All Episodes
Futility Closet — 365 episodes · page 3 of 4
165-A Case of Mistaken Identity
164-Vigil on the Ice
163-Enslaved in the Sahara
162-John Muir and Stickeen
161-The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
160-The Birmingham Sewer Lion
159-The Mozart of Mathematics
158-The Mistress of Murder Farm
157-The Brutal History of Batavia's Graveyard
156-The Most Dedicated Soldier
155-The Giraffe Who Walked to Paris
154-Spared by a Volcano
153-A Victorian Stalker
152-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
151-Double-Crossing the Nazis
150-The Prince of Nowhere
149-The North Pond Hermit
148-The Perfect Murder
147-The Call of Mount Kenya
146-Alone in the Wilderness
145-The Pied Piper of Saipan
144-The Murder Castle
143-The Conscience Fund
142-Fingerprints and Polygraphs
141-Abducted by Indians, a Captive of Whites
140-Ramanujan
139-The Painter's Revenge
138-Life in a Cupboard
137-The Mystery of Fiona Macleod
136-The Boston Molasses Disaster
135-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
134-The Christmas Truce
133-Notes and Queries
132-The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
131-Escape From Libby Prison
130-The Unlikely Ultramarathoner
129-The Voynich Manuscript
128-The Battle for Castle Itter
127-Rowing Across the Atlantic
126-The Great Australian Poetry Hoax
125-The Campden Wonder
124-D.B. Cooper
123-Washington D.C.'s Hidden Tunnels
122-The Bear Who Went to War
121-Starving for Science
120-The Barnes Mystery
119-Lost in the Taiga
118-The Restless Corpse of Elmer McCurdy
117-The Road to En-dor
116-Notes and Queries
115-Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier
114-The Desperation of Donald Crowhurst
113-The Battle Over Mother's Day
112-The Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller
111-Japanese Fire Balloons
110-The Brooklyn Chameleon
109-Trapped in a Cave
108-The Greenwich Time Lady
107-Arthur Nash and the Golden Rule
106-The Popgun War
105-Surviving on Seawater
104-The Harvey's Casino Bombing
103-Legislating Pi
102-The Bunion Derby
101-Jerome
100-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
099-Notes and Queries
098-The St. Albans Raid
097-The Villisca Ax Murders
096-The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
095-A New Day at Charleston
094-The Living Unknown Soldier
093-The Old Flying Days
092-The Forgotten Amendment
091-The Voyage of the Damned
090-The Candy Bar War
089-An African From Baltimore
088-Mrs. Wilkinson and the Lyrebird
087-A Sleuthing Cabbie, Edward VI's Homework, and a Self-Aware Crow
086-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
085-Raising Chicago
084-The Man Who Never Was
083-Nuclear Close Calls
082-Stealing Abe Lincoln
081-The Typhus Hoax
080-'Black Like Me': Race Realities Under Jim Crow
079-One Square Inch of the Yukon
078-Snowshoe Thompson
077-The Sourdough Expedition
076-Get Out of Jail Free
075-The Sea Devil
074-Charley Parkhurst's Secret
073-The Tichborne Claimant
072-The Strange Misadventures of Famous Corpses
071-Godless in Missouri
070-Sunk by a Whale
069-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
068-The Niihau Incident
067-Composing Beyond the Grave
066-Eighteen Holes in Vietnam