Sinister

About Sinister

Our lives are a journey, a journey that often takes us down paths to unexpected places. Most of the time, those places are safe and secure… but every so often that path leads us… Somewhere Sinister….

Publisher

Kompound

Category

history · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Feb 2022

Latest episode

10 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

22 of 129 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Hammer

   SOMETHING SINISTER Hammers have been used as weapons of war during medieval times, but eventually fell out of favor. After that, hammers were used as a tool for construction, but they never stopped being something people used to kill. Check us out on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/SomewhereSinister Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/somewheresinister https://www.threads.com/@somewheresinister https://www.tiktok.com/@somewheresinister

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   8 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Thomas Edison

   SOMEONE SINISTER Thomas Edison is known as a great inventor, but his energy was not always being put into creating. There was a time where a bitter rivalry caused him torture and kill animals as a means of proving his competitors wrong. Check us out on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/SomewhereSinister Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/somewheresinister https://www.threads.com/@somewheresinister https://www.tiktok.com/@somewheresinister

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   6 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   The Wonder Drug : The Devastating Effects of the Thalidomide Scandal

   SOMEWHERE SINISTER When a West German pharmaceutical company developed a new drug, they promoted it as having no side effects despite not having tested it properly. The results ended up being disastrous. Check us out on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/SomewhereSinister Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/somewheresinister https://www.threads.com/@somewheresinister https://www.tiktok.com/@somewheresinister

Inside a recent episode

Hammer

Published 10 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Swords and axes lost their edge against the angled hardened surfaces of quality plate armor. The surface hardened steel armor matched sword edges and axe blades in hardness. Strikes would simply glance off instead of penetrating. The curved contoured sections of plate armor deflected sword strikes by design which made powerful blows useless. Warriors and plate armor rendered standard cutting swords obsolete though the weapons had ruled early Middle Ages battlefields. The greater mass of axes didn't help much either. They could cause blunt force trauma through chain mail but failed against plate armor stiffness and deflective properties. […]

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

221 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

427 ratings

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