The Headless Blemmyes

Jul 25, 2025 · 25 min · Season 1 · Episode 111 · 24.7 MB

0:00-25:41

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The Headless Blemmyes were a race of people who had no head, but their eyes and mouths were in their chest. Did these strange creatures ever really exist? And if not, why did so many medieval writers lose their heads about them? Athena and Tiernan get their actual heads together to look at the evidence so that you, our Chief Detectives, can decide.

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