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History Uncovered
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. Dive deeper into these stories on...
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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, wit...
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...
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 pl...
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 f...
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 st...
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...
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 mas...
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 o...
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 co...
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 diffe...
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 foll...
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.
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, co...
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 Sumatr...
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 rem...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 sudde...
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 demon...
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 dra...
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...
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 Cente...
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 befor...
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...
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 a...
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From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the
wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever...
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 moo...
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?...
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 clo...
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...
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...
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 speec...
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…
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