Mysteries and Histories

In 1814 a large brewery in the middle of London suffered an exploding vat of beer and although to some this might sound like a dream, the real story was tragic. Let's learn about it...

28 Jan 202217min

Today's story is more of a conversation starter than my usual mystery. In the 1960's, Ruth Ellis was convicted of the murder of David Blakely and was subsequently ordered to hang. The British public w...

21 Jan 202240min

This week we're taking a look at the Dane County Chimney Doe, a skeleton found in a chimney in Madison, Wisconsin in 1989 that still remains unidentified. This is a Doe case that's proving particularl...

14 Jan 202224min

This week we're travelling back in time to the early 10th century, when Theodosia Burr, the only surviving daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr, boarded a ship to New York only for it to never arrive...

7 Jan 202225min

Two days before Christmas in 1974, three girls went to do some last minute Christmas shopping at their local mall in Fort Worth, Texas, but they never came home. The next day a mysterious letter arriv...

31 Des 202131min

This week we're taking a look at a historical story, with the invention of vaccines by a man called Edward Jenner to put an end to 'the scourge of the earth' (as he put it) smallpox - because apparent...

24 Des 202124min

This week we're taking a look at a small, unknown case from the sleepy village of Eversley in Hampshire. Jacqueline Palmer-Radford was found murdered in her own kitchen in 1992, and despite some inter...

17 Des 202118min

This week we're going back to the 1970s to take a look at the case of Margaret Ellen Fox, a 14 year old who disappeared from New Jersey after going to meet a man called John Marshall about a babysitti...

10 Des 202119min