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History Uncovered is brought to you by the digital publisher All That’s Interesting, where we explore all things weird and bizarre in the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop thinking about.
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Episode 97 - History Happy Hour, November 2023: The Titanic's Dinner Menu, An Ancient Roman Coin Trove, And More from 2023-11-29T19:00
It's the end of November 2023 and we've picked a few of our favorite history news stories from this month as well as a handful of significant anniversaries from decades past. Over the past month, w...
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Episode 96 - Who Really Killed JFK? from 2023-11-21T22:10
From the moment CBS News broadcaster Walter Cronkite lowered his glasses on November 22, 1963, and told the American public that President John F. Kennedy was dead, the same question has echoed in ...
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Episode 95 - Roland Doe, The Boy Who Inspired 'The Exorcist' from 2023-11-15T19:00
In 1949, priests performed an exorcism on a boy referred to as "Roland Doe," a.k.a. Ronald Hunkeler, in a chilling ordeal that became the real-life inspiration for The Exorcist. https://allthatsin...
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Episode 94 - People Who Fell Out Of Planes — And Lived from 2023-11-08T22:00
Today, we'll be discussing people who have fallen from mind-boggling heights. And most — though tragically not all — managed to survive. These are their remarkable stories. https://allthatsinteres...
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Episode 93 - The Mothman And The Silver Bridge Collapse from 2023-11-01T19:30
As legend has it, the flying Mothman horrified countless Point Pleasant residents in the late 1960s. And when the Silver Bridge collapsed, the creature was blamed for the deaths of 46 people. https...
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Episode 92 - The Enfield Haunting That Inspired 'The Conjuring 2' from 2023-10-25T19:00
The Enfield Haunting began with a bang. Literally. In the summer of 1977, Peggy Hodgson heard loud noises coming from her daughters' room, upstairs at their house at 284 Green Street, in Enfield, N...
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Episode 91 - The Chilling History Behind The Headless Horseman Of Sleepy Hollow from 2023-10-18T19:00
Every year when the green leaves turn bright orange and pumpkins appear on our doorsteps, Washington Irving’s classic ghost story, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, is retold. The beloved American legen...
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Episode 90 - The Haunted Baynard Mausoleum of Hilton Head Island from 2023-10-11T18:00
Southern Gothic is a narrative history podcast that pays special attention to sound design to truly immerse you in the story, whether exploring the American South’s darkest chapters in history or r...
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Episode 89 - The Mermaid Inn, England's Centuries-Old Haunted Hotel from 2023-10-04T18:00
The Mermaid Inn has housed pirates, gangsters, and even Queen Elizabeth I. Some say the inn still houses a few of these characters today — albeit, in ghost form. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hau...
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Episode 88 - History Happy Hour, September 2023: A Secret Palace Tunnel, A 2,600-Year-Old Shoe, And More from 2023-09-27T20:28:50
Welcome to History Happy Hour, a special series from History Uncovered… It’s the end of September 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be ta...
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Episode 87 - Judith Love Cohen: Savior Of Apollo 13 And Jack Black's Mom from 2023-09-20T18:00
As a teenager, Judith Love Cohen went to a guidance counselor to talk about her future and professed her deep love of math. But the counselor had other advice. She said: “I think you ought to go to...
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Episode 86 - Inside Pat Tillman's Death By 'Friendly Fire' from 2023-09-13T21:22
After the 9/11 attacks, Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative football career to join the U.S. Army. But in 2004, he was tragically killed by the Taliban — or so his family and the American public were l...
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Episode 85 - John Wilkes Booth: A Discussion With 'The Art Of Crime' from 2023-09-06T19:00
John Wilkes Booth hailed from America’s most celebrated theatrical dynasty. At the height of his powers, his father, Junius, ranked as the greatest Shakespearean in the country, and John’s older br...
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Episode 84 - History Happy Hour, August 2023: A Vampire Graveyard, The Surprise Discovery Of A Roman Ship, And More from 2023-08-30T20:15
It’s the end of August 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about…The discovery of a medieval handheld sundial in Germany… …yet a...
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Episode 83 - UFOs Part 4: The Real Men In Black, Shadowy Government Figures Who Threaten UFO Witnesses Into Silence from 2023-08-23T18:00
On June 21, 1947, Harold Dahl and his son Charles were gathering logs near the eastern shore of Maury Island, Washington in Puget Sound when Harold suddenly saw something strange in the sky above h...
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Episode 82 - UFOs Part 3: The Ariel School UFO Sighting, When 62 Children Saw An Alien Ship At Recess from 2023-08-16T18:00
In September 1994, the small rural town of Ruwa, Zimbabwe was forever changed. For several days, people across the region reported seeing mysterious lights in the sky at night, kicking off rumors a...
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Episode 81 - UFOs Part 2: The Lake Michigan Incident Of 1994 from 2023-08-09T18:15
On March 8, 1994, residents living along the shore of Lake Michigan witnessed one of the most widespread UFO sightings in history. Bright, multi-colored orbs appeared over the water and could be se...
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Episode 80 - UFOs Part 1: History's First Encounter With "Little Green Men" from 2023-08-02T18:00
One steamy summer night in August 1955, 11 terrified people suddenly flooded into the police station in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They immediately began blabbering frantically about something that ha...
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Episode 79 - History Happy Hour, July 2023: Thrift Store Treasure, The Death Of Bruce Lee, And More from 2023-07-26T18:00
It’s the end of July 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… A vase purchased at a thrift store for just $3.30 that turned ou...
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Episode 78 - Oregon's Exploding Whale Incident Of 1970 from 2023-07-19T18:30
On November 9, 1970, the carcass of an eight-ton, 45-foot-long sperm whale washed up on the beach near the small town of Florence, Oregon. For the next several days, the whale sat undisturbed on th...
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Episode 77 - The 1904 St. Louis Marathon, The Wildest Event In Olympic History from 2023-07-12T18:00
Marathons today follow a simple formula. There's a starting line and a finish line, a crowd of excited and apprehensive racers, and a clear course to follow. But the 1904 Olympic Marathon took some...
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Episode 76 - The Tragic Story Of David Reimer, The Boy Forced To Live As A Girl from 2023-07-05T18:15:31
Please be advised that this episode contains discussion of sexual abuse of children David Reimer’s parents just wanted to do the right thing for him.What was supposed to be a routine circumcision i...
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Episode 75 - History Happy Hour, June 2023: A Vampire Graveyard, RFK's Assassination, And More from 2023-06-28T17:00
It’s the end of June 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… Traces of a ritualistic drink containing human blood discovered ...
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Episode 74 - The Harrowing Death Of John Jones Inside Nutty Putty Cave from 2023-06-21T18:00
Just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, there lies a vast labyrinth of underground tunnels that have been sealed shut for almost 15 years. Once a popular attraction for cave explorers and other thril...
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Episode 73 - Corrie Ten Boom, The Dutch Watchmaker Who Saved 800 Jews From The Holocaust from 2023-06-14T20:45:50
On May 10, 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. And life for Corrie ten Boom, a 48-year-old watchmaker in the Dutch city of Haarlem, would never be the same. With the help of the Dutch resista...
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Episode 72 - Chuck Mawhinney , The Marine Corps' Deadliest Sniper from 2023-06-07T18:00
As one of the most prolific snipers of the Vietnam War, Chuck Mawhinney was a lethal sharpshooter who racked up the most confirmed kills in the history of the United States Marine Corps and the sec...
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Episode 71 - History Happy Hour, May 2023 from 2023-05-31T17:00
It’s the end of May 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… The 98-year-old Frenchmen who revealed the secret massacre of Ger...
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Episode 70 - Titanic, Part 6: The Legacy Of The Doomed Ship from 2023-05-24T18:20:03
Over the past five episodes, we’ve taken a close look at the tragedy of the RMS Titanic, from its construction to its destruction, and the stories of the crew members and passengers on board in tho...
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Episode 69 - Titanic, Part 5: The Aftermath Of History's Most Infamous Sinking from 2023-05-17T18:00
Soon after the Carpathia's dramatic rescue of the survivors, the world began to hear about the Titanic for the first time. Thousands of people awaited the ship's arrival in New York, hoping for goo...
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Episode 68 - Titanic, Part 4: Heroism And Despair In The Ship’s Final Moments from 2023-05-10T17:00
The Titanic was infamously touted as the “unsinkable” ship, a title that unfortunately came to be bitterly ironic. But in the wake of its sinking, that title came to be associated not with the ship...
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Episode 67 - Titanic, part 3: Sinking Into The North Atlantic from 2023-05-03T17:47
In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, as word began to spread that something had happened to the Titanic during its maiden voyage, the White Star Line released a reassuring statement. "Whil...
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Special Episode - The Antwerp Diamond Heist / The Cold War Spy Swap from 2023-04-29T16:00
A special episode from our friends at History Daily about the biggest diamond heist in history, as well as a spy exchange at the height of the cold war. Link to History Daily: https://podfollow.co...
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Episode 66 - History Happy Hour, April 2023 from 2023-04-26T18:44:33
Today, we'll be talking about: How scientists found a never before seen chapter in the Bible.How the discovery of a 6000 year old hook in Israel, suggests that ancient people hunted sharks. Why exp...
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Episode 65 - Titanic, part 2: ‘Iceberg, Right Ahead!’ from 2023-04-19T18:56
At 11:39 p.m., just before his shift was to end, Frederick Fleet suddenly saw a large mass emerge directly in front of the ship. In a panic, he rang the bell three times and telephoned the bridge. ...
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Episode 64 - Titanic, part 1: Building The 'Unsinkable Ship' from 2023-04-12T18:50
One summer evening in 1907, two men came together to discuss an idea that they hoped would change the world — or at least the world of maritime travel. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the Whi...
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Episode 63 - La Lechuza, The Creepy Witch-Owl Of Ancient Mexican Legend from 2023-04-05T18:00
Along the border of Northern Mexico and Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, there are whispers of a creature known as La Lechuza, a seven-foot owl with a woman’s face whose cries can be heard at night, entic...
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Episode 62 - History Happy Hour, March 2023 from 2023-03-29T21:02:15
It's the end of March 2023 and we've handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today. We'll talk about The death of the last member of the Nazi resistance group, White RoseH...
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Episode 61 - Inside The Decades-Long Mystery Of The Isdal Woman from 2023-03-22T16:12:42
More than 50 years after the Isdal Woman's charred body was found in Norway’s “Ice Valley,” the authorities still don’t know who she was or how she died. https://allthatsinteresting.com/isdal-woma...
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Episode 60 - The Death of Floyd Collins And The Forgotten Media Spectacle from 2023-03-15T18:35:04
Floyd Collins was an experienced cave explorer. A participant in what became known as Kentucky’s “Cave Wars,” Collins made several notable discoveries, including the Great Crystal Cave. But that’s ...
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Episode 59 - History Happy Hour, February 2023 from 2023-02-28T23:29
It’s the end of February 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about: The Death of Solomon Perel, who as a young Jewish boy during...
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Episode 58 - Fun Facts About Washington and Lincoln from 2023-02-20T19:36
Today, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are often seen to be as serious and solemn as their carved faces on Mount Rushmore suggest. But though both presidents presided over important eras in A...
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Episode 57 - Doris Miller, From Kitchen Duty To Pearl Harbor Hero from 2023-02-15T21:34
On December 7, 1941, Navy sailor Doris Miller was below deck on the USS West Virginia, sorting laundry, when he heard the ship's general alarm suddenly go off. Though Miller was a Black man, and th...
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Episode 56 - The Eerie Case Of Bobby Dunbar from 2023-02-02T21:18:23
A young child goes missing, the whole country starts looking for him, and eventually, the family gets him back, only to realize that he wasn’t their kid after all. While it may sound like something...
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Episode 55 - The Disappearance Of Michael Rockefeller from 2023-01-26T20:33
In the early 1960s, Michael Rockefeller vanished somewhere off the coast of Papua New Guinea. His disappearance shocked the nation and prompted a manhunt of historic proportions. Years later, the t...
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Episode 54 - Krampus from 2022-12-21T15:34
Each December, countless children around the world excitedly await the arrival of Santa Claus. If they've been well-behaved, he'll reward them with gifts left in stockings or under the tree. If the...
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Episode 53 - News Roundup of 2022 from 2022-12-14T18:09
In 2022, All That's Interesting published more than 300 news stories covering stunning archaeological discoveries, shocking crimes, strange animals, and scientific breakthroughs. But of everything...
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Episode 52 - Native American Warriors from 2022-11-22T15:42
For centuries both before and after Europeans began colonizing the New World, countless Native American warriors did battle with settlers and each other as they defended their land, forged their tr...
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Episode 51 - Unit 731 from 2022-11-11T14:58
Out of all the atrocities that Imperial Japan unleashed upon the Chinese people during their brutal occupation, probably none were as gratuitously hateful as the operations of Unit 731, the Japanes...
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Episode 50 - The Amityville Murders from 2022-10-26T15:57
On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. burst through the front door of Henry’s Bar in Amityville, New York, screaming hysterically for help — because his family had been murdered. His ...
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Episode 49 - Bloody Mary from 2022-10-14T17:44
Almost everyone has heard the urban legend of Bloody Mary. As the story goes, this ghastly, murderous spirit can be summoned through your mirror if you stand in the bathroom, turn off the lights, a...
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Episode 48 - The Roswell Incident of 1947 from 2022-09-22T15:31
In July 1947, something crashed on the Foster Ranch in New Mexico. What that object was, what the government said it was, and what the public thought it could be has created a near-mythical confusi...
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Episode 47 - Brian Sweeney's Tragic Voicemail from 2022-09-09T12:00
Just three minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, passenger Brian Sweeney left a final message to his wife Julie. https://allthatsinteresting.com/bri...
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Episode 46 - The Tragic Death of Marilyn Monroe from 2022-08-04T15:06
When Marilyn Monroe died on August 4, 1962, it was to many as if one of the world's brightest lights had suddenly been snuffed out forever. To this day, the true cause of Marilyn Monroe's death rem...
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Episode 45 - The Disappearance Of Maura Murray, The Nursing Student Who Vanished Without A Trace from 2022-07-21T12:00
Hours before her disappearance, Maura Murray packed up her dorm, withdrew $280, and bought an assortment of alcohol. She then crashed her car — and was never seen again. https://allthatsinteresting...
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Episode 44 - The Secret Lives of Presidents from 2022-06-30T22:10
There's plenty about the American presidency that’s dignified and elegant. Presidents enjoy a home at the White House, frequent visits from world leaders, opulent state dinners, and more. They’re h...
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Episode 43 - Richard Kuklinski, The Iceman from 2022-06-15T21:42
To his family and neighbors in suburban New Jersey, Richard Kuklinski was an all-American husband. To the Mafia and his victims, he was an unscrupulous hitman known as the "Iceman killer." https://...
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Episode 42 - The Truth About Hitler’s Descendants from 2022-05-17T13:33
It’s hard to believe that a man as monstrous as Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people during the Holocaust and World War II, was born to a mother an...
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Episode 41 - The Real-Life Gangsters Behind Don Corleone from 2022-04-29T16:39
When The Godfather premiered in 1972, its depiction of the American Mafia both stunned and fascinated audiences who’d never seen anything quite like it ever before. A commercial and critical smash,...
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Episode 40 - Ed Gein, The Butcher Of Plainfield from 2022-04-08T18:00
Most people have seen Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs, all of them classics within the horror genre, anchored by some of the scariest villains in movie history. B...
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Episode 39 - Skinwalkers from 2022-03-23T16:43
In Navajo lore, there's one creature so terrifying that the Navajo themselves rarely dare to even utter its name. That creature is the skinwalker, also called yee naaldlooshii, or ‘with it, he goes...
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Episode 38 - The Disappearance of Dennis Martin from 2022-03-01T14:23
In June 1969, Dennis Lloyd Martin walked off to play a prank on his dad and never returned, sparking the largest search effort in the history of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. https://alltha...
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Episode 37 - Natalia Grace: Six-Year-Old Adoptee Or Adult Scam Artist? from 2022-02-10T19:09
Michael and Kristine Barnett of Indiana claim that their adopted daughter Natalia Grace is really a psychotic adult dwarf who tried to kill them — but where does the truth lie? https://allthatsint...
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Episode 36 - Genie Wiley from 2022-01-13T22:52
"Feral Child" Genie Wiley was strapped to a chair by her parents and neglected for 13 years, giving researchers a rare chance to study human development. The story of Genie Wiley the Feral Child so...
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Episode 35 - Dina Sanichar from 2021-12-16T19:34
On a Saturday in February in 1867, a group of hunters in the Bulandshahr district of India came across a shocking sight. After they tracked a lone wolf to a cave in the jungle, they peered inside a...
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Episode 34 - Indigenous Boarding Schools from 2021-11-23T05:09
In the summer of 2021, Indigenous people across Canada started visiting the sites of former Indian Residential Schools. With ground-penetrating radar devices in hand, they slowly swept the earth, h...
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Episode 33 - Pocahontas from 2021-11-11T19:20
In 1995, Disney released Pocahontas, a film about a doomed whirlwind romance between a Native American woman, Pocahontas, and an English colonist, John Smith. But although both Pocahontas and John ...
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Episode 32 - The Beast Of Gévaudan from 2021-10-27T17:25
Between 1764 and 1767, something evil stalked the quiet hills of Gévaudan, France. The so-called Bête du Gévaudan, or Beast of Gévaudan, attacked hundreds of people, often tearing out their throats...
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Episode 31 - Tamám Shud from 2021-10-18T15:11
On Dec. 1, 1948, beachgoers came across a dead man on Australia’s Somerton beach. Well-dressed, and with no signs of trauma, his identity and cause of death eluded local police. Soon, investigators...
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Episode 30 - Franz Reichelt, ”The Flying Tailor” from 2021-09-30T13:46
On the morning of February 4, 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt stepped out onto the edge of the Eiffel Tower. He paused there for about 40 seconds as if he was gathering his courage. Then, he threw...
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Episode 29 - The Donner Party from 2021-09-17T14:16
In the 1840s, waves upon waves of Americans headed west to forge a new life. Many of these stories had happy endings while some suffered great tragedy -- but then there was the infamous Donner Part...
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Episode 28 - Beck Weathers from 2021-08-31T13:11
After he was last seen being blown away by gale-force winds in Mount Everest's "Death Zone," Beck Weathers' wife was notified that her husband was dead. What happened next was nothing short of a mi...
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Episode 27 - Anneliese Michel from 2021-08-12T15:17
In 2005, The Exorcism of Emily Rose terrified movie audiences around the world as it depicted the aftermath of a fatal exorcism and posed lingering questions about whether or not the character of 1...
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Episode 26 - Amy Winehouse from 2021-07-22T14:01
On July 23, 2011, British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead inside her London home. Just 27 years old, she joined the tragic club of other music icons, like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt C...
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Episode 25 - The Death of Jim Morrison from 2021-07-01T15:33
Sometime in the early morning hours of July 3, 1971, Jim Morrison — the iconic lead singer of The Doors — died of heart failure at the age of just 27. He was found by his girlfriend, Pamela Courson...
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Episode 24 - Delphi Murders from 2021-06-25T21:43
February 13, 2017, started as a surprisingly warm winter day in the small town of Delphi, Indiana. But the events of this one day would, in an instant, shatter a sense of calm and safety that its f...
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Episode 23 - Bass Reeves from 2021-06-15T15:09
In the second half of the 19th century, in a lawless stretch of land in present-day Oklahoma known as Indian Territory, the name “Bass Reeves” struck terror into the heart of any criminal who was o...
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Episode 22 - The Mysterious Disappearance Of Holly Bobo from 2021-05-27T11:20
On April 13, 2011, Holly Bobo disappeared into the woods behind her family's home in Tennessee, leaving investigators with few clues or leads. Bobo’s disappearance rattled her small community of Da...
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Episode 21 - Tombstone from 2021-05-05T14:14
On October 26, 1881, a group of nine outlaws and lawmen gathered in a narrow alleyway in Tombstone, Arizona. Their showdown was the result of long-simmering tensions that had been building between ...
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Episode 20 - The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla from 2021-04-09T14:35
On January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla passed away at the age of 86 from coronary thrombosis. He died alone, and in debt, at a cheap hotel in New York City. His body was only found when a hotel maid igno...
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Episode 19 - Maud Wagner from 2021-04-01T14:18
At the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, an aerialist named Maud Wagner struck a deal with a tattoo artist. She would go on a date with him — if he taught her how to tattoo. Thus began the two most i...
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Bonus: Amy Lynn Bradley - Facebook Live Discussion from 2021-03-28T17:11
On March 12th 2021, History Uncovered went live on Facebook to discuss the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley. Listen to episode 18 for more of the backstory, and make sure to follow us on Facebook ...
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Episode 18 - The Baffling Disappearance Of Amy Lynn Bradley from 2021-03-05T20:39
On March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley disappeared— a Royal Caribbean cruise ship en route to the island of Curacao. The easiest explanation is that Bradley fell overboard and vanished ben...
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Episode 17 - The Disturbing Death of Elisa Lam from 2021-02-12T21:53
On February 19th, 2013, the naked corpse of a young woman was found floating in the water tank atop downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel. The hotel’s maintenance workers had gone to check on the rooftop tan...
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Episode 16 - The Day Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Finally Met from 2021-01-15T17:00
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are two of the most iconic figures of the 1960s American civil rights movement. But they only met each other once — briefly, and almost by accident — in 1964. ...
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Episode 15 - DB Cooper from 2020-12-21T21:58
On November 24, 1971, a man who identified himself as Dan Cooper bought a one-way ticket from Portland to Seattle on Northwest Orient Airlines flight #305. He paid for his ticket in cash and made h...
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Episode 14 - The Christmas Truce of 1914 from 2020-12-15T14:22
In the midst of the unrelenting violence of World War I, a ceasefire suddenly swept across areas of the Western front in 1914. Massive amounts of life had already been extinguished, but there was o...
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Episode 13 - Trail of Tears from 2020-11-25T15:08
Throughout the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson ordered the forced removal of tens of thousands of Native Americans from their homelands east of the Mississippi River. This perilous journey to desig...
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Episode 12 - The Salem Witch Trials from 2020-10-28T16:15
In 1692, the quiet Puritan settlement of Salem, Massachusetts descended into madness when its residents suddenly began accusing each other of witchcraft. Now known as the Salem witch trials, this p...
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Episode 11 - The Black Dahlia from 2020-10-20T13:55
Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," was just 22 years old when she was brutally murdered in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. It remains one of Hollywood's oldest cold cases to this day. Discov...
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Episode 10 - The Shining Hotel from 2020-10-07T03:18
In October 1974, ascendant horror writer Stephen King and his wife spent a night in a cavernous old hotel at the foot of the Colorado Rockies. With the winter barrage of snow and cold looming, the ...
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Episode 9 - The Death Of Jimi Hendrix from 2020-09-18T14:53
On the morning of September 18, 1970, paramedics arrived at the Samarkand Hotel in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood to find Jimi Hendrix covered in vomit and unresponsive. The apartment door was ...
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Episode 8 - Ida B. Wells from 2020-08-26T15:21
On August 18, 1920, the ratification of the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote after a century-long struggle. But the win was bittersweet as not all women were now welcome at t...
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Episode 7 - Candyman from 2020-08-11T14:35
On the night of April 22, 1987, Ruthie Mae McCoy called 911 at about a quarter to nine to report that someone was trying to break into her Chicago apartment through the bathroom mirror. She made ...
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Episode 6 - The USS Indianapolis from 2020-07-30T16:22
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis had just completed a top-secret drop off at Tinian Island in the Philippine Sea. Her crew of 1,195 believed their part in World War II had ended and now they ...
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Episode 5 - The Founding Fathers from 2020-06-30T17:08
In this episode, we talk about some of the darkest elements of our otherwise revered Founding Fathers, and talk with Alexis Coe about her biography of George Washington, You Never Forget Your First...
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Episode 4 - Plague&Pestilence - Siege of Kaffa from 2020-06-08T14:31
In early 1346, Mongol forces were already three years into their siege of the Crimean port city of Kaffa when their soldiers started coming down with a deadly disease. The sick fell quickly, suffer...
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Episode 4 - Plague&Pestilence - The Dancing Plague Of 1518 from 2020-05-26T14:21
On July 14, 1518, a woman identified only as Frau Troffea stepped out of her house in Strasbourg, Alsace -- in what is now France -- and started to dance. After many hours, drenched in sweat and tw...
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Episode 4 - Plague&Pestilence - Operation Cherry Blossoms At Night from 2020-05-09T15:00
In the spring of 1945, as the Allies approached victory over the Axis powers, Japan considered launching a terrifying attack on the U.S. mainland. Though the plan’s codename, "Operation Cherry Blos...
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Episode 4 - Plague&Pestilence - The Carancas Meteorite Sickness from 2020-05-02T14:45
On September 15, 2007, villagers in the remote Peruvian town of Carancas saw a glowing fireball soar toward Earth — then felt the meteorite crash into the ground. Not only was the meteorite able t...
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Episode 3 - The Lost Franklin Expedition from 2020-04-21T17:05
In 1845, two ships carrying 134 men set sail from England in order to explore an unnavigated stretch of the arctic waters between Canada and Greenland in search of the long sought after Northwest P...
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Episode 2 - The Dyatlov Pass Incident from 2020-03-02T14:05
In January of 1959, nine Soviet college students died under mysterious circumstances while hiking through the Ural Mountains in what's now known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. https://allthatsintere...
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Episode 1 - The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi from 2020-02-03T17:15
On June 22, 1983, 15-year-old Vatican resident Emanuela Orlandi went missing and was never heard from again. Her disappearance has been linked to the Pope, Turkish insurrectionists, Italian mobster...
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Episode 0 - The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi Preview from 2019-10-30T13:03:36
On June 22, 1983, 15-year-old Vatican resident Emanuela Orlandi went missing and was never been seen again. Her disappearance has been linked to the Pope, to Turkish insurrectionists, Italian mo...
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History Uncovered Trailer from 2018-05-15T04:00
History Uncovered is brought to you by the digital publisher All That’s Interesting, where we explore all things weird and bizarre in the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a...
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