H.H. HOLMES AND THE WORLD'S FAIR: AMERICA'S FIRST SERIAL KILLER

ROSEMARY KENNEDY: THE SISTER NOBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW

Episode 115 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Rosemary Kennedy — the eldest Kennedy daughter, born with an intellectual disability, lobotomized at 23 without her mother's knowledge in a procedure secretly arranged by her father, and then institutionalized in rural Wisconsin for 56 years while her brothers became president, attorney general, and senator. Her father was never held accountable. He never visited her at St. Coletta. #HistoryMystery #RosemaryKennedy #KennedyFamily #WomensHistory #HistoryPodcast

THE DAEGU SUBWAY FIRE: 192 DEAD FROM TWO MILK CARTONS

Episode 114 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on February 18th, 2003 — the morning a 56-year-old man with two milk cartons of flammable liquid set fire to a subway car in Daegu, South Korea, killing 192 people as the smoke from burning synthetic interiors trapped passengers in a second train whose doors had locked shut in an underground station with no ventilation. 192 people went to work on a Tuesday morning. The fire took two minutes. #HistoryMystery #DaeguSubwayFire #SouthKorea #Disaster #HistoryPodcast

THE 1996 EVEREST DISASTER: THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN WON

Episode 113 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 10th and 11th, 1996 — the single deadliest 24 hours in Everest history, when a turnaround time wasn't enforced, a storm arrived ahead of schedule, and eight climbers died including both expedition leaders, among them Rob Hall who made his last call to his pregnant wife by satellite phone from just below the summit. "Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much." #HistoryMystery #Everest1996 #MountEverest #Adventure #HistoryPodcast

THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT: FORTY YEARS OF DELIBERATE HARM

Episode 112 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Tuskegee Study — the US Public Health Service program that enrolled 600 Black men in rural Alabama in 1932, told them they were being treated for bad blood, withheld penicillin after it became the standard cure in 1947, and continued for 40 years until a whistleblower went to the press. Every researcher on this study had a medical degree. Every one had taken an oath to do no harm. #HistoryMystery #TuskegeeExperiment #MedicalHistory #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast

OPERATION MINCEMEAT: THE DEAD MAN WHO HELPED WIN THE WAR

Episode 111 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Operation Mincemeat — the 1943 British intelligence operation in which a dead Welsh vagrant was given a fabricated military identity, chained to a briefcase of fake invasion plans, and floated ashore in Spain, fooling Hitler into moving his forces away from Sicily before the largest Allied amphibious landing of the war. The idea was first sketched by Ian Fleming. The man who made it possible died alone and homeless in London. #HistoryMystery #OperationMincemeat #WorldWarII #BritishIntelligence #HistoryPodcast