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History Mystery
Uncovering forgotten history and investigating the world’s greatest mysteries. Short stories, daily.
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History MysteryNASA: FROM NAZI V2'S TO ARTEMIS II
Bonus Episode | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the full story of how humanity got back to the Moon — from the V-2 rocket built with…
History MysteryWHAT EVERY SEASON 3 MYSTERY ACTUALLY HAS IN COMMON
Episode 19 | Season 3 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from the individual cases and draw the thread that connects the Season 3…
History MysteryRENDLESHAM FOREST: THE UFO INCIDENT THE MILITARY DOCUMENTED
Episode 18 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Rendlesham Forest incident — three nights in December 1980 where…
History MysteryTEOTIHUACAN: THE GREATEST CITY NO ONE REMEMBERS BUILDING
Episode 17 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Teotihuacan — the city that housed up to two hundred…
History MysteryROSWELL: WHAT ACTUALLY CRASHED IN THE NEW MEXICO DESERT
Episode 16 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Roswell Incident — the July 1947 event where the US Army Air…
History MysteryANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA: THE CIVILIZATION THAT INVENTED EVERYTHING
Episode 15 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on Ancient Mesopotamia — the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates…
History MysteryTHE FREEMASONS: SECRET SOCIETY, SHADOW GOVERNMENT, OR JUST A CLUB?
Episode 14 | History's Mysteries — Secret Societies & Conspiracies In this Mystery episode we focus on the Freemasons — the organization condemned by the Pope…
History MysteryWINSTON CHURCHILL: HERO, EMPIRE, AND THE WHOLE TRUTH
Episode 13 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Winston Churchill — the man who kept Britain in the war in 1940 when almost any…
History MysteryTHE CARRINGTON EVENT: THE SOLAR STORM THAT COULD END MODERN CIVILIZATION
Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Carrington Event — the 1859 solar storm so powerful that…
History MysteryMACHU PICCHU: THE LOST CITY THE SPANISH NEVER FOUND
Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Machu Picchu — built by the Inca around 1450, occupied…
History MysteryTHE ILLUMINATI: REAL HISTORY AND THE CONSPIRACY THAT NEVER DIED
Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Secret Societies & Conspiracies In this Mystery episode we focus on the Illuminati — a Bavarian secret society founded in…
History MysteryTHE SOVIET UNION: RISE, RULE, AND COLLAPSE OF A COMMUNIST EMPIRE
Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Soviet Union — the largest country on earth, the great communist…
History MysteryTHE FRENCH REVOLUTION: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND THE GUILLOTINE
Episode 8 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the French Revolution — the most important political event of the…
History MysteryVLAD THE IMPALER: THE REAL MAN BEHIND DRACULA
Episode 7 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Vlad the Impaler — the 15th-century Prince of Wallachia who left a forest of twenty…
History MysteryTHE BLACK DEATH: HOW THE PLAGUE ENDED THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Episode 6 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Black Death — the pandemic that killed between thirty and sixty…
History MysteryGÖBEKLI TEPE: THE TEMPLE THAT REWRITES HUMAN HISTORY
Episode 5 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Göbekli Tepe — a temple complex 11,600 years old, six…
History MysteryTHE JFK ASSASSINATION: WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
Episode 4 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the JFK assassination — the most investigated political killing in…
History MysteryANCIENT EGYPT: 3,000 YEARS OF PHARAOHS, GODS, AND PYRAMIDS
Episode 3 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on Ancient Egypt — the longest-running civilization in history, from the…
History MysteryTHE CRUSADES: TWO CENTURIES OF HOLY WAR
Episode 2 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Crusades — from Pope Urban II's call to arms in 1095 to the fall of the…
History MysteryJoseph Stalin: The Man Who Ruled by Fear
Episode 1 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Joseph Stalin — the son of a drunk from provincial Georgia who trained for the…
History MysteryTHE PATTERN IN EVERY STORY — SEASON 2 FINALE
Episode 20 | Season 2 Capstone — History Episodes & Season Finale In this History episode we close out Season 2 by finding the thread that runs through all…
History MysteryWHAT THE MYSTERIES ARE REALLY ABOUT — SEASON 2
Episode 19 | Season 2 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back and ask what nine unsolved cases — Dyatlov Pass, Atlantis, Tunguska…
History MysteryTHE WOW SIGNAL: 72 SECONDS FROM SAGITTARIUS
Episode 18 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Wow Signal — the 72-second radio transmission received by a…
History MysteryEASTER ISLAND: THE STORY THEY GOT WRONG
Episode 17 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Easter Island — one of the most isolated places on…
History Mystery9/11: THE FULL STORY AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Episode 16 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events & Crimes In this episode we cover the full documented story of September 11th, 2001 — and then address the…
History MysteryANCIENT CHINA: FIVE THOUSAND YEARS
Episode 15 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on Ancient China — the oldest continuous civilization on earth, which…
History MysteryTHE IRA: THE WAR THAT LASTED A CENTURY
Episode 14 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Irish Republican Army — a century of armed struggle for Irish…
History MysteryCORNELIUS VANDERBILT: THE ORIGINAL TYCOON
Episode 13 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Cornelius Vanderbilt — the man who started with a $100 loan from his mother, built…
History MysteryTHE TUNGUSKA EVENT: THE EXPLOSION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Tunguska Event — the 1908 explosion above a remote Siberian…
History MysteryTHE LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS: PLATO'S GREATEST MYSTERY
Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on the Lost City of Atlantis — the island civilization…
History MysteryTHE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT: UNKNOWN COMPELLING FORCE
Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events & Crimes In this Mystery episode we focus on the Dyatlov Pass Incident — the 1959 death of nine experienced…
History MysteryTHE BRITISH EMPIRE: THE SUN THAT NEVER SET
Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the British Empire — the largest empire in history, which at its peak…
History MysteryTHE SPACE RACE: THE COMPETITION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Space Race — the 12-year competition between the United States and…
History MysteryJACK THE RIPPER: THE MAN WHO WAS NEVER FOUND
Episode 4 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events & Crimes In this Mystery episode we focus on Jack the Ripper — the unidentified serial killer who murdered…
History MysteryQUEEN ELIZABETH I: THE WOMAN WHO WOULD NOT BE CONTROLLED
Episode 7 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Queen Elizabeth I — the daughter whose mother was executed by her father, who spent…
History MysteryFLIGHT MH370: THE PLANE THAT VANISHED
Episode 6 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on Flight MH370 — the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared on…
History MysteryTHE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA: STILL TELLING US THINGS
Episode 5 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on the Great Pyramid of Giza — the oldest of the Seven…
History MysteryTHE AZTEC EMPIRE: THE CITY IN THE LAKE
Episode 3 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Aztec Empire — a civilization that rose from nothing in less than a…
History MysteryTHE VIKINGS: FARMERS WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD
Episode 2 | Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Vikings — not the Hollywood version with the horned helmets, but the…
History MysteryNAPOLEON BONAPARTE: THE MAN WHO CROWNED HIMSELF
Episode 1 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Napoleon Bonaparte — the Corsican outsider who rose from obscurity to crown himself…
History MysteryTHE PATTERN IN EVERY STORY — SEASON 1 FINALE
Episode 20 - Season 1 Capstone — History Episodes In this History episode we close out Season 1 by finding the thread that runs through all nine history…
History MysteryWHAT THE MYSTERIES ARE REALLY ABOUT
Episode 19 - Season 1 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from the individual cases and ask what nine unsolved mysteries —…
History MysteryTHE NAZCA LINES: PRAYERS IN THE DESERT
Episode 18 - History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Nazca Lines — over 800 straight lines, 300 geometric shapes, and…
History MysteryTHE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: THE UNBREAKABLE CODE
Episode 17 - History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on the Voynich Manuscript — a 600-year-old book written in…
History MysteryAMELIA EARHART: MISSING
Episode 16 - History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events In this Mystery episode we focus on Amelia Earhart — the most famous female aviator in history, who…
History MysteryTHE ROMAN EMPIRE: THE ETERNAL CITY
Episode 15 - Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the Roman Empire — how a small city on seven hills above the Tiber…
History MysteryTHE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR: BANKERS AND WARRIORS
Episode 14 - Human History — Groups & Movements In this History episode we focus on the Knights Templar — warrior monks who protected Christian pilgrims…
History MysteryADOLF HITLER: HOW DEMOCRACY FAILED
Episode 13 - Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Adolf Hitler — not just what he did, but how a failed Austrian artist with 2.6% of…
History MysteryTHE AMBER ROOM: THE EIGHTH WONDER
Episode 12 - History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on the Amber Room — called the Eighth Wonder of the World…
History MysterySTONEHENGE: THE CIRCLE THAT KEPT SECRETS
Episode 11 - History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on Stonehenge — the 5,000-year-old stone circle on…
History MysteryTHE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: MYTH VS REALITY
Episode 10 - History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places In this Mystery episode we focus on the Bermuda Triangle — the stretch of ocean between…
History MysteryANCIENT GREECE: THE BLUEPRINT
Episode 9 - Human History In this History episode we focus on Ancient Greece — the civilization that invented democracy, philosophy, theater, and the…
History MysteryTHE AMERICAN MAFIA: THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
Episode 8 - Human History In this History episode we focus on the American Mafia — five crime families that built a shadow government inside the United States…
History MysteryNIKOLA TESLA: THE FORGOTTEN INVENTOR
Episode 7 - Human History In this History episode we focus on Nikola Tesla — the inventor who built the electrical system that powers the entire modern world…
History MysteryD.B. COOPER: THE PERFECT CRIME
Episode 6 - History's Mysteries In this Mystery episode we focus on D.B. Cooper — the man who hijacked a commercial flight on Thanksgiving Eve 1971, collected…
History MysteryTHE ZODIAC KILLER: STILL UNSOLVED
Episode 5 - History's Mysteries In this Mystery episode we focus on the Zodiac Killer — the unidentified serial killer who terrorized Northern California in…
History MysteryALCATRAZ: THE VANISHING
Episode 4 - History's Mysteries In this Mystery episode we focus on the 1962 escape from Alcatraz — the night three inmates vanished from the most secure…
History MysteryCLEOPATRA: THE LAST QUEEN
Episode 3 - Human History In this History episode we focus on Cleopatra — one of the most misunderstood rulers in history. This one looks at the real woman…
History MysteryGENGHIS KHAN: THE WORLD CONQUEROR
Episode 2 - Human History In this History episode we focus on Genghis Khan — the abandoned boy from the Mongolian steppe who grew up to conquer more land than…
History MysteryJOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: THE CHOKEPOINT
Episode 1 - Human History In this History episode we focus on John D. Rockefeller — the man who turned a single oil refinery in Cleveland into a monopoly that…