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Surviving History

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Genre: Documentary, History
First Aired: Jul 12, 2008

While researching the Spanish Inquisition, the team builds a 20-foot-tall pendulum inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe tale; Dusty fabricates a Judas cradle; DJ studies methods of torture.

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About 'Surviving History'

Premiere:
Jun 14, 2008
Original Network:
History Television

Premise of 'Surviving History'

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped inside an Iron Maiden or stretched and twisted on a torturer's rack or forced to eat live cockroaches to survive in a penal colony -- well, probably some kind of intensive therapy would be in order. Failing that, however, you can satisfy your curiosity via this series, wherein clever craftsmen from Ohio's haunted-house prop house The Scarefactory recreate (non-lethally) some of history's most harrowing devices.

Cast of 'Surviving History'

  • Dave Fachman as Scarefactory Boss
  • Eric Conrath as Art Director
  • Josh Craig as Floor Manager
  • Brian Shoaf as Historian
  • Chad Reynolds as Fabricator
  • DJ Weatherby as Welder/Designer

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