Weird History YouTube Stats

@weirdhistory · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Weird History channel overview

Weird History (@weirdhistory) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2017. It has 4.7M subscribers and 741M total views across 1.2K videos, an average of 636K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 148K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 83K views. Over the last 12 months, Weird History published 53 videos, and 4 of them (8%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Weird History gained 10K subscribers and 2.6M views, about 156K views a day.

How much does Weird History make?

Returbe estimates Weird History's YouTube ad revenue at $14K – $46K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Weird History publishes about 7.6 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Friday (43% of uploads), usually around 14:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 1, 2026.

Weird History's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Weird History's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• The Miserable Reality Of Life On The Mayflower1.2M views · Sep 13, 202613.9× typical views
• The Terrifying Final Days Of Grizzly Man | Last Days435K views · Aug 30, 20265.2× typical views
• The Strange Reason Men Used To Dress Like This363K views · Sep 6, 20264.4× typical views
• The Strangest Medical Stories We Could Find | Compilation286K views · Jun 26, 20263.5× typical views
• The Strangest Fashion Trends Through History | Compilation243K views · Aug 14, 20262.9× typical views
• Timeline: 2010 - Everything That Happened In The Year 2010202K views · Oct 11, 20262.4× typical views
• The Weird History of Health Care | Compilation168K views · Sep 25, 20262× typical views
• The Weirdest Medical Stories We Could Find | Compilation154K views · Aug 28, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Weird History's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• 10 Most Unsettling Medical Cases In History71K views · Nov 1, 20260.9× typical views
• Real Life Horror Stories You’ll Wish Were Fake | Compilation35K views · Oct 30, 20260.4× typical views
• TIMELINE 2011 - The Craziest Year Of The Decade?139K views · Oct 25, 20261.7× typical views
• What Really Happened to the Seven Wonders of the World? | Compilation73K views · Oct 23, 20260.9× typical views
• The Horrifying Truth About Willowbrook State School140K views · Oct 18, 20261.7× typical views
• The Craziest Fashion Trends We Could Find Over Time | Compilation68K views · Oct 16, 20260.8× typical views
• Timeline: 2010 - Everything That Happened In The Year 2010202K views · Oct 11, 20262.4× typical views
• Kids Who Survived The Most Brutal Lives In History | Compilation148K views · Oct 9, 20261.8× typical views
• TIMELINE: The 2010s | Coming Sunday33K views · Oct 8, 20260.4× typical views
• The Miserable Truth About Being Queen88K views · Oct 4, 20261.1× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 376 channels in this niche. 13.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202.6×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 11.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Weird History or YouTube.