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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 23min
Apollo 13: How Three Men Survived a Dying Spacecraft
You're 180,000 miles from Earth when a shuddering bang rips through your spacecraft, the power starts dying, and you watch your oxygen vent silently into the void. There is no pulling over. This is th...
27 Jun 21min
Kryptos: The CIA Code Solved by Accident in a Public Archive
For 35 years, one of the world's most maddening unsolved codes sat in plain sight in the courtyard of CIA headquarters, daring the entire intelligence community to crack it. Then two journalists found...
27 Jun 21min
