Mary Seacole: The Erased Heroine of the Crimean War
In 1857, around 40,000 people gathered in London over four days to honor a Crimean War heroine whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale's. Yet within decades, Mary Seacole was almost entirely erased fr...
30 Jun 21min
Sergei Krikalev: The Last Soviet Citizen Stranded in Space
Imagine leaving for a long work trip only to have your entire country cease to exist while you are away. That is what happened to cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who launched to the Mir space station in Ma...
30 Jun 21min
The Saola: Racing to Save the Vanishing Asian Unicorn
While the late 20th century assumed all large land mammals had been catalogued, a massive unknown creature was hiding in the remote Annamite Mountains between Vietnam and Laos. Discovered in 1992, the...
30 Jun 23min
Garrett Morgan: The Inventor Who Hid to Save Lives
At midnight in July 1916, a man arrived at a deadly gas-filled tunnel beneath Lake Erie still wearing his pajamas, carrying a strange canvas hood. Two professional rescue teams had already suffocated,...
30 Jun 14min
Virginia Hall: The Limping Spy the Gestapo Couldn't Catch
Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie once raged that he would give anything to capture the limping Canadian woman tormenting him in Lyon. But his most feared Allied spy was an American named Virginia Hall, a 35...
30 Jun 25min
The Plague Doctor: Unmasking History's Greatest Myth
The beaked plague doctor is the ultimate symbol of the medieval Black Death, instantly recognizable from films, games, and Halloween festivals. But almost everything we picture about this figure is wa...
30 Jun 20min
The Megamouth Shark: A Giant Hidden Until the Disco Era
In 1976, humanity was landing spacecraft on Mars and building supercomputers, yet a massive 15-foot alien-looking shark was swimming right under our noses, completely unknown to science. The megamouth...
30 Jun 21min
The Millennium Dome Diamond Heist: How Police Sprang the Trap
On November 7, 2000, a gang drove a JCB earth digger through the wall of London's Millennium Dome, aiming to steal the De Beers diamond exhibition and the flawless 203-carat Millennium Star. What they...
30 Jun 22min
