Episode 13 | Human History — Individuals

In this History episode we focus on Cornelius Vanderbilt — the man who started with a $100 loan from his mother, built the American railroad system, and died the richest person in United States history.

This episode covers his years ferrying in New York Harbor, the Supreme Court case he helped force that established federal authority over interstate commerce, his Nicaragua route during the Gold Rush, and the audacious late-career pivot that built the first unified railroad from New York City to Chicago.

Before Rockefeller, before Carnegie — there was the Commodore.

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Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events

In this Mystery episode we focus on the Tunguska Event — the 1908 explosion above a remote Siberian forest that released the energy of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs, flattened 80 million trees, and left no crater and no debris.

This episode covers the eyewitness accounts, the 19-year wait before anyone investigated, the airburst explanation that science has settled on, the theories that science has eliminated, and the most important lesson of Tunguska — that an object the size of a football field could arrive without warning and level a city.

It happened over an uninhabited forest by sheer accident of timing. The margin was the rotation of the earth.

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Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places

In this Mystery episode we focus on the Lost City of Atlantis — the island civilization Plato described in 360 BCE that was destroyed in a single day and night, and that 2,400 years of searching has neither found nor definitively ruled out.

This episode covers Plato's original description, the most serious candidate locations including the Minoan eruption at Thera and the Richat Structure in Mauritania, the 2023 underwater structures found off the Greek coast, and the honest question at the center of all of it: was Plato describing a real place, or the most sophisticated philosophical fiction ever written?

The ocean is very deep and very old. And Plato was a very careful writer.

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Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events & Crimes

In this Mystery episode we focus on the Dyatlov Pass Incident — the 1959 death of nine experienced Soviet hikers in the Ural Mountains under circumstances so bizarre that investigators listed the cause as an unknown compelling force.

This episode covers the tent cut open from the inside, the bodies found scattered in their underwear at minus 30 degrees, the catastrophic internal injuries with no external marks, the radiation on the clothing, and why the 2020 Russian government conclusion of avalanche has not satisfied the researchers who have spent decades on this case.

The files were sealed for 30 years. The answer is still not clear.

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Episode 9 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires

In this History episode we focus on the British Empire — the largest empire in history, which at its peak controlled a quarter of all the land on earth and a quarter of all the people on earth.

This episode covers everything from Francis Drake's privateering to the East India Company to the Amritsar Massacre to Gandhi's salt march to the partition of India to the handover of Hong Kong. What it built. What it took. And why both are true.

The sun never sets on the British Empire's legacy. The question of whether that's a gift or a wound depends on which side of it you're standing on.

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Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & Movements

In this History episode we focus on the Space Race — the 12-year competition between the United States and Soviet Union that put humans on the moon, created the modern digital world, and was never really about space at all.

This episode covers Sputnik and the shock it sent through America, Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, the tragic Apollo 1 fire, the Earthrise photograph, and Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon — watched by 600 million people.

It started with a beeping beach ball in orbit. It ended with two men on the moon. And it gave us the internet.

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Episode 4 | History's Mysteries — Unsolved Events & Crimes

In this Mystery episode we focus on Jack the Ripper — the unidentified serial killer who murdered five women in ten weeks in the autumn of 1888 and became the most famous unidentified criminal in history.

This episode covers who the victims actually were, the double event of September 30th, the letters including the From Hell package with its human kidney, the three main suspects, and why the 2014 DNA claim that seemed to solve everything actually didn't.

135 years of investigation. Still no name. Still no answer.

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Episode 7 | Human History — Individuals

In this History episode we focus on Queen Elizabeth I — the daughter whose mother was executed by her father, who spent her teenage years one accusation away from the scaffold, and who ruled England alone for 45 years in an era that insisted a woman could not rule at all.

This episode covers her survival through Henry VIII and Bloody Mary, the marriage question she used as a diplomatic weapon for four decades, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the age of Shakespeare and exploration she presided over.

Good Queen Bess. The Virgin Queen. Gloriana.

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Episode 6 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events

In this Mystery episode we focus on Flight MH370 — the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared on March 8th, 2014, carrying 239 people, flew for seven hours after someone turned off its transponder, and has never been found.

This episode covers the satellite data that pointed to the southern Indian Ocean, the most expensive aviation search in history, the debris that washed up on African beaches, and the new search that just concluded in January 2026 with no findings.

Twelve years. 239 people. Still missing.

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Episode 5 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places

In this Mystery episode we focus on the Great Pyramid of Giza — the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing, built 4,500 years ago with a precision that still astonishes modern engineers.

This episode covers the 2024 discovery of a buried Nile branch that finally explains how the blocks were transported, the 2023 hidden corridor confirmed by muon imaging, the 2026 counterweight theory for how the blocks were raised, and what we still don't know about what's inside it.

4,500 years old. Still making new discoveries.

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