Operation Anthropoid: The Daring Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
On May 27, 1942, two resistance fighters ambushed Reinhard Heydrich's open-topped Mercedes on a Prague hairpin curve. A jammed Sten gun and a misthrown grenade made it look like a botched operation, y...
30 Jun 24min
Belle Gunness: The Black Widow Who Turned a Farm Into a Graveyard
When a La Porte, Indiana farmhouse burned in April 1908, the town mourned a heroic mother who seemed to die saving her children. Days later, investigators digging in the hog pen unearthed the dismembe...
30 Jun 20min
The Atari Burial: How E.T. and Pac-Man Helped Crash an Empire
In September 1983, a fleet of trucks dumped millions of dollars of video games into a New Mexico desert landfill, crushed them with a steamroller, and sealed them under concrete while workers told loc...
30 Jun 24min
Operation Gold: The Berlin Spy Tunnel the Soviets Let the West Build
In 1954, CIA and MI6 engineers pushed a 450-meter tunnel under the most militarized border on Earth to tap three Soviet telephone cables carrying the Red Army's secrets. The tunnel worked, capturing 6...
30 Jun 23min
Quibi: How $1.75 Billion and Every Hollywood Studio Failed in Six Months
Quibi raised $1.75 billion, recruited nearly every major Hollywood studio and tech giant, and launched with global fanfare in April 2020, only to vanish in roughly six months. Founded by Jeffrey Katze...
30 Jun 19min
The Vampire Deer: Inside the Fanged Survivor of a Fractured World
Forget branching antlers: the water deer sports inch-long retractable canine fangs, barks like a dog, bounds like a rabbit, and swims for miles across open rivers. This patchwork creature, scientifica...
30 Jun 23min
The Giant Squid: Hunting the Ocean's Last Great Monster
For centuries the giant squid lived in the gap between Norse Kraken legend and real marine biology, known only from severed parts washed up on beaches and indigestible beaks found inside dead sperm wh...
30 Jun 21min
Brides in the Bath: How George Joseph Smith's Drownings Were Cracked
A devoted husband who brings his wife a warm towel, yet his brides keep drowning in their bathtubs the same mundane way. George Joseph Smith, the Brides in the Bath murderer of early 20th-century Engl...
30 Jun 22min
