Nightmare In The National Forest
A warning before you press play: this episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and what was done to several victims, including after death.In early January 2008, police searching a dumpster a...
9 Sep 51min
The 1950's
Everybody carries a version of the 1950s around in their head, and the strange thing is that a surprising amount of it is true. For millions of American families, one paycheck really could support a h...
6 Sep 56min
The Merchants Of Death
On the evening of January 17, 1961, with just three days left in his presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a 16-minute farewell address containing one warning that would outlive nearly everything...
4 Sep 1h 19min
Happy Accidents
Everyone knows the voice, the perm, and the happy little trees. Far fewer people know what happened to Bob Ross’s name after the cameras stopped rolling.In this episode, we trace the remarkable and de...
2 Sep 1h 2min
Three Mile Island Meltdown
On March 28, 1979, at 4:00 a.m., a relief valve at Three Mile Island opened as designed—and then failed to close. For more than two hours, operators believed it had shut because the control-room indic...
30 Aug 1h 33min
The "True Story" Of The Mayan Calendar
On July 12, 1562, in the Yucatán town of Maní, Franciscan friar Diego de Landa ordered Maya books, sacred objects, and religious images gathered in front of the church and burned. The destruction came...
28 Aug 1h 5min
The Challenger Disaster
On the night of January 27, 1986, a Morton Thiokol engineer named Allan McDonald refused to sign a document saying it was safe to launch the space shuttle Challenger the next morning.The engineers who...
26 Aug 1h 1min
The Silver Bridge Collapse
On December 15, 1967, ten days before Christmas, the Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant, West Virginia collapsed into the Ohio River during rush hour, killing 46 people. Federal investigators traced the ...
23 Aug 1h
