Lascaux Cave: The 20,000-Year-Old Masterpiece We Nearly Destroyed
In September 1940, four teenagers and a dog slid down a dark shaft in the French countryside expecting a tunnel to a ruined manor. Instead they found themselves standing inside a 20,000-year-old art g...
26 Jun 19min
Elizabeth Bathory: Blood Countess or Victim of a Political Frame-Up?
She is remembered as history's most prolific female serial killer, the Blood Countess who bathed in the blood of virgins. But what if the most famous legend about Elizabeth Bathory is entirely invente...
26 Jun 21min
Lost in Siberia: The Family That Hid From the World for 42 Years
Imagine living through the entire 20th century without ever knowing World War II happened. Imagine hiding so deep in the wilderness that your family sees no other human being for 42 years. This is the...
26 Jun 19min
The Bloop: Hunting the Sea Monster That Turned Out to Be Ice
In 1997, underwater sensors picked up a sound so loud and powerful it was captured by hydrophones over 3,000 miles apart. It had the acoustic signature of a living creature, but any animal capable of ...
26 Jun 19min
Hiroo Onoda: The Soldier Who Fought WWII for 30 Extra Years
10,416 days. That is over 28 years of waking up in a tropical jungle, surviving on stolen rice and coconuts, maintaining a rusted rifle, and fighting a war the rest of the world finished three decades...
26 Jun 20min
The Christmas Truce of 1914: When 100,000 Soldiers Stopped the War
It is the winter of 1914, just five months into the most brutal industrialized conflict humanity had ever seen. And then something impossible happens: roughly 100,000 British and German soldiers simul...
26 Jun 23min
Castle Bravo: The Math Error That Became America's Worst Nuclear Disaster
What happens when the world's most brilliant scientists make a basic arithmetic error about a seemingly harmless element? On March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, a thermonuclear device expected to yield fi...
26 Jun 24min
The Great Emu War: How Birds Beat the Australian Military
In 1932, the Australian military marched into Western Australia armed with Lewis machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition. Their target was not a human enemy but a flock of 20,000 flightless birds...
24 Jun 38min
