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Dark History Podcast Transcripts

Audioboom Studios · 196 episodes with transcripts

Bailey Sarian, known for her massive success with “Murder, Mystery & Makeup,” has taken her true crime expertise to new heights with her podcast Dark History, where she proves history doesn’t have to be boring.

Spoken has transcripts of 196 Dark History episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from January 14, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1568505888/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Dark History transcripts

Dark Conspiracies and Unsettling Truths - a DH Compilation

January 14, 2026

Bailey Sarian (0:00)

Hi, hi friends, hi, hello. Welcome to Dark History.

SPEAKER_2 (0:04)

So as you've probably noticed, I've been adding some compilation videos to kind of give me some time while I work on the new season of Dark History.

Bailey Sarian (0:13)

So in the meantime, I've been putting together some compilation videos for you because I like a theme and I think they're really interesting stories that maybe you should listen to. So in today's like little compilation, I've been noticing a little theme lately.

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