The West Mesa Murders: Albuquerque's Buried Mystery
In 2009, a woman walking her dog in Albuquerque discovered a human bone in disturbed soil, unearthing the remains of 11 women and girls buried on the West Mesa. This episode examines how a quirk of th...
30 Jun 17min
Scott Kelly: A Year in Space and the Twins Study
Astronaut Scott Kelly spent nearly a year aboard the International Space Station while his identical twin brother Mark stayed on Earth, creating an unprecedented experiment to see how extreme environm...
30 Jun 23min
The Kaz II Ghost Yacht: A Modern Mary Celeste Mystery
In April 2007, authorities boarded a drifting catamaran off the coast of Australia and found an eerily ordinary scene: a running engine, a powered laptop, a meal set out, and life jackets stowed, but ...
30 Jun 11min
McDonald's Monopoly: The 24 Million Dollar Fraud Heist
A fast food promotion built on peeling stickers off fry cartons became the center of a 24 million dollar organized crime syndicate run by an ex-cop and the mafia. This episode unpacks the McDonald's M...
30 Jun 22min
The Philadelphia Experiment: Birth of an Indestructible Myth
The legend says the USS Eldridge vanished in a green fog in 1943, teleported hundreds of miles, and left sailors fused into steel. This episode investigates not whether the Navy broke the laws of phys...
30 Jun 24min
The Tree Lobster: Back From 80 Years of Extinction
Declared extinct for 80 years, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, known as the tree lobster, secretly clung to survival on a barren sea stack in the Pacific. This episode unpacks one of the most remar...
30 Jun 23min
Joe Kittinger: The Man Who Fell From the Edge of Space
On August 16, 1960, Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of an open gondola 102,800 feet above the Earth and fell at 614 miles per hour, setting a stratospheric skydive record that stood unbroken for ...
30 Jun 19min
Fugo: Japan's Paper Balloon Bombs That Crossed an Ocean
The first intercontinental weapon system in history was not made of metal or fueled by rockets, but built from paper, glued with potato paste, and carried across the Pacific by the wind. This episode ...
30 Jun 21min
