THE COLOSSEUM: WHAT ROME WAS REALLY WILLING TO BUILD

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

THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE: BLACK WALL STREET

Episode 106 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 31st and June 1st, 1921 — the 18 hours in which an armed white mob, assisted by city officials and the National Guard, burned 35 blocks of Greenwood, the most prosperous Black community in America, to the ground, killing between 100 and 300 people and leaving 10,000 homeless while the historical record was suppressed for decades. Nobody was ever charged. The land where Greenwood stood is now partly a highway. #HistoryMystery #TulsaRaceMassacre #BlackWallStreet #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast

THE CHALLENGER DISASTER: THE ENGINEERS WHO TRIED TO STOP IT

Episode 105 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on January 28th, 1986 — and specifically the night before, when Morton Thiokol engineers told NASA not to launch in the cold, presented data showing the O-rings would fail, were overruled by managers told to take off their engineering hats, and watched seven people die the next morning because they were right. The last recorded words from the crew were pilot Michael Smith's voice: "Uh oh." #HistoryMystery #ChallengerDisaster #NASA #SpaceShuttle #HistoryPodcast

THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING: THE HEIST THAT COST EVERYTHING

Episode 104 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken — one of the wealthiest men in the Netherlands — by five broke friends who spent two years planning it, held him in a soundproofed warehouse cell for 21 days, collected the largest individual ransom in history at the time, and then spent the rest of their lives paying for it in ways they hadn't planned. They got the money. It wasn't worth it. #HistoryMystery #HeinekenKidnapping #TrueCrime #Netherlands #HistoryPodcast