Carl Tanzler — The Man Who Loved a Corpse — The Sinister Past
Key West, 1930s. A German radiologic technician becomes fixated on a young tuberculosis patient who never returns his affection. When she dies, he visits her tomb nightly for two years — then steals h...
25 Sep 13min
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — The Sinister Past
Boston, January 15, 1919. A poorly built, rushed storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapses without warning, sending a wave up to 25 feet high through the streets of the North End ...
23 Sep 12min
The Bell Witch of Tennessee — The Sinister Past
Adams, Tennessee, 1817–1821. A frontier family is terrorized for four years by an invisible entity that speaks, sings, quotes scripture, and ultimately claims credit for a man's death — the only case ...
18 Sep 13min
The Cecil Hotel — Room 428 — The Sinister Past
Los Angeles, 1927–present. A downtown hotel that has hosted at least two serial killers, an unconfirmed brush with the Black Dahlia murder, decades of suicides, and one disappearance — Elisa Lam, 2013...
16 Sep 13min
Unit 731 — The Horrors Japan Tried to Erase — The Sinister Past
Manchuria, 1936–1945. A covert Japanese military unit built a secret research complex disguised as a water purification bureau — and used it to conduct years of human experimentation on thousands of p...
11 Sep 15min
The Dyatlov Pass — Nine Hikers, No Survivors, No Answers — The Sinister Past
Ural Mountains, February 1959. Nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their own tent from the inside and flee barefoot into a blizzard at thirty degrees below zero. They never come back.In this ...
9 Sep 15min
The Axeman of New Orleans — Play Jazz or Die — The Sinister Past
New Orleans, March 1919. Newspapers publish a letter from an unidentified killer: he will strike again on a specific night, at a specific hour — but he'll spare any home playing jazz. That night, the ...
4 Sep 13min
