The Carnac Stones: France's Megalithic Metropolis
Everyone pictures Stonehenge, but in northwestern France stands a megalithic metropolis that dwarfs it: over 3,000 prehistoric standing stones, some erected as far back as 4,500 BC, thousands of years...
28 Kesä 22min
Balto: The Sled Dog Hero Myth and the Forgotten Champions
You probably grew up with the legend of Balto, the brave sled dog who raced through a blizzard to save the children of Nome. But the real story is far messier than the shiny statue in Central Park let...
28 Kesä 23min
The Atocha: Hunting a Lost Spanish Galleon's Half-Billion Treasure
A single Spanish galleon sank in 1622 carrying cargo worth up to half a billion dollars in today's money, crippling an empire. Even after a 350-year hunt, fatal accidents, a Supreme Court battle, and ...
28 Kesä 18min
Lake Hillier: The Science Behind Australia's Bubblegum Pink Lake
Off the coast of Western Australia sits a 600-meter pool of vibrant bubblegum pink water, so jarring it looks like an industrial dye spill. But it is completely natural, and scooped into a glass, the ...
28 Kesä 23min
The Bridgewater Triangle: New England's Paranormal Vortex
Imagine a peaceful New England hike that turns into a waking nightmare: a 12-foot pterodactyl overhead, an inscribed suicide stone in the brush, a dangerous trickster from indigenous folklore. Welcome...
28 Kesä 22min
Caravaggio: The Murderer Who Invented Modern Painting
He painted the most spiritual, revolutionary masterpieces of the 17th century, and he was a sword-obsessed street brawler who fled a death sentence for murder. Caravaggio is the ultimate contradiction...
28 Kesä 22min
Carlo Gesualdo: The Genius Composer Who Murdered His Wife
Imagine music so avant-garde its complexity wouldn't be replicated for 300 years, written by a man who walked out of a bedroom covered in blood, having just slaughtered his wife and her lover. Carlo G...
28 Kesä 20min
The Lost Dutchman Mine: A Deadly Gold Myth in the Superstitions
In the scorching summer of 1931, a 66-year-old man with a cane and metal pins in his leg walked into the Arizona desert hunting a secret map. Six months later his skull was found with two bullet holes...
28 Kesä 21min
