OPERATION MINCEMEAT: THE DEAD MAN WHO HELPED WIN THE WAR

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

BHOPAL: THE WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER IN HISTORY

Episode 110 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on December 3rd, 1984 — the night a Union Carbide pesticide plant in central India leaked 40 tons of methyl isocyanate into a sleeping city, killing thousands before dawn, leaving half a million people permanently damaged, and producing a CEO who flew to the scene, was arrested, flew home, and died in Florida in 2014 having never faced trial. The site has never been cleaned. The people of Bhopal are still living with it. #HistoryMystery #BhopalDisaster #UnionCarbide #IndustrialDisaster #HistoryPodcast

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

Episode 109 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on H.H. Holmes — the man who built a hotel blocks from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair fitted with gas jets, soundproofed rooms, and a basement kiln, used it to kill multiple people while 27 million visitors came to see the future, and was caught only when insurance fraud investigators found the trail. Twenty-seven million people came to see the future. Some walked in and never came out. #HistoryMystery #HHHolmes #WorldsFair #TrueCrime #HistoryPodcast

THE MOVE BOMBING: THE DAY PHILADELPHIA DROPPED A BOMB ON ITSELF

Episode 108 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 13th, 1985 — the day the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a military-grade satchel bomb from a helicopter onto a residential row house, killing 11 people including five children, letting the fire burn until 61 homes were destroyed, and producing no criminal charges against anyone involved. Philadelphia bombed a neighborhood. Eleven people died. No one went to prison. #HistoryMystery #MOVEBombing #Philadelphia #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast

NUTTY PUTTY CAVE: THE MAN WHO NEVER CAME HOME

Episode 107 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Thanksgiving Day 2009 — when 26-year-old medical student and father John Edward Jones became trapped headfirst in an unmapped passage in a Utah cave, inverted at 70 degrees, 125 feet underground, and died there after 28 hours of rescue attempts that could not free him. His second child was born after his death. The cave has never reopened. #HistoryMystery #NuttyPuttyCave #JohnJones #Caving #HistoryPodcast