CULT: Knights of the Golden Circle
In 1854, an adventurer named George Bickley founded a secret society with a singular goal: build a slave empire stretching from the American South through Mexico, Cuba, and the Caribbean. He called it...
29 Jul 40min
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Thomas Jefferson's Secret Family
In 1802, a journalist reported that President Thomas Jefferson was keeping an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings as a concubine and had fathered her children. Jefferson said nothing. His family denied...
27 Jul 43min
Deadly Destinations: Into the Wild
Three people sought refuge in remote wilderness — and never made it home safely. A young American woman vanished without a trace in Nepal's Himalayas, a serial killer preyed on hitchhikers along an Au...
26 Jul 32min
CRIME: The Donner Party
In the spring of 1846, a group of nearly ninety American pioneers set out from Springfield, Illinois, bound for California. They were farmers, merchants, and families with young children, led by a 60-...
24 Jul 46min
CULT: Free Love, Total Control: The Oneida Community
In 1848, a preacher named John Humphrey Noyes founded a religious community in upstate New York built around an idea most Americans found unthinkable. At Oneida, traditional marriage was abolished in ...
22 Jul 42min
CONSPIRACY THEORY: The MLK Assassination
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39 years old. The killing triggered unrest in more than a hundred Am...
20 Jul 45min
Deadly Destinations: Death on the High Seas
Three separate journeys onto the water ended in death, disappearance, and unanswered questions. NBA champion Bison Dele vanished from his own sailboat in the South Pacific in 2002; cruise passenger Me...
19 Jul 35min
CRIME: The FBI's War on Black America: COINTELPRO
Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI ran a secret program called COINTELPRO, short for Counter Intelligence Program. Its targets included civil rights leaders, Black liberation groups, anti-war activists, a...
17 Jul 45min
