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!

A plane crashes in the Himalayans and the two pilots, both with bad ankles, have no choice but to attempt to hike back to civilization.

Sliced bread is banned, popcorn in theaters may be banned, women using fly swatters to lose weight, and more!

Eddie Alterman talks about the military background of the Jeep and its lasting popularity in America.

In 1915, Henry Ford sought to end WWI by chartering a ship and sailing with many of the prominent peace activists of the day to Europe.

Arbor Day is 150 years old! Learn the origins of the day, plus how one small upstate New York town continues the annual celebration.

A woman dumps her fiancé at the altar to marry the minister, a jealous husband who used rattlesnakes to keep men away from his wife, and more!

It’s hard to believe, but when the first words were spoken on radio, it was dismissed as a novelty. It seems as if everyone thought that Morse code was the future. Everyone except for Reginald Fessenden.

In 1953, a paperboy discovered a nickel coin that led to the arrest of a high-ranking Soviet spy.

A live baby is auctioned off, a carnival knife thrower accidentally hits his human target, a dog warden with an unusual approach to keeping thieves out of the pound, and much more!

In 1936, Eddie Cantor asked his radio listeners to write essays describing how the United States could avoid war. With no set contest rules, something would go very wrong.

A man falls out of a window and is saved by a flagpole, seven tonsillectomies done in an assembly line fashion, and more!

The true story of Hollywood actress Edna Kirby who lived in a glass house for the better part of 25 years.

We review the classic movie "Sunset Boulevard." Directed by Billy Wilder, this movie tells the story of a struggling screenwriter who gets into a dangerous relationship with a faded Hollywood actress who dreams of a big comeback.

Christmas episode! A reindeer that bit a boy’s finger, a lawsuit over the world’s largest Christmas stocking, the first Christmas film ever made, and much more!

Tom McGee wanted nothing more for Christmas than to be able to spend time caring for his hogs. The only catch was that he needed to commit a crime and hope that a judge would sentence him to time on one of Georgia’s infamous chain gangs.

In this episode: A proud father who kidnapped his newborn daughter, a mother jailed for cooking a woodpecker, Einstein gives a student incorrect math advice, a snake that joined a woman in the bathtub, and much more!