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

ELISA LAM: THE ELEVATOR, THE WATER TANK, AND THE QUESTIONS THAT NEVER CLOSED

Episode 122 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on Elisa Lam — the 21-year-old Canadian student found dead in a rooftop water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles in 2013, three weeks after she was last seen in elevator footage that went viral and has never been fully explained to everyone's satisfaction. This episode covers the Cecil Hotel's dark history, what the elevator footage actually shows and the official explanation for the door behavior, the roof access that was found unlocked, the coroner's ruling of accidental drowning consistent with a bipolar episode, and why the case remains officially closed while the questions remain publicly open. The case is officially closed. The questions are not. #HistoryMystery #ElisaLam #CecilHotel #TrueCrime #MysteryPodcast

MISSING 411: LINKING MISSING PERSONS AND US CAVE SYSTEMS

Episode 121 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Missing 411 phenomenon — the documented pattern of disappearances clustered near cave systems across the United States, catalogued by former police detective David Paulides, and what it does and doesn't tell us about 45,000 documented caves and the people who vanish near them. This episode covers specific cases including the 1969 disappearance of three-year-old Dennis Martin in the Great Smoky Mountains and the 2011 case of six-year-old Jaryd Atadero found years later at a higher elevation than he disappeared, the overlap between missing persons clusters and cave system maps, and the serious criticisms of the Missing 411 methodology — including selection bias and the fact that the National Park Service maintains no centralized public database of missing persons. The map looks the way it looks. Make of it what you will. #HistoryMystery #Missing411 #CaveDisappearances #UnsolvedMysteries #MysteryPodcast

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EPISODES

Episode 120 | Season 6 Capstone — History Episodes + Series Finale In this History episode we close out Season 6 and the first chapter of History Mystery — drawing together 120 episodes to name the fifth pattern this season adds to the four established before it, and to ask the question that six seasons of history and mystery are ultimately pointing toward. History is not something that happened. It is something that is still happening. #HistoryMystery #HistoryPodcast #SeriesFinale #120Episodes #WorldHistory

THE SEASON 6 MYSTERY: WHAT WE KNEW AND DIDN'T DO

Episode 119 | Season 6 Capstone — Mystery Episodes In this Mystery episode we step back from the individual stories of Season 6 and name the pattern that connects all of them — not the mystery of the unknown, but the mystery of the known that was not acted on, and the specific individuals across eighteen episodes who decided the truth mattered more than the cost of saying it. The mystery is not what people did not know. The mystery is what people knew and did not do. #HistoryMystery #Mystery #Accountability #UnsolvedMysteries #MysteryPodcast

COLUMBINE: THE MORNING EVERYTHING CHANGED

Episode 118 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on April 20th, 1999 — the 49 minutes at Columbine High School that killed 14 people, and what the investigation revealed: a warning website that was seen and not acted on, cafeteria bombs designed to kill hundreds that failed to detonate, a law enforcement perimeter protocol that left a teacher bleeding for three hours, and a country that responded by building an entirely new architecture of school security around the question of what to do next time. The bombs didn't work. What happened instead was still enough to change everything. #HistoryMystery #Columbine #AmericanHistory #SchoolShooting #HistoryPodcast