The Invention of Vaccines: Edward Jenner and Smallpox
In 1796, English doctor Edward Jenner noticed a local belief that milkmaids who caught cowpox, a usually mild disease, seemed protected from smallpox, one of history’s deadliest infections. He tested ...
16 Sep 23min
MISSING at 12 years old and pregnant... did Celina Mays escape the cult or was she harmed?
In December 1996, 12-year-old Celina Mays went to bed after church at her family’s home in Willingboro, New Jersey. She was nine months pregnant and due to give birth within weeks. By morning, she was...
14 Sep 38min
The Mystery Of The Oak Island Treasure
For more than 200 years, treasure hunters have dug into a small island off Nova Scotia, chasing a story about a mysterious shaft called the Money Pit. Legend says that in 1795, a teenager noticed a st...
11 Sep 30min
THREE Victims and Killer Still Unknown: The Oklahoma City Butcher
Between 1976 and 1986, three young Native American women were murdered, mutilated, and dismembered in Oklahoma City. Their deaths were linked by the apparent care taken to conceal, and degrade their b...
9 Sep 24min
The FIRST Case SOLVED by Internet Sleuths : The case of Tent Girl
In 1968, a man searching for a well site in rural Kentucky found the body of a young woman wrapped in canvas. She had been strangled and left without identification; for three decades, the grave marke...
7 Sep 23min
The Bear Brook Murders: The Chameleon Killer Almost Solved
In 1985, a hunter found a 55-gallon barrel in the woods near Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire. Inside were the bodies of a woman and a little girl. Fifteen years later, police found a second bar...
4 Sep 47min
The UFO Cult that Led to 39 deaths: Heaven's Gate
In March 1997, deputies entered a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, and found 39 members of Heaven’s Gate dead by suicide. They were dressed alike in black clothing and Nike trainers, lyi...
2 Sep 56min
The Woman Who Took on a Nuclear Company , Then Mysteriously Died
In 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood worked at Kerr-McGee’s plutonium fuel plant in Oklahoma. A union activist, she raised alarms about safety failures, radioactive contamination, and alleged falsifica...
31 Aug 32min
