The Tollund Man: A 2,400-Year-Old Face From the Bog
In May 1950, two Danish brothers cutting peat uncovered a body so perfectly preserved, with stubble on his chin and wrinkles on his forehead, that they called the police convinced they had found a fre...
27 Jun 23min
52 Hertz: The Story of the Loneliest Whale in the World
Imagine singing at the top of your lungs into an endless pitch-black void for decades, waiting for anyone to answer, and no one ever does. That is the haunting premise behind 52 Blue, a real whale roa...
27 Jun 19min
Victor of Aveyron: The Feral Child Who Defied the Enlightenment
In January 1800, a naked boy covered in scars emerged from the freezing woods of southern France, walking on all fours and impervious to the snow. He walked straight into the center of one of history'...
27 Jun 22min
Rasputin: The Man, the Myth, and the Fall of the Romanovs
Poisoned cakes, point-blank gunshots, a body dumped in a freezing river: the legend says Grigori Rasputin simply refused to die. But the cartoon villain has swallowed the real man whole, and the truth...
27 Jun 21min
Hinterkaifeck: Germany's Most Chilling Unsolved Farm Murders
Footprints lead out of the dark woods, up to the farmhouse door, and stop. None lead away. Days later, an entire family of six lies dead, and the killer has been living among the corpses, feeding the ...
27 Jun 23min
D.B. Cooper: The Only Unsolved Hijacking in U.S. History
On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man in a business suit ordered a bourbon and seven-up, handed a flight attendant a note claiming he had a bomb, and then parachuted out the back of a Boeing 727 with $200,0...
27 Jun 20min
The Max Headroom Broadcast Hijacking: TV's Unsolved Mystery
On November 22, 1987, Chicago viewers watched their screens go black, then fill with a figure in a creepy Max Headroom mask. Someone had seized control of a major broadcast signal from miles away, and...
27 Jun 20min
The Sodder Children: A Christmas Fire and Five Vanished Kids
On Christmas morning 1945, a West Virginia home burned to the ground. Four children and their parents escaped; five children were never seen again. When searchers combed the cooled ashes, they found s...
27 Jun 24min
