New York’s Toxic Love Canal
The Love Canal was supposed to be a suburban idyll. Instead, it became a dumping ground for chemical waste. After the land changed hands in the 1950s — from the Hooker Electrochemical Company to the N...
31 Jan 202238min
Knights of the Golden Circle Pt. 2
After the Civil War, multiple caches of Confederate gold were discovered around the country. Were they buried by the Knights of the Golden Circle? Was the pro-slavery organization behind multiple assa...
26 Jan 202244min
Knights of the Golden Circle Pt. 1
In 1854, as tensions between the American North and South were brewing, a physician named George Bickley called his closest friends to a secret meeting. His agenda: form a fraternity that would aid So...
24 Jan 202247min
COINTELPRO Pt. 2
After a dozen major campaigns and thousands of planted bugs and wiretaps, COINTELPRO was finally exposed to the public. But the job of untangling its impact would take decades. Was J. Edgar Hoover’s b...
19 Jan 202249min
COINTELPRO Pt. 1
A secret intelligence project led by the FBI used illegal methods to spy on organizations and people from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. It claimed to be acting in the name of U.S. security — but w...
17 Jan 202254min
Treasure Hunt: The Beale Papers Pt. 2
Finding Beale’s treasure would be the thrill — and payout — of a lifetime. Without the key to the ciphers, it doesn’t seem likely. But there could be other reasons the riches are never recovered… Lear...
12 Jan 202245min
Treasure Hunt: The Beale Papers Pt. 1
In 1818, a member of a hunting party in the American West spotted a glimmer on a hillside — gold. Two hundred years later, treasure hunters are still trying to locate the dug-up riches. Learn more ab...
10 Jan 202239min
UFO Government Surveillance Pt. 2
A new wave of extraterrestrial discourse began in June 2021 after the release of the U.S. government’s UFO report. But was the report just a smokescreen? Today we investigate secretive programs, bizar...
5 Jan 202249min
