All Episodes

Ep 200: Disaster on the Graveyard Shift - Chernobyl

Ep 199: Missed the "Mark" to Market Accounting - Enron

Ep 198: I'll take one of those! - Organ Transplants pt 1

Ep 197: Gotta Have High Hopes - The DeFeo Family

Ep 196: Table for 87? - The Donner Party

BONUS: Fun in the sun - Ghost Ships

BONUS: Queen of Hearts - Marie Antoinette

BONUS: Re-Release - The 2008 Financial Crisis

Ep 195: The men who wrote the Dictionary - Professor James Murray & Dr. W. C. Minor

Ep 194: The Vatican State: How did it come to be?

Ep 193: How fast can this go? Più veloce!! - Enzo Ferrari

Ep 192: A Scenic Crash in Antarctica - Air New Zealand Flight 901

Ep 191: Ancient Voices in Modern Warfare - Navajo Code Talkers

Ep 190: Suicidal pilots: Germanwings Flight 9525

Ep 189: The worst/best time making a movie - The Island of Dr. Moreau

Ep 188: Hear the one about the libertarian town taken over by bears? - Grafton, NH

Ep 187: Ezra Klein inspired: Abundance prescribed for mental health

Ep 186: Flying the Skies above India & Breaking Barriers - Sarla Thukral

Ep 185: Mapping the Earth from Space - Dr. Valerie L. Thomas & her career at NASA

Ep 184: Rejection turned to Destruction - Hitler, Pol Pot, & Stalin

Ep 183: Devil in The Big Easy - Delphine LaLaurie

Ep 182: Hitler's Least Favorite Spy - Virginia Hall

Ep 181: Hitler's Favorite Film Maker - Leni Riefenstahl

Ep 180: The Beast of Belsen - Irma Grese

Ep 179: A Friend Till The End & Beyond - Hachikō

Ep 178: The Miracle Worker & The Miracle - The Helen Keller story

Ep 177: What's the worst that could happen? - The The Münster Rebellion of 1534

Ep 176: Who's to say Virgin Blood doesn't stop aging? - Elizabeth Bathory

Ep 175: Just stop watching award shows - Psychology of celebrity obsession

Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer

Ep 173: Revenge of the Monarch - Jamal Khashoggi

Ep 172: What do you mean I can't wear drip? The Peasants' Revolt

Ep 171: Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? - John Wilkes Booth

Ep 170: Another reason to fear flying - the Überlingen disaster

Ep 169: Who did you say owned Oreos? - The US Food System

Ep 168: Everybody's Baby - Baby Jessica & her Well

BONUS: Real Life Stories - Incarcerated Firefighting with Brett Crawford

Ep 167: Blood on the Water - The USS Indianapolis

Ep 166: Ye Olde Traditions: Presidential Inaugurations

Ep 165: Hot Coffee Comin' Up - Poor Stella Liebeck

Ep 164: Incarcerated & Fire Fighting - California's Conservation Camps

Ep 163: Deep Blue Something - Tom & Eileen Lonergan

BONUS: Real Life Stories - Getting the Polio Vaccine with Taylor's Dad, Mark!

Ep 162: Sugar Cubes for the Masses - The Polio Vaccine

See you next year!

Ep 161: Flight to Oblivion - The Lockerbie Bombing

Ep 160: Santa's history + Real life Reindeer Games

Ep 159: The Cazique of Nothing - Gregor MacGregor

Ep 158: Frostbite and Forceps - Self Surgery in Antarctica

Ep 157: Beheading the Myths - The Tower of London

Ep 156: We chased waterfalls - Niagara Falls

Ep 155: Don't go chasing waterfalls in Honduras - Lisa Left Eye Lopes

Ep 154: Off With Their Heads! - Medieval Executioner

Scorched Omnibus: Four Episodes on Some of History's Most Epic Fires

Ep 153 - Silly Rhymes, Serious Messages: Dr. Seuss

Ep 152 - Grammar Nerds for the Ages: The Brothers Grimm

Ep 151 - North Korean postscript: Operation Paul Bunyan

Ep 150 - North Korea: Where did it come from?

Ep 149 - The Fairytale Man: Hans Christian Andersen

Ep 148 - A Very Famous Series of Murders in Whitechapel: Jack the Ripper

Ep 147 - Election 2000: Pat Buchanan's Rosetta Stone

Ep 146 - Fatal Insomnia: New Fear Unlocked

Ep 145 - Witch Trials: Not just in Salem!

Ep 144 - The Ultimate Escape Artist: Harry Houdini

Ep 143 - Conspiracy series: Michael Hastings

Ep 142 - Death Lurking in the Deep - Limnic Eruptions

Ep 141 - Look for The Helpers: Thalidomide Babies

Ep 140 - Foggy with a Chance of Disaster: When Planes Hit Buildings in NYC

Ep 139 - Paradise Lost: Murder in the Galapagos

Ep 138 - Touching the Face of God: Challenger

Ep 137 - Birds of a Feather, Stolen Together: Edwin Rist

Ep 136 - Cave of Doom: John Jones & Nutty Putty Cave

Ep 135 - Useless Harbinger of Death?: The Appendix

Ep 134 - Bad Presidents: #29 - Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal

Ep 133 - Revenge: The PayPal Mafia - Part 3

Ep 132 - Swimming in the Sub-Basement: The Great Chicago Flood of 1992

Ep 131 - Titans of Tech: The PayPal Mafia - Part 2

Ep 130 - Come One, Come All!: The Hammond Circus Train Wreck

Ep 129 - Mother of Sparrows: The Vengeance of Saint Olga of Kiev

Ep 128 - Cash, Check, or COD?: The PayPal Mafia - Part 1

Ep 127 - Suffering for Salvation: The Complicated Legacy of Mother Teresa

Ep 126 - A Sticky Situation: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Ep 125 - Book Hunting in The Renaissance: Poggio Bracciolini

Ep 124 - Dashed Dreams & Dictators - What's happening in Venezuela?

BONUS: The Olympics Parts 1-4 - Ancient Olympics to Paris 2024

Ep 123 - Trip down memory lane: What happened to the Cecil Hotel?

Ep 122 - Fire & Brimstone: Nostradamus

Ep 121 - The Olympics Part 4: Richard Jewell & the Atlanta 1996 Bombing

Ep 120 - South American Nightmares: Luis Garavito & Pedro Lopez

Ep 26 - Part 2: The Infinite Artist - The Tragedy of Vincent Van Gogh

Ep 119 - Presidential Hopes & Dreams: Gary Hart

Ep 118 - The Olympics Pt 3: Massacre in Munich 1972

Ep 26 - Part 1: Under Pressure - The Byford Dolphin & The Titan Submersible

Ep 117 - The Olympics Pt 2: Nazi Showboating in 1936 Berlin

Ep 116 - Off by a Milli-something: How Tiny Mistakes Doomed Space Exploration

Ep 25 - Part 2: Fake it Till You Make It - Andrew Cunanan & Gianni Versace.

Ep 115 - The Bumbling Germans who Landed on Long Island: Operation Pastorius

Ep 114 - The Olympics Pt 1 - Ancient Origins to Parisian Potties

Ep 25 - Part 1: A Lover's Pact to the Death - The Mayerling Incident

Ep 113 - Bad Presidents: #7 - The Deranged Andrew Jackson