The Antwerp Diamond Heist: $100 Million Undone by a Sandwich
How do you defeat a three-ton vault buried two floors underground, guarded by heat sensors, seismic detectors, Doppler radar and a magnetic field system, then walk away with over $100 million in diamo...
27 Jun 10min
Nazca Lines: How Ancient Peru Drew Art It Could Never See
Imagine dedicating your community's resources to a 1,300-kilometer masterpiece you can never fully see from the ground. That's the mind-bending contradiction of the Nazca Lines, etched into the Peruvi...
27 Jun 20min
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 Jun 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 Jun 17min
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
