Mad King Ludwig: Fairytale Castles and a Mysterious Death
On a stormy night in 1886, two bodies were found floating in a shallow Bavarian lake: a psychiatrist with strangulation marks, and the recently deposed king, whose watch had stopped at 6:54. The offic...
28 Juni 21min
Newgrange: Ireland's 5,000-Year-Old Sun Trap and Its Secrets
It's 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza, features a chamber of mind-boggling astronomical precision, and recently yielded a DNA discovery straight out of Game of Thrones. Newgrange, a pass...
28 Juni 22min
The Jakarta Incident: How Flight 009 Survived Losing All Four Engines
Cruising at 37,000 feet over the Indian Ocean on a clear night, a brand-new Boeing 747 watched its engines glow an eerie blue, filled with sulfur-smelling smoke, and then went silent as all four engin...
28 Juni 24min
The Bungled Heist That Made the Mona Lisa the World's Most Famous Painting
When you picture the greatest art heist of the 20th century, you imagine a criminal mastermind, laser grids, and a getaway helicopter. The reality? A five-foot-three handyman in a white work smock who...
28 Juni 21min
The Staffordshire Hoard: 11 Pounds of Anglo-Saxon War Gold
Thirteen centuries ago, on a remote Mercian heath, a party of travelers dug a pit in the dark and buried a king's ransom of gleaming gold, silver, and blood-red garnets, then vanished forever. In 2009...
28 Juni 21min
The Hagfish: Slime, Survival, and the Blueprint for Bulletproof Armor
Picture a creature with a skull but no true backbone that survives a shark attack by instantly turning the water around it into an explosive, gill-clogging weapon, then dines by absorbing a rotting wh...
28 Juni 23min
Puyi: The Last Emperor Who Couldn't Tie His Own Shoes
Imagine being worshipped as a living god, holding the fate of an ancient empire in your tiny hands while grown men refuse to meet your eyes, yet you cannot tie your own shoelaces or brush your own tee...
28 Juni 24min
The Gimli Glider: How a Boeing 767 Ran Out of Fuel at 41,000 Feet
You're cruising comfortably at 41,000 feet in a brand-new commercial airliner when the engines die, the cockpit goes silent, and the screens go black. You are now sitting inside a 150,000-pound metal ...
28 Juni 21min
