This was a different type of nonfiction that was as unique as the podcast itself I suppose. While I’ve never listened to the podcast I feel the way the author tells his tidbits of random information would be similar.

This was an interesting book to pick up randomly from time to time when I had a few minutes. It’s not something I would’ve continued to read for hours on end but there were some pretty interesting tales in here and some that didn’t peek my interest as much but they were all rather short to read nevertheless.

What I really appreciated about this book was that it was broken up into categories from American History facts to stories of Creatures, Literature, Inventions, even Origin Stories plus some. This book is packed full of random short tales and as the title suggests, it is indeed “a historical tour of the unbelievable, the unsettling, and the bizarre.”

3.5 stars