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The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from History
The Sleepkeeper is a quiet place for the end of the day.
Long, slow journeys through history — old cities, distant coastlines, medieval rooms, forgotten roads, and ordinary evenings from worlds that have disappeared.
There is no ending you need to reach, and nothing you need to remember. If you fall asleep somewhere along the way, the evening did exactly what it came to do.
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Each episode moves gently through a place, a time, or a way of life — unhurried at the beginning, softer as it goes…
Episodes
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep to Viking Iceland | Life at the Althing in 980 AD
Every summer, people from across Iceland gathered on a green plain beneath the cliffs, where temporary homes were built from turf and wool, laws were spoken…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep in a Persian Caravanserai | Sleep Story
A quiet roadside inn in seventeenth-century Persia, where tired caravans rest beneath brick arches, clay lamps glow in the evening, and camels settle down…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep in a Renaissance Painter's Workshop | Sleep Story
A small boxwood board, a silver drawing point, and a twelve-year-old boy beginning his apprenticeship in Renaissance Florence. Before he can paint a face…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep in Old Japan | The Story of Handmade Paper
In the hills west of old Edo, papermakers spent the cold winter months turning mulberry bark into soft, strong sheets of handmade paper. Each sheet would…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep in a Quiet Victorian Manor | History Sleep Story
A Victorian country house stands almost empty while its owners spend the summer in London. Behind the closed shutters, a small household of servants keeps the…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep to Ancient China | A Walk Through a 900-Year-Old Painting
A nine-hundred-year-old silk painting opens onto misty fields, willow trees, and a road leading toward a bustling city in ancient China. We'll unroll it…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep Aboard the RMS Olympic (1913) | Sleep Story
In the summer of 1913, a family settles into third class aboard the RMS Olympic, crossing the Atlantic beneath electric lights and the steady hum of enormous…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryA Quiet Night with Pirates | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Around seventeen twenty, a pirate ship lies on her side in the shallows of a quiet bay off…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep in a Roman Fort at the Edge of the Empire
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Around the year one hundred, on the northern edge of Roman Britain, someone wrote a short note about…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryA Quiet Night Behind the Trenches | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A winter night in Flanders, nineteen fifteen going into nineteen sixteen. Behind the front line…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryNikola Tesla Before the Fame | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Before the laboratories, the famous machines and the photographs of artificial lightning, Nikola…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryThe Year Before the First Crusade | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In 1096, thousands of households across France were getting ready for someone to leave. Land was…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryInside Five Points: Everyday Life in 1850s New York | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In the early eighteen fifties, a few crowded streets in lower Manhattan held families from Ireland…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep in a 1930s California Migrant Camp | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. At the far end of a long road, a family finally stops — beneath canvas, beside the cotton fields of…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryFall Asleep to a Year with the Neanderthals | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Before the sea reached the cliffs of Gibraltar, a wide coastal plain stretched beyond a cave where…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryHow People Kept Clean in the Middle Ages | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A clean shirt, a cold basin, a wooden comb, and a great deal more work than we would expect from an…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryA Quiet Night in Ancient Babylon | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A city made from river mud, rising slowly on top of its own forgotten rooms. A long, slow one…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryLife on the Oregon Trail | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A road that moves at the pace of an ox, beneath a sky so wide that the landmarks ahead seem to stay…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryWhen There Was More Than One Kind of Human | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. For most of human history, there was never only one kind of us. The world was shared by different…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryThe Life of a Pyramid Builder | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Behind the Great Pyramid was a working town — bread ovens, beer jars, dusty sleeping rooms, aching…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryWhat Life Was Really Like in the Time of Jesus | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A warm lake in the dark, fishing boats scattered across the water, and a world waking slowly two…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryWhat Happened After the Black Death? | History for Sleep
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. England in 1350 had more grain than mouths, more houses than households, and more land than there…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryHow the Industrial Revolution Changed Time Itself | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Tonight, settle into a small stone cottage in northern England, where a wooden loom fills the front…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryHow the Nile Built Ancient Egypt | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Tonight, drift slowly through the long story of Ancient Egypt — not only through pharaohs, pyramids…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryThe Life of Alexander the Great | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Tonight, follow the life of Alexander the Great from the royal court of Macedon to the distant…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryUruk: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Great City | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Tonight, travel back more than six thousand years to the plains of ancient Mesopotamia, where a…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryWhat Life in Ancient Sparta Was Really Like | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Travel quietly into the Eurotas Valley and discover what life in ancient Sparta was really like…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryWhat Life Was Really Like for a Medieval Peasant | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Tonight, we step quietly into the world of the medieval peasant — not to follow a single day, but to…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistoryWhat Life in Ancient Athens Was Really Like | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Tonight, settle into the streets of Ancient Athens and discover what everyday life was really like…
The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from HistorySleep Story: A Night in a Medieval Monastery
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Spend one slow, quiet day inside a medieval monastery, beginning with a bell in the darkness and…