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He Hijacked a Plane, Grabbed $200K, and Jumped Into a Storm | The Unlit Room
Episode 18
On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man in a business suit and clip-on tie hijacked a commercial airliner, collected $200,000 in ransom, then opened the rear…
3 months ago
The Molasses Wave That Killed 21 People — Boston's Strangest Disaster
Episode 17
On January 15, 1919, a storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst in Boston's North End. The wave was 25 feet high, moved at 35 mph, …
3 months, 1 week ago
The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
Episode 14
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3 months, 1 week ago
The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa — How a Glazier Turned a Painting Into a Legend
Episode 16
In 1911, an Italian glazier named Vincenzo Peruggia walked into the Louvre, lifted the Mona Lisa off the wall, and carried it out the front door. He …
3 months, 1 week ago
Lip, Dip, Paint — The Radium Girls Who Glowed in the Dark
Episode 15
They painted their nails, their teeth, even their faces with the glowing paint — and the company told them it was safe. But behind closed doors, the …
3 months, 1 week ago
The 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…
3 months, 1 week 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 …
3 months, 1 week 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 …
3 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 2 weeks ago