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S5 E Oct 13, 2026

Adapa and the South Wind: The Full Myth of How He Refused Eternal Life | 3 Hour Sleep Story

Adapa was offered eternal life and said no thank you, and people have been arguing about why for a hundred and fifty years. He was a fisherman at Eridu, the oldest cit...

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bonus Oct 12, 2026

Mesopotamian Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Enuma Elish and Gilgamesh

Bonus: six Mesopotamian Mythology sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.

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S5 E Oct 11, 2026

Inanna's Descent to the Underworld Part 2: The Full Story of Her Return | 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Descent of Inanna, second half, and it is about a bill coming due. Nobody leaves the great below without sending someone back in their place. Tonight is the gaunt ...

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S5 E Oct 09, 2026

Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi · The Full Story of the Lost Books' Return · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Last time we opened the books in an imagined Ethiopian church. Tonight, the readers and discoveries beyond that room: James Bruce returning from Ethiopia with three co...

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S5 E Oct 08, 2026

Inanna's Descent to the Underworld Part 1: The Full Story of the Seven Gates | 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Descent of Inanna is about four hundred lines long and it is the best built thing in all of Sumerian literature, and it is built out of seven gates. Tonight is the...

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bonus Oct 07, 2026

Lost Books of the Bible Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Enoch's Night Sky

Bonus: three hours of calm sleep music, no talking.

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S5 E Oct 06, 2026

Book of Enoch · The Books the Bible Left Out · Part 1 of the Full Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Book of Enoch was left out of most Bibles, and for a long time people have said it was lost, or hidden, or banned. Most of that is not true, and the true story is ...

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trailer Oct 05, 2026

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac

The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. Three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off: Greek heroe...

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bonus Oct 05, 2026

Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Fenrir, Loki and the World Serpent

Bonus: six Norse Mythology sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.

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S5 E Oct 04, 2026

Etana and the Eagle: The Full Surviving Story of a Forgotten Sumerian Myth | 3 Hour Sleep Story

Etana is the oldest story of human flight, and hardly anybody has heard of it. A king of Kish has everything except the one ordinary thing he wants, and to get it he m...

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bonus Oct 03, 2026

Norse Mythology Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · The Nine Worlds to Ragnarok

Bonus: six Norse Mythology sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.

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S5 E Oct 02, 2026

The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 3: The Full Story of the Flood and the Plant | 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Epic of Gilgamesh, night three, and it is the kind one. A king walks out of his own city in a lion skin looking for the one man who never died. Tonight is the moun...

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S5 E Oct 01, 2026

The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 2: The Full Story of the Bull of Heaven | 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Epic of Gilgamesh, night two, and this is the hard one. A goddess makes an offer and is refused. The Bull of Heaven comes down on Uruk and opens a fissure in the p...

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bonus Sep 30, 2026

Chinese Myth Music · 3 Hour Sleep Music · Silver Moon Ambience for Deep Sleep

Bonus: three hours of calm sleep music, no talking.

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S5 E Sep 29, 2026

The Epic of Gilgamesh Part 1: The Full Story of the Cedar Forest | 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the story everybody has heard of and almost nobody has actually read, and it is three thousand lines long, so we are taking three nights over ...

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bonus Sep 28, 2026

Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 2 · Sleeping Beauty to the Moon Princess Kaguya

Bonus: six Fairy Tale sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.

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S5 E Sep 27, 2026

Enheduanna: The Full Story of the First Author Whose Name We Know | 3 Hour Sleep Story

Enheduanna is the first author in human history whose name is attached to what she wrote. She was a real woman with a real job, high priestess of the moon god at Ur, d...

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bonus Sep 26, 2026

Fairy Tale Sleep Stories · 11 Hour Compilation Part 1 · Scheherazade to Alice in Wonderland

Bonus: six Fairy Tale sleep stories in one 11 hour episode.

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S5 E Sep 25, 2026

Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Creation Story | 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

Enuma Elish is the Babylonian creation story, and it is not called that at all. Its name is simply the first two words on the first tablet, When above. Seven tablets, ...

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S4 E12 Sep 24, 2026

Odysseus and His Father Laertes · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow ...