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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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Throughout maritime history, sailors have reported sightings of ghost ships with eerily similar details — empty vessels appearing out of the blue, with no one aboard and no sign of what happened to the crew.
Over the centuries, numerous vessels have been found floating on the high seas without a crew — here are some of the most disturbing cases.
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In February 1909, just around one month after the first newspaper reports about the Jersey Devil were published, the Maryland-based Middletown Valley Register published a report about a local who encountered a terrifying creature known as the Snallygaster.
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The Catholic Church has put many people on trial, including Galileo, Joan of Arc, and Martin Luther. But the strangest trial in church history took place in the ninth century. Known as the Cadaver Synod, it was the trial of Pope Formosus — who had died eight months before.
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Despite being an amputee, Virginia Hall bolstered the Allied resistance in France so successfully that the Gestapo launched special missions just to find her. They never did.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was at ground zero in Hiroshima — and three days later, in Nagasaki. He survived both atomic bombings. Decades later, he told his story to the world. This is the life of history’s only officially recognized double survivor.
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What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa? On the 50th anniversary of one of America’s greatest unsolved mysteries, we dive into the life, rise, and sudden disappearance of the infamous Teamsters boss. From his meteoric union ascent and shadowy mob ties to wild theories involving landfills, stadiums, and deathbed confessions, we unravel the suspects, the motives—and the myths. Was it a mob hit? A government cover-up? Or something even stranger? Join us as we explore the facts, the fiction, and the lingering legacy of Hoffa’s vanishing act.
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In the 1970s, the U.S. faced a serious dairy shortage that sent prices soaring. To address this, the government, under Jimmy Carter, implemented a massive subsidy program for the dairy industry. $2 billion was pumped into dairy subsidies, milk production skyrocketed, and prices for consumers stabilized. By all metrics, the program was a success — but perhaps it was too successful.
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By June of 1968, the United States felt, to many, like a nation teetering on the edge. Every night, Americans watched the carnage of the Vietnam War on their television screens. That April, Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed in cold blood in Memphis, Tennessee, triggering riots in cities across the country. Into this chaos stepped Robert F. Kennedy — the younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy — as a candidate in the 1968 presidential election. But then, on what should have been a celebratory night for his inspiring campaign in early June, RFK was shot and killed, too.
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From Chernobyl to Fukushima, nuclear disasters have left lasting scars on the modern world, each a chilling reminder of the high-stakes gamble that comes with harnessing atomic energy. Yet even in the shadow of catastrophe, passionate voices continue to champion nuclear power as a clean, efficient solution to our growing energy needs.
Whether you view it as a ticking time bomb or a misunderstood savior, one thing is clear: nuclear power is a force that can shape the future—or destroy it.
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Today, the average American consumes almost 70 pounds of beef per year and almost 100 pounds of chicken. But those numbers could have been quite different. A century ago, American policymakers pushed for a different kind of meat supply in the United States — hippo meat. In 1910, a Louisiana politician introduced a bill to bring hippopotamuses to the country in the hopes that they would both eat invasive plants and alleviate a meat shortage.
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In 1629, the Dutch ship Batavia wrecked off the coast of what is now Western Australia, stranding over 300 people on remote, barren islands. What followed was not a fight for survival, but a descent into terror, as a mutinous group led by Jeronimus Cornelisz unleashed a campaign of murder, torture, and control. Over the next few months, dozens were slaughtered—not by nature, but by their fellow survivors. This is the story of one of history’s most chilling mutinies, and one of Australia’s earliest and darkest chapters.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/sunken-ships/7
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Dubbed the "Mexican Madonna" and the "Queen Of Tejano Music," Selena Quintanilla was a budding superstar — until she was gunned down in March 1995.
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Far from being a new issue specific to our present moment, territorial disputes between Canada and the U.S. stretch back almost 200 years. In fact, conflicts over the border between Canada and the United States have existed since the borders were first drawn. Today we'll discuss some of the areas of the border that have been disputed over the past two centuries — including some that are still disputed to this day.
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In the early morning of December 26, 2004, an earthquake struck on the Pacific sea floor, 150 miles off the west coast of the Indonesian island Sumatra. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake quickly gave rise to a tsunami that within hours of the initial earthquake, hit the shorelines of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and the Maldives.
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On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was killed while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. To this day, the truth about his assassination remains unresolved.
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After taking power in the 1920s, Joseph Stalin killed at least 9 million people through mass murder, forced labor, and famine, but the true figure may be as high as 60 million.
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In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey.
Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison. But in the end, the lethal consequences of their work came to light.
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Beginning in the early 1980s, wild theories about ritual
sexual abuse, widespread occultism, and Devil worship dominated news
headlines and created a moral panic that led to unfounded accusations
and even wrongful imprisonments.
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Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, was known for his eccentric personality and bizarre conspiracy theories, then he made national headlines in April 2013 when he was arrested for allegedly mailing deadly ricin to President Barack Obama — but he was framed by a rival named Everett Dutschke.
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no sources data evidence at all. crap Podcast.
Overtly open wokeness, no thanks. Just tell the history good, bad, or ugly. I don’t need your wokeness put on events of the past. Done with this podcast.
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okay 1. the law has forever required you to be a citizen to vote... a government issued ID would prove that... just stop with trying to put 70-200 year old history in (that doesn't even apply to a single citizen of this country anymore) with your garbage political agendas... yeh nah yeh I'm done even trying to give this crap a chance
just one more thing... maybe tell the WHOLE story? like what the average age of marriage was... and some of the men you trashed wished slavery ended... it's truly tragic when people point a judging finger at men from 200 years ago according to modern agendas as if that will change then OR now...
OH FFS... you're a historian yeah? when in history has politics not completely screwed everything that it got near? stick to history and leave the bs modern political rhetoric alone...
I'm only 7:20 in and their are issues with the facts of the autopsy vs what was said here, that are wrong.
so easy to listen to and follow! wish they were a little longer. but great subjects
Really enjoyable show. Keep up the good work !