Apollo 13: How Three Men Survived a Dying Spacecraft
You're 180,000 miles from Earth when a shuddering bang rips through your spacecraft, the power starts dying, and you watch your oxygen vent silently into the void. There is no pulling over. This is th...
27 Jun 21min
Kryptos: The CIA Code Solved by Accident in a Public Archive
For 35 years, one of the world's most maddening unsolved codes sat in plain sight in the courtyard of CIA headquarters, daring the entire intelligence community to crack it. Then two journalists found...
27 Jun 21min
The Cottingley Fairies: How Two Girls Fooled Arthur Conan Doyle
In the summer of 1917, two girls in Yorkshire kept coming home with wet feet and invented a wild excuse: they'd been by the stream watching fairies. To prove it, they borrowed a camera. What started a...
27 Jun 21min
The Fox Sisters: How a Toe-Cracking Prank Built a Religion
Two teenage girls accidentally launched a global religious movement using a piece of string, an apple, and some very double-jointed toes. The real mystery isn't how they fooled millions, it's why thei...
27 Jun 18min
The Goiania Accident: A Glowing Blue Powder's Deadly Spread
In September 1987, scrap scavengers in Goiania, Brazil pried open a punctured metal capsule and found a mesmerizing deep blue glow inside. They rubbed the powder on their skin like carnival makeup and...
27 Jun 24min
The Kola Superdeep Borehole: When Earth Fought Back
We've sent probes billions of miles into space, yet when we tried to dig straight down into our own planet, the Earth fought back and eventually shut us out completely. We know more about the surface ...
27 Jun 19min
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: The Real Lost Children
We all grew up with the Pied Piper of Hamelin: a town overrun by rats, a mysterious musician who lures them away, and a town that refuses to pay, so he steals their children. But what if the disappear...
27 Jun 23min
The Black Dahlia: The Woman Behind the Infamous Murder
In January 1947, reporters phoned a mother in Boston to say her daughter had won a beauty contest in California. They pumped her for charming details, then dropped the act: there was no contest, and h...
27 Jun 20min
