Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 8 hours
episode 365: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Play along as we untangle eight strange-sounding situations using yes-or-no questions.
episode 364: Sidney Cotton's Aerial Reconnaissance
Sidney Cotton risked his life to gather aerial photos during World War II.
episode 362: The Leatherman
Between 1856 and 1889, a mysterious leather-clad man walked the roads of Connecticut and New York.
episode 361: A Fight Over Nutmeg
Englishman Nathaniel Courthope spent four years defending a tiny island's nutmeg from the Dutch.
episode 360: Haggard's Dream
One night in July 1904, H. Rider Haggard dreamed that his daughter's dog was dying.
episode 359: Stranded in Shangri-La
In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in the highlands of New Guinea.
episode 358: The Radium Girls
In the 1920, painters of luminous watch dials began to fall mysteriously ill.
episode 356: A Strawberry's Journey
A French spy, a transatlantic voyage, and the birth of the modern strawberry.