The Saiga Antelope: An Ice Age Survivor's Paradox
The saiga antelope walked alongside woolly mammoths and survived the Ice Age, yet in 2015 more than 120,000 of them dropped dead in a matter of weeks. This episode explores one of the most resilient a...
30 Jun 20min
Dusko Popov: The Double Agent Who Inspired James Bond
A wealthy Serbian playboy throwing down massive bets at a Portuguese casino, secretly funded by German intelligence while working for the British, caught the eye of a young naval officer named Ian Fle...
30 Jun 21min
The Escape From Alcatraz: A 64-Year-Old Mystery
In June 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin vanished from Alcatraz, the prison designed to be inescapable, leaving behind only dummy heads in their beds and a raft made of stolen ...
30 Jun 22min
Colossus: The Secret Computer Britain Erased From History
The world's first programmable electronic digital computer was built by the British in 1943, helped shorten World War II, and was then deliberately destroyed and erased from history for 30 years. This...
30 Jun 23min
Webvan: The Dot-Com Flop That Predicted the Future
Webvan saw the future of grocery shopping with perfect clarity, promising 30-minute delivery windows decades before it became routine, and still became one of the largest dot-com flops in history. It ...
30 Jun 22min
The North Berwick Witch Trials: How a Storm Sparked a Hunt
In 1589 a violent storm delayed a royal honeymoon, and that single natural event escalated into an international conspiracy, state-sanctioned torture, and Scotland's first major witch persecution. Thi...
30 Jun 21min
Sidney Reilly: The Ace of Spies Who Had No Real Name
He carried at least 11 passports, spied for up to four superpowers at once, and the press called him the Ace of Spies and the Scarlet Pimpernel of Red Russia. Yet we do not know his real name or even ...
30 Jun 24min
Ten Cent Beer Night: The Cleveland Riot That Forfeited a Game
On June 4, 1974, the Cleveland Indians ran a 10-cent beer promotion against the Texas Rangers, and the result became one of the most infamous nights in baseball history. With beer priced at a fraction...
30 Jun 21min
