Histories And Mysteries

A Russian doctor develops appendicitis in the Antarctic. A rural mother goes into labor hours away from help. An egotistical surgeon decides to one up his colleagues. They find themselves forced to th...

8 Feb 20181h 8min

Asha Degree was a bright, timid and perfectly ordinary 9-year-old girl until Valentine's Day of 2000, when she got up in the middle of the night, grabbed a backpack full of her things, and took off in...

5 Feb 20181h 23min

Rich, talented, and dedicated to his passions, everything seemed to be going right for 20th century artist Han Van Meegeren. Of course, that's not accounting for treason charges, Nazis, and an opium h...

25 Jan 20181h 25min

When Roland T. Owen was discovered bound, stabbed and bludgeoned from a so-called "fall in the bathtub", investigators realized early on that they were dealing with a strange case. But an abandoned ne...

23 Jan 20181h 26min

On January 2nd, 1935, a man by the name of Roland T. Owen, checked into room 1046 of the Hotel President in Kansas City, Missouri, with aught but a hairbrush, a comb, and a tube of toothpaste. His beh...

13 Jan 20181h 36min

It's time for fakes, fraud, forgery! Today we talk about the high level art market and its propensity for fraud, the techniques used to fool the experts, and noted British forger, Shaun Greenhalgh.

15 Des 20171h 25min

There's nothing quite like a family road trip - especially one fueled by shared psychosis and paranoid delusions! Today we discuss two road trips that quickly went right off the rails: the Australian ...

7 Des 20171h 13min

King Charles II of Spain, a frail, disabled man doomed to rule the kingdom his family fought so hard to acquire. His time in power largely served to delay the inevitable end of the Habsburg line and t...

30 Nov 201750min