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 Bo...
10 Kesä 35min
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 m...
27 Touko 27min
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 l...
13 Touko 28min
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 moa...
29 Huhti 30min
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 a...
15 Huhti 32min
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. https://allthatsinteresti...
1 Huhti 30min
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 (pronounc...
18 Maalis 33min
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. https://allth...
4 Maalis 35min
