History Uncovered

Grigori Rasputin was a mystic and renegade monk who entranced the Romanovs — and ended up being assassinated in December 1916 for it. https://allthatsinteresting.com/grigori-rasputin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of WWE's most iconic wrestlers of the early 2000s, Chris Benoit died by suicide in 2007 after he strangled his wife to death and suffocated his young son at his home. https://allthatsinteresting.com/chris-benoit-death Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since it was rediscovered in 1912, scholars have been trying to decode the unknown script and bizarre illustrations inside the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript — but to this day, nobody knows exactly what the book is about. https://allthatsinteresting.com/voynich-manuscript Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the centuries, archaeologists have come across countless incredible relics that bring humanity’s past to life: King Tut’s sarcophagus, the bodies of Pompeii, intricate silver and gold llama figurines crafted by the Inca. But some of even the most famous artifacts to ever be unearthed simply don’t seem to match the time, place, or context in which they were found. https://allthatsinteresting.com/out-of-place-artifacts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested the British Parliament's tax on tea by throwing British tea into Boston Harbor — and changed history. https://allthatsinteresting.com/boston-tea-party Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bolsheviks claimed to have murdered the entire family, their bodies had been so marred and later buried in unmarked graves that many speculated the youngest daughter of the five Romanov children, Anastasia, had escaped. It would be nearly a century following her execution that the mystery surrounding Anastasia Romanov would be finally allowed to rest. https://allthatsinteresting.com/anastasia-romanov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Dylan burst onto the scene in the 1960s as the "voice of a generation," providing evocative and politically engaged anthems that reflected America’s rapidly changing times, from the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam conflict. Despite his music becoming intrinsically linked to historic moments like the March on Washington, Dylan often introduced his biggest hits, like "Blowin' In The Wind," with the caveat that he didn't write protest songs, creating a mystery around their true meaning. We are digging into the backstories of these celebrated records, uncovering how real-life events, including the murder of activist Medgar Evers and the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, influenced some of his most profound work. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hattie-carroll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For centuries, the story has endured: medieval knights departing for war, locking their wives into iron chastity belts and riding off with the only key. It’s one of history’s most lurid and enduring legends — and almost certainly fiction. The familiar image of the chastity belt was largely manufactured centuries later through satire, hoaxes, dubious museum artifacts, and Victorian anxieties about sex and morality. But the real story is no less unsettling, involving anti-masturbation devices, fears of female sexuality, and a myth so compelling it embedded itself permanently in popular culture. In this episode, we separate historical fact from one of history’s most persistent sexual myths. https://allthatsinteresting.com/chastity-belt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered a remote island in the Pacific on Easter Sunday, which he named "Easter Island," where he was astonished by the hundreds of towering, stern-faced moai statues. These impressive sculptures, which can be over 30 feet tall and weigh up to 86 tonnes, have inspired curiosity and speculation for centuries. To this day, questions remain about how the Rapa Nui people managed to transport the statues without modern technology, why they were uniformly knocked down by the end of the 19th century, and whether their creation caused an ecological disaster. https://allthatsinteresting.com/why-were-easter-island-statues-built Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez rose to fame as the "King of Corrido" in the late 1980s, creating sincere ballads about drug lords, cartels, and violence that resonated deeply with fans across Mexico and Southern California. His controversial life was already marked by bloodshed, including killing a man at age 15 and surviving an onstage shooting, but his fate was sealed on May 15, 1992, when he received a mysterious, visibly unsettling note while performing his final concert in Culiacán. Hours later, after being abducted by men claiming to be police, Sánchez was found executed in an irrigation canal; to this day, the identity of his killer and the content of the cryptic note that sealed his fate remain one of Mexico's most enduring mysteries. https://allthatsinteresting.com/last-known-photographs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In December 1900, the keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland mysteriously disappeared — and to this day, no one knows what happened. https://allthatsinteresting.com/flannan-isle-mystery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1958, the Kingston Trio released a hugely popular folk song called "Tom Dooley," which even inspired a 1959 film, but few listeners realized the song was based on a real person — Tom Dula (pronounced "Dooley") — a young Civil War veteran from Wilkes County, North Carolina, who was executed in 1868 for the murder of his lover, Laura Foster. According to the story, Dula was romantically involved with both Anne Melton and her cousin Laura, but in May 1866 Laura disappeared after riding off on her family's horse, and her body was later found in a shallow grave; Dula, though he briefly fled, was arrested, tried, convicted, and hanged at just 23 years old. Whether he was truly guilty, however, remains an open question, and his tale of love, betrayal, and possible self-sacrifice has continued to captivate people, particularly in his home state of North Carolina. https://allthatsinteresting.com/civil-war-battles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades. https://allthatsinteresting.com/dusko-popov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Joe Pichler mysteriously vanished at the age of 18 in 2006, police suspected suicide — but his family remains convinced that foul play was involved. https://allthatsinteresting.com/joe-pichler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rey Rivera was just 32 years old when he vanished without a trace on May 16, 2006. A week later, he was found dead in Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel. https://allthatsinteresting.com/rey-rivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slender Man was a popular internet legend created in June 2009. But when two 12-year-olds tried stabbing their friend to death, this mythical creature took on a life of its own. https://allthatsinteresting.com/slender-man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From their roots in ancient pagan celebrations of the winter solstice to their ban in colonial America, the history of the Christmas tree is longer and more complicated than most people realize. https://allthatsinteresting.com/christmas-tree-history Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. https://allthatsinteresting.com/manson-murders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1818, Mary Shelley published her classic novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his disturbing experiments with reanimation — but the stories of these seven scientists from history prove that reality can sometimes be stranger than fiction. https://allthatsinteresting.com/real-frankenstein-experiments Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After suffering from mysterious hallucinations for four days straight, Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore at age 40 on October 7, 1849. https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-did-edgar-allan-poe-die Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Again and again, in desperate times throughout history, people have turned to desperate measures and committed what many societies consider to be the worst of all human sins — cannibalism. Members of the Donner Party infamously resorted to cannibalism to survive when they became stranded in the Sierra Nevadas in the 1840s, as did survivors of the Andes Flight Disaster in 1972. At sea, castaway sailors often followed a long-held tradition known as the "custom of the sea," an implicit agreement that, if they were stranded, sailors would draw lots to pick who would be killed — and eaten. But the story of cannibalism involving a 19th-century ship called the Mignonette is a bit different.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-uncovered/mignonette Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Throughout maritime history, sailors have reported sightings of ghost ships with eerily similar details — empty vessels appearing out of the blue, with no one aboard and no sign of what happened to the crew. Over the centuries, numerous vessels have been found floating on the high seas without a crew — here are some of the most disturbing cases. https://allthatsinteresting.com/ghost-ships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In February 1909, just around one month after the first newspaper reports about the Jersey Devil were published, the Maryland-based Middletown Valley Register published a report about a local who encountered a terrifying creature known as the Snallygaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Catholic Church has put many people on trial, including Galileo, Joan of Arc, and Martin Luther. But the strangest trial in church history took place in the ninth century. Known as the Cadaver Synod, it was the trial of Pope Formosus — who had died eight months before. https://allthatsinteresting.com/cadaver-synod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite being an amputee, Virginia Hall bolstered the Allied resistance in France so successfully that the Gestapo launched special missions just to find her. They never did. https://allthatsinteresting.com/virginia-hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was at ground zero in Hiroshima — and three days later, in Nagasaki. He survived both atomic bombings. Decades later, he told his story to the world. This is the life of history’s only officially recognized double survivor. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tsutomu-yamaguchi-hibakusha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa? On the 50th anniversary of one of America’s greatest unsolved mysteries, we dive into the life, rise, and sudden disappearance of the infamous Teamsters boss. From his meteoric union ascent and shadowy mob ties to wild theories involving landfills, stadiums, and deathbed confessions, we unravel the suspects, the motives—and the myths. Was it a mob hit? A government cover-up? Or something even stranger? Join us as we explore the facts, the fiction, and the lingering legacy of Hoffa’s vanishing act. https://allthatsinteresting.com/jimmy-hoffa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1970s, the U.S. faced a serious dairy shortage that sent prices soaring. To address this, the government, under Jimmy Carter, implemented a massive subsidy program for the dairy industry. $2 billion was pumped into dairy subsidies, milk production skyrocketed, and prices for consumers stabilized. By all metrics, the program was a success — but perhaps it was too successful.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/weird-presidential-photos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By June of 1968, the United States felt, to many, like a nation teetering on the edge. Every night, Americans watched the carnage of the Vietnam War on their television screens. That April, Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed in cold blood in Memphis, Tennessee, triggering riots in cities across the country. Into this chaos stepped Robert F. Kennedy — the younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy — as a candidate in the 1968 presidential election. But then, on what should have been a celebratory night for his inspiring campaign in early June, RFK was shot and killed, too. https://allthatsinteresting.com/sirhan-sirhan credits: ⁠⁠⁠https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Chernobyl to Fukushima, nuclear disasters have left lasting scars on the modern world, each a chilling reminder of the high-stakes gamble that comes with harnessing atomic energy. Yet even in the shadow of catastrophe, passionate voices continue to champion nuclear power as a clean, efficient solution to our growing energy needs. Whether you view it as a ticking time bomb or a misunderstood savior, one thing is clear: nuclear power is a force that can shape the future—or destroy it. https://allthatsinteresting.com/chernobyl-disaster-pripyat credits: ⁠⁠https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, the average American consumes almost 70 pounds of beef per year and almost 100 pounds of chicken. But those numbers could have been quite different. A century ago, American policymakers pushed for a different kind of meat supply in the United States — hippo meat. In 1910, a Louisiana politician introduced a bill to bring hippopotamuses to the country in the hopes that they would both eat invasive plants and alleviate a meat shortage. https://allthatsinteresting.com/cocaine-hippos credits: ⁠https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1629, the Dutch ship Batavia wrecked off the coast of what is now Western Australia, stranding over 300 people on remote, barren islands. What followed was not a fight for survival, but a descent into terror, as a mutinous group led by Jeronimus Cornelisz unleashed a campaign of murder, torture, and control. Over the next few months, dozens were slaughtered—not by nature, but by their fellow survivors. This is the story of one of history’s most chilling mutinies, and one of Australia’s earliest and darkest chapters. https://allthatsinteresting.com/sunken-ships/7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dubbed the "Mexican Madonna" and the "Queen Of Tejano Music," Selena Quintanilla was a budding superstar — until she was gunned down in March 1995. https://allthatsinteresting.com/selena-death Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Far from being a new issue specific to our present moment, territorial disputes between Canada and the U.S. stretch back almost 200 years. In fact, conflicts over the border between Canada and the United States have existed since the borders were first drawn. Today we'll discuss some of the areas of the border that have been disputed over the past two centuries — including some that are still disputed to this day. https://allthatsinteresting.com/pig-war credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early morning of December 26, 2004, an earthquake struck on the Pacific sea floor, 150 miles off the west coast of the Indonesian island Sumatra. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake quickly gave rise to a tsunami that within hours of the initial earthquake, hit the shorelines of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and the Maldives. https://allthatsinteresting.com/worst-natural-disasters credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was killed while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. To this day, the truth about his assassination remains unresolved. https://allthatsinteresting.com/malcolm-x-assassination credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After taking power in the 1920s, Joseph Stalin killed at least 9 million people through mass murder, forced labor, and famine, but the true figure may be as high as 60 million. https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison. But in the end, the lethal consequences of their work came to light. https://allthatsinteresting.com/radium-girls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beginning in the early 1980s, wild theories about ritual sexual abuse, widespread occultism, and Devil worship dominated news headlines and created a moral panic that led to unfounded accusations and even wrongful imprisonments. https://allthatsinteresting.com/satanic-panic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, was known for his eccentric personality and bizarre conspiracy theories, then he made national headlines in April 2013 when he was arrested for allegedly mailing deadly ricin to President Barack Obama — but he was framed by a rival named Everett Dutschke. https://allthatsinteresting.com/paul-kevin-curtis credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the morning of August 30, 2013, California Highway Patrol officers informed the parents of 19-year-old Bryce Laspisa that their son's car was found wrecked, driven off a 25-foot embankment near Castaic Lake — but there was no sign of Laspisa to be found. https://allthatsinteresting.com/bryce-laspisa credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandon Swanson was on his way home for spring break in May 2008 when he got into a minor car accident and called his parents for help. Then, he suddenly vanished without a trace. https://allthatsinteresting.com/brandon-swanson credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The true story of The Conjuring, namely the Perron family and Enfield haunting, is scarier than the movies themselves. https://allthatsinteresting.com/true-story-of-the-conjuring-perron-family-enfield-haunting credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Latoya Ammons and her family claim to have experienced demonic possession that began when they moved into what became known as the "house of 200 demons" in 2011. https://allthatsinteresting.com/latoya-ammons credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deep within the forests of South Jersey’s Pine Barrens, there are legends of a horrifying creature known as the Jersey Devil. Often described as a dragon-like beast with the head of a goat, the wings of a bat, and cloven hooves, the Jersey Devil is one of the most iconic creatures in American folklore – and one that’s left locals terrified for decades.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/jersey-devil credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some may have learned about Johnny Appleseed from the 1948 Disney anthology Melody Time. Some may have learned about him in a poem. And some may have heard the rhyme that goes, "Here comes Johnny Appleseed. Apple seeds are all he needs. Planting orchards on his way out West. Wears a pot upon his head. Beneath the trees he makes his bed. Folks say Johnny’s apples are the best!” This is the full story of Johnny Appleseed, from his motivations for planting apple seeds, to his unusual religious beliefs, to his sudden and surprising demise.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/johnny-appleseed credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed and countless others injured in terror attacks targeting the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. The aftermath saw immense devastation, but also incredible heroism from rescue workers, including many dogs. The loyalty and dedication that these dogs showed serve as proof that anyone, when they answer the call of duty, has the right to be called a hero – even if they walk on four legs. https://allthatsinteresting.com/michael-hingson credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natalie Wood died off the coast of California's Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 — but some say her drowning may not have been an accident. https://allthatsinteresting.com/natalie-wood-death credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Almost exactly 50 years ago, on August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon gave a televised address unlike any that a U.S. president had ever given before. He began by noting that it was his 37th time addressing the nation and stated that he’d spent the last several decades of his life in public service. But, as Nixon noted, he had lost the support of his political base in Congress. The Watergate scandal, which had grown in intensity over the last two years, had consumed him and the nation.  What convinced Nixon to finally resign? And how much did the president really know about Watergate? This is the full story of Richard Nixon's resignation, from what preceded to what came after the shocking moment.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/today-in-history/august-8 credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a deadly epidemic hit the remote town of Nome in the winter of 1925, a group of mushers and sled dogs risked their lives to save the town — with Balto standing out from the pack. https://allthatsinteresting.com/balto credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999, the media came to a quick conclusion — the so-called “Kennedy curse” had struck again. After all, the heir apparent to the family dynasty had lost both his father, President John F. Kennedy, and his uncle, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, to brutal assassinations, making JFK Jr.’s death all the eerier. On July 16, 1999, the late president’s son had planned to travel to a family wedding. Though he had a broken ankle, John F. Kennedy Jr. climbed into a single-engine Piper Saratoga plane alongside his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette. He meant to drop off Lauren at Martha’s Vineyard, and then fly with Carolyn to the Kennedy family compound for the wedding in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. But the trio never made it to their destinations. Sixty-two minutes after taking off from the Essex County airport in New Jersey, Kennedy’s plane — which he was piloting himself — crashed into the water. The crash killed everyone aboard the plane on impact. https://allthatsinteresting.com/jfk-jr-death credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts, Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of now – and doesn’t always like what it sees. Listen to Legacy on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Listen now: Wondery.fm/legacy_HU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” astronaut Neil Armstrong said on July 20, 1969 — the day humanity first landed on the moon. Or, did we? Was that just what They wanted us to think? It was the middle of the Cold War, and the Russians had already sent Sputnik into orbit. America needed a win, and landing on the moon was the perfect way to one-up the communists. Too perfect, some might say. Which begs the question, was the moon landing fake? https://allthatsinteresting.com/moon-landing-faked credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First mentioned by Plato in Timaeus and Critias, the lost city of Atlantis later became a widely debated topic among historians. But is Atlantis real? https://allthatsinteresting.com/atlantis credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Jackson once declared: "I was born for the storm; calm does not suit me." And throughout his life, Jackson was no stranger to close calls. The scrappy president from Tennessee had been a boy when the Revolutionary War broke out, and he cut his teeth fighting against the British. When he was captured in 1781, a British soldier slashed him for refusing to shine his boots, giving Jackson scars on his hand and face that he bore for the rest of his life. As an adult, Jackson survived a duel that left him with a bullet in his chest, and he was once shot so badly during a Nashville street brawl that he almost lost one of his arms. This is the story of the assassination attempt against Andrew Jackson, and how the president somehow beat the odds — yet again — to live another day.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/presidential-assassination-attempts/5 credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most people know the “Ring Around the Rosie” nursery rhyme, and most people have heard that it has a dark meaning: It’s all about the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which tore through Europe in the 14th century. But is that really true? https://allthatsinteresting.com/nursery-rhymes-with-dark-meanings credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last seen with Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba during a trip with her Alabama high school class in May 2005. https://allthatsinteresting.com/natalee-holloway credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover why the wider Abraham Lincoln assassination plot was far larger than the death of one man and how this three-pronged attack sent out violent aftershocks for decades to come. https://allthatsinteresting.com/abraham-lincoln-assassination credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 14, 1912, Teddy Roosevelt — then running for an unprecedented third term under the banner of the Bull Moose Party — set out to give a speech at the Milwaukee Auditorium in Wisconsin. En route, he crossed paths with a mentally ill saloon owner named John Schrank. For some reason, Schrank had become convinced that Roosevelt had assassinated President William McKinley in 1901. And so Schrank waited with the crowd, then fired at Roosevelt with a Colt revolver. https://allthatsinteresting.com/teddy-roosevelt-cheating-death credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the end of March 2024, and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… The discovery of a mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg… …the story of how a well-preserved Ming tomb was found in China… …how archaeologists finally unearthed the missing half of a Ramses II statue in Egypt… …the discovery of Europe's oldest known human settlement in Ukraine… …and the discovery of a golden ring with Christ imagery in Sweden… …as well as a number of historical anniversaries from March, including the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the discovery of China's terracotta army, and much more. https://allthatsinteresting.com/kalmar-sweden-gold-ring credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most depictions of Mary Magdalene in popular culture characterize her in the same way: as a sex worker. In the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, for example, Mary is critiqued by Judas for her "profession" and later describes how she's quote-unquote "had so many men." Indeed, most people, when asked to describe Mary Magdalene, would probably say she was a sex worker, one who became a symbol of forgiveness and redemption through her relationship with Jesus. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-magdalene credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1920s, the hills of northeast Oklahoma were soaked in oil — and blood. Though the oil deposits found in the area had made the Osage Native Americans who owned the land rich, tribe members soon began to die at an alarming rate. And they often died in shocking and violent ways. This is the true story of the Osage Indian Murders and Killers of the Flower Moon.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/osage-indian-murders credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So who was Jack the Ripper? More than a century later, the killer's identity continues to elude investigators. Some theories are outlandish — like that writer Lewis Carroll or even British royal Prince Albert Victor were behind the heinous crimes. Some theories appear to be supported by DNA — as in the case of Polish barber Aaron Kosminski. Then again, theories like these also assume that Jack the Ripper was a man — and not a murderous local woman. Here are some of the most likely — and most interesting — Jack Ripper suspects that have emerged since his reign of terror in 1888. We'll discuss who these suspects are and why investigators believe they could have been the notorious killer. https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-the-ripper-suspects credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the end of February 2024, and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… How Amelia Earhart's missing plane may have been found in the Pacific Ocean… …the discovery of a warrior's grave in Hungary, with intact armor and his horse… …how archaeologists in London unearthed the city's first fully intact Roman funerary bed… …the recovery of the so-called "Titanic of the Alps" shipwreck in Switzerland… …and the historical mystery behind another shipwreck discovered in Lake Superior. …as well as a number of historical anniversaries from February, including the launch of Facebook, the arrival of the Beatles in New York City, and the foundation of the NAACP. https://allthatsinteresting.com/amelia-earhart-plane-discovery credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like Jack the Ripper himself, little is known about his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly. Her heavily mutilated body was found in a leased room on Dorset Street in East London on November 9, 1888. She had been living in a slum frequently occupied by prostitutes and criminals – and her murder was so gruesome, police actively tried to suppress information about it to prevent any rumors. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-jane-kelly credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 16, 1888, a Whitechapel neighborhood watch group received a letter addressed "From Hell" which chillingly described a murder. Even more chillingly, the letter came with what appeared to be a piece of a human kidney preserved in spirits. The macabre note was unsigned, but the police had a good idea of who could have sent it. And they had a good idea of who the kidney may have once belonged to: a woman named Catherine Eddowes. https://allthatsinteresting.com/catherine-eddowes-murder credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the summer of 1888 gradually turned to autumn, the growing fear of Jack the Ripper began to reach its peak. Throughout London’s “Autumn of Terror,” the people of Whitechapel were always on the lookout, wary that the Ripper might be lurking around every corner. https://allthatsinteresting.com/elizabeth-stride credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the end of January 2024 and we've picked a few of our favorite history news stories from this month as well as a handful of significant anniversaries from decades past. The mysterious coded note found in the pocket of a 19th-century dress… …the discovery of two mummies in Egypt entombed with golden tongues… …how archaeologists in China came across an ancient wooden celestial calendar… …the surprise discovery of a cemetery in Wales with evidence of "graveside feasting"… …and how a sling bullet found in Spain might confirm the location of an important battle… …as well as a number of historical anniversaries from January, including the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, the "Miracle on the Hudson," and the first sale of the Apple Macintosh. https://allthatsinteresting.com/oxyrhynchus-golden-tongues credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's the tragic story of Jack the Ripper's second victim, and how Chapman's brutal death spread fear throughout London, spurned the police to start arresting suspects, and even sparked a response from the killer himself. https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-the-rippers-victims credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On August 31, 1888, a young woman by the name of Mary Ann Nichols was found dead, her body gruesomely mutilated on the streets of London’s Whitechapel neighborhood. Police didn’t know it at the time, but Nichols’ murder was just the first of several similar, grisly killings that would play out over the following two months. In total, five women would be found dead, each of them maimed and disfigured in a vicious manner – all at the hands of a serial killer named Jack the Ripper. https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-the-rippers-victims credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we look back at 100 episodes, and discuss updates to our favorite stories. https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-uncovered credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each Christmas, millions of children around the world eagerly await the arrival of Santa Claus, the jolly old man in the bright red suit who carries a sack full of presents for all the good boys and girls. However, the iconic representation of Santa Claus is a relatively modern invention that largely originated with the well-known poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” more commonly known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” written in 1823, as well as a famous illustration by cartoonist Thomas Nast, inspired by that poem, from 1863. But the story of Santa Claus is far from the only Christmas legend told around the world to this day. In fact, there are countless folktales about Christmas that star other figures entirely, particularly in Europe, and many of them have origins that predate not only Santa Claus, but the spread of Christianity itself. In fact, many of these tales were born of pagan customs that were later adapted to fall in line with Christian values. https://allthatsinteresting.com/christmas-legends credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Of the great mass of people staring up at the towering white structures in Chicago’s Jackson Park and enjoying the sight of the world’s first Ferris Wheel, no one knows that the blue-eyed devil walks among them. His name is Dr. H. H. Holmes. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hh-holmes credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the end of November 2023 and we've picked a few of our favorite history news stories from this month as well as a handful of significant anniversaries from decades past. Over the past month, we've covered a number of fascinating stories, including the unearthing of a 1,000-year-old skeleton in Germany that was missing all of its facial bones, the surprise discovery of 30,000 to 50,000 ancient Roman coins under the water off the coast of Sardinia, a historian who stumbled upon scores of lost French letters from the Seven Years War, the curious find of a Bronze Age meeting hall that may have ties to the legendary King Hinz, and the sale of a menu from the RMS Titanic. https://allthatsinteresting.com/roman-coins-sardinia credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the moment CBS News broadcaster Walter Cronkite lowered his glasses on November 22, 1963, and told the American public that President John F. Kennedy was dead, the same question has echoed in the minds of countless people throughout the U.S. and around the world. Who assassinated the president? Who killed JFK? https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-killed-jfk credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1949, priests performed an exorcism on a boy referred to as "Roland Doe," a.k.a. Ronald Hunkeler, in a chilling ordeal that became the real-life inspiration for The Exorcist. https://allthatsinteresting.com/roland-doe-the-exorcist-true-story credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we'll be discussing people who have fallen from mind-boggling heights. And most — though tragically not all — managed to survive. These are their remarkable stories. https://allthatsinteresting.com/vesna-vulovic credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As legend has it, the flying Mothman horrified countless Point Pleasant residents in the late 1960s. And when the Silver Bridge collapsed, the creature was blamed for the deaths of 46 people. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mothman credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Enfield Haunting began with a bang. Literally. In the summer of 1977, Peggy Hodgson heard loud noises coming from her daughters' room, upstairs at their house at 284 Green Street, in Enfield, North London. Hodgson went upstairs to investigate and to tell the girls, Margaret, 12, and Janet, 11, to quiet down and go to bed — only to find them cowering in fear. This is the true story of the Enfield haunting, the poltergeist that plagued the Hodgson family between 1977 and 1979. https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-enfield-haunting credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every year when the green leaves turn bright orange and pumpkins appear on our doorsteps, Washington Irving’s classic ghost story, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, is retold. The beloved American legend follows the tale of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolteacher who finds himself in the haunted town of Sleepy Hollow, where he suffers an ill-fated encounter with the village’s infamous headless horseman before he mysteriously disappears from the community for good. While the legend is a staple in American folklore, its inspiration is global. Indeed, Washington Irving’s haunting work is born out of a mixture of foreign lore, local history, and a bit of the uncanny. https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Southern Gothic is a narrative history podcast that pays special attention to sound design to truly immerse you in the story, whether exploring the American South’s darkest chapters in history or recounting an infamous ghost story from decades or centuries past. From the Bell Witch of Tennessee to the haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Southern Gothic’s stories sit at the intersection of true crime, history, and the paranormal.  This week, we’re presenting Southern Gothic’s episode on the Baynard Mausoleum of Hilton Head Island. The Baynard Mausoleum is the oldest surviving structure on Hilton Head, located just off the coast of South Carolina near the border with Georgia. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the Baynard Mausoleum – and the years of vandalism and thievery that have plagued it – have prompted deep local interest in this allegedly haunted mausoleum and the lore that surrounds it.  https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/blog/sg102-baynard-mausoleum-hilton-head-island credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mermaid Inn has housed pirates, gangsters, and even Queen Elizabeth I. Some say the inn still houses a few of these characters today — albeit, in ghost form. https://allthatsinteresting.com/haunted-mermaid-inn credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to History Happy Hour, a special series from History Uncovered… It’s the end of September 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… The investigation of an unknown tunnel beneath Poland's Saxon Palace… …how a Bronze Age girl buried with 180 animal bones was uncovered in Kazakhstan… …the discovery of 3,700-year-old Bronze Age remains in Turkey with preserved hair and skin… …how archaeologists found a 2,600-year-old child's shoe in an Austrian salt mine… …and how the Great Wall of China was damaged by construction workers who tried to create a "shortcut… As well as a number of historic anniversaries, including the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, the founding of Google, and much more.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/durrnberg-salt-mine-shoe credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a teenager, Judith Love Cohen went to a guidance counselor to talk about her future and professed her deep love of math. But the counselor had other advice. She said: “I think you ought to go to a nice finishing school and learn to be a lady.” Instead, Cohen pursued her dreams. She studied engineering at USC and later helped design the program that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. In retirement, Cohen produced books encouraging young girls to follow in her footsteps. Although her son, Jack Black, is certainly the most famous of the family, his mother has a remarkable story all her own. https://allthatsinteresting.com/judith-love-cohen credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the 9/11 attacks, Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative football career to join the U.S. Army. But in 2004, he was tragically killed by the Taliban — or so his family and the American public were led to believe. Several weeks later, the real story finally came out: Tillman had been killed by friendly fire, not the Taliban. As if that weren’t bad enough, the circumstances surrounding his death were highly suspicious. https://allthatsinteresting.com/pat-tillman-death credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about June’s Journey, the hidden-object mystery game available now free for iOS and Android. Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Wilkes Booth hailed from America’s most celebrated theatrical dynasty. At the height of his powers, his father, Junius, ranked as the greatest Shakespearean in the country, and John’s older brothers, Junius and Edwin, also achieved fame. After an unpromising professional debut, John lived up to the family name, rising to stardom. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, however, he eventually left acting and plotted a conspiracy to aid the Confederacy by treasonous means. The Art of Crime is a history podcast about the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts, listen more here: https://www.artofcrimepodcast.com/post/a-family-affair-john-wilkes-booth-pt-i-s2e8 credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the end of August 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… The discovery of a medieval handheld sundial in Germany… …yet another vampire grave uncovered in Poland… …the surprise discovery of a Roman ship by Siberian coal miners… …why historians now believe that Hirota people in Japan intentionally deformed their skulls centuries ago… …how conservation work on an Irish castle revealed a secret room… As well as a number of historic anniversaries, including the shocking death of President Warren G. Harding, the deadly eruption of Krakatoa, and much more. https://allthatsinteresting.com/krakatoa-eruption credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On June 21, 1947, Harold Dahl and his son Charles were gathering logs near the eastern shore of Maury Island, Washington in Puget Sound when Harold suddenly saw something strange in the sky above him. What looked like six, donut-shaped objects were suddenly hovering roughly half a mile above his boat, but before Dahl could even attempt to understand what he was looking at, a barrage of metal debris rained down on him.  The men were flabbergasted by what they had just witnessed, but the story was just getting started, and what happened next may remain the most chilling part of the story. The next day, Harold Dahl claimed that he was visited by a mysterious man in a black suit who was able to describe his experience in eerily accurate detail. The man then told him, “What I have said is proof to you that I know a great deal more about this experience of yours than you will want to believe.” But just who are the Men in Black? While the 1997 Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones film might paint the Men in Black as “galaxy defenders” who stop extraterrestrial threats against Earth, those who claim to have encountered the Men in Black in real life describe them in a much more disturbing way.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/real-men-in-black credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In September 1994, the small rural town of Ruwa, Zimbabwe was forever changed. For several days, people across the region reported seeing mysterious lights in the sky at night, kicking off rumors and speculation about UFO activity in the area. But while these sightings could have been attributed to any number of things, they were just precursors to one of the strangest episodes in recent history.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/ariel-school-phenomenon credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On March 8, 1994, residents living along the shore of Lake Michigan witnessed one of the most widespread UFO sightings in history. Bright, multi-colored orbs appeared over the water and could be seen as far south as the Indiana state line, dancing erratically across the night sky. To this day, the 1994 Lake Michigan UFO Incident remains unexplained. And it's not the first time that something strange and inexplicable has happened over the Great Lakes. https://allthatsinteresting.com/1994-lake-michigan-ufo-incident credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One steamy summer night in August 1955, 11 terrified people suddenly flooded into the police station in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They immediately began blabbering frantically about something that had happened on their farm in the nearby town of Kelly. "We need help,” one man cried to the alarmed yet confused policemen who were working the night shift. “We’ve been fighting them for nearly four hours.” And when the man said "them," he meant aliens — little men who had allegedly landed on their farmhouse in the dead of night, terrifying the group with their glowing eyes, silvery skin, and utter indifference to the bullets that the group began firing at them. And though the police who soon descended on the farm found no evidence of aliens, they did find plenty of shell casings and bullet holes, confirming that the people at the Kelly farmhouse had been convinced that something was lurking in the darkness nearby. Ever since that night, the so-called Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter has held a crucial place in UFO lore, both because the purported alien invasion was witnessed by so many people — people who told eerily similar stories and steadfastly stood by them — and because it helped establish the very idea of "little green men." Steven Spielberg has even cited the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter as an inspiration for both Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. https://allthatsinteresting.com/kelly-hopkinsville-encounter credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the end of July 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… A vase purchased at a thrift store for just $3.30 that turned out to be from Meiji-era artist Namikawa Yasuyuki… An 18,000-year-old shelter that could be the oldest human settlement in North America… The remains of a U.S. soldier from World War II that were finally identified after 80 years… A Norwegian family who found Bronze Age rock paintings while out on a hike… And another Norwegian family who uncovered an ancient Viking burial site in their own backyard, as well as a number of historical anniversaries including the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Boise Bombing Raid, and the tenth anniversary of the Marriage Act in the United Kingdom. https://allthatsinteresting.com/namikawa-yasuyuki-vase credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off Factor, America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On November 9, 1970, the carcass of an eight-ton, 45-foot-long sperm whale washed up on the beach near the small town of Florence, Oregon. For the next several days, the whale sat undisturbed on the shore while its rotting flesh sent a putrid cloud into the air. As local KATU news anchor Paul Linnman said at the time, the Oregon State Highway Department “not only had a whale of a problem on its hands — it had a stinking whale of a problem.” In all, 20 cases of dynamite were used to blow up the whale. Those in attendance watched in awe as the explosion went off and the whale erupted in a blubbery blast – then, the crowd’s fascination immediately turned to horror as massive chunks of flesh started raining down upon them. In the words of newscaster Paul Linnman, “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds.” https://allthatsinteresting.com/exploding-whale credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Head to http://factormeals.com/historyuncovered50 and use code HISTORYUNCOVERED50 to get 50% off. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marathons today follow a simple formula. There's a starting line and a finish line, a crowd of excited and apprehensive racers, and a clear course to follow. But the 1904 Olympic Marathon took some unexpected turns, in more ways than one.  From the moment the starting gun went off a few minutes after three pm on August 30, the race got even wilder. Preceded by horses meant to clear the road, and followed by cars to monitor the race, the runners were instantly choked by swirling, dry dust. This, the heat of the Missouri day, and the lack of water stations along the route made the run a hellish challenge for the 32 runners, just 14 of whom would end up finishing the race. In the end, the course of the 1904 Olympic Marathon would be dubbed, by an observer, “the most difficult a human being was ever asked to run over.” In the days that followed, there was even some serious talk of striking the marathon from the Olympic games for good, as it was referred to as a "man-killing" event. This is the story of perhaps the strangest sporting event in modern history. https://allthatsinteresting.com/1904-olympic-marathon credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Please be advised that this episode contains discussion of sexual abuse of children David Reimer’s parents just wanted to do the right thing for him. What was supposed to be a routine circumcision in 1965 turned into a life-altering nightmare for the Reimer family when the doctor performing his surgery accidentally singed the infant’s penis. The damage was irreparable. Concerned that their son’s injury might cause him mental anguish as an adult, Reimer’s parents consulted with famed sexologist Dr. John Money after seeing him on television. Money consequently suggested that Reimer undergo sex reassignment surgery and instead be raised female. Desperate, Reimer’s parents took his advice and changed their son’s name from “Bruce” to “Brenda.” David Reimer had never felt comfortable as Brenda, and even after he learned the truth and embraced who he truly was, the damage was done, and the story unfortunately ended in tragedy. https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-reimer credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the end of June 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… Traces of a ritualistic drink containing human blood discovered inside a 2,000-year-old Egyptian vase…  …The discovery of a Bronze Age sword in Germany so well-preserved it still gleams… …How one mayor became the most "hated man in France" for authorizing the removal of stones which were, perhaps, 7,000 years old… …The discovery of a "vampire graveyard" with 450 bodies in Poland… …and why researchers in Germany believe they found the long-lost city of Rungholt, known as the "Atlantis of the North Sea"... …as well as a number of historical anniversaries, including the coronation of Anne Boleyn, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and the death of Anthony Bourdain https://allthatsinteresting.com/bronze-age-german-sword credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered16 and use code uncovered16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, there lies a vast labyrinth of underground tunnels that have been sealed shut for almost 15 years. Once a popular attraction for cave explorers and other thrill-seekers, Nutty Putty Cave is, today, only a tomb, the grave of a doomed explorer named John Edward Jones who got trapped inside and died in 2009.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/nutty-putty-cave credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered16 and use code uncovered16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On May 10, 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. And life for Corrie ten Boom, a 48-year-old watchmaker in the Dutch city of Haarlem, would never be the same.  With the help of the Dutch resistance, Corrie and her family constructed a tiny, secret room in Corrie's bedroom, a room they used to offer shelter to neighbors, customers, and anyone else who asked, eventually saving some 800 people from the Nazis. Not only did the ten Boom family offer a "hiding place" and hope of escape, but they also fostered an atmosphere of love, music, and fellowship, providing refugees a sanctuary from the horrors of the war.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/corrie-ten-boom credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered16 and use code uncovered16 for 16 free meals plus free shipping History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices