History Uncovered
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- Nov 11, 2026
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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. Dive deeper into these stories on All That's Interesting Follow our page on Facebook: HistoryRevealed Follow us on Instagram: @realhistoryuncovered credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on our podcast. History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com
Episodes 182
Episode 175 - Henry Johnson, The World War I Soldier Known As ‘Black Death’
Despite his heroic actions in World War I, U.S. Army soldier Henry Johnson didn't receive his due until 2015 — 86 years after he died in obscurity and poverty. https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-johnson …
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Despite his heroic actions in World War I, U.S. Army soldier Henry Johnson didn't receive his due until 2015 — 86 years after he died in obscurity and poverty.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-johnson
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Episode 174 - Vlad The Impaler: The Bloodthirsty Medieval Ruler Who May Have Inspired 'Dracula'
Vlad III, also called Vlad the Impaler, was a prince of Wallachia infamous for his brutality in battle and the gruesome punishments he inflicted on his enemies. https://allthatsinteresting.com/vlad-the-impaler …
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Vlad III, also called Vlad the Impaler, was a prince of Wallachia infamous for his brutality in battle and the gruesome punishments he inflicted on his enemies.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/vlad-the-impaler
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Episode 173 - Annabelle: The Real History Behind Horror Cinema's Scariest Doll
The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut …
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The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/annabelle-doll
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Episode 172 - The Chronovisor: The Alleged Vatican Device That Allows You To See Any Moment In History
A priest in the Vatican named Pellegrino Ernetti claimed he could observe the past with a time machine he had invented. But what's the truth about the Chronovisor? https://allthatsinteresting.com/chronovisor …
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A priest in the Vatican named Pellegrino Ernetti claimed he could observe the past with a time machine he had invented. But what's the truth about the Chronovisor?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/chronovisor
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Episode 171 - The Doolittle Raid: America's Furious Revenge Against Japan After Pearl Harbor
The Doolittle Raid, with 16 planes targeting six different Japanese cities, allowed the United States to rebound after its devastating losses at Pearl Harbor. https://allthatsinteresting.com/doolittle-raid …
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The Doolittle Raid, with 16 planes targeting six different Japanese cities, allowed the United States to rebound after its devastating losses at Pearl Harbor.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/doolittle-raid
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Episode 170 - Rasputin: Inside His Mysterious Life And Grisly Death
Grigori Rasputin was a mystic and renegade monk who entranced the Romanovs — and ended up being assassinated in December 1916 for it. https://allthatsinteresting.com/grigori-rasputin Learn more about your ad …
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Grigori Rasputin was a mystic and renegade monk who entranced the Romanovs — and ended up being assassinated in December 1916 for it.
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Episode 169 - Chris Benoit, The Champion Wrestler Who Murdered His Family Before Killing Himself
One of WWE's most iconic wrestlers of the early 2000s, Chris Benoit died by suicide in 2007 after he strangled his wife to death and suffocated his young son at his home …
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One of WWE's most iconic wrestlers of the early 2000s, Chris Benoit died by suicide in 2007 after he strangled his wife to death and suffocated his young son at his home.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/chris-benoit-death
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Episode 168 - The Voynich Manuscript: The 'World's Most Mysterious Book'
Since it was rediscovered in 1912, scholars have been trying to decode the unknown script and bizarre illustrations inside the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript — but to this day, nobody knows exactly what the …
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Since it was rediscovered in 1912, scholars have been trying to decode the unknown script and bizarre illustrations inside the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript — but to this day, nobody knows exactly what the book is about.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/voynich-manuscript
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Episode 167 - Out-Of-Place Artifacts That Have Left Archaeologists Baffled
Over the centuries, archaeologists have come across countless incredible relics that bring humanity’s past to life: King Tut’s sarcophagus, the bodies of Pompeii, intricate silver and gold llama figurines …
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Over the centuries, archaeologists have come across countless incredible relics that bring humanity’s past to life: King Tut’s sarcophagus, the bodies of Pompeii, intricate silver and gold llama figurines crafted by the Inca. But some of even the most famous artifacts to ever be unearthed simply don’t seem to match the time, place, or context in which they were found.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/out-of-place-artifacts
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Episode 166 - The Real History Of The Boston Tea Party
On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested the British Parliament's tax on tea by throwing British tea into Boston Harbor — and changed history. https://allthatsinteresting.com/boston-tea-party Learn …
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On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested the British Parliament's tax on tea by throwing British tea into Boston Harbor — and changed history.
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Episode 165 - Anastasia: The True Story Of The Russian Princess
On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bolsheviks …
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On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bolsheviks claimed to have murdered the entire family, their bodies had been so marred and later buried in unmarked graves that many speculated the youngest daughter of the five Romanov children, Anastasia, had escaped.
It would be nearly a century following her execution that the mystery surrounding Anastasia Romanov would be finally allowed to rest.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/anastasia-romanov
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Episode 164 - The Real Stories Behind Some Of Bob Dylan's Most Iconic Songs
Bob Dylan burst onto the scene in the 1960s as the "voice of a generation," providing evocative and politically engaged anthems that reflected America’s rapidly changing times, from the Civil Rights movement to …
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Bob Dylan burst onto the scene in the 1960s as the "voice of a generation," providing evocative and politically engaged anthems that reflected America’s rapidly changing times, from the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam conflict. Despite his music becoming intrinsically linked to historic moments like the March on Washington, Dylan often introduced his biggest hits, like "Blowin' In The Wind," with the caveat that he didn't write protest songs, creating a mystery around their true meaning. We are digging into the backstories of these celebrated records, uncovering how real-life events, including the murder of activist Medgar Evers and the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, influenced some of his most profound work.
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Episode 163 - Chastity Belts: Separating Fact From Fiction
For centuries, the story has endured: medieval knights departing for war, locking their wives into iron chastity belts and riding off with the only key. It’s one of history’s most lurid and enduring legends — …
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For centuries, the story has endured: medieval knights departing for war, locking their wives into iron chastity belts and riding off with the only key. It’s one of history’s most lurid and enduring legends — and almost certainly fiction. The familiar image of the chastity belt was largely manufactured centuries later through satire, hoaxes, dubious museum artifacts, and Victorian anxieties about sex and morality. But the real story is no less unsettling, involving anti-masturbation devices, fears of female sexuality, and a myth so compelling it embedded itself permanently in popular culture. In this episode, we separate historical fact from one of history’s most persistent sexual myths.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/chastity-belt
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Episode 162 - The Mysterious Statues Of Easter Island
In 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered a remote island in the Pacific on Easter Sunday, which he named "Easter Island," where he was astonished by the hundreds of towering, stern-faced moai statues …
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In 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered a remote island in the Pacific on Easter Sunday, which he named "Easter Island," where he was astonished by the hundreds of towering, stern-faced moai statues. These impressive sculptures, which can be over 30 feet tall and weigh up to 86 tonnes, have inspired curiosity and speculation for centuries. To this day, questions remain about how the Rapa Nui people managed to transport the statues without modern technology, why they were uniformly knocked down by the end of the 19th century, and whether their creation caused an ecological disaster.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/why-were-easter-island-statues-built
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Episode 161 - Inside Mexican Singer Chalino Sánchez's Mysterious Murder — And The Note He Was Handed Onstage Just Beforehand
Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez rose to fame as the "King of Corrido" in the late 1980s, creating sincere ballads about drug lords, cartels, and violence that resonated deeply with fans across Mexico and …
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Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez rose to fame as the "King of Corrido" in the late 1980s, creating sincere ballads about drug lords, cartels, and violence that resonated deeply with fans across Mexico and Southern California. His controversial life was already marked by bloodshed, including killing a man at age 15 and surviving an onstage shooting, but his fate was sealed on May 15, 1992, when he received a mysterious, visibly unsettling note while performing his final concert in Culiacán. Hours later, after being abducted by men claiming to be police, Sánchez was found executed in an irrigation canal; to this day, the identity of his killer and the content of the cryptic note that sealed his fate remain one of Mexico's most enduring mysteries.
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Episode 160 - What Happened To The Vanished Keepers Of The Flannan Isles Lighthouse?
In December 1900, the keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland mysteriously disappeared — and to this day, no one knows what happened …
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In December 1900, the keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland mysteriously disappeared — and to this day, no one knows what happened.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/flannan-isle-mystery
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Episode 159 - The Story Of Tom Dooley And The Murder Behind One Of Folk Music's Greatest Classics
In 1958, the Kingston Trio released a hugely popular folk song called "Tom Dooley," which even inspired a 1959 film, but few listeners realized the song was based on a real person — Tom Dula (pronounced …
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In 1958, the Kingston Trio released a hugely popular folk song called "Tom Dooley," which even inspired a 1959 film, but few listeners realized the song was based on a real person — Tom Dula (pronounced "Dooley") — a young Civil War veteran from Wilkes County, North Carolina, who was executed in 1868 for the murder of his lover, Laura Foster. According to the story, Dula was romantically involved with both Anne Melton and her cousin Laura, but in May 1866 Laura disappeared after riding off on her family's horse, and her body was later found in a shallow grave; Dula, though he briefly fled, was arrested, tried, convicted, and hanged at just 23 years old. Whether he was truly guilty, however, remains an open question, and his tale of love, betrayal, and possible self-sacrifice has continued to captivate people, particularly in his home state of North Carolina.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/civil-war-battles
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Episode 158 - Dusko Popov: The Real-Life Secret Agent Who Inspired James Bond
Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades …
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Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/dusko-popov
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Episode 157 - The Unsolved Disappearance Of Child Actor Joe Pichler
When Joe Pichler mysteriously vanished at the age of 18 in 2006, police suspected suicide — but his family remains convinced that foul play was involved. https://allthatsinteresting.com/joe-pichler Learn more …
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When Joe Pichler mysteriously vanished at the age of 18 in 2006, police suspected suicide — but his family remains convinced that foul play was involved.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/joe-pichler
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Episode 156 - The Unsolved Mystery Of Rey Rivera's 2006 'Suicide'
Rey Rivera was just 32 years old when he vanished without a trace on May 16, 2006. A week later, he was found dead in Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel. https://allthatsinteresting.com/rey-rivera Learn more about …
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Rey Rivera was just 32 years old when he vanished without a trace on May 16, 2006. A week later, he was found dead in Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rey-rivera
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Episode 155 - The Story Behind Slenderman — And The Real-Life Stabbing It Inspired
Slender Man was a popular internet legend created in June 2009. But when two 12-year-olds tried stabbing their friend to death, this mythical creature took on a life of its own …
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Slender Man was a popular internet legend created in June 2009. But when two 12-year-olds tried stabbing their friend to death, this mythical creature took on a life of its own.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/slender-man
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Episode 154 - The Surprising History Of The Christmas Tree
From their roots in ancient pagan celebrations of the winter solstice to their ban in colonial America, the history of the Christmas tree is longer and more complicated than most people realize …
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From their roots in ancient pagan celebrations of the winter solstice to their ban in colonial America, the history of the Christmas tree is longer and more complicated than most people realize.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/christmas-tree-history
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Episode 153 - The Inside Story Of The Manson Murders
During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. https://allthatsinteresting.com/manson-murders Learn more …
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During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/manson-murders
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Episode 152 - Inside History's Most Chilling Real-Life Frankenstein Experiments
In 1818, Mary Shelley published her classic novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his disturbing experiments with reanimation — but the stories of these seven scientists from history prove that reality can sometimes …
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In 1818, Mary Shelley published her classic novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his disturbing experiments with reanimation — but the stories of these seven scientists from history prove that reality can sometimes be stranger than fiction.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/real-frankenstein-experiments
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Episode 151 - What Happened To Edgar Allan Poe? Inside The Famous Writer's Mysterious Demise
After suffering from mysterious hallucinations for four days straight, Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore at age 40 on October 7, 1849 …
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After suffering from mysterious hallucinations for four days straight, Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore at age 40 on October 7, 1849.
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Episode 150 - 'Mignonette': A Harrowing Story Of Cannibalism At Sea
Again and again, in desperate times throughout history, people have turned to desperate measures and committed what many societies consider to be the worst of all human sins — cannibalism. Members of the Donner …
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Again and again, in desperate times throughout history, people have turned to desperate measures and committed what many societies consider to be the worst of all human sins — cannibalism. Members of the Donner Party infamously resorted to cannibalism to survive when they became stranded in the Sierra Nevadas in the 1840s, as did survivors of the Andes Flight Disaster in 1972. At sea, castaway sailors often followed a long-held tradition known as the "custom of the sea," an implicit agreement that, if they were stranded, sailors would draw lots to pick who would be killed — and eaten. But the story of cannibalism involving a 19th-century ship called the Mignonette is a bit different.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-uncovered/mignonette
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Episode 149 - The Stories Of History's Eeriest Ghost Ships
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 …
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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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Episode 148 - Snallygaster: The Bird Monster That Haunts Maryland
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 …
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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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Episode 147 - The Cadaver Synod: When A Medieval Pope Put His Predecessor's Corpse On Trial
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 …
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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.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cadaver-synod
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Episode 146 - Virginia Hall, The One-Legged Spy Who Outsmarted The Nazis
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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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.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/virginia-hall
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