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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 OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING: THE GOVERNMENT HE HATED EXECUTED HIM
Episode 178 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Oklahoma City Bombing of April 19th, 1995 — Timothy McVeigh, the 4,800-pound fertilizer…
History MysteryJEFFREY EPSTEIN: WHATEVER THE ANSWER TO HOW HE DIED
Episode 177 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Jeffrey Epstein — the financier with the island and the contact list, the 2008 Florida plea…
History MysteryTHE MENENDEZ BROTHERS: TWO SONS, TWO SHOTGUNS, ONE QUESTION
Episode 176 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Menendez brothers — the 1989 Beverly Hills murders of José and Kitty Menendez by their…
History MysteryGERMANWINGS FLIGHT 9525: THE DOOR HELD
Episode 175 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the March 2015 Germanwings crash — how co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of…
History MysteryTHE DEEPWATER HORIZON: SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD
Episode 174 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion — the cement job that failed, the negative pressure…
History MysteryTHE DOWNFALL OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN: HOLLYWOOD'S WORST-KEPT SECRET
Episode 173 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the fall of Harvey Weinstein — how decades of sexual abuse were maintained through NDAs and…
History MysteryTHE UNABOMBER: CAUGHT BY HIS OWN BROTHER
Episode 172 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Ted Kaczynski — the Harvard scholar and Berkeley mathematics professor who spent 25 years…
History MysteryALOHA AIRLINES FLIGHT 243: HANGING BY A THREAD
Episode 171 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Aloha Airlines Flight 243 — the 1988 flight where an 18-foot section of the fuselage ripped…
History MysteryJOHN WAYNE GACY
Episode 170 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on John Wayne Gacy — the Chicago contractor who performed as Pogo the Clown at children's…
History MysteryTHE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA: WHAT THE EVIDENCE ACTUALLY SAYS
Episode 169 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the death of Princess Diana in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris in…
History MysteryTHE BERNIE MADOFF PONZI SCHEME
Episode 168 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Bernie Madoff — the largest financial fraud in US history, the $65 billion in fictitious…
History MysteryTHE GABBY PETITO CASE: THE ROAD TRIP THAT ENDED IN A FOREST
Episode 167 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the 2021 disappearance of Gabby Petito — the van life road trip, the…
History MysteryTHE GILGO BEACH MURDERS: THE CASE WAS SOLVED BY A PIZZA CRUST
Episode 166 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Gilgo Beach murders — the discovery of at least 11 victims along an Ocean Parkway…
History MysteryTHE BTK KILLER: THE FLOPPY DID ME IN
Episode 165 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Dennis Rader — the church president, Cub Scout leader, and compliance officer who murdered…
History MysteryFUKUSHIMA: THE SEAWALL WAS 19 FEET
Episode 164 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster — the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the tsunami…
History MysteryTHE DELPHI MURDERS: SHE PRESSED RECORD
Episode 163 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the 2017 murders of Libby German and Abby Williams on a hiking trail…
History MysteryTHE OJ SIMPSON TRIAL: THE VERDICT THAT SPLIT AMERICA
Episode 162 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the OJ Simpson trial — the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the slow-speed…
History MysteryCHERNOBYL
Episode 161 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 — the design flaw in the RBMK reactor that…
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EPISODES
Episode 160 | Season 8 Capstone — History Episodes + Series Finale In this History episode we close out Season 8 by naming the pattern that connects Rwanda…
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THE SEASON 8 MYSTERY: WHO BENEFITS FROM THE MYSTERY STAYING MYSTERIOUS
Episode 159 | Season 8 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from Season 8's cases and ask the question that connects all of them —…
History MysteryTHE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT: 65 PERCENT WENT ALL THE WAY
Episode 158 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Milgram Experiment — the 1961 Yale study in which 65 percent of ordinary people…
History MysteryTHE DARK WEB: WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS
RSSVERIFY Episode 157 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the dark web — what it is, how Tor works, how Ross Ulbricht built Silk Road into…
History MysteryTHE OPIOID CRISIS: HOW PURDUE PHARMA BOUGHT 500,000 DEATHS
Episode 156 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the opioid crisis — how Purdue Pharma told American doctors OxyContin wasn't addictive…
History MysteryTHE YUBA COUNTY FIVE: THE TRAILER IN THE SNOW
Episode 155 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Yuba County Five — five friends who drove to a basketball game in…
History MysteryTHE BLACK DEATH: PATIENT ZERO AND THE CATAPULTED CORPSES
Episode 154 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on where the Black Death actually came from — following Yersinia pestis from the grasslands of…
History MysteryNAPOLEON: THE OUTSIDER WHO CONQUERED EUROPE
Episode 153 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Napoleon Bonaparte — the Corsican outsider who arrived at the French military…
History MysteryTHE FALL OF ROME: 200 YEARS OF COLLAPSE
Episode 152 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the fall of the Western Roman Empire — not as the single event of 476…
History MysteryTHE PRINCES IN THE TOWER: ENGLAND'S OLDEST COLD CASE
Episode 151 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the disappearance of two royal boys — Edward V and his brother…
History MysteryTHE ISDAL WOMAN: THE SPY WHO NOBODY CLAIMED
Episode 150 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Isdal Woman — the unidentified burned body found in a remote…
History MysteryTHE SODDER CHILDREN: NO REMAINS, A PHOTO, AND NO ANSWERS
Episode 149 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Sodder children — five of George and Jennie Sodder's children who…
History MysteryTHE ZODIAC Z340: 51 YEARS. THREE AMATEURS. ONE LAPTOP.
Episode 148 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Zodiac Killer's Z340 cipher — the 340-character code sent to the…
History MysteryTHE MUNICH MASSACRE: THE CHEERFUL GAMES
Episode 147 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre — the 20-hour hostage crisis in which Black September…
History MysteryTHE TOKYO SUBWAY SARIN ATTACK: THE DOOMSDAY CULT NOBODY STOPPED
Episode 146 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the March 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway — the morning Aum Shinrikyo released nerve…
History MysteryTHE RADIUM GIRLS: THEY GLOWED IN THE DARK WHILE THEIR BONES DISSOLVED
Episode 145 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Radium Girls — young women hired in the 1920s to paint luminous watch dials with radium…
History MysteryTHE IDES OF MARCH: WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE KNIVES
Episode 144 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus solely on the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15th, 44 BC — the conspiracy, the 23…
History MysteryJONESTOWN: THE LAST NIGHT IN THE JUNGLE
Episode 143 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Jonestown — the Guyana jungle compound where Jim Jones led 918 members of the Peoples…
History MysteryUNIT 731: THE EXPERIMENTS AMERICA BOUGHT
Episode 142 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Unit 731 — Japan's secret biological warfare program in occupied Manchuria, where military…
History MysteryTHE RWANDAN GENOCIDE: 800,000 DEAD IN 100 DAYS
Episode 141 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 — the hundred days in which up to one million people were…
History MysteryONE HUNDRED AND FORTY EPISODES
Episode 140 | Season 7 Capstone — History Episodes + Series Finale In this History episode we close out Season 7 and draw the capstone pattern this season adds…
History MysteryTHE SEASON 7 MYSTERY: THREE KINDS OF NOT KNOWING
Episode 139 | Season 7 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from Season 7's individual cases and identify the three distinct types…
History MysteryTHE MAX HEADROOM INTRUSION: SOMEONE HIJACKED LIVE TELEVISION AND WAS NEVER CAUGHT
Episode 138 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Max Headroom signal intrusion of November 22nd, 1987 — the night…
History MysteryTHE SS EDMUND FITZGERALD: THE LAKE NEVER GIVES UP HER DEAD
Episode 137 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald — the largest freighter on the Great Lakes, 729 feet long and…
History MysteryTHE LUSITANIA: 1,198 DEAD, 4 MILLION ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, AND DECADES OF DENIAL
Episode 136 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7th, 1915 — the British ocean liner torpedoed by a…
History MysteryTHE 2010 HAITI EARTHQUAKE: 13 BILLION DOLLARS AND NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT
Episode 135 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the January 12th, 2010 earthquake that killed between 160,000 and 250,000 people in Haiti…
History MysteryTHE TRAIL OF TEARS: THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN THEIR FAVOR. JACKSON SENT THE ARMY ANYWAY.
Episode 134 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Trail of Tears — the forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes from their homelands…
History MysteryTHE FOURTH OF JULY: FROM 13 ROCKETS OVER PHILADELPHIA TO TONIGHT
Bonus Episode | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Fourth of July itself — from the first fireworks over Philadelphia in 1777 to…
History MysteryTHE WEST MEMPHIS THREE: EIGHTEEN YEARS FOR SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T DO
Episode 133 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the West Memphis Three — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley — three…
History MysteryTHE SALISH SEA FEET: TWENTY SHOES AND THE PEOPLE INSIDE THEM
Episode 132 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Salish Sea feet — the more than 20 human feet in running shoes…
History MysteryTHE VALENTICH DISAPPEARANCE: THE PILOT WHO VANISHED MID-TRANSMISSION
Episode 131 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on Frederick Valentich — the 20-year-old Australian pilot who on October…
History MysteryTHE HINTERKAIFECK MURDERS: THE KILLER WHO STAYED
Episode 130 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Hinterkaifeck murders of March 31st, 1922 — the killing of six…
History MysteryBOG BODIES: THE PRESERVED DEAD OF NORTHERN EUROPE
Episode 129 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on bog bodies — the hundreds of preserved human remains found in the…
History MysteryJACOB'S WELL TEXAS: THE SWIMMING HOLE THAT KEEPS KILLING DIVERS
Episode 128 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on Jacob's Well near Wimberley, Texas — a natural spring that drops 30…
History MysteryTHE AOKIGAHARA FOREST: JAPAN'S SEA OF TREES
Episode 127 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on Aokigahara — the ancient forest at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan…
History MysteryHEAVEN'S GATE: THE CULT THAT CONVINCED 39 PEOPLE TO DIE FOR A SPACESHIP
Episode 126 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Heaven's Gate — the California cult led by Marshall Applewhite that ended on March 26th…
History MysteryTHE BEAUMONT CHILDREN: AUSTRALIA'S MOST HAUNTING COLD CASE
Episode 125 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the disappearance of Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont — nine, seven…
History MysteryTHE TITAN SUBMERSIBLE: THE WARNINGS NOBODY LISTENED TO
Episode 124 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the OceanGate Titan submersible implosion of June 2023 — the catastrophic failure of a…
History MysteryTHE BLUE HOLE DAHAB: THE MOST DANGEROUS DIVE SITE IN THE WORLD
Episode 123 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Blue Hole near Dahab, Egypt — a natural sinkhole in the Red Sea…
History MysteryELISA LAM: THE ELEVATOR, THE WATER TANK, AND THE QUESTIONS THAT NEVER CLOSED
Episode 122 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on Elisa Lam — the 21-year-old Canadian student found dead in a rooftop…
History MysteryMISSING 411: LINKING MISSING PERSONS AND US CAVE SYSTEMS
Episode 121 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Missing 411 phenomenon — the documented pattern of disappearances…
History MysteryONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EPISODES
Episode 120 | Season 6 Capstone — History Episodes + Series Finale In this History episode we close out Season 6 and the first chapter of History Mystery —…