CLASSIC: The Hidden History of Africville
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
If you're not from Nova Scotia, you may have never heard of Africville -- it was a small community in Halifax. The larger government of Halifax seemed content to pretend Africville simply didn't exist. After the infamous Halifax Explosion of the early 1900s, the government changed their tactic, and aggressively conspired to erase Africville from history.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realist, welcome to our classic episode. |
| 0:05.8 | If you were not from Nova Scotia, you maybe never heard of a place called Afrikville. |
| 0:12.6 | We sure did not. |
| 0:14.3 | Oh, until this episode. |
| 0:15.8 | Well, sure. |
| 0:16.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.8 | And what we learned from this episode is that it's a small community in Halifax, that the larger government of Halifax seemed just fine with pretending didn't exist. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah. It existed for about 120 years and then a tragedy occurred and zilch. |
| 0:34.7 | So what happened, whither and when, Afrikville, Nova Scotia? |
| 0:40.4 | That is the subject of our classic episode. |
| 0:44.1 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:45.5 | Let's roll the tape. |
| 0:46.6 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:51.1 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:58.0 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 1:03.2 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 1:17.3 | My name is Noel. |
| 1:18.7 | Our riot or die compatriot, Matt Frederick, is on adventures, but we'll be returning post-haste. |
| 1:25.2 | They call me Ben. |
| 1:26.3 | We're joined, as always always with our super producer Paul |
| 1:29.0 | Mission Control Deccat. Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this |
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