exploded.
He even headbutted enemy soldiers. Yes, this goat fought in combat.
When he returned home, Sergeant Bill was decorated as a
(08:27):
war hero, and he probably still demanded snacks.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Em You feathers.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Australian soldiers wore emu feathers in their hats as a
sign of pride. The birds symbolized toughness and survival in
the outback. But here's the twist. Twenty years later, veterans
fought the Great Emu War back home. They used machine
guns against actual EMUs and lost. Turns out the birds
(08:53):
were faster, smarter, and had better battlefield tactics. The Wipers
Times sold and ePRESS stumbled on a printing press. Instead
of producing propaganda, they published The Wiper's Times, a satirical
trench newspaper. It mocked officers, printed fake ads like mud
for sale, and joked about rats, lice and death. Humor
(09:17):
kept them sane. One soldier wrote, we live like kings.
Mud for breakfast, shells for supper, rats for dessert. Honestly,
it sounds like college dorm food.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Gramophone submarine detectors.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Before sonar, Britain used gramophone horns underwater to listen for submarines.
Picture sailors lowering a giant victrola horn into the sea.
Did it work? Sort of? They could sometimes hear propellers,
but it also meant confusing fish noises with U boats captain,
I hear movement, relaxed Jenkins, that's a dolphin fart. Dazzled
(09:55):
camouflage ships painted in cubis stripes looked like floating optical illusions.
It didn't hide them, but it made torpedo targeting nearly impossible.
German U boat captains complained they couldn't tell which way
the ships were moving. One sailor joked, our ship looks
like Picasso had a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The Red Baron's funeral.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Manfred von Richthoven, the Red Baron, was shot down in
April nineteen eighteen. Feared by all, he had eighty confirmed kills,
but when he died, the British buried him with full honors.
Soldiers lined his grave, placed wreaths, and saluted their fallen enemy.
Chivalry may have been outdated, but for one day, respect
(10:38):
for bravery transcended borders.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Gas Masks for animals.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Dogs carried messages, horses hauled supplies. Both needed gas masks.
Photos showed giant rubber contraptions strapped to animals faces. They
looked like horror movie props, but they saved countless lives.
One horse named Warriors, survived dozens of battles and poison
gas attacks. He returned home a decorated veteran, though I
(11:06):
bet he never looked at a feedbag the same way again.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Claude Shools bullet headed veteran.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Claude Shools was shot in the head during World War One.
The bullet stayed lodged in his skull for life. He
went on to serve in World War II as a
demolition expert in Australia, lived to one hundred ten and
became the last combat veteran of World War One. When
asked about war, he said it was a terrible waste.
(11:33):
Simple honest from a man who lived through two phantom guns.
Both sides used deception, fake cannons made of wood, loudspeakers
blasting fake gunfire, phantom camps with dummy fires to fool
aerial recon. One German officer wrote, we bombarded shadows for
(11:53):
two days before realizing our mistake. That's like rage quitting
a video game after realizing you've been shooting at a wall.
The first tanks to hide their invention, the British called
armored vehicles tanks, pretending they were water carriers when they
rolled onto the battlefield. Germans panicked, calling them devil's chariots.
(12:14):
Were they effective barely? They were slow, broke constantly, and
smelled like an iron furnace, But psychologically they terrified the enemy,
and the name tank stuck. And there you have it, folks,
Twenty of the strangest, quirkiest, and most jaw dropping facts
from the war that was supposed to end all wars.
(12:36):
From goats to glowing wounds, beer pipelines to pigeon heroes,
World War One proves that history is always weirder than
we think.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
This episode was also brought to you by Mud, the
official sponsor of World War One. Mud, It's in your boots,
your food, your bed, and now your soul.
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