Days of Odd

History's strangest true stories, in under a minute.

Australia once sent soldiers with machine guns after emus, and the emus won. In 1518, people in Strasbourg danced in the streets for days. In 1835, a New York newspaper announced bat-winged people on the Moon. Days of Odd tells the weird, surprising, almost-unbelievable stories from the past, and every one of them really happened.

Each Short is researched from reputable sources, and the sources are listed in its description.

New Shorts every day.

Channel art uses public-domain engravings and "The dancing mania" (Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0).