Blood Magic: The Fact and Fiction of Human Sacrifice
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Human sacrifice is an ancient, surprisingly common and widely-misunderstood practice found in cultures across history. These ritualized murders occurred in all manner of ways, often as an alleged means of bargaining with or seeking favor from the Divine. Nowadays, most people dismiss it as a barbaric practice of older civilizations -- but as Ben, Matt and Noel argue in tonight's episode, there's a huge conspiracy a lot of modern folks are missing. Stay tuned for the twist at the end!
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.5 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.4 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:29.5 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:30.7 | They called me, Ben. |
| 0:32.3 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagin. |
| 0:36.9 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:38.9 | You are here. |
| 0:40.0 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:45.1 | Spoilers ahead, folks. |
| 0:47.0 | Quite a few spoilers. |
| 0:48.5 | We're going to have a big twist at the end of this episode. |
| 0:51.5 | Also, this episode may not be appropriate for all listeners. Guys, gents, |
| 0:57.9 | riddle me this. What's the first thing we think about when we hear the word or the phrase |
| 1:02.9 | human sacrifice? Well, I mean, in pop culture, you already called it, Ben, with the setting, |
| 1:09.5 | whatever you call it, the setup quote. What do you call that? When you have a quote in the first page of a book? There's got to be a literary name for that. Temple of Doom. That's like that. The most problematic and long-lasting image, I think most of us had growing up of the idea of human sacrifice. Kalimah. Kalimah and then Mesoamerica, obviously. |
| 1:30.8 | Kalimari. What do you got, Matt? And that's something different. I was going to say the Twin Towers, |
| 1:34.9 | but that might be off. Whoa. Or maybe the school of children in Iran, maybe. Oh, geez. |
| 1:46.1 | You're not having any fun with this at all. |
| 1:47.0 | Sorry. |
| 1:50.8 | Or maybe our big twist at the end, right? |
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