History Uncovered
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.
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Episode 10 - The Shining Hotel
In October 1974, ascendant horror writer Stephen King and his wife spent a night in a cavernous old hotel at the foot of the Colorado Rockies. With the winter barrage of snow and cold looming, the hotel was about to close for the season, leaving King and...
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Episode 9 - The Death Of Jimi Hendrix
On the morning of September 18, 1970, paramedics arrived at the Samarkand Hotel in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood to find Jimi Hendrix covered in vomit and unresponsive. The apartment door was wide open and nobody else was there. They rushed Hendrix...
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Episode 8 - Ida B. Wells
On August 18, 1920, the ratification of the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote after a century-long struggle. But the win was bittersweet as not all women were now welcome at the polls. Women of color had endured racism within the wo...
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Episode 7 - Candyman
On the night of April 22, 1987, Ruthie Mae McCoy called 911 at about a quarter to nine to report that someone was trying to break into her Chicago apartment through the bathroom mirror. She made two calls to 911 that night, and two neighbors who heard...
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Episode 6 - The USS Indianapolis
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis had just completed a top-secret drop off at Tinian Island in the Philippine Sea. Her crew of 1,195 believed their part in World War II had ended and now they could return home. But just after midnight, they were tor...
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Episode 5 - The Founding Fathers
In this episode, we talk about some of the darkest elements of our otherwise revered Founding Fathers.You’ve likely heard the legends about these men because they were unprecedented in our nation’s history, indeed they founded the nation. They were esse...
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Episode 4 - Plague & Pestilence - Siege of Kaffa
In early 1346, Mongol forces were already three years into their siege of the Crimean port city of Kaffa when their soldiers started coming down with a deadly disease. The sick fell quickly, suffering high fevers and grotesque inflammation, and vomiting ...
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Episode 4 - Plague & Pestilence - The Dancing P...
On July 14, 1518, a woman identified only as Frau Troffea stepped out of her house in Strasbourg, Alsace -- in what is now France -- and started to dance. After many hours, drenched in sweat and twitching, she finally collapsed. Then, a few hours later, ...
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Episode 4 - Plague & Pestilence - Operation Che...
In the spring of 1945, as the Allies approached victory over the Axis powers, Japan considered launching a terrifying attack on the U.S. mainland. Though the plan’s codename, "Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night," sounded perfectly innocent, the plot was ...
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Episode 4 - Plague & Pestilence - The Carancas ...
On September 15, 2007, villagers in the remote Peruvian town of Carancas saw a glowing fireball soar toward Earth — then felt the meteorite crash into the ground. Not only was the meteorite able to reach Earth without burning up in our atmosphere — but ...
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Episode 3 - The Lost Franklin Expedition
In 1845, two ships carrying 134 men set sail from England in order to explore an unnavigated stretch of the arctic waters between Canada and Greenland in search of the long sought after Northwest Passage. They would never return again.https://allthatsin...
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Episode 2 - The Dyatlov Pass Incident
In January of 1959, nine Soviet college students died under mysterious circumstances while hiking through the Ural Mountains in what's now known as the Dyatlov Pass incident.https://allthatsinteresting.com/dyatlov-pass-incidentIntro music taken from:U...
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Episode 1 - The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
On June 22, 1983, 15-year-old Vatican resident Emanuela Orlandi went missing and was never heard from again. Her disappearance has been linked to the Pope, Turkish insurrectionists, Italian mobsters, and even a potential covert Satanic orgy ring.Read mo...
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