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 27: The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz
Polish army captain Witold Pilecki is the only person to enter the concentration camp at Auschwitz voluntarily.
episode 26: A Practical Joke on a Grand Scale
In November 1810 one of the most elaborate practical jokes of all time unfolded in an innocent London street.
episode 25: An Australian Enigma
A well-dressed corpse appeared on a South Australian beach in 1948 -- and has been baffling investigators for 66 years.
episode 24: The World's Worst Poet
William McGonagall wrote such disastrous verse that he's achieved an ironic immortality, "the only truly memorable bad poet in our language."
episode 23: A Victorian Poisoning Mystery
On New Year's Day 1886, Edwin Bartlett was found dead in bed with a lethal quantity of liquid chloroform in his stomach. How it got there has been a mystery for 120 years.
episode 22: The Devil's Hoofmarks
On Feb. 9, 1855, the residents of Devon, England, awoke to find a strange confusion of hoofprints in the newfallen snow.
episode 21: A Gallant German Fighter Ace
Wounded over Germany in 1943, American bomber pilot Charlie Brown found himself shadowed by Nazi fighter ace Franz Stigler.
episode 20: Life Imitates Science Fiction
In 1944, U.S. military intelligence was alarmed to discover a remarkably detailed description of an atomic bomb in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
episode 19: Testing the Post Office
In 1898 W. Reginald Bray set out to test the limits of the British postal system.
episode 18: The Mystery of the Disappearing Airmen
What became of Ernest Cody and Charles Adams, Navy pilots who disappeared from a blimp in August 1942?