History Uncovered

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

As one of the most prolific snipers of the Vietnam War, Chuck Mawhinney was a lethal sharpshooter who racked up the most confirmed kills in the history of the United States Marine Corps and the second-most confirmed kills of any American soldier in the country’s history. In one incident alone, Mawhinney had 16 confirmed kills in a mere 30 seconds — all of them headshots. But when the war ended, Chuck Mawhinney simply retired from the Marine Corps and spent his days working in the U.S. Forest Service, telling no one — not even his wife — about his career in Vietnam. This is the amazing true story of Chuck Mawhinney, the legendary sniper who was as deadly as he was humble. https://allthatsinteresting.com/chuck-mawhinney 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

It’s the end of May 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about… The 98-year-old Frenchmen who revealed the secret massacre of German POWs during WWII… …the 7,000-year-old tomb discovered by archaeologists in Oman… …how an Italian historian claims to have identified a bridge in the Mona Lisa… …the stone age dagger discovered by an eight-year-old in Norway… …why severed hands may have been seen as spoils of war in ancient Egypt… …as well as a number of historical anniversaries, including the first reported Loch Ness Monster sighting, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the first men to scale Mount Everest https://allthatsinteresting.com/tell-el-daba-severed-hands 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

Over the past five episodes, we’ve taken a close look at the tragedy of the RMS Titanic, from its construction to its destruction, and the stories of the crew members and passengers on board in those final, fateful days. And though the journey of the Titanic itself came to an end over one hundred years ago, on April 15, 1912, its story did not. https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-titanic 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

Soon after the Carpathia's dramatic rescue of the survivors, the world began to hear about the Titanic for the first time. Thousands of people awaited the ship's arrival in New York, hoping for good news about their loved ones, and millions around the world listened with shock and fascination as stories poured in out about both the heroism and tragedy in the ship's final moments. From the rescue to the media frenzy to the contentious inquest, the events that unfolded after the Titanic sank are some of the doomed ship's most dramatic and poignant. https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-titanic credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off 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

The Titanic was infamously touted as the “unsinkable” ship, a title that unfortunately came to be bitterly ironic. But in the wake of its sinking, that title came to be associated not with the ship itself, but with one of its most famous passengers: The Unsinkable Molly Brown.  And Molly Brown was just one of the passengers on the Titanic who proved, in the face of unimaginable dread, to be a hero – a designation she shares with people like second officer Charles Lightoller, first-class passenger Noël Leslie, head chef Charles Joughin, first-class passenger Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, head engineer Joseph Bell, telegraphist Jack Phillips, first-class passenger Lucille Carter, and even the members of the Titanic’s band, who famously played on till the bitter end.  Today, we’ll be taking a closer look at their stories and the moments of unfathomable bravery that unfolded in the ship’s final, harrowing hours. https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-titanic credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off 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

In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, as word began to spread that something had happened to the Titanic during its maiden voyage, the White Star Line released a reassuring statement. "While we are not in direct communication with the Titanic," the company's New York-based vice president P.A.S. Franklin told the press, "we are perfectly satisfied that the ship is unsinkable." By that point, the ship was already at the bottom of the sea. https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-titanic credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A special episode from our friends at History Daily about the biggest diamond heist in history, as well as a spy exchange at the height of the cold war. Link to History Daily: https://podfollow.com/history-daily Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily. credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave 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 talking about: How scientists found a never before seen chapter in the Bible. How the discovery of a 6000 year old hook in Israel, suggests that ancient people hunted sharks. Why experts are warning that mummies in Mexico, City could be spreading ancient fungus. New evidence that suggests ancient people used psychedelic drugs 3,000 years ago. A study that claims humans once ate giant snails as large as a human hand. As well as a number of historical anniversaries, including the discovery of LSD, the sinking of the Titanic and much more. https://allthatsinteresting.com/guanajuato-mummy-fungus credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 11:39 p.m., just before his shift was to end, Frederick Fleet suddenly saw a large mass emerge directly in front of the ship. In a panic, he rang the bell three times and telephoned the bridge. Sixth officer James Paul Moody immediately picked up the phone and answered with, “What did you see?” Fleet replied, “Iceberg, right ahead!” https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-titanic credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One summer evening in 1907, two men came together to discuss an idea that they hoped would change the world — or at least the world of maritime travel. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line, and Lord William Pirrie, chairman of the shipyard Harland and Wolff, hatched a plan to build several gargantuan ships unlike anything the world had ever seen before. https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-titanic credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Along the border of Northern Mexico and Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, there are whispers of a creature known as La Lechuza, a seven-foot owl with a woman’s face whose cries can be heard at night, enticing victims to wander into her clutches. In some tellings, the Lechuza was once a human woman, but an act of cruelty committed against her or her child turned her into a vengeful monster. In others, the Lechuza is a witch’s familiar, serving her mistress’ will by abducting children, or perhaps she is a servant of Satan himself, one who feeds on the negative emotions of the humans who have the misfortune of encountering her. In every version of the legend, though, one thing is certain — seeing a Lechuza is a bad omen, and not one to be taken lightly. https://allthatsinteresting.com/la-lechuza credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Thanks HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/uncovered60 and use code uncovered60 for 60% off plus free shipping! Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave 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 2023 and we've handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today. We'll talk about The death of the last member of the Nazi resistance group, White Rose How a metal detectorist stumbled upon the oldest known mention of the god Odin. The discovery of a Roman shrine high up in the Swiss Alps. A new study about the genetic differences found in the dogs of Chernobyl. The discovery of a new Malai statue on Easter Island. As well as the number of historical anniversaries for March, including the first televised Academy Awards, the very mysterious death of Josef Stalin, and more. https://allthatsinteresting.com/joseph-stalin-death credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More than 50 years after the Isdal Woman's charred body was found in Norway’s “Ice Valley,” the authorities still don’t know who she was or how she died. https://allthatsinteresting.com/isdal-woman credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Floyd Collins was an experienced cave explorer. A participant in what became known as Kentucky’s “Cave Wars,” Collins made several notable discoveries, including the Great Crystal Cave. But that’s not why the story of Floyd Collins — or Floyd Collins’ body — is remembered today. https://allthatsinteresting.com/floyd-collins credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

History Uncovered is brought to you by the digital publisher All That’s Interesting, where we explore all things weird and bizarre in the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop thinking about. Dive deeper into these stories on All That's Interesting. https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the end of February 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about: The Death of Solomon Perel, who as a young Jewish boy during World War II joined the Hitler Youth to avoid being killed by the Nazis The discovery of encrypted letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was in prison A new study that examined Impressionist paintings and found they may have depicted air pollution The discovery of a pendant belonging to the first wife of King Henry VIII As well as a number of monumental historic anniversaries including the 110th birthday of Rosa Parks and the 100th anniversary of the opening of King Tut’s Tomb. And we'll also discuss some incredible stories from Black history that we published in February, including Solomon Northrup and the 54th Massachusetts regiment https://allthatsinteresting.com/today-in-history/february-26 credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are often seen to be as serious and solemn as their carved faces on Mount Rushmore suggest. But though both presidents presided over important eras in American history, each had another side that the history books often skip over. https://allthatsinteresting.com/abraham-lincoln-facts https://allthatsinteresting.com/george-washington-facts credits: allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On December 7, 1941, Navy sailor Doris Miller was below deck on the USS West Virginia, sorting laundry, when he heard the ship's general alarm suddenly go off. Though Miller was a Black man, and thus relegated to being a mess attendant and cook, he leaped into action as Japanese planes roared above the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. That day, the ship's mess attendant would become one of its heroes. https://allthatsinteresting.com/doris-miller credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A young child goes missing, the whole country starts looking for him, and eventually, the family gets him back, only to realize that he wasn’t their kid after all. While it may sound like something out of The Twilight Zone, this was an actual mystery that unfolded in Louisiana starting in 1912: the eerie case of Bobby Dunbar. https://allthatsinteresting.com/bobby-dunbar 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 1960s, Michael Rockefeller vanished somewhere off the coast of Papua New Guinea. His disappearance shocked the nation and prompted a manhunt of historic proportions. Years later, the true fate of the heir to the Standard Oil fortune has been uncovered — and it’s more disturbing than anyone at the time imagined. https://allthatsinteresting.com/michael-rockefeller 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 December, countless children around the world excitedly await the arrival of Santa Claus. If they've been well-behaved, he'll reward them with gifts left in stockings or under the tree. If they've misbehaved, he might gently scold them with a lump of coal. But it's a slightly different story for children in places like Austria, where their version of Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, is accompanied by a terrifying assistant named Krampus who will punish naughty children in ways that go far beyond giving them coal.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/krampus credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2022, All That's Interesting published more than 300 news stories covering stunning archaeological discoveries, shocking crimes, strange animals, and scientific breakthroughs. But of everything we published this year, certain stories stood out to us, the people who wrote them. And today, we're going to dig into our favorite news stories of the year, from the kangaroos that overran an Australian town to the discovery of the Oregon shipwreck that might have inspired Goonies — and many more. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tag/news credits: allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For centuries both before and after Europeans began colonizing the New World, countless Native American warriors did battle with settlers and each other as they defended their land, forged their tribes, and shaped the history of their continent. And while some of their names remain well known to this day, many of their stories have been all but lost to time.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/native-american-warriors credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Out of all the atrocities that Imperial Japan unleashed upon the Chinese people during their brutal occupation, probably none were as gratuitously hateful as the operations of Unit 731, the Japanese biological warfare unit that somehow plumbed new depths in what was already a genocidal war. Despite innocent beginnings as a research and public health agency, Unit 731 eventually grew into an assembly line for weaponized diseases that, if fully deployed, could have killed everyone on Earth several times over. All this “progress” was, of course, built on the limitless suffering of human captives, who were held as test subjects and walking disease incubators until Unit 731 was shut down at the end of the war. Led by Surgeon General Shiro Ishii, Unit 731 began its experiments in earnest after Japan invaded China in 1937 and started using the country’s civilian population as their guinea pigs — but it wasn’t until much later that the true horrors of Unit 731’s experiments would come to light. From dissecting captives while they were still alive to giving them syphilis and watching them slowly deteriorate, Unit 731’s experiments stand out as some of the most gruesome in human history. https://allthatsinteresting.com/unit-731 credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. burst through the front door of Henry’s Bar in Amityville, New York, screaming hysterically for help — because his family had been murdered. His friends from the bar followed him back to his house at 112 Ocean Avenue where they saw the bloody aftermath. Five members of the DeFeo household lay dead in their beds, still wearing their pajamas and totally covered in blood. Each of them had been shot at close range in their sleep. And the story only became more shocking the next day when none other than Ronald DeFeo Jr. himself confessed that he was the one who had committed these heinous murders — and when he eventually claimed that he’d heard demonic voices that told him to do it. But the night that Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his family was only the beginning of the terrors that plagued what came to be known as the “Amityville Horror House” after the family who moved in afterward claimed that the home was haunted. And though that story has since been made into several movies and remains well-known to this day, the true story about what happened isn’t what you might think. https://allthatsinteresting.com/amityville-murders credits: allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Almost everyone has heard the urban legend of Bloody Mary. As the story goes, this ghastly, murderous spirit can be summoned through your mirror if you stand in the bathroom, turn off the lights, and repeat her name aloud. Some versions of the story claim that she'll drive her summoner insane — while others state that she'll kill or maim them. Ever since this urban legend was first documented in the 1970s, it’s shown incredible staying power. For decades, children across the world have reported hearing the tale — with different variations — and enacting the ritual themselves. Some even claim to have actually seen Bloody Mary in the mirror. But how did this creepy story start? Though its exact origins are unknown, there are several real women throughout history who've been linked with this terrifying ghost. They include Mary Worth, an alleged witch who was burned at the stake in the 17th or maybe 19th century, Elizabeth Bathory, a 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman who allegedly killed and tortured hundreds of women and girls, and even the English queen Mary I, who earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" for burning hundreds of Protestants alive in the mid-1500s. Wherever and however this unsettling urban legend began, it remains one of the world’s most widely-known ghost stories to this day. Now, let’s explore the legend itself, its murky origins, and the women who just might be the real-life Bloody Mary. https://allthatsinteresting.com/bloody-mary credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In July 1947, something crashed on the Foster Ranch in New Mexico. What that object was, what the government said it was, and what the public thought it could be has created a near-mythical confusion that has lasted ever since. https://allthatsinteresting.com/roswell-incident credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just three minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11, passenger Brian Sweeney left a final message to his wife Julie. https://allthatsinteresting.com/brian-sweeney credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Marilyn Monroe died on August 4, 1962, it was to many as if one of the world's brightest lights had suddenly been snuffed out forever. To this day, the true cause of Marilyn Monroe's death remains controversial and a number of disturbing theories have proliferated over the years, with many claiming foul play perpetrated by everyone from the Mafia to her ex-lovers John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. But where does the truth lie? This is the story of Marilyn Monroe's death, from her bizarre final hours to the mystery that's lingered ever since https://allthatsinteresting.com/marilyn-monroe-death credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hours before her disappearance, Maura Murray packed up her dorm, withdrew $280, and bought an assortment of alcohol. She then crashed her car — and was never seen again. https://allthatsinteresting.com/maura-murray credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's plenty about the American presidency that’s dignified and elegant. Presidents enjoy a home at the White House, frequent visits from world leaders, opulent state dinners, and more. They’re hardly ever seen with a single hair out of place and the words they deliver to the nation are polished by professionals down to the last detail. But the president is, at the end of the day, just a human being. And their lives – both the lives they lead in private while serving as president and the lives they led before getting elected – are often far stranger and more fascinating than the prestige of their hallowed office suggests.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/us-presidents-facts   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To his family and neighbors in suburban New Jersey, Richard Kuklinski was an all-American husband. To the Mafia and his victims, he was an unscrupulous hitman known as the "Iceman killer." https://allthatsinteresting.com/richard-kuklinski credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s hard to believe that a man as monstrous as Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people during the Holocaust and World War II, was born to a mother and a father just like everyone else, that he grew up surrounded by a loving family, and that he had siblings and cousins and nephews as so many of us do.  Likewise, it's hard to stomach the idea that Hitler has descendants who’ve lived on long after his own demise in 1945, that there are embodiments of his legacy still walking the Earth today – and yet that’s all too true as well. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hitlers-descendants credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When The Godfather premiered in 1972, its depiction of the American Mafia both stunned and fascinated audiences who’d never seen anything quite like it ever before. A commercial and critical smash, the film went on to win three Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Marlon Brando, who played the film's iconic mob boss, Don Vito Corleone. But what most audiences probably didn’t realize at the time was that Don Corleone was much more than just a fictional creation.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/frank-costello credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most people have seen Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs, all of them classics within the horror genre, anchored by some of the scariest villains in movie history. But what many don't know is that the terrifying killers depicted in all three of these iconic films were actually inspired by the same real-life murderer: Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield.    When police entered his home in Plainfield, Wisconsin on November 16, 1957, following the disappearance of a local woman, they had no idea they were walking straight into a house of horrors unlike almost anything else in history. Not only did they find the woman they were looking for — dead, decapitated, and hung from her ankles — but also a number of gruesome, stomach-churning objects, including a chair upholstered with human skin, and a window shade string fashioned out of human lips.    What the police would soon learn is that Ed Gein had spent the last decade collecting human bodies — some belonging to those he’d killed himself — to use for his many twisted purposes. The main purpose, as he unashamedly explained to investigators, was simple: he wanted to create a suit out of human skin, which Ed could use to reconstruct his deceased mother.    And that was just the tip of the iceberg. This is the story of Ed Gein, perhaps the most horrifying serial killer in American history.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/ed-gein credits: allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Navajo lore, there's one creature so terrifying that the Navajo themselves rarely dare to even utter its name. That creature is the skinwalker, also called yee naaldlooshii, or ‘with it, he goes on all fours,' and it’s perhaps the most bone-chilling monster in the entirety of Native American mythology.    However, the skinwalkers actually aren’t monsters at all — they're people, often former healers or medicine men who have crossed over into darkness. Able to transform into animals and wear their skins, skinwalkers are said to be pure evil, capable of spreading disease, disaster, and death.    But what’s scariest about these supernatural creatures is that they’re not merely confined to legend. Many witnesses have claimed to see skinwalkers and their glowing red eyes in real life. There's even a hotbed of activity in Utah called Skinwalker Ranch, where some have reported unsettling encounters in the depth of night…   This is the legend of the skinwalker, the elusive, violent creature that the Navajo won’t even mention — lest they conjure it straight to their door.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/skinwalker   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In June 1969, Dennis Lloyd Martin walked off to play a prank on his dad and never returned, sparking the largest search effort in the history of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.   https://allthatsinteresting.com/dennis-martin   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael and Kristine Barnett of Indiana claim that their adopted daughter Natalia Grace is really a psychotic adult dwarf who tried to kill them — but where does the truth lie?   https://allthatsinteresting.com/natalia-barnett   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Feral Child" Genie Wiley was strapped to a chair by her parents and neglected for 13 years, giving researchers a rare chance to study human development. The story of Genie Wiley the Feral Child sounds like the stuff of fairytales: An unwanted, mistreated child survives brutal imprisonment at the hands of a savage ogre and is rediscovered and reintroduced to the world in an impossibly youthful state. Unfortunately for Wiley, hers is a dark, real-life tale with no happy ending. There would be no fairy godmothers, no magic solutions, and no enchanted transformations. https://allthatsinteresting.com/genie-wiley-feral-child credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a Saturday in February in 1867, a group of hunters in the Bulandshahr district of India came across a shocking sight. After they tracked a lone wolf to a cave in the jungle, they peered inside and saw the last thing they’d ever expect to find: a six-year-old human boy, alive and well, living with the wolves.  Though Sanichar led a strange and short life, forever trapped at the dividing line between human society and the animal kingdom, his legacy lives on. In fact, he's allegedly the inspiration for Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's novel The Jungle Book, which was later adapted into a beloved Disney film.  But the true story of Dina Sanichar is nowhere near as innocent, charming, or joyful as the Disney version might have us believe.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/dina-sanichar credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the summer of 2021, Indigenous people across Canada started visiting the sites of former Indian Residential Schools. With ground-penetrating radar devices in hand, they slowly swept the earth, hoping, with heavy hearts, to confirm a long-held rumor about the untold numbers of Indigenous children who had vanished while enrolled in these facilities.  Although these recent discoveries in Canada have forced a political reckoning there, the United States is only just beginning to grapple with its own history of Indian Boarding Schools. Starting in the 19th century, the US opened hundreds of schools with the explicit mission... to "Kill the Indian, Save the Man."  https://allthatsinteresting.com/residential-schools-in-canada   podcast credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1995, Disney released Pocahontas, a film about a doomed whirlwind romance between a Native American woman, Pocahontas, and an English colonist, John Smith. But although both Pocahontas and John Smith were real people, the film takes some definite liberties with the facts of Pocahontas's life.  Though she is best known as a Disney character today, the real-life story of Pocahontas is even more captivating than what appeared in the film.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/pocahontas-myths-documentary https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Between 1764 and 1767, something evil stalked the quiet hills of Gévaudan, France. The so-called Bête du Gévaudan, or Beast of Gévaudan, attacked hundreds of people, often tearing out their throats. No one knew what it was — or how to stop it. https://allthatsinteresting.com/beast-of-gevaudan podcast credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Dec. 1, 1948, beachgoers came across a dead man on Australia’s Somerton beach. Well-dressed, and with no signs of trauma, his identity and cause of death eluded local police. Soon, investigators dubbed him the “Somerton Man.” It looked as though he’d simply laid down for a rest and died peacefully in his sleep. But when police arrived and began examining the body, a baffling and disturbing mystery began to take shape.  The man had no obvious signs of trauma; someone had cut all the tags out of his clothing, and, most puzzling of all, he had a tiny slip of paper sewn into a hidden pocket in his trousers, which simply read "Tamam Shud.” The phrase, mystifying to investigators at first, is Persian for "it is finished” and the slip of paper was torn from a rare edition of poems by the 12th-century writer Omar Khayyam. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the morning of February 4, 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt stepped out onto the edge of the Eiffel Tower. He paused there for about 40 seconds as if he was gathering his courage. Then, he threw himself into the air.    He didn't intend to die — this wasn't an Eiffel Tower suicide attempt. Instead, Franz Reichelt had set out to prove that his prized invention, a bizarre parachute suit, could deliver him safely to the ground.    https://allthatsinteresting.com/franz-reichelt   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1840s, waves upon waves of Americans headed west to forge a new life. Many of these stories had happy endings while some suffered great tragedy -- but then there was the infamous Donner Party. To this day, nearly 200 years later, their torturous journey and especially their desperate turn toward cannibalism cast a haunting shadow over American history.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/donner-party   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After he was last seen being blown away by gale-force winds in Mount Everest's "Death Zone," Beck Weathers' wife was notified that her husband was dead. What happened next was nothing short of a miracle: Beck Weathers climbed down Everest on two frozen feet and somehow lived after having his hands, feet, and nose amputated. https://allthatsinteresting.com/beck-weathers   https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2005, The Exorcism of Emily Rose terrified movie audiences around the world as it depicted the aftermath of a fatal exorcism and posed lingering questions about whether or not the character of 19-year-old Emily Rose had truly been possessed by the devil.  But as unbelievably chilling as the movie’s central story was, it had not actually been invented by some Hollywood screenwriter. In fact, it was based on the horrifying true story of a real exorcism that took place in Germany in the 1970s.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/anneliese-michel-exorcism   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On July 23, 2011, British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead inside her London home. Just 27 years old, she joined the tragic club of other music icons, like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain, who had died tragically at that same young age.  To some, Winehouse’s death seemed like a terrible yet predictable end to a long, public downfall. Right in front of the world’s eyes, Winehouse’s frame had grown skeletal and her behavior erratic. Rumors swirled about her drug addiction, her heavy drinking, and her volatile relationship with her then ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.  This is the story of Amy Winehouse’s tragic death and the downward spiral that preceded it.    https://allthatsinteresting.com/amy-winehouse-death   podcast credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometime in the early morning hours of July 3, 1971, Jim Morrison — the iconic lead singer of The Doors — died of heart failure at the age of just 27. He was found by his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, unconscious in the bathtub of their Paris apartment.    The questions surrounding his death have endured for half a century — did Morrison truly die of heart failure, as the official reports said, or was it a heroin overdose, or perhaps something else altogether?    In recent years, new witnesses have come forward to challenge the official account of Jim Morrison’s death. They tell quite a different story, one that might finally rewrite the history of this doomed rock star’s untimely demise.    https://allthatsinteresting.com/jim-morrison-death   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 13, 2017, started as a surprisingly warm winter day in the small town of Delphi, Indiana. But the events of this one day would, in an instant, shatter a sense of calm and safety that its few thousand citizens had always enjoyed. That afternoon, 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German were out for a walk in the woods when they simply disappeared.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/delphi-murders credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second half of the 19th century, in a lawless stretch of land in present-day Oklahoma known as Indian Territory, the name “Bass Reeves” struck terror into the heart of any criminal who was on the run. A deputy U.S. marshal with a quick trigger and a reputation for both doggedness and creativity in chasing down outlaws, Reeves was perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West. But Reeves — unlike most lawmen of his day — was Black.    https://allthatsinteresting.com/bass-reeves   credits: allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On April 13, 2011, Holly Bobo disappeared into the woods behind her family's home in Tennessee, leaving investigators with few clues or leads. Bobo’s disappearance rattled her small community of Darden, Tennessee. But despite having an eyewitness who’d seen her being abducted, authorities struggled to develop any leads. For years, the Bobo family had nothing but a handful of disturbing clues, as well as wrenching questions about the fate of their daughter.  By the time a pair of ginseng hunters finally found Holly’s bones in the woods nearby, several men had been arrested for kidnapping, raping, and killing her.    https://allthatsinteresting.com/holly-bobo   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On October 26, 1881, a group of nine outlaws and lawmen gathered in a narrow alleyway in Tombstone, Arizona. Their showdown was the result of long-simmering tensions that had been building between these two groups — tensions about good and evil, right and wrong, and the future of the American Frontier.   https://allthatsinteresting.com/gunfight-at-the-ok-corral credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla passed away at the age of 86 from coronary thrombosis. He died alone, and in debt, at a cheap hotel in New York City. His body was only found when a hotel maid ignored the “do not disturb” sign on his door and decided to enter his room after two days of no activity from within. It was an inglorious end to a remarkable life. Listen to learn more about the rise and fall of Nikola Tesla, the groundbreaking inventor determined to unlock the full potential of electricity. https://allthatsinteresting.com/nikola-tesla credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, an aerialist named Maud Wagner struck a deal with a tattoo artist. She would go on a date with him — if he taught her how to tattoo. Thus began the two most important love affairs of Wagner’s life: the tattoo artist and tattoos themselves. Proudly adorned with hundreds of tattoos, renowned circus performer Maud Wagner was unlike most women in early 1900s America. In an era when women couldn't vote and had little say in their own fate, Wagner proudly took control of her body by decorating it with hundreds of tattoos, ranging from animals to military iconography to her own name displayed on her arm. At the height of her fame in the years before World War I, Wagner would earn the equivalent of about $2,000 per exhibition just to show off these tattoos to awestruck crowds — and then give tattoos to those who wanted them.  This is the wild, heroic tale of Maud Wagner, the first known female tattoo artist in American history.   https://allthatsinteresting.com/maud-wagner   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On March 12th 2021, History Uncovered went live on Facebook to discuss the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley. Listen to episode 18 for more of the backstory, and make sure to follow us on Facebook book to catch our next Facebook live discussion.   https://www.facebook.com/HistoryUncovered   https://allthatsinteresting.com/amy-lynn-bradley   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley disappeared— a Royal Caribbean cruise ship en route to the island of Curacao. The easiest explanation is that Bradley fell overboard and vanished beneath the ocean waves. But Bradley was a strong swimmer. She was a trained lifeguard. The ship was not far from shore. And there was no evidence that she’d fallen into the water.  Bradley’s disappearance seems much more sinister than a case of someone accidentally lost at sea. Ever since Bradley vanished, there has been a string of odd sightings of her -- or at least a woman who looks just like her, right down to her unique tattoos. In 2005, someone even sent her family a gut-wrenching photograph that suggested she had been trafficked into sexual slavery.  But even after more than 20 years, chilling clues like these have given us few real answers, and we’re no closer to solving this baffling mystery than we were in 1998…   https://allthatsinteresting.com/amy-lynn-bradley   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On February 19th, 2013, the naked corpse of a young woman was found floating in the water tank atop downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel. The hotel’s maintenance workers had gone to check on the rooftop tank after guests complained that their water tasted funny. It was then that they found the severely waterlogged and decomposing body of 21-year-old Elisa Lam.  https://allthatsinteresting.com/elisa-lam-death   credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices