History Uncovered
History Uncovered is a podcast by the digital publisher All That's Interesting, exploring weird and bizarre topics from the natural world and history. Each Wednesday, the show takes a deep dive into a subject that has captivated the team. Listeners can find more stories on All That's Interesting's website and follow the show on Facebook and Instagram. The podcast is part of the Airwave Media network.
Episodes
Episode 165 - Anastasia: The True Story Of The Russian Princess
On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bolsheviks claimed to have murdered the entire family, their bodies had been so marred and later buried in unmarked graves that many speculated the youngest daughter of the five Romanov children, Anasta
Episode 164 - The Real Stories Behind Some Of Bob Dylan's Most Iconic Songs
Bob Dylan burst onto the scene in the 1960s as the "voice of a generation," providing evocative and politically engaged anthems that reflected America’s rapidly changing times, from the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam conflict. Despite his music becoming intrinsically linked to historic moments like the March on Washington, Dylan often introduced his biggest hits, like "Blowin' In The Wind,"
Episode 163 - Chastity Belts: Separating Fact From Fiction
For centuries, the story has endured: medieval knights departing for war, locking their wives into iron chastity belts and riding off with the only key. It’s one of history’s most lurid and enduring legends — and almost certainly fiction. The familiar image of the chastity belt was largely manufactured centuries later through satire, hoaxes, dubious museum artifacts, and Victorian anxieties about
Episode 162 - The Mysterious Statues Of Easter Island
In 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered a remote island in the Pacific on Easter Sunday, which he named "Easter Island," where he was astonished by the hundreds of towering, stern-faced moai statues. These impressive sculptures, which can be over 30 feet tall and weigh up to 86 tonnes, have inspired curiosity and speculation for centuries. To this day, questions remain about how the Rap
Episode 161 - Inside Mexican Singer Chalino Sánchez's Mysterious Murder — And The Note He Was Handed Onstage Just Beforehand
Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez rose to fame as the "King of Corrido" in the late 1980s, creating sincere ballads about drug lords, cartels, and violence that resonated deeply with fans across Mexico and Southern California. His controversial life was already marked by bloodshed, including killing a man at age 15 and surviving an onstage shooting, but his fate was sealed on May 15, 1992, when he re
Episode 160 - What Happened To The Vanished Keepers Of The Flannan Isles Lighthouse?
In December 1900, the keepers of the Flannan Isles
Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland mysteriously disappeared —
and to this day, no one knows what happened.
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Episode 159 - The Story Of Tom Dooley And The Murder Behind One Of Folk Music's Greatest Classics
In 1958, the Kingston Trio released a hugely popular folk song called "Tom Dooley," which even inspired a 1959 film, but few listeners realized the song was based on a real person — Tom Dula (pronounced "Dooley") — a young Civil War veteran from Wilkes County, North Carolina, who was executed in 1868 for the murder of his lover, Laura Foster. According to the story, Dula was romantically involved
Episode 158 - Dusko Popov: The Real-Life Secret Agent Who Inspired James Bond
Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades.
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Episode 157 - The Unsolved Disappearance Of Child Actor Joe Pichler
When Joe Pichler mysteriously vanished at the age of 18 in 2006, police suspected suicide — but his family remains convinced that foul play was involved.
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Episode 156 - The Unsolved Mystery Of Rey Rivera's 2006 'Suicide'
Rey Rivera was just 32 years old when he vanished without a trace on May 16, 2006. A week later, he was found dead in Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel.
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Episode 155 - The Story Behind Slenderman — And The Real-Life Stabbing It Inspired
Slender Man was a popular internet legend created in June 2009. But when two 12-year-olds tried stabbing their friend to death, this mythical creature took on a life of its own.
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Episode 154 - The Surprising History Of The Christmas Tree
From their roots in ancient pagan celebrations of the winter solstice to their ban in colonial America, the history of the Christmas tree is longer and more complicated than most people realize.
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Episode 153 - The Inside Story Of The Manson Murders
During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969.
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Episode 152 - Inside History's Most Chilling Real-Life Frankenstein Experiments
In 1818, Mary Shelley published her classic novel about
Dr. Frankenstein and his disturbing experiments with reanimation — but
the stories of these seven scientists from history prove that reality
can sometimes be stranger than fiction.
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Episode 151 - What Happened To Edgar Allan Poe? Inside The Famous Writer's Mysterious Demise
After suffering from mysterious hallucinations for four days straight, Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore at age 40 on October 7, 1849.
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Episode 150 - 'Mignonette': A Harrowing Story Of Cannibalism At Sea
Again and again, in desperate times throughout history, people have turned to desperate measures and committed what many societies consider to be the worst of all human sins — cannibalism. Members of the Donner Party infamously resorted to cannibalism to survive when they became stranded in the Sierra Nevadas in the 1840s, as did survivors of the Andes Flight Disaster in 1972. At sea, castaway sai
Episode 149 - The Stories Of History's Eeriest Ghost Ships
Throughout maritime history, sailors have reported sightings of ghost ships with eerily similar details — empty vessels appearing out of the blue, with no one aboard and no sign of what happened to the crew.
Over the centuries, numerous vessels have been found floating on the high seas without a crew — here are some of the most disturbing cases.
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Episode 148 - Snallygaster: The Bird Monster That Haunts Maryland
In February 1909, just around one month after the first newspaper reports about the Jersey Devil were published, the Maryland-based Middletown Valley Register published a report about a local who encountered a terrifying creature known as the Snallygaster.
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Episode 147 - The Cadaver Synod: When A Medieval Pope Put His Predecessor's Corpse On Trial
The Catholic Church has put many people on trial, including Galileo, Joan of Arc, and Martin Luther. But the strangest trial in church history took place in the ninth century. Known as the Cadaver Synod, it was the trial of Pope Formosus — who had died eight months before.
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Episode 146 - Virginia Hall, The One-Legged Spy Who Outsmarted The Nazis
Despite being an amputee, Virginia Hall bolstered the Allied resistance in France so successfully that the Gestapo launched special missions just to find her. They never did.
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Episode 145 - Tsutomo Yamaguchi, The Man Who Survived Both Atomic Bombings
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was at ground zero in Hiroshima — and three days later, in Nagasaki. He survived both atomic bombings. Decades later, he told his story to the world. This is the life of history’s only officially recognized double survivor.
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Episode 144 - Jimmy Hoffa's Disappearance — And Who May Have Been Behind It
What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa? On the 50th anniversary of one of America’s greatest unsolved mysteries, we dive into the life, rise, and sudden disappearance of the infamous Teamsters boss. From his meteoric union ascent and shadowy mob ties to wild theories involving landfills, stadiums, and deathbed confessions, we unravel the suspects, the motives—and the myths. Was it a mob hit? A govern
Episode 143 - The Story Behind America's "Government Cheese" And The Massive Caves Used To Store It
In the 1970s, the U.S. faced a serious dairy shortage that sent prices soaring. To address this, the government, under Jimmy Carter, implemented a massive subsidy program for the dairy industry. $2 billion was pumped into dairy subsidies, milk production skyrocketed, and prices for consumers stabilized. By all metrics, the program was a success — but perhaps it was too successful.
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Episode 142 - The Tragic Assassination Of Robert F. Kennedy
By June of 1968, the United States felt, to many, like a nation teetering on the edge. Every night, Americans watched the carnage of the Vietnam War on their television screens. That April, Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed in cold blood in Memphis, Tennessee, triggering riots in cities across the country. Into this chaos stepped Robert F. Kennedy — the younger brother of slain President John
Episode 141 - Four Of The Worst Nuclear Disasters In History
From Chernobyl to Fukushima, nuclear disasters have left lasting scars on the modern world, each a chilling reminder of the high-stakes gamble that comes with harnessing atomic energy. Yet even in the shadow of catastrophe, passionate voices continue to champion nuclear power as a clean, efficient solution to our growing energy needs.
Whether you view it as a ticking time bomb or a misunderstood
Episode 140 - Inside The 1910 Push For Americans To Eat Hippos
Today, the average American consumes almost 70 pounds of beef per year and almost 100 pounds of chicken. But those numbers could have been quite different. A century ago, American policymakers pushed for a different kind of meat supply in the United States — hippo meat. In 1910, a Louisiana politician introduced a bill to bring hippopotamuses to the country in the hopes that they would both eat in
Episode 139 - History's Most Disturbing Mutiny? The Story Of The Dutch Ship Batavia
In 1629, the Dutch ship Batavia wrecked off the coast of what is now Western Australia, stranding over 300 people on remote, barren islands. What followed was not a fight for survival, but a descent into terror, as a mutinous group led by Jeronimus Cornelisz unleashed a campaign of murder, torture, and control. Over the next few months, dozens were slaughtered—not by nature, but by their fellow su
Episode 138 - The Chilling Story Of Selena's Murder — And The Woman Who Killed Her
Dubbed the "Mexican Madonna" and the "Queen Of Tejano Music," Selena Quintanilla was a budding superstar — until she was gunned down in March 1995.
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Episode 137 - U.S.-Canada Border Disputes, From The Pig War To The Present
Far from being a new issue specific to our present moment, territorial disputes between Canada and the U.S. stretch back almost 200 years. In fact, conflicts over the border between Canada and the United States have existed since the borders were first drawn. Today we'll discuss some of the areas of the border that have been disputed over the past two centuries — including some that are still disp
Episode 136 - The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Worst Natural Disaster Of The 21st Century
In the early morning of December 26, 2004, an earthquake struck on the Pacific sea floor, 150 miles off the west coast of the Indonesian island Sumatra. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake quickly gave rise to a tsunami that within hours of the initial earthquake, hit the shorelines of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and the Maldives.
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Episode 135 - Inside Thomas Jefferson's Complicated Relationship With Slavery
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Episode 134 - The True Story Of Malcolm X's Assassination
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was killed while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. To this day, the truth about his assassination remains unresolved.
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Episode 133 - The Horrifying Story Of Joseph Stalin's 'Great Terror'
After taking power in the 1920s, Joseph Stalin killed at least 9 million people through mass murder, forced labor, and famine, but the true figure may be as high as 60 million.
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Episode 132 - Radium Girls: The Factory Workers Poisoned By Radioactive Paint
In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey.
Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison. But in the end, the lethal con
Episode 131 - The Satanic Panic: Inside The 1980s Hysteria Over All Things Demonic
Beginning in the early 1980s, wild theories about ritual
sexual abuse, widespread occultism, and Devil worship dominated news
headlines and created a moral panic that led to unfounded accusations
and even wrongful imprisonments.
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Episode 130 - Paul Kevin Curtis: The Elvis Impersonator Framed For Trying To Kill Obama
Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, was known for his eccentric personality and bizarre conspiracy theories, then he made national headlines in April 2013 when he was arrested for allegedly mailing deadly ricin to President Barack Obama — but he was framed by a rival named Everett Dutschke.
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Episode 129 - What Happened To Bryce Laspisa? Inside His 2013 Disappearance
On the morning of August 30, 2013, California Highway Patrol officers informed the parents of 19-year-old Bryce Laspisa that their son's car was found wrecked, driven off a 25-foot embankment near Castaic Lake — but there was no sign of Laspisa to be found.
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Episode 128 - Brandon Swanson: The College Student Who Vanished Without A Trace In 2008
Brandon Swanson was on his way home for spring break in May 2008 when he got into a minor car accident and called his parents for help. Then, he suddenly vanished without a trace.
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Episode 127 - 'The Conjuring': Inside The Infamous Haunting
The true story of The Conjuring, namely the Perron family and Enfield haunting, is scarier than the movies themselves.
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Episode 126 - The Demon House Of Indiana: Inside The Alleged Haunting
Latoya Ammons and her family claim to have experienced demonic possession that began when they moved into what became known as the "house of 200 demons" in 2011.
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Episode 125 - The True Story Behind The Legend Of The Jersey Devil
Deep within the forests of South Jersey’s Pine Barrens, there are legends of a horrifying creature known as the Jersey Devil. Often described as a dragon-like beast with the head of a goat, the wings of a bat, and cloven hooves, the Jersey Devil is one of the most iconic creatures in American folklore – and one that’s left locals terrified for decades.
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Episode 124 - The Real Story Of Johnny Appleseed That Goes Beyond The Myth
Some may have learned about Johnny Appleseed from the 1948 Disney anthology Melody Time. Some may have learned about him in a poem. And some may have heard the rhyme that goes, "Here comes Johnny Appleseed. Apple seeds are all he needs. Planting orchards on his way out West. Wears a pot upon his head. Beneath the trees he makes his bed. Folks say Johnny’s apples are the best!”
This is the full sto
Episode 123 - Remembering The Hero Dogs Of 9/11
On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed and countless others injured in terror attacks targeting the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. The aftermath saw immense devastation, but also incredible heroism from rescue workers, including many dogs.
The loyalty and dedication that these dogs showed serve as proof that anyone, when they answer the call of duty, has the right to be calle
Episode 122 - Natalie Wood's Death: Accidental Drowning Or Murder?
Natalie Wood died off the coast of California's Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 — but some say her drowning may not have been an accident.
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Episode 121 - The Full Story Behind The Resignation Of Richard Nixon
Almost exactly 50 years ago, on August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon gave a televised address unlike any that a U.S. president had ever given before. He began by noting that it was his 37th time addressing the nation and stated that he’d spent the last several decades of his life in public service. But, as Nixon noted, he had lost the support of his political base in Congress. The Watergate sca
Episode 120 - The True Story Of Balto, The Sled-Dog That Saved A Town
When a deadly epidemic hit the remote town of Nome in the winter of 1925, a group of mushers and sled dogs risked their lives to save the town — with Balto standing out from the pack.
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Episode 119 - Inside The Tragic Plane Crash That Killed JFK Jr.
When John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999, the media came to a quick conclusion — the so-called “Kennedy curse” had struck again. After all, the heir apparent to the family dynasty had lost both his father, President John F. Kennedy, and his uncle, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, to brutal assassinations, making JFK Jr.’s death all the eerier.
On July 16, 1999, the late president’s son ha
Listen Now: Legacy “J. Edgar Hoover”
From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the
wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived –
and ask whether they have the rep they deserve.
Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it
is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his
art? Was Napoleon a hero
Episode 118 - Did The Moon Landing Really Happen?
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” astronaut Neil Armstrong said on July 20, 1969 — the day humanity first landed on the moon. Or, did we? Was that just what They wanted us to think? It was the middle of the Cold War, and the Russians had already sent Sputnik into orbit. America needed a win, and landing on the moon was the perfect way to one-up the communists. Too perfec
Episode 117 - The Real History Behind The Mythic City Of Atlantis
First mentioned by Plato in Timaeus and Critias, the lost city of Atlantis later became a widely debated topic among historians. But is Atlantis real?
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Episode 116 - The First Presidential Assassination Attempt In U.S. History
Andrew Jackson once declared: "I was born for the storm; calm does not suit me."
And throughout his life, Jackson was no stranger to close calls. The scrappy president from Tennessee had been a boy when the Revolutionary War broke out, and he cut his teeth fighting against the British. When he was captured in 1781, a British soldier slashed him for refusing to shine his boots, giving Jackson sca
Episode 115 - The Surprising Origins Behind History's Most Iconic Nursery Rhymes
Most people know the “Ring Around the Rosie” nursery rhyme, and most people have heard that it has a dark meaning: It’s all about the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which tore through Europe in the 14th century.
But is that really true?
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Episode 114 - The Chilling Story Behind The Disappearance Of Natalee Holloway
Last seen with Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba during a trip with her Alabama high school class in May 2005.
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Episode 113 - The Lincoln Assassination — And The Larger Conspiracy Behind It
Discover why the wider Abraham Lincoln assassination plot was far larger than the death of one man and how this three-pronged attack sent out violent aftershocks for decades to come.
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Episode 112 - When Teddy Roosevelt Was Shot By An Assassin — Then Gave A Speech
On October 14, 1912, Teddy Roosevelt — then running for an unprecedented third term under the banner of the Bull Moose Party — set out to give a speech at the Milwaukee Auditorium in Wisconsin. En route, he crossed paths with a mentally ill saloon owner named John Schrank.
For some reason, Schrank had become convinced that Roosevelt had assassinated President William McKinley in 1901. And so Schr
Episode 111 - History Happy Hour, March 2024: A Plague Grave With 1,000 Skeletons, A 500-Year-Old Jesus Ring, And More
It’s the end of March 2024, and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about…
The discovery of a mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg…
…the story of how a well-preserved Ming tomb was found in China…
…how archaeologists finally unearthed the missing half of a Ramses II statue in Egypt…
…the discovery of Europe's oldest known human
Episode 110 - The Truth About Mary Magdalene
Most depictions of Mary Magdalene in popular culture characterize her in the same way: as a sex worker. In the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, for example, Mary is critiqued by Judas for her "profession" and later describes how she's quote-unquote "had so many men." Indeed, most people, when asked to describe Mary Magdalene, would probably say she was a sex worker, one who became a symbol of forgi
Episode 109 - Osage Murders: The True Story Behind 'Killers Of The Flower Moon'
In the 1920s, the hills of northeast Oklahoma were soaked in oil — and blood. Though the oil deposits found in the area had made the Osage Native Americans who owned the land rich, tribe members soon began to die at an alarming rate. And they often died in shocking and violent ways.
This is the true story of the Osage Indian Murders and Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Episode 108 - Jack The Ripper, Episode 6: Who Was The Whitechapel Murderer?
So who was Jack the Ripper? More than a century later, the killer's identity continues to elude investigators. Some theories are outlandish — like that writer Lewis Carroll or even British royal Prince Albert Victor were behind the heinous crimes. Some theories appear to be supported by DNA — as in the case of Polish barber Aaron Kosminski. Then again, theories like these also assume that Jack the
Episode 107 - History Happy Hour, February 2024: The Titanic Of The Alps, Amelia Earhart's Plane, And More
It’s the end of February 2024, and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about…
How Amelia Earhart's missing plane may have been found in the Pacific Ocean…
…the discovery of a warrior's grave in Hungary, with intact armor and his horse…
…how archaeologists in London unearthed the city's first fully intact Roman funerary bed…
…the recovery
Episode 106 - Jack the Ripper, Part 5: The Final Victim
Like Jack the Ripper himself, little is known about his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly. Her heavily mutilated body was found in a leased room on Dorset Street in East London on November 9, 1888. She had been living in a slum frequently occupied by prostitutes and criminals – and her murder was so gruesome, police actively tried to suppress information about it to prevent any rumors.
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Episode 105 - Jack The Ripper, Episode 4: The Mutilation Of Catherine Eddowes
On October 16, 1888, a Whitechapel neighborhood watch group received a letter addressed "From Hell" which chillingly described a murder. Even more chillingly, the letter came with what appeared to be a piece of a human kidney preserved in spirits. The macabre note was unsigned, but the police had a good idea of who could have sent it. And they had a good idea of who the kidney may have once belong
Episode 104 - Jack The Ripper, Episode 3: The Murder Of Elizabeth Stride
As the summer of 1888 gradually turned to autumn, the growing fear of Jack the Ripper began to reach its peak. Throughout London’s “Autumn of Terror,” the people of Whitechapel were always on the lookout, wary that the Ripper might be lurking around every corner.
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Episode 103 - History Happy Hour, January 2024: Golden-Tongued Mummies, A Victorian Cipher, And More
It's the end of January 2024 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.
The mysterious coded note found in the pocket of a 19th-century dress…
…the discovery of two mummies in Egypt entombed with golden tongues…
…how archaeologists in China came across an ancient wooden celestial calendar…
…the su
Episode 102 - Jack The Ripper, Episode 2: 'Another Woman Has Been Murdered!'
Here's the tragic story of Jack the Ripper's second victim, and how Chapman's brutal death spread fear throughout London, spurned the police to start arresting suspects, and even sparked a response from the killer himself.
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Episode 101 - Jack The Ripper, Episode 1: The First Murder
On August 31, 1888, a young woman by the name of Mary Ann Nichols was found dead, her body gruesomely mutilated on the streets of London’s Whitechapel neighborhood.
Police didn’t know it at the time, but Nichols’ murder was just the first of several similar, grisly killings that would play out over the following two months. In total, five women would be found dead, each of them maimed and disfigu
Episode 100 - Celebrating 100 Episodes Of History Uncovered
Today we look back at 100 episodes, and discuss updates to our favorite stories.
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Episode 99 - The Most Disturbing Christmas Legends From Around The World
Each Christmas, millions of children around the world eagerly await the arrival of Santa Claus, the jolly old man in the bright red suit who carries a sack full of presents for all the good boys and girls. However, the iconic representation of Santa Claus is a relatively modern invention that largely originated with the well-known poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” more commonly known as “‘Twas the
Episode 98 - The Truth Behind The Legend Of H. H. Holmes And His 'Murder Castle'
Of the great mass of people staring up at the towering white structures in Chicago’s Jackson Park and enjoying the sight of the world’s first Ferris Wheel, no one knows that the blue-eyed devil walks among them. His name is Dr. H. H. Holmes.
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Episode 97 - History Happy Hour, November 2023: The Titanic's Dinner Menu, An Ancient Roman Coin Trove, And More
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, we've covered a number of fascinating stories, including the unearthing of a 1,000-year-old skeleton in Germany that was missing all of its facial bones, the surprise discovery of 30,000 to 50,000 ancient
Episode 96 - Who Really Killed JFK?
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 the minds of countless people throughout the U.S. and around the world. Who assassinated the president? Who killed JFK?
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Episode 95 - Roland Doe, The Boy Who Inspired 'The Exorcist'
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.
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Episode 94 - People Who Fell Out Of Planes — And Lived
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.
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Episode 93 - The Mothman And The Silver Bridge Collapse
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.
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Episode 92 - The Enfield Haunting That Inspired 'The Conjuring 2'
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, North London. Hodgson went upstairs to investigate and to tell the girls, Margaret, 12, and Janet, 11, to quiet down and go to bed — only to find them cowering in fear.
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Episode 91 - The Chilling History Behind The Headless Horseman Of Sleepy Hollow
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 legend follows the tale of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolteacher who finds himself in the haunted town of Sleepy Hollow, where he suffers an ill-fated encounter with the village’s infamous headless hor
Episode 90 - The Haunted Baynard Mausoleum of Hilton Head Island
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Episode 89 - The Mermaid Inn, England's Centuries-Old Haunted Hotel
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.
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Episode 88 - History Happy Hour, September 2023: A Secret Palace Tunnel, A 2,600-Year-Old Shoe, And More
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 talking about…
The investigation of an unknown tunnel beneath Poland's Saxon Palace…
…how a Bronze Age girl buried with 180 animal bones was uncovered in Kazakhstan…
…the discovery of 3,700-year-old Bronz
Episode 87 - Judith Love Cohen: Savior Of Apollo 13 And Jack Black's Mom
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 a nice finishing school and learn to be a lady.”
Instead, Cohen pursued her dreams. She studied engineering at USC and later helped design the program that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. In retirement,
