Mysteries and Histories
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Mysteries and Histories
Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!
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She Went For a Run and Was ABDUCTED : Where Is Rachel Louise Cooke?
On a January morning in 2002, 19-year-old Rachel Louise Cooke left her home for a run in suburban Austin, Texas, and never made it back. What should h...
When Mysterious Toxic BLOBS Fell From the Sky
In the summer of 1994, Oakville, Washington was hit by something no one could quite explain: not rain, but translucent, gelatinous blobs that fell fro...
Mum VANISHES whilst Daughter is Found Alone in Car
On an April evening in 1998, Traci Pittman Kegley stopped for gas in Elmore County, Alabama with her two-year-old daughter in the car and then vanishe...
The Cagots: The Outcasts With No Origin Story
For centuries in the villages of southwestern France and northern Spain, there was a group of people who looked like everyone else, spoke the same lan...
The TRUTH about *that* Tonya Harding Attack
In the winter of 1994, figure skating stopped being just glitter and triple jumps when Tonya Harding’s story crashed into a hallway attack that shatte...
Hollywood's Greatest Unsolved Mystery : The Thelma Todd Case
In December 1935, Hollywood comedian and café owner Thelma Todd left a glittering night at the Trocadero, was driven home to the Pacific Coast Highway...
The Almost-SOLVED Case of Moira Anderson
On a snowy February evening in 1957, 11‑year‑old Moira Anderson popped out from her Coatbridge home to run a quick errand, climbed onto a near‑empty b...
Headless Body Discovered in 1974 : How Can a Woman Disappear and No-one Notice?
In the summer of 1974, a farm worker in rural Norfolk stumbled across a bundle in a field, a plastic sheet tied with rope, hiding the headless, bound...
The Serial Killer You Definitely Haven’t Heard of : Oregon’s Highway 20 Murders
Along Oregon’s remote Highway 20, the road itself feels haunted: from the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a string of women and girls were abducted,...
The THRILLING Mystery of the $500 Million Art Heist
Just after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as Boston police knocked on the door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, claimed they were...
Girl Found Encased in Concrete IDENTIFIED After 21 years... but Who Killed Her?
In 2003, construction workers smashing up the basement of a former Manhattan nightclub broke through a slab of concrete and uncovered a rolled rug, a...
The Case SOLVED by a TV Show
The Patty Stallings case is a nightmare of bad science turned into a murder charge and a rare example of TV saving the day. In 1989, when Patty’s newb...
Are Polygraph Tests Really Useful In True Crime?!
Polygraph tests or “lie detectors” sound like the perfect true crime shortcut: strap someone in, ask the right questions, watch the needles jump, and...
A Love Written in Blood : The Elizabeth Haysom & Jens Söring Case
The Jens Söring and Elizabeth Haysom case starts like a doomed campus romance and ends in a blood‑soaked farmhouse and a lifetime of questions. In 198...
The Real History of Feminism
Feminism isn’t just “girl power” slogans and pink protest signs, it’s a century‑spanning fight that’s come in waves, each one crashing against a diffe...
The Forest That Makes People VANISH
In the shadowy woods around Vermont’s Glastenbury Mountain, Paula Jean Welden is only one of several people who walked into the trees and never proper...
A Whole Family Murdered and STILL No Answers : The Keddie Cabin Case
In April 1981, inside a shabby rental at Cabin 28 in the tiny mountain town of Keddie, California, someone turned a cramped living room into a slaught...
The QUEER MONARCHS You Didn't Learn About In History Class
In a monarchy obsessed with heirs, weddings, and “traditional values,” some of Britain’s most powerful rulers were living far queerer lives than their...
London's Oldest MISSING PERSONS Case... and She Might Still Be Alive
On a foggy New Year’s Eve in 1959, 16‑year‑old Mary Flanagan waved goodbye to her family in West Ham, supposedly heading to a work party at the Tate &...
Four WILD Cases of MASS HYSTERIA
Across centuries, crowds have convulsed, nuns have meowed like cats, factory workers have fallen “sick” from phantom June bugs, men have panicked that...
The Stayner Brothers : a Miracle Escape and a Murderous Secret
The Stayner brothers’ story is a nightmare split in two: in 1972, seven‑year‑old Steven Stayner was abducted on his way home from school in California...
Exposing the Unspoken Tragedy of the Fernald School : RADIATION Tested on Children
Behind the brick walls of the Fernald State School in Massachusetts, thousands of children, many poor, disabled, or simply unwanted, were warehoused f...
The MONSTER With 21 Faces : Japan's Greatest Unsolved Mystery
In the mid‑1980s, a shadowy group calling itself “The Monster with 21 Faces” terrorized Japan by tampering with popular candy and snack brands, sendin...
The Case Of Julia Wallace: The IMPOSSIBLE Murder
On a cold January night in 1931, Liverpool insurance agent William Herbert Wallace received a mysterious phone message sending him to a fake address a...
Girl Gets Off Bus Metres From Home And VANISHES
On a February afternoon in 1985, eight‑year‑old Cherrie Mahan got off her school bus near her rural Pennsylvania home and walked toward her driveway,...
Horrific Medical Research On HUMANS By US Doctors
The Guatemala Syphilis Study is one of the darkest chapters in medical history: a U.S., funded experiment in the 1940s where doctors deliberately infe...
How did Milly Dowler's case FINALLY get SOLVED?
On a March afternoon in 2002, 13‑year‑old schoolgirl Milly Dowler disappeared while walking home from the train station in Surrey, turning an ordinary...
ACCIDENT OR ABDUCTED? Remains Never Found After House Fire
On a September night in 2012, nine‑year‑old Chloie Leverette and seven‑year‑old Gage Daniel were believed to have died in a Tennessee house fire, unti...
The DARK TRUTH Behind the Story of Sleeping Beauty
Long before she was a Disney princess, “Sleeping Beauty” was a much darker story about power, consent, and punishment. In the earliest versions, the s...
How The SOLVED Case Of Sarah Payne Changed Britain Forever
On a summer evening in 2000, eight‑year‑old Sarah Payne vanished while playing near her grandparents’ home in West Sussex, turning an ordinary family...
A Chilling Tale of Abuse and Survival: The Dozier School for Boys
Hidden in the trees of rural Florida, the Dozier School for Boys sold itself as a “reform school” for troubled kids but behind its fences, it became a...
Adopted Child Goes MISSING: Are Parents Involved?
On a November night in 2007, 12‑year‑old Jaliek Rainwalker vanished from upstate New York and was never seen again. He was officially reported missing...
Helen Duncan: Convicted of Witchcraft in the 20th Century?!
During the Second World War, Scottish medium Helen Duncan claimed to pull the dead out of the dark, until the British state decided her séances were d...
CONFESSED To 600 Murders... But How Many Are True?
Henry Lee Lucas built a reputation as America’s most prolific serial killer, then the truth started to fall apart. He confessed to hundreds of murders...
The GRUESOME Tale Of The Donner Party: What Would You Do To Survive?
A wagon train chasing the promise of a better life, a shortcut that became a death sentence, and a winter no one was ready for.
The Donner Part...
Delivery Driver Lured To His Death With Fake Order
Paul Logan was just doing his job, dropping off a takeaway order like countless nights before, until the address on his delivery route turned out to b...
The Tragic Journey Of The British Home Children STOLEN From Their Homes
Thousands of children, one empire, and a promise that was a lie. For decades, “British Home Children” were shipped overseas from the UK to Canada, Aus...
Outed at Their Own Funerals: Unsolved Case Nearly 30 Years Later
In 1996, hiking partners Julie Williams and Lollie Winans set out into Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park for a quiet camping trip and were found day...
Who Was The FEMALE Spy Who Changed The Course Of The American Revolution?
In the middle of the American Revolution, there was a spy so secret we still don’t know her name, only her code: Agent 355. Moving through British‑occ...
The Forest Hiking Trip That KILLED 5 School Boys
In 1936, a group of English schoolboys set off on what was meant to be a scenic hike through Germany’s Black Forest and walked straight into a blizzar...