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History Mystery
Uncovering forgotten history and investigating the world’s greatest mysteries. Short stories, daily.
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History MysteryTHE COLONIAL PIPELINE RANSOMWARE ATTACK
Episode 238 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack — the largest refined petroleum products…
History MysteryTHE LOVE CANAL CRISIS
Episode 237 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Love Canal Crisis — the neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, built on top of 21,000…
History MysteryTHE LAC-MÉGANTIC RAIL DISASTER
Episode 236 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of July 6th, 2013 — a 73-car freight train carrying 7.7…
History MysteryTHE TENERIFE AIRPORT DISASTER
Episode 235 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Tenerife Airport Disaster of March 27th, 1977 — two Boeing 747s colliding on a…
History MysteryTHE R. KELLY CASE
Episode 234 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the R. Kelly case — thirty years of documented abuse, a 2008 acquittal while the Grammy…
History MysteryTHE EL FARO SINKING
Episode 233 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the sinking of the SS El Faro on October 1st, 2015 — a 790-foot cargo ship that sailed into…
History MysteryTHE OAKLAND GHOST SHIP FIRE
Episode 232 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the December 2nd, 2016 fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland — thirty-six people…
History MysteryTHE FACEBOOK / CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA SCANDAL
Episode 231 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal — 87 million users' data harvested without…
History MysteryTHE FTX COLLAPSE / SAM BANKMAN-FRIED
Episode 230 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the FTX collapse — Sam Bankman-Fried, a $32 billion cryptocurrency exchange that went from…
History MysteryTHE ELIZABETH SMART KIDNAPPING
Episode 229 | Historical Events — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping — fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart…
History MysteryTHE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS / LEHMAN BROTHERS
Episode 228 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 2008 financial crisis — the mortgage-backed securities, the credit rating agencies that…
History MysteryTHE PG&E HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM CONTAMINATION
Episode 227 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the PG&E hexavalent chromium contamination of Hinkley, California — 370 million gallons of…
History MysteryTHE CATHOLIC CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDAL
Episode 226 | Historical Events — Mysterious Events In this History episode we focus on the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal and the Boston Globe's 2002…
History MysteryTHE UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING
Episode 225 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the May 24th, 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — nineteen children…
History MysteryTHE THERANOS FRAUD
Episode 224 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Theranos fraud — Elizabeth Holmes, a blood-testing machine called the Edison that never…
History MysteryTHE SURFSIDE CONDO COLLAPSE
Episode 223 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the June 24th, 2021 collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida — ninety-eight…
History MysteryTHE LARRY NASSAR SCANDAL
Episode 222 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Larry Nassar scandal — USA Gymnastics, Michigan State University, the FBI, and the 265…
History MysteryTHE BOEING 737 MAX CRISIS
Episode 221 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Boeing 737 MAX crisis — two crashes, 346 dead, and a flight-control system called MCAS…
History MysterySEASON 11 HISTORY: THE GAP IS THE STRUCTURE
Episode 220 | Season 11 Capstone — History Episodes — Series Finale In this History episode we close Season 11 by tracing the through-line across all eighteen…
History MysterySEASON 11 MYSTERY: WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS
Episode 219 | Season 11 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we reflect on Season 11's unresolved cases and what they share. The assassination…
History MysteryTHE FLINT WATER CRISIS
Episode 218 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Flint water crisis — the 2014 decision by a state-appointed emergency manager to switch…
History MysteryTHE ABERFAN DISASTER
Episode 217 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Aberfan disaster of October 21st, 1966 — the day a coal waste tip built by the National…
History MysteryTHE 1992 LA UPRISING / RODNEY KING
Episode 216 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising — the six days of unrest that followed the acquittal of four…
History MysteryTHE CENTRALIA MINE FIRE
Episode 215 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Centralia mine fire — a coal seam fire that has been burning beneath a Pennsylvania…
History MysteryTHE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE
Episode 214 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25th, 1911 — 146 garment workers killed in…
History MysteryTHE TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE COLLAPSE
Episode 213 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge — the third-longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened…
History MysteryTHE ALLEN STANFORD $7 BILLION FRAUD
Episode 212 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Allen Stanford fraud — a $7 billion Ponzi scheme operating through an offshore bank in…
History MysteryTHE ASSASSINATION OF MEDGAR EVERS
Episode 211 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the assassination of Medgar Evers — the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, shot…
History MysteryTHE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA DISASTER
Episode 210 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster — the foam strike detected sixteen days before reentry…
History MysteryTHE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
Episode 209 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Scottsboro Boys — nine Black teenagers arrested in Alabama in 1931, falsely accused of…
History MysteryTHE DC SNIPERS
Episode 208 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the DC Sniper attacks of October 2002 — seventeen people shot across the Washington…
History MysteryTHE MURDER OF KITTY GENOVESE
Episode 207 | Historical Events — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the murder of Kitty Genovese — and the New York Times story that…
History MysteryTHE WEST TEXAS FERTILIZER PLANT EXPLOSION
Episode 206 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the April 17th, 2013 explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas — a blast five…
History MysteryTHE 1976 LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE OUTBREAK
Episode 205 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 1976 Legionnaires' Disease outbreak — the most publicized disease investigation in CDC…
History MysteryTHE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Episode 204 | Historical Events — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. — the official conviction…
History MysteryTHE VIOXX SCANDAL
Episode 203 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Vioxx scandal — how Merck's blockbuster painkiller reached 80 million patients…
History MysteryTHE HAWK'S NEST TUNNEL DISASTER
Episode 202 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster — the deadliest industrial catastrophe in American history…
History MysteryTHE SAGO MINE DISASTER
Episode 201 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Sago Mine explosion of January 2nd, 2006 — a disaster that killed twelve miners in West…
History MysteryTWO HUNDRED EPISODES
Episode 200 | Season 10 Capstone — History Episodes + Milestone Finale In this History episode we reach Episode 200 and articulate the pattern this show has…
History MysteryTHE SEASON 10 MYSTERY
Episode 199 | Season 10 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from Season 10's cases and examine a specific pattern: the persistence…
History MysteryTHE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE
Episode 198 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 — the London public housing block where combustible…
History MysteryTHE WATTS RIOTS
Episode 197 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Watts Riots of August 1965 — six days of uprising in South Los Angeles triggered by a…
History MysteryTHE KIDNAPPING OF FRANK SINATRA JR.
Episode 196 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. — three amateur criminals who followed the…
History MysteryTHE GUATEMALAN SYPHILIS EXPERIMENTS
Episode 195 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Guatemalan syphilis experiments of 1946 to 1948 — when US Public Health Service doctors…
History MysteryTHE GOLDEN STATE KILLER
Episode 194 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Joseph James DeAngelo — the Golden State Killer, a former police officer who committed 13…
History MysteryTHE THALIDOMIDE SCANDAL
Episode 193 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the thalidomide scandal — the morning sickness drug that caused 10,000 babies to be born…
History MysteryTHREE MILE ISLAND
Episode 192 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Three Mile Island accident of March 1979 — the partial meltdown caused by a stuck…
History MysteryTHE FORD PINTO
Episode 191 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Ford Pinto — the 1970s subcompact car whose fuel tank was known to rupture in rear-end…
History MysteryTHE ASSASSINATION OF RFK
Episode 190 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on June 5th, 1968 — Sirhan…
History MysteryTHE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR
Episode 189 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Iran-Contra affair — how the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran in…
History MysteryTHE ENRON SCANDAL
Episode 188 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Enron scandal — how Fortune's most innovative company for six consecutive years was…
History MysteryTHE NUREMBERG DOCTORS TRIAL
Episode 187 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Nuremberg Doctors Trial of 1946 to 1947 — the prosecution of 23 Nazi physicians for…
History MysteryTHE MY LAI MASSACRE
Episode 186 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the My Lai Massacre of March 16th, 1968 — when US soldiers killed up to 500 unarmed…
History MysteryTHE MANSON FAMILY
Episode 185 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969 — how a failed musician…
History MysteryTHE ASSASSINATION OF JFK
Episode 184 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963 — the Warren…
History MysteryTHE TITANIC
Episode 183 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the sinking of the Titanic — April 15th, 1912, how the largest moving object ever built was…
History MysteryTHE JONBENÉT RAMSEY CASE
Episode 182 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the JonBenét Ramsey case — the six-year-old beauty queen found…
History MysteryTHE 1918 SPANISH FLU
Episode 181 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 1918 Spanish Flu — the deadliest pandemic in modern history, which killed between 50…
History MysteryONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EPISODES
Episode 180 | Season 9 Capstone — History Episodes + Series Finale In this History episode we close out Season 9 and draw the thread connecting nine seasons of…
History MysteryTHE SEASON 9 MYSTERY: WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS
Episode 179 | Season 9 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from Season 9's cases and examine the pattern connecting them — the…