All Episodes
The Backstory with Patty Steele — 228 episodes
The Backstory: Why Year Round Daylight Saving Time Failed 50 Years Ago
The Backstory: Sex, Murder, and the First Temporary Insanity Plea
The Backstory: Smokey Skies: The Deadliest Wildfire in U.S. History
The Backstory: The Haunted Country Inn That Helped Launch the Computer Age
The Backstory: Simplicity and the Greatest Jewel Heists
The Backstory: Murder and the Family Next Door
The Backstory: Weird Foods: Beaver Tails, Stuffed Mice, and Whale Vomit
The Backstory: UFOs: Are We Being Watched or Just Now Noticing?
The Backstory: JFK Sr. and Jackie's Love Story: Image Was Everything
The Backstory: The Horrifying Afterlife of Lincoln's Guests at Ford's Theater
The Backstory: The Secret NASA Test That Almost Ended the Space Race
The Backstory: Space Junk Falling From the Sky
The Backstory: Artemis 2: To the Moon . . . And Beyond
The Backstory: Mary Todd Lincoln: Hellcat or Victim?
The Backstory: What Do O.J. Simpson and Lizzie Borden Have in Common?
The Backstory: The #%$@ History of Cursing
The Backstory: The Origin of the Most Famous Tongue in Rock and Roll
The Backstory: The Real Life Painful Origin of Barney Fife
The Backstory: The Tylenol Murders
The Backstory: Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and a Billion Dollar Feud
The Backstory: Victorian Death Parties
The Backstory: An Endless Earworm Turns an Oscar Winner Into a Songwriter
The Backstory: Neil Young: Godfather of Grunge. Rock Star Dad. Heart of Gold
The Backstory: Blizzards, Survival, and Cannibalism
The Backstory: The Sex Scandal That Foreshadowed the Epstein Case
The Backstory: Do the Winter Olympics Matter Anymore?
The Backstory: Valentine’s Day: From Blood and Sacrifice to Roses and Chocolates
The Backstory: The Getty Kidnapping: Tons of Money, No Heart
The Backstory: From Pig Bladders to the Super Bowl
The Backstory: What Really Happened When a Jumbo Jet Vanished . . Forever
The Backstory: Beer: The Accidental Invention That Changed Civilization
The Backstory: Captured! The Olympic Snowboarder Turned Drug Kingpin
The Backstory: The Sex Worker Who Saved Seattle
The Backstory: Dying to Be Beautiful
The Backstory: Can Competition Destroy an Olympic Athlete?
The Backstory: The Night Wikipedia Almost Vanished
The Backstory: Nude Olympics
The Backstory: Doctor’s Orders: Booze During Prohibition
The Backstory: Jurassic Park: Revisionism or Just a Great Story?
The Backstory: Home Alone: The Classic That Almost Didn’t Get Made
The Backstory: Making a Statement With “A Christmas Carol”
The Backstory: When Christmas Was About Drinking, Dancing, and Sex
The Backstory: The Worst Winters on Record
The Backstory: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble Bust
The Backstory: Inventions That Killed Their Inventors
The Backstory: Gothic Horror: Giving Birth to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Backstory: Olympic Athlete to Drug Lord
The Backstory: Netflix and the Fall of Blockbuster
The Backstory: A Native American Thanksgiving
The Backstory: Popular Influencers Created Thanksgiving??
The Backstory: The Shocking Disappearance of Agatha Christie
The Backstory: Sex Secrets of the 18th Century
The Backstory: Eeww! What’s That Smell??
The Backstory: The King of Horror – Stephen King’s Secret
The Backstory: Put Your Lips Together and Blow
The Backstory: A Half Billion Dollar Art Heist and Fake Mustaches
The Backstory: A Monster Scratching on the Door Late at Night
The Backstory: Trick or Treating . . and Human Sacrifice
The Backstory: 1929 Market Crash: Did Panicked Investors Really Jump from Windows?
The Backstory: Harrison Ford: 2nd Choice for Indiana Jones?
The Backstory: Bodies Under the Floorboards – John Wayne Gacy
The Backstory: Attacked by a Ghost in Salem Massachusetts!
The Backstory: Conspiracy: The Moon Landing Was in a Midwestern Warehouse
The Backstory: Ghosts in the White House
The Backstory: 10,000 Years of Surgery With No Anesthesia
The Backstory: Nicholas Cage and New Orleans's Most Haunted Mansion
The Backstory: The Man Who Hunted Humans
The Backstory: The Real Downton Abbey and King Tut’s Curse
The Backstory: Two Steves: Nerds Create a Trillion Dollar Company
The Backstory: The G.O.A.T. Of All G.O.A.T.S
The Backstory: Politics: Assassinations, Duels, and Beatdowns
The Backstory: Kidnapped Twice!
The Backstory: Babe Ruth: Baseball Legend Fueled by Food, Women, Liquor . . and Money
The Backstory: What’s Up With Cats . . and Dogs?
The Backstory: Diets: The Hunger . . To Not Be Hungry
The Backstory: Sex, Violence, and Spiritual Enlightenment in the 1820s
The Backstory: Killer Floods of Alcohol!
The Backstory: Gilded Age Divorce Scandal
The Backstory: A Woman Takes Madison Ave
The Backstory: Stars Who Turned Down Iconic Movie Roles
The Backstory: Marilyn Monroe’s Autopsy . . Suicide or Murder
The Backstory: From Nazi Scientist to NASA Creator
The Backstory: Stars Who Hated Their Blockbusters
The Backstory: The Great Stink of 1858
The Backstory: Before Idaho: A Mass Murderer Slaughters 8 Students in Their Dorm
The Backstory: The Epstein Rosetta Stone: Money, Sex, and Fraud
The Backstory: Shark Attacks That Inspired Jaws
The Backstory: Queen Victoria: Drug Addict?
The Backstory: Dying for a Drink
The Backstory: Old Fashioned Sex
The Backstory: The Female Paul Revere: A Gutsy 16-Year-Old
The Backstory: Celebrity Cult Life: No Food or Water . . But Plenty of Sex
The Backstory: Michael Jackson, Death Masks, and the CPR Woman
The Backstory: The FBI’s Bloodiest Shootout
The Backstory: My Perfect Co-worker . . Is a Baboon
The Backstory: Two Degrees of Separation From George Washington!
The Backstory: America’s Biggest False Alarm Causes Mass Hysteria in L.A.
The Backstory: Did Barbed Wire End the Wild West?
The Backstory: The Adventure of a Lifetime Ends in Murder
The Backstory: Versace: When Envy Leads to Obsession . . And Then to Murder
The Backstory: Titanic’s Boss: Bad Guy . . Or Victim of Bad Press
The Backstory: Reincarnation Stories From the Famous and Not So Famous
The Backstory: From 30 Pounds of Wool to the Thong . . In One Century
The Backstory: Party Like a Pope!
The Backstory: Did a Missing Heiress Vanish Into a New Life?
The Backstory: Dead Pope’s Body . . On Trial
The Backstory: The Tragedy That Inspired Will Ferrell’s Anchorman Flicks
The Backstory: Jack Kerouac: On the Road With a Brilliant Disaster
The Backstory: How Do You Kidnap a Race Horse?
The Backstory: The Great Gatsby Was a Total Failure!
The Backstory: Why Do We Love Dog Movie Stars?
The Backstory: Blueprint For a Serial Killer
The Backstory: The Glamorous Ghost of Mar-a-Lago
The Backstory: Murder in the golden age of Hollywood
The Backstory: Test tube holds Thomas Edison’s dying breath
The Backstory: Millions gazed at Lincoln's decomposing face
The Backstory: The Superfreak Behind Superfreak
The Backstory: Abraham Lincoln dreams of his own murder
The Backstory: Robert Downey Jr. reinvents himself
The Backstory: Tiny kidnap victims survive the Titanic disaster
The Backstory: How come there were no women’s running shoes until 1978?
The Backstory: Charles, Camilla, and Diana: Proving your virginity
The Backstory: Yasuke: The only black samurai
The Backstory: Losing your head over royalty
The Backstory: Graffiti was Pompeii’s Instagram
The Backstory: The guy that connected us all
The Backstory: Kate Chase: From the belle of Washington to egg lady
The Backstory: Stealing Frank Sinatra Jr.
The Backstory: Stealing George Washington’s head
The Backstory: Lucky Luciano: From mob boss to war hero
The Backstory: My bloody valentine!
The Backstory: Did Shakespeare steal the Romeo and Juliet story?
The Backstory: The real American psycho
The Backstory: How one woman helped ignite the Civil War
The Backstory: Nxivm: A Hollywood sex cult
The Backstory (Replay): A middle-class kid rises to the top of the ad world
The Backstory: The Mariana Trench: A hundred horrible ways to die
The Backstory: Beyond the Hamilton duel: Aaron Burr’s rise and fall
The Backstory: Why did these two presidents have 2 nonconsecutive terms?
The Backstory: The fire was master
The Backstory: Our world on fire
The Backstory: Barbie dolls: boobs, Mickey Mouse club, and fraud
The Backstory (Replay): A hero emerges from a 19th century insane asylum
The Backstory: Looking good at any price
The Backstory: Making a statement with A Christmas Carol
The Backstory (Replay): How did Christmas turn into trees and egg nog?
The Backstory: The charming spy who got away with it all
(Replay) The Backstory: The 9-year-old Union soldier
(Replay) The Backstory: Where did all the dinosaurs go?
The Backstory: The big movies their stars hate
The Backstory: Drinking the Kool-Aid – the Jonestown massacre
The Backstory: The American fashion model in Hitler's bathtub
The Backstory: Thanksgiving from another point of view
The Backstory: Unpacking Thanksgiving
The Backstory: The Human Zoo
The Backstory: Did Leonardo da Vinci invent robots and the helicopter??
The Backstory: Date raped by a superstar in classic Hollywood
The Backstory: Surviving a grizzly attack
The Backstory: From prostitute to queen of the pirates
The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge
The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman
The Backstory: Back from the dead to take the gold
The Backstory: Demons to moon landings – the story that inspired The Exorcist
(Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
The Backstory: All the money in the world…and a torturous upbringing
The Backstory: Fatal obsession with a rising star
The Backstory (Replay): Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility
The Backstory: Getting inked…5,000 years ago
The Backstory: Weird trends: from live ornamental hermits to garden gnomes
The Backstory: Spiderman and…presidential corruption?!
The Backstory (Replay): Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles
The Backstory (Replay): Illicit sex in old Hollywood
The Backstory (Replay): The unexplained blast that shook the world
The Backstory (Replay): Cold War condoms and undercover kitties
The Backstory (Replay): The most powerful and hated man in the world
The Backstory: When teaching was tougher than being a nun
The Backstory: You are part of a government experiment
The Backstory: A movie inspires the thrill of the kill
The Backstory: Choosing your poison
The Backstory: Power parties: Orgies, flaming genitals, and other uncomfortable surprises
The Backstory: Pablo Escobar: Drugs, blood, and $30 billion
The Backstory: Steve Jobs: Not such a genius father
The Backstory: The female Paul Revere: A gutsy 16-year-old
The Backstory: Sexual healing brought Marvin Gaye no healing
The Backstory: The 9-year-old Union soldier
The Backstory: Violence and heat on the campaign trail
(Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
The Backstory: A middle-class kid rises to the top of the ad world
The Backstory: The influencer who packed up the White House as it burned!
The Backstory (Replay): ETs? Time travelers? Trying to explain the unexplained
The Backstory: Marilyn Monroe: The ultimate sex symbol…and victim
The Backstory: Charming, popular, and maybe the worst president ever
The Backstory: The great stink of 1858
The Backstory: Body snatching for profit
The Backstory: Trapped in the most inhospitable place on Earth
The Backstory: A man’s man…and his colony of pussy cats
The Backstory: Do it my way: Politics bust up a Founding Father’s family
The Backstory: Brando family: Drugs, murder, and Academy Awards
The Backstory: Prostitution and murder in the old west
The Backstory: The Grandmother of Juneteenth
The Backstory: Alarms: Mooing, peeing, and knocker-uppers
The Backstory: A hero emerges from a 19th century insane asylum
The Backstory: Eliza Hamilton: Cheating husband, family deaths, and triumph
The Backstory: The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe
The Backstory: The history of jokes
The Backstory: James Brown: Drugs, toilets, and guns
The Backstory: Bloody politics
The Backstory: Radiant heat & working toilets 2,000 years ago
The Backstory: Meeting your children…from a past life
The Backstory: What in the heck did I just say?!?!
The Backstory: Paradise lost
The Backstory: The #%$@ history of cursing
The Backstory: The most powerful and hated man in the world
The Backstory: When famous folks are crummy parents
The Backstory: The dark side of Hollywood’s bright lights
The Backstory: The first temporary insanity defense
The Backstory: From Reefer Madness to wellness trend
The Backstory: Mom's death bed confession about hijacker D. B. Cooper
The Backstory: The evolution of TV
The Backstory: Lindbergh: a flawed hero and notorious murder
The Backstory: Dogs: from predator to fur baby in 20,000 years (Replay)
The Backstory: History’s craziest trends
The Backstory: Abe Lincoln, battered husband
The Backstory: The sinister death of movie star Natalie Wood
The Backstory: The 1893 World’s Fair murder castle
The Backstory: Finding Amelia Earhart…maybe
Celebrities and their world-changing inventions
Inventing Thanksgiving