History Mystery

History Mystery

Uncovering forgotten history and investigating the world’s greatest mysteries. Short stories, daily.

  1. LE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY

    20h ago

    LE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY

    Episode 117 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the two seconds on June 11th, 1955 in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes became airborne at the Le Mans circuit and disintegrated into the packed main grandstand, killing 84 people in the deadliest accident in motorsport history — a disaster that prompted multiple countries to ban circuit racing and Switzerland to maintain that ban for 67 years. In 1955, 300,000 spectators stood within reach of cars doing 150 miles per hour, separated by a mound of earth. #HistoryMystery #LeMans1955 #Motorsport #RacingHistory #HistoryPodcast

    18 min
  2. OPERATION PAPERCLIP: THE NAZI SCIENTISTS WHO BUILT THE SPACE PROGRAM

    1d ago

    OPERATION PAPERCLIP: THE NAZI SCIENTISTS WHO BUILT THE SPACE PROGRAM

    Episode 116 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on Operation Paperclip — the classified US program that brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II, altered their files to conceal Nazi Party and SS affiliations, and built Wernher von Braun — an SS officer who personally recruited concentration camp prisoners for the Mittelwerk factory — into the public face of American space exploration. The rocket that put Neil Armstrong on the Moon was designed by a man who used slave labor to build the weapon that bombed London. #HistoryMystery #OperationPaperclip #NASA #WernherVonBraun #HistoryPodcast --- LE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORY Episode 117 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the two seconds on June 11th, 1955 in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes became airborne at the Le Mans circuit and disintegrated into the packed main grandstand, killing 84 people in the deadliest accident in motorsport history — a disaster that prompted multiple countries to ban circuit racing and Switzerland to maintain that ban for 67 years. In 1955, 300,000 spectators stood within reach of cars doing 150 miles per hour, separated by a mound of earth. #HistoryMystery #LeMans1955 #Motorsport #RacingHistory #HistoryPodcast

    18 min
  3. ROSEMARY KENNEDY: THE SISTER NOBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW

    2d ago

    ROSEMARY KENNEDY: THE SISTER NOBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW

    Episode 115 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Rosemary Kennedy — the eldest Kennedy daughter, born with an intellectual disability, lobotomized at 23 without her mother's knowledge in a procedure secretly arranged by her father, and then institutionalized in rural Wisconsin for 56 years while her brothers became president, attorney general, and senator. Her father was never held accountable. He never visited her at St. Coletta. #HistoryMystery #RosemaryKennedy #KennedyFamily #WomensHistory #HistoryPodcast

    17 min
  4. THE DAEGU SUBWAY FIRE: 192 DEAD FROM TWO MILK CARTONS

    3d ago

    THE DAEGU SUBWAY FIRE: 192 DEAD FROM TWO MILK CARTONS

    Episode 114 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on February 18th, 2003 — the morning a 56-year-old man with two milk cartons of flammable liquid set fire to a subway car in Daegu, South Korea, killing 192 people as the smoke from burning synthetic interiors trapped passengers in a second train whose doors had locked shut in an underground station with no ventilation. 192 people went to work on a Tuesday morning. The fire took two minutes. #HistoryMystery #DaeguSubwayFire #SouthKorea #Disaster #HistoryPodcast

    12 min
  5. THE 1996 EVEREST DISASTER: THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN WON

    4d ago

    THE 1996 EVEREST DISASTER: THE DAY THE MOUNTAIN WON

    Episode 113 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on May 10th and 11th, 1996 — the single deadliest 24 hours in Everest history, when a turnaround time wasn't enforced, a storm arrived ahead of schedule, and eight climbers died including both expedition leaders, among them Rob Hall who made his last call to his pregnant wife by satellite phone from just below the summit. "Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much." #HistoryMystery #Everest1996 #MountEverest #Adventure #HistoryPodcast

    22 min
  6. THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT: FORTY YEARS OF DELIBERATE HARM

    5d ago

    THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT: FORTY YEARS OF DELIBERATE HARM

    Episode 112 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the Tuskegee Study — the US Public Health Service program that enrolled 600 Black men in rural Alabama in 1932, told them they were being treated for bad blood, withheld penicillin after it became the standard cure in 1947, and continued for 40 years until a whistleblower went to the press. Every researcher on this study had a medical degree. Every one had taken an oath to do no harm. #HistoryMystery #TuskegeeExperiment #MedicalHistory #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast

    19 min
  7. OPERATION MINCEMEAT: THE DEAD MAN WHO HELPED WIN THE WAR

    6d ago

    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

    16 min
  8. BHOPAL: THE WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER IN HISTORY

    Jun 11

    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

    21 min
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