History Mystery

History Mystery

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

  1. 8h ago

    THE DARK WEB: WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS

    RSSVERIFY Episode 157 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the dark web — what it is, how Tor works, how Ross Ulbricht built Silk Road into a $1.2 billion anonymous drug marketplace on it, how the FBI caught him with his laptop open in a San Francisco public library, and how a presidential pardon freed him in January 2025 after eleven years in federal prison. The man who built the most sophisticated illegal marketplace on the internet was caught because he used his real email address once in 2011. #HistoryMystery #DarkWeb #SilkRoad #TrueCrime #HistoryPodcast RSSVERIFY

    THE DARK WEB: WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS

  2. 1d ago

    THE OPIOID CRISIS: HOW PURDUE PHARMA BOUGHT 500,000 DEATHS

    Episode 156 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on the opioid crisis — how Purdue Pharma told American doctors OxyContin wasn't addictive, suppressed the evidence that it was, and produced the worst drug epidemic in American history while the Sackler family extracted $11 billion from the company before it went bankrupt under the weight of more than 2,600 lawsuits. More than 500,000 dead. No member of the Sackler family has ever been convicted of a crime. #HistoryMystery #OpioidCrisis #PurduePharma #AmericanHistory #HistoryPodcast

    THE OPIOID CRISIS: HOW PURDUE PHARMA BOUGHT 500,000 DEATHS

  3. 2d ago

    THE YUBA COUNTY FIVE: THE TRAILER IN THE SNOW

    Episode 155 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Yuba County Five — five friends who drove to a basketball game in 1978, abandoned their running car on a mountain road 70 miles from home, and were found dead months later including one man who starved in a trailer fully stocked with food and heating supplies he never used, and one man who walked out barefoot into a northern California winter and was never found. Four found dead. One walked out with no shoes. He was never seen again. #HistoryMystery #YubaCountyFive #ColdCase #UnsolvedMystery #MysteryPodcast

    THE YUBA COUNTY FIVE: THE TRAILER IN THE SNOW

  4. 3d ago

    THE BLACK DEATH: PATIENT ZERO AND THE CATAPULTED CORPSES

    Episode 154 | Historical Events In this History episode we focus on where the Black Death actually came from — following Yersinia pestis from the grasslands of Central Asia along the Silk Road to Caffa in Crimea, where Mongol forces may have committed the first documented act of biological warfare by catapulting plague-infected bodies over the city walls, and onto the Genoese ships that carried it to Sicily in 1347. A flea. On a rat. On a ship. Sailing west. #HistoryMystery #BlackDeath #BubonicPlague #MedievalHistory #HistoryPodcast

    THE BLACK DEATH: PATIENT ZERO AND THE CATAPULTED CORPSES

  5. 4d ago

    NAPOLEON: THE OUTSIDER WHO CONQUERED EUROPE

    Episode 153 | Human History — Individuals In this History episode we focus on Napoleon Bonaparte — the Corsican outsider who arrived at the French military academy speaking Italian with a thick accent, made himself Emperor of France, conquered most of Europe, lost it all in Russia, was exiled twice, and died alone on a remote island in the South Atlantic at 51. He conquered Europe. He lost it in Russia. He was exiled twice. He died on an island nobody could find on a map. #HistoryMystery #Napoleon #FrenchHistory #EuropeanHistory #HistoryPodcast

    NAPOLEON: THE OUTSIDER WHO CONQUERED EUROPE

  6. 5d ago

    THE FALL OF ROME: 200 YEARS OF COLLAPSE

    Episode 152 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires In this History episode we focus on the fall of the Western Roman Empire — not as the single event of 476 AD but as a 200-year process of hollowing out that historians have proposed over 210 different explanations for, covering the military, economic, and demographic factors that eroded Roman capacity and why the Eastern Empire survived as Byzantium for another thousand years while the West collapsed. The date textbooks give for the fall of Rome is 476 AD. The interesting question is why it had been dying for 200 years before that. #HistoryMystery #FallOfRome #RomanEmpire #AncientHistory #HistoryPodcast

    THE FALL OF ROME: 200 YEARS OF COLLAPSE

  7. 6d ago

    THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER: ENGLAND'S OLDEST COLD CASE

    Episode 151 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the disappearance of two royal boys — Edward V and his brother Richard — placed in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard III in 1483 and never seen in public again, in a case that has been debated for 540 years and may be solvable if anyone is ever permitted to run the DNA test on the bones found beneath a Tower staircase in 1674. 540 years. A DNA test that has been refused. #HistoryMystery #PrincesInTheTower #MedievalHistory #ColdCase #MysteryPodcast

    THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER: ENGLAND'S OLDEST COLD CASE

  8. Jul 21

    THE ISDAL WOMAN: THE SPY WHO NOBODY CLAIMED

    Episode 150 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events In this Mystery episode we focus on the Isdal Woman — the unidentified burned body found in a remote Norwegian mountain valley in 1970, carrying fake passports, cipher notes, and clothing with every label removed, whose travel pattern placed her near Norwegian NATO weapons tests in the weeks before her death and whose identity remains officially classified. A woman burned on a Norwegian mountainside. Multiple fake identities. A classified file. No name. #HistoryMystery #IsdalWoman #ColdWar #UnsolvedMystery #MysteryPodcast

    THE ISDAL WOMAN: THE SPY WHO NOBODY CLAIMED
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Uncovering forgotten history and investigating the world’s greatest mysteries. Short stories, daily.

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    History Mystery
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    159
  • Rating
    Clean
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