American Filth

We return to an important question: was this historical figure gay...or nay? This time, FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover goes to gay court. 

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1974. A car's pulled over. Inside, a congressman. Outside, a stripper, who had run from the vehicle and tried to jump into an estuary. Suspicious! 

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Investigative journalist Nellie Bly gets her first big break...by pretending she's crazy.

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Thoman Jefferson pitched a very odd bill that proposed chopping off peens and noses.

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Sometimes, when you cheat and cheat and cheat some more, you face the consequences of your actions. No one knows this better than Senator Arthur Brown (RIP), one of the first senators from Utah. 

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WELCOME TO SEASON THREE! 

In 1921, the United Press put out an article about a child murder with a hilariously awful spell-check error. 

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We'll be back, I promise!

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Ya, it took us a while to wipe well. 

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If you have ever flown on Hooters Air, please dm on Instagram @americanfilthpod. It's important!! 

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Okay... the title EXAGGERATES, but for real...in the 1960s, scientists on St. Thomas try to teach dolphins how to speak English. And one of the dolphins...well, he was too horned up to learn.  LSD gets involved, too. 

Watch the documentary The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins to get the whole scoop. 

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Genius or dumb-dumb? That's the question that surrounds the life of Timothy Dexter, an eccentric businessman, who ended up on top despite making terrible decisions. He was also illiterate but somehow wrote a book, published in 1802.

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Automobile mogul Henry Ford just wanted people to have some frickin' decorum on the dance floor!!! Why did everyone want to dance to jazz??? That's disgusting!! Square dancing was the only proper dance for the American temperament, according to Ford. So here's what he did about it. 

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A 19th-century abortionist comes up against anti-fun postal worker Anthony Comstock.

Also! New episodes of American Filth will now be coming out ON FRIDAYS!

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In 1876, a bunch of meat rained down from the sky. From where? From whom? What is it?? One writer had answers: the sky itself was gelatinous. Obviously!

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From 1906-1910, a woman allegedly slipped on a banana peel a dozen times and each time got a hernia. Or, maybe she was just committing insurance fraud. 

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Robert E. Lee's much older half-brother cheated on his wife with his wife's sister and stole all her money! What an esteemed family! 

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In 1788, bodysnatchers were snatching so many bodies from their graves that New York City citizens rioted. And who were the bodysnatchers?? Silly little medical students. 

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Having fertility issues?? Well, one "doctor" suggests putting some goat gonads by your gonads. 

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Happy 69th episode! To celebrate, we learn about author Henry Miller popularized the term "boobs" and also...how he got sued a lot for his disgusting books. 

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