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Back to SearchThe Miracle Mineral — They Knew It Was Killing Workers. They Sold It Anyway.
Episode 14
There is a mineral so useful that humans wove it into fabric for 4,000 years. Fireproof, heatproof, cheap to mine. By the 20th century, it was in eve…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Farmer's Footprints — Footprints Led In. None Led Out. Six People Died.
Episode 13
A farmer in rural Bavaria found footprints in the snow leading to his farmhouse — but none leading back. Days later, all six people on the farm were …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Farmer's Footprints — Footprints Led In. None Led Out. Six People Died.
Episode 13
A farmer in rural Bavaria found footprints in the snow leading to his farmhouse — but none leading back. Days later, all six people on the farm were …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Great Train Robbery — A Monopoly Board Brought Down Britain's Biggest Heist | The Unlit Room
Episode 12
In August 1963, fifteen men stopped a Royal Mail train in the middle of the English countryside and walked away with £2.6 million — the biggest robbe…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Icepick Lobotomist — The Nobel Prize That Was Never Revoked | The Unlit Room
Episode 11
In 1949, a neurologist won the Nobel Prize for inventing a procedure in which a modified ice pick was driven through a patient's eye socket. By the t…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Axeman of New Orleans — The Night a City Played Jazz for a Killer | The Unlit Room
Episode 10
In 1918, someone began breaking into homes in New Orleans using nothing but a chisel — then attacking people with their own axes. The killer never st…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Night the Air Turned to Poison
Episode 9
In December 1984, a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaked methyl isocyanate gas into the sleeping city. Over 500,000 people were exposed in a singl…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Heads on the Pillows — The Only Escape From Alcatraz
Episode 8
At 7:18 AM on June 12, 1962, a guard at Alcatraz reached into a cell to wake Frank Morris. The head on the pillow rolled off the bed and bounced on t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Logs: Inside Unit 731
Episode 7
Between 1933 and 1945, a secret Japanese military facility processed thousands of prisoners — men, women, children — calling them 'logs.' The experim…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Mountain of the Dead — The Dyatlov Pass Mystery
Episode 6
Nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their tent in the middle of the night, in −40° weather, and walked calmly into the darkness. They left t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago