With the recent passing of FBI cryptanalyst Marvin Lautzenheiser, History Daily tells the exciting story of aka Rudolf Abel and his Cold War spy swap with US pilot Gary Powers.

A wealthy Detroit man suspects that he is not the father of his son. He then learns that his wife isn't the mother. Just whose baby was it?

A special look at advice columns and how they have evolved over time.

Frasier was a decrepit old circus lion who proved that it was better to be a lover than a fighter.

A train derails and then jumps back on track, a man who owned the universe, a bet in which the loser would eat 1 million peas, and much more!

In 1923, Kathleen Morrell was arrested by Chicago police for having 5 children out of wedlock.

A man who recorded the location of buried treasure, a girl who swallowed 200 rocks, a color-blind plumber, the history of McDonald’s Big Mac, and much more!

Ouch!!! The ghastly true story of Bertha Boronda who, in 1907, took a straight razor and sliced off her husband Frank’s penis.

In honor of the month of love (Valentine's Day!), unusual true stories about love, marriage, and relationships.

A man claims his wife snores in Morse code, the AMA recommends those over 40 not do the Twist, and more!

In 1947, Newburyport, MA came up with a plan to fight runaway inflation. Did it work?

10 long-forgotten true stories from Christmas past!

A review of the 1947 classic Christmas movie "The Bishop’s Wife," starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven.

Author Pamela McColl discusses the history of the classic poem Twas the Night Before Christmas.

Marvin Lautzenheiser discusses leaving the FBI, modeling nuclear wars, his patents, and his theater organ.

FBI cryptanalyst Marvin Lautzenheiser discusses how his team finally cracked the Hollow Nickel message and much more.

Hollow Nickel cryptanalyst Marvin Lautzenheiser discusses going from a machinist to standing in J. Edgar Hoover's office in one year.

The long-forgotten story of a major battle that took place over Los Angeles a few months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Find out what else was happening around the world on November 22, 1963, the day that President Kennedy was assassinated.

A review of the 1944 movie Gaslight, from which the term gaslighting originated.

Russell Sage was once one of the world's wealthiest men. When he passed away in 1906, his wife Olivia gave away nearly every penny to the causes that Sage despised.

Tim Harford cohosts. A man elopes with another man’s wife and blames it on the cake, a dead woman sits up in her coffin, and much more!

In 1941, the Plainfield Teachers football team was unstoppable. That was until a shocking team secret was revealed and their storybook season was brought to a grinding halt.

A man speaks an unknown language, a boy’s head is stuck in a toilet seat, a woman slips on a bar of soap and goes flying, and much more!