Fall Asleep as a Night Watchman Guarding Medieval City Walls

Podcast: History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian · Drowsy Historian

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Tonight, step onto the cold stone walls of a medieval city and spend the night as a watchman while the town sleeps below. From dusk until dawn, you patrol the battlements beneath moonlight and torchlight, listening to distant church bells, barking dogs, creaking shutters, and footsteps in the darkness. Your job is to watch for fires, thieves, suspicious travelers, and anything else that might disturb the sleeping town. Most alarms, thankfully, turn out to be considerably less exciting...