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Cold History Files
Historical cases. Cold History Files re-opens the darkest, strange, captivating stories of forgotten cases throughout time. Because no matter how many centuries pass... the past never stays buried.
Episodes
- Cold History Files
The Chalkmark Cryptography
In this episode we explore the six-second physicals at Ellis Island, the secret medical chalk codes, underground identity rings, and the institutional cold…
- Cold History Files
The Lost Paymaster Gold of 1777
We reopen a cold military ledger from the autumn of 1777. A night when a heavy iron chest packed with thousands of gold and silver coins—meant to pay George…
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The Bacon's Rebellion Torch of Jamestown (1676)
Today, we step into the sticky, mosquito-infested swamps of 17th-century Virginia. A night when the first capital of English America was put to the torch, not…
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The New York Arson Conspiracy of 1741
We explore the mysterious series of fires that paralyzed colonial Manhattan, the interrogation of Mary Burton, and the dark cold case behind one of the largest…
- Cold History Files
The Chemical Ghost of Salem
Today, we travel back to the freezing, bleak winter of 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. A dark year when young girls contorted their bodies, screamed of…
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
Today, we step into the dark, quiet streets of a small Midwestern town in the late summer of 1944. A town gripped not by a vanishing or a murder, but by an…
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The Treason of General Charles Lee
Today, we reopen a secret military docket from the Revolutionary War. A file that lay hidden in a private English library for eighty years—containing a single…
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The Ghost Ship SS Baychimo
In late 1931, the 1,300-ton steel trading vessel SS Baychimo became trapped in a brutal Arctic ice storm off the coast of Alaska. Fearing the ship was sinking…
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The Vanishing of Frank Lenz
Today, we re-open a file that left two empires silent and a lonely stretch of mountain roads cold. Grab your headphones and lean in. Here’s what happened to…