Picture it. Switzerland, 1816. The sun has apparently taken the year off, everyone's love life is an absolute disaster, and a group of ridiculously dramatic writers are stuck inside a villa overlooking Lake Geneva.

Naturally, somebody suggests a ghost-story competition.

Welcome to Love Island: Gothic Edition, where we've got Lord Byron being a walking scandal, Percy Shelley collecting red flags like they're souvenirs, and an 18-year-old Mary Shelley casually creating one of the most influential horror stories of all time.

In this episode of So That's How That Happened!, we're gossiping about the chaotic summer that inspired Frankenstein, the literary love triangles, John Polidori's contribution to vampire fiction, and the heartbreak that followed everyone home.

Because while the men were busy being profoundly exhausting, Mary was writing a story about a man who creates life and then refuses to take responsibility for it.

Interesting choice of subject matter, don't you think?

Grab your mimosas, history hotties. We've got 200-year-old tea to spill.

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Until next time, my history-loving besties, stay scandalous.

Alexander Hamilton had a problem: people thought he might be financially corrupt.

His solution? Publicly admit that the secret payments weren’t government corruption — they were because he was having an affair and being blackmailed by his mistress’s husband.

In this episode, we’re getting into Alexander Hamilton, Maria Reynolds, and the Reynolds Pamphlet — the affair, the blackmail, the political accusations, and Hamilton’s truly wild decision to publish the receipts himself.

Technically, it cleared him of corruption.

Personally? Not so much.

Because history is wild, friends. And sometimes, the receipts really are forever.

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So That’s How That Happened is hosted and produced by Jessica “Jess” Mosely and is part of Dead Air Co.

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Rasputin wasn’t just a mystic—he was a full-on imperial fever dream.

The scruffy Siberian “holy man” who somehow hypnotized the Russian royal family, partied like it was 1916, and refused to die no matter how many times people tried to kill him.

From faith healer to political puppet master, Rasputin’s rise was as wild as his reputation—whispers of orgies, prophecies, and straight-up witchy vibes had the press losing their minds. He became the scandal of St. Petersburg, the “unkillable monk” who might’ve cursed an entire dynasty.

This episode is dripping with imperial tea: poison plots, royal panic, murder attempts, and the downfall of the Romanovs—all starring the most chaotic man in history.

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