Michael Rockefeller: Drowning, Headhunters, and a Cover-Up
In 1961, the 23-year-old heir to one of the world's greatest fortunes vanished without a trace off the coast of Dutch New Guinea, and history split in two. One version is a tragic drowning at sea. The...
29 Jun 20min
Setenil de las Bodegas: The Town Built Inside a Cliff
Step out your front door and look up to see not sky, but millions of tons of solid rock suspended directly overhead. This is daily life in Setenil de las Bodegas, an Andalusian town where homes are ca...
29 Jun 19min
The St. Francis Dam: How Hubris Drowned a California Valley
In the pitch black of March 1928, a curved concrete wall held back 12.4 billion gallons of water in a California canyon. The man who designed it was a self-taught engineering legend. What he did not r...
29 Jun 23min
Glenn Miller: The Superstar Who Vanished Over the Channel
At the absolute peak of his fame, with more top 10 hits than Elvis and the Beatles combined and earning the equivalent of nearly $400,000 a week, Glenn Miller walked away from his empire. Officially d...
29 Jun 20min
The Real Macbeth: A Successful King Erased by Shakespeare
The most famous bloodthirsty tyrant in literary history was, in reality, a generous, golden-haired, highly successful king who ruled for 17 years and peacefully went on pilgrimage to Rome. The histori...
29 Jun 22min
Tangshan 1976: The Deadliest Earthquake and Its Cover-Up
A country announces it has solved one of nature's ultimate puzzles, predicting earthquakes, with a fully evacuated city as proof. Just 17 months later, that same country is struck by the deadliest ear...
29 Jun 20min
The Teton Dam: A $100 Million Failure Built on Cracked Rock
On a Saturday morning in June 1976, engineers watched a gap rip open across the face of a brand-new $100 million dam in Idaho. Bulldozers sent to plug the leak were swallowed into the dissolving mud, ...
29 Jun 21min
Joan of Arc: The Peasant Girl Who Outwitted Her Inquisitors
An illiterate 17-year-old peasant girl who had never held a sword turned the tide of a century-long war in just nine days, then was burned at the stake as a heretic by the age of 19. It sounds like a ...
29 Jun 22min
