Anastasia: The Real Romanov Behind the Survival Myth
A rebellious teenager who tripped servants, cheated at games and stuffed her face with chocolates in white opera gloves was erased by history and replaced with a Disney fairy tale. The real Grand Duch...
27 Kesä 22min
The Princes in the Tower: England's 500-Year Cold Case
Two boys, heirs to the English throne, walk into a fortress to prepare for a coronation. The doors lock, the coronation is canceled, and they are never seen in public again. Their disappearance topple...
27 Kesä 17min
The Cleveland Torso Murderer vs. Eliot Ness
America's most famous 1930s lawman, the man who took down organized crime, met his match in a faceless phantom who left dismembered bodies in plain sight of City Hall. The Cleveland torso murderer neu...
27 Kesä 21min
Byford Dolphin: The Diving Disaster Physics Couldn't Forgive
Imagine living for weeks inside a sealed metal tube where the pressure is nine times heavier than the surface. Now imagine all that crushing pressure vanishing in a fraction of a second. On the Byford...
27 Kesä 19min
Franklin's Lost Expedition: The Arctic's Frozen Cold Case
In 1845, 129 Victorian explorers sailed into the Arctic on two state-of-the-art ships with three years of food aboard, and simply never returned. It took nearly 170 years to find the ships and is stil...
27 Kesä 22min
When a Database Forces You to Choose: A Name's Two Realities
Type a human name into the world's largest encyclopedia and instead of a life story you hit a surreal fork in the road. The Wikipedia page for Gloria Ramirez doesn't tell you who she was, it makes you...
27 Kesä 17min
H.H. Holmes: The Murder Castle Myth vs. the Real Con Man
The legend says America's first serial killer built a Gothic Murder Castle with gas chambers and trap doors to swallow World's Fair visitors. The truth is stranger: the castle was largely a fraud, and...
27 Kesä 25min
The Hindenburg: Solving the 32 Seconds That Ended an Era
A flying machine the size of the Titanic, an absolute marvel of luxury and engineering, dropped from the sky and turned to ash in barely 32 seconds. The real mystery of the Hindenburg isn't that it fe...
27 Kesä 23min
