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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 SEASON 6 MYSTERY: WHAT WE KNEW AND DIDN'T DO
Episode 119 | Season 6 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from the individual stories of Season 6 and name the pattern that…
History MysteryCOLUMBINE: THE MORNING EVERYTHING CHANGED
Episode 118 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on April 20th, 1999 — the 49 minutes at Columbine High School that killed 14 people, and what…
History MysteryLE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY
Episode 117 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the two seconds on June 11th, 1955 in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes became airborne at the…
History MysteryOPERATION PAPERCLIP: THE NAZI SCIENTISTS WHO BUILT THE SPACE PROGRAM
Episode 116 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Operation Paperclip — the classified US program that brought more than 1,600 German…
History MysteryROSEMARY KENNEDY: THE SISTER NOBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW
Episode 115 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Rosemary Kennedy — the eldest Kennedy daughter, born with an intellectual…
History MysteryTHE DAEGU SUBWAY FIRE: 192 DEAD FROM TWO MILK CARTONS
Episode 114 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on February 18th, 2003 — the morning a 56-year-old man with two milk cartons of flammable…
History MysteryTHE 1996 EVEREST DISASTER: THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN WON
Episode 113 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 10th and 11th, 1996 — the single deadliest 24 hours in Everest history, when a…
History MysteryTHE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT: FORTY YEARS OF DELIBERATE HARM
Episode 112 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Tuskegee Study — the US Public Health Service program that enrolled 600 Black men in…
History MysteryOPERATION MINCEMEAT: THE DEAD MAN WHO HELPED WIN THE WAR
Episode 111 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Operation Mincemeat — the 1943 British intelligence operation in which a dead Welsh vagrant…
History MysteryBHOPAL: THE WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER IN HISTORY
Episode 110 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on December 3rd, 1984 — the night a Union Carbide pesticide plant in central India leaked 40…
History MysteryH.H. HOLMES AND THE WORLD'S FAIR: AMERICA'S FIRST SERIAL KILLER
Episode 109 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on H.H. Holmes — the man who built a hotel blocks from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair fitted…
History MysteryTHE MOVE BOMBING: THE DAY PHILADELPHIA DROPPED A BOMB ON ITSELF
Episode 108 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 13th, 1985 — the day the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a military-grade…
History MysteryNUTTY PUTTY CAVE: THE MAN WHO NEVER CAME HOME
Episode 107 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Thanksgiving Day 2009 — when 26-year-old medical student and father John Edward Jones…
History MysteryTHE TULSA RACE MASSACRE: BLACK WALL STREET
Episode 106 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 31st and June 1st, 1921 — the 18 hours in which an armed white mob, assisted by city…
History MysteryTHE CHALLENGER DISASTER: THE ENGINEERS WHO TRIED TO STOP IT
Episode 105 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on January 28th, 1986 — and specifically the night before, when Morton Thiokol engineers told…
History MysteryTHE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING: THE HEIST THAT COST EVERYTHING
Episode 104 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken — one of the wealthiest men in the Netherlands — by…
History MysteryTHE BYFORD DOLPHIN INCIDENT: ONE TENTH OF A SECOND
Episode 103 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Byford Dolphin diving accident of November 5th, 1983 — the moment a dive tender…
History MysteryTHE GOLDSBORO B-52 CRASH: ONE SWITCH
Episode 102 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on January 24th, 1961 — the night a US Air Force bomber broke apart over…
History MysteryTHE 101ST AIRBORNE: THE SCREAMING EAGLES
Episode 101 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the 101st Airborne Division — activated in 1942 and forged across D-Day's…
History MysteryTHE SERIES FINALE: WHAT 100 EPISODES OF HISTORY ACTUALLY TEACHES
Episode 20 | Season 5 Capstone — Series Finale In this History episode we bring five seasons and one hundred episodes together to articulate, fully and…
History MysteryWHAT EVERY SEASON 5 MYSTERY ACTUALLY HAS IN COMMON
Episode 19 | Season 5 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we close out the Season 5 mysteries and add the final piece to five seasons of…
History MysteryPROJECT BLUE BOOK: THE UFO INVESTIGATION DESIGNED TO FIND NOTHING
Episode 18 | History's Mysteries — Conspiracies & Cover-Ups In this Mystery episode we focus on Project Blue Book — the US Air Force's 1947 to 1969 official…
History MysteryTHE COLOSSEUM: WHAT ROME WAS REALLY WILLING TO BUILD
Episode 17 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Colosseum — the most sophisticated entertainment venue in the…
History MysteryTHE ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE: THE CIVILIZATION THAT INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD
Episode 15 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Islamic Golden Age — the 450 years from 800 to 1258 AD when the…
History MysteryTHE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: THE FULL STORY, INCLUDING WHAT DIDN'T CHANGE
Episode 14 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the American Civil Rights Movement — the context most tellings omit, the…
History MysteryABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE MAN BEHIND THE MONUMENT
Episode 13 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Abraham Lincoln — the man who taught himself law from borrowed books on a frontier…
History MysteryTHE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO: THE THREAT UNDERNEATH AMERICA
Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Natural Threats In this Mystery episode we focus on the Yellowstone Supervolcano — a magma chamber 90 kilometers long under…
History MysterySACSAYHUAMÁN: THE FORTRESS BUILT FROM 300-TON STONES
Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Sacsayhuamán — the Inca fortress above Cusco whose walls…
History MysteryTHE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT: THE FAMOUS STUDY THAT WAS PARTLY FAKE
Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Science & Deception In this Mystery episode we focus on the Stanford Prison Experiment — the 1971 study that showed ordinary…
History MysteryTHE INCA EMPIRE: THE GREATEST CIVILIZATION YOU DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT
Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Inca Empire — the most sophisticated civilization in the…
History MysteryTHE AGE OF EXPLORATION: HOW 50 YEARS OF SAILING CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER
Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Age of Exploration — roughly 1420 to 1520, one of the most consequential…
History MysteryQUEEN VICTORIA: THE WOMAN WHO RULED A QUARTER OF THE WORLD
Episode 7 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Queen Victoria — who became queen at 18, ruled for 63 years, and oversaw the…
History MysteryTHE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN: THE PANDEMIC THAT MAY HAVE CHANGED ALL OF HISTORY
Episode 6 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Plague of Justinian — the first pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis…
History MysteryTHE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE GREATEST MYTH IN HISTORY
Episode 5 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Library of Alexandria — and the myth that a single dramatic fire…
History MysteryTHE BLACK DAHLIA: THE MURDER THAT DEFINED AMERICAN TRUE CRIME
Episode 4 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Black Dahlia — the January 1947 murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short…
History MysteryTHE MONGOL EMPIRE: THE MAN WHO STARTED WITH NOTHING AND CONQUERED EVERYTHING
Episode 3 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on the Mongol Empire — the largest contiguous land empire in history, stretching from…
History MysteryTHE RENAISSANCE: HOW 15TH CENTURY ITALY INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD
Episode 2 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Renaissance — the shift in how Western civilization understood what…
History MysteryALEXANDER THE GREAT: 13 YEARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Episode 1 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Alexander the Great — the man who became king of Macedon at 20, conquered the…
History MysteryTHE HISTORY CAPSTONE: WHAT FOUR SEASONS OF HISTORY ACTUALLY TEACH
Episode 20 | Season 4 Capstone — History Episodes In this History episode we close out Season 4 by drawing together all four seasons to articulate the patterns…
History MysteryWHAT EVERY SEASON 4 MYSTERY ACTUALLY HAS IN COMMON
Episode 19 | Season 4 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from the individual cases and draw the thread that runs through all of…
History MysteryTHE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY: UFO OR GLACIER? THE EVIDENCE EXAMINED
Episode 18 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Baltic Sea Anomaly — the 60-meter disc-shaped object found on the…
History MysteryPUMA PUNKU: THE PRECISION STONEWORK THAT SHOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE
Episode 17 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Puma Punku — the site at 12,800 feet above sea level in…
History MysteryFRANZ FERDINAND: THE WRONG TURN THAT STARTED WORLD WAR I
Episode 16 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — the most consequential…
History MysteryTHE MAYA: THEY NEVER DISAPPEARED
Episode 15 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Maya — a civilization whose Classic cities collapsed in the 9th…
History MysteryTHE COLD WAR: 50 YEARS OF PROXY WARS, NUCLEAR BRINKMANSHIP, AND NEAR MISSES
Episode 14 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Cold War — a conflict that killed millions in proxy wars across four…
History MysteryTHE BYFORD DOLPHIN INCIDENT: ONE TENTH OF A SECOND
Episode 103 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Byford Dolphin diving accident of November 5th, 1983 — the moment a dive tender…
History MysteryMAO ZEDONG: THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN CHINA
Episode 13 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Mao Zedong — the man who unified China after a century of chaos and also caused a…
History MysteryTHE OVERTOUN BRIDGE: WHY DO HUNDREDS OF DOGS JUMP FROM THIS BRIDGE?
Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Overtoun Bridge near Dumbarton, Scotland — where approximately 50…
History MysteryANGKOR WAT: THE LARGEST TEMPLE ON EARTH WAS SWALLOWED BY JUNGLE
Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Angkor Wat — a 12th-century complex covering 400 square…
History MysteryMK ULTRA: THE CIA'S REAL MIND CONTROL PROGRAM
Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Conspiracies & Cover-Ups In this Mystery episode we focus on MKUltra — the CIA program that administered LSD to unwitting…
History MysteryTHE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: SIX CENTURIES, THREE CONTINENTS, ONE COLLAPSE
Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Ottoman Empire — the state that conquered Constantinople in 1453…
History MysteryTHE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: THE FULL STORY
Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade — the four-century institution that…
History MysteryJULIUS CAESAR: THE MAN WHO DESTROYED THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Episode 7 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Julius Caesar — the man who crossed the Rubicon, was stabbed twenty-three times by…
History MysteryTHE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518: WHEN 400 PEOPLE DANCED UNTIL THEY DIED
Episode 6 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Dancing Plague of 1518 — the event where a woman in Strasbourg…
History MysteryTHE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM: A COMPUTER FROM 100 BC
Episode 5 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on the Antikythera Mechanism — a corroded lump of bronze…
History MysteryROANOKE: 115 PEOPLE VANISHED. ONE WORD LEFT BEHIND.
Episode 4 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Lost Colony of Roanoke — 115 English settlers established a colony on…
History MysteryTHE PERSIAN EMPIRE: THE CIVILIZATION THAT INVENTED TOLERANCE
Episode 3 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Persian Empire — the largest empire the world had yet seen…
History MysteryTHE PROTESTANT REFORMATION: HOW ONE DOCUMENT SPLIT CHRISTIANITY FOREVER
Episode 2 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Protestant Reformation — the 1517 act by a theology professor that the…
History MysteryCATHERINE THE GREAT: THE GERMAN PRINCESS WHO SEIZED AN EMPIRE
Episode 1 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Catherine the Great — a minor German princess who arrived in Russia at 14 with no…
History MysteryTHE HISTORY CAPSTONE: WHAT THREE SEASONS OF HISTORY ACTUALLY TEACH
Episode 20 | Season 3 Capstone — History Episodes In this History episode we close out Season 3 by finding the patterns that connect sixty episodes — from…