144: The Radium Girls
FROM THE VAULT - in 1917, the Radium Luminous Material Corporation started producing luminous paints called Undark, with companies quickly realising how helpful luminescent watch faces would be for th...
18 Mar 202437min
145: The Horrors of Willowbrook State School
In the 1930s, plans were made to build an institution for intellectually disabled children, sold to parents as a haven, with around the clock care and training programmes. Of course, none of the promi...
15 Mar 202441min
143: The Unsolved Case of Rachel Louise Cooke
In January 2002, Rachel Cooke was home in Georgetown, Texas for the winter break when she decided to go for a run, as she did every morning. Only on this day, she never arrived home and it's widely be...
8 Mar 202429min
142: The Solved Murder of Joanna Yeates
In 2002, Joanna Yeates had just moved in with her boyfriend in Bristol, England. She was just starting her adult life, having graduated university and beginning her first job, before it was cruelly ri...
5 Mar 202437min
141: The QUEER MONARCHS you didn't learn about in school
We all know historians often refuse to acknowledge queerness meaning there's a whole beautiful rainbow out there in history that has been missed. There have been 40+ monarchs in British history, so st...
27 Feb 202445min
140: The disappearance of Paula Jean Welden | The Bennington Triangle
In 1946, 18 year old Paula Jean Welden decided to go on a Sunday afternoon hike in the Glastonbury mountain in Vermont. And then she just vanished into thin air, no sign of her has been since. But the...
23 Feb 202429min
139: The unsolved case of Mark Haines
In 1988, 17 year old Mark Haines went for a night out with his friends, ending with his body being found on the train tracks the next morning. Police quickly brushed it off as suicide, then misadventu...
16 Feb 202445min
138: four WILD cases of MASS HYSTERIA
Today we've got a four-in-one episode, with a number of cases of mass hysteria throughout history: the meowing nuns, the june bug epidemic, the shrinking penis epidemic and the jell-o factory hysteria...
14 Feb 202430min
