Stories

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• ‘The Evil Hand Is Upon Them’: The Salem Witch Trials
• The Mysterious Case of The Beast of Gévaudan
• The Last Days of Rome
• Jules Brunet, The (Real) Last Samurai
• Illuminati, Freemasons, Templars… History’s Most Infamous Conspiracies
• Mileva Einstein, In The Shadow Of The Genius
• Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer
• James Bond Between Fact And Fiction
• London Necropolis Railway: Last Stop, Cemetery Station
• Vasily Arkhipov, The Man Who Saved The World
• 5 Notoriously Mad Sovereigns
• The Golden Age of Piracy
• The Weirdest WW2 Military Operations
• ‘Nokmim’: The Jewish Avengers Who Hunted Down Nazis
• Kurt Gerstein, The Mystery Man Who Infiltrated The SS
• How To Survive A Pandemic, According To Historians
• K Syndrome: The Disease That Saved Lives
• That Time Churchill Considered Building An Aircraft Carrier Out Of Ice
• The Most Ridiculous Deaths in History
• The Man Who Spared Hitler’s Life?
• The Real Story of Robin Hood
• ‘Night Witches’: The Soviet Airwomen Who Cursed The Nazis
• 8 Lies Your History Teacher Probably Told You
• ‘Sword Hunts’: Samurais Seize Control
• Ghosts of Nazino: Inside The Soviet Gulag Nicknamed ‘Cannibal Island’
• Nostradamus: Lessons From The Future
• Vlad Dracula, Dragon-Prince of the Carpathians
• The Sanson Family: Seven Generations Of Executioners
• The Wall Built To Stop A Plague Epidemic
• “If We Are Victorious In One More Battle, We Shall Be Utterly Ruined.”
• From Ancient Papyrus To E-Mails, The Chaotic History of Mail Delivery
• Kamikaze: Last Samurais of the Pacific
• Ching Shih: From Cantonese Prostitute to Pirate Queen
• A Pig On Trial: A Brief Review of Medieval Justice Oddities
• The Day Julius Caesar Was Kidnapped By Pirates (Who Would Soon Pay For It)
• Donner Party: Trail To Hell
• Sonderkommandos: The ‘Living Dead’ of Auschwitz
• Naumachiae: The Bloody Battles of Sea Gladiators
• Everything You Did Not Know About the Apollo Missions
• Spears, Swords & Tusks: The Colossal History of War Elephants
• Ball of the Burning Men: The Mad King Catches On Fire
• The Gruesome Trick That Catapulted The Black Death Into Europe
• 1268 Sede Vacante: The First Conclave
• One Age, One Face: Ideals of Beauty Throughout History
• Who Was Mona Lisa? Secrets of Da Vinci’s Masterpiece
• The Pen and the Sword: The Untold History of Samurais
• The Good Göring (That One Actually Saved Jews)
• Ten Plagues of Egypt: Biblical Legend or Scientific Reality?
• The Children’s Crusade: That Time Shepherds Tried to Conquer Jerusalem
• The Last Days of Napoleon
• Wailing Women and Paid Grievers: The Untold History of Professional Mourners
• Hitler’s Knights: A Brief History of Nazi Mythology
• Marie-Antoinette, From The Court To The Courthouse
• “Cadaver Synod”: A Dead Pope In The Dock
• How To Survive Premature Burials Through 19th-Century Cholera Pandemics
• Shadows in The Caliphate: A Brief History of the Assassins
• Visas For Life: A Lesson of Heroic Bureaucracy
• De-Extinction: Back From The Lost World
• The Plagued Island / Poveglia, Italy
• Paris in the Eye of the Tiger
• Priest Hunters and Holy Holes: Secrets of the English Reformation
• How Slave Trade Resulted in the First Zombie
• “Eureka!” Archimedes’ Moment of Genius
• Margot Wölk, Guinea Pig In The Wolf’s Lair
• “Sisterhood of Sorrow”: WW1’s Other Battle
• A Sci-Fi Movie to Rescue Hostages
• Alexander Selkirk, Robinson Crusoe Before It Was Cool
• “Peace Village” / Kijong-dong, North Korea
• Incredible Hulks: In the Bowels of Floating Prisons
• The Day the Sea Was Whipped
• From Cadaver to War Hero: The Story of Glyndwr Michael
• The Accident That Saved Lives
• The Last Man on the Moon
• Apocalypse Now? How Mythologies and Scientists View Doomsday
• Bartali: Cycling on a Rough Ride
• Fire Underground / Centralia, Pennsylvania
• Violet Jessop, “Miss Unsinkable”
• A Class Divided: Jane Elliott’s Lesson
• The Last Ride of the Valkyries
• The Tattoo Which Sparked the Ionian Revolt
• Anybody Out There? History of Space Messaging
• The Radioactive Town / Pripyat, Ukraine
• Yakov Stalin: In the Shadow of the Dictator
• How an Apple Started the Trojan War
• Switzerland: Tales of Heroes and Arrows
• Holdin’ Out For Hiroo
• Gail Halvorsen: Bombing Berlin with Candy
• The Hill of Crosses / Jurgaičiai, Lithuania
• The Riddle of Thebes
• The Linguist Parrot
• Wartime Monopoly: The Dice Is Cast
• Two Brothers & a Lawn Mower
• The Giant’s Causeway / Antrim, Northern Ireland
• The Malediction of the Templars
• The Contest of Thor
• Mary Celeste: Mystery At Sea
• Wojtek, a Joyful & Hairy Soldier
• La Cour des Miracles
• The Robin Hood of the Sea
• Life Beneath NYC / New York, USA
• The Lost Battalion
• The mutiple identities of Frank Abagnale Jr.
• El Cid’s Last Battle
• That Time Columbus Mooned A Jamaican Tribe Away
• The Golem of Prague
• The Ghost Capital / Naypyidaw, Burma
• Paul Deschanel, the uncommon President
• The Doomsday Clock
• The Ghost Army
• Picasso’s Guernica
• Spartacus and the Slave Revolt
• The Winchester Mansion / San José, USA
• The Lost Continent of Mu
• Montauciel, the Flying Sheep
• The Pharaoh’s Curse
• The Loyal Women of Weinsberg
• The Third Wave
• Lucifer, the Fallen Angel
• “Le Palais Idéal” / Hauterives, France
• The Bermuda Triangle
• The Myth of King Midas
• The Library of Babel
• The Story of Lady Carcas
• Hemingway’s Six-Word Story
• “The Door to Hell” / Darvaza, Turkmenistan
• “Murmurs of Earth”: Voyager’s Golden Record