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In 1908 a 15 megaton blast leveled almost nine hundred square miles of forest in Russia. The event could be seen and felt as far away as eastern Europe. So what caused this blast? We'll tell you in this episode.
What do you do with a lone peasant capable of beating back several armed guards with a single stick? Or a mystery pill handed to you from a guy that ‘dabbles’ in medicine? And what DO you do with a drunken sailor? Find out the answers to these questions and more as we journey to the Forbidden City of Imperial China to solve two of the three mysteries of the late Ming dynasty.
In the early 1800's a group of adventurers found a vast treasure in the rocky mountains while hunting. Not wanting it to fall into the wrong hands, Thomas J. Beale took the treasure back to Virginia and buried it. He left behind three ciphers detailing the contents of the treasure, its location, and its intended recipients. The treasure is yet to be found. Was it even real? Find out in this episode!
As early as the seventh century there have been reports of people dancing uncontrollably, unable to stop, for days on end. Some have even died from this malady that has been named the dancing plague. So what caused these instances of party mania? We'll tell you on this episode!
Legends were born and killed at the Alamo, but what they failed to reckon was that legends never truly die. Did Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier really die on a mountain of Mexican soldiers? Or did he surrender into the arms of the enemy? Or... did he somehow survive to get on McCracken's crew? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this episode of Unsolved Mysteries: Solved!
The Freemasons are a fraternity group that has existed in some form since the late 14th century. They have long been the subject of many conspiracy theories. So are any of the theories true? Do any hold water? We'll tell you on this episode.
Were the Nazca Lines in Peru a way to communicate with aliens? Were they perhaps linked to Satanic rituals (despite the fact that Christianity didn't even exist when they were created)? Perhaps they were an elaborate prank played by the Nazca people to screw with their descendants. We answer these questions and more on this episode of Unsolved Mysteries: Solved!
Thousands of people around the world have reported hearing a humming noise that sounds like a fleet of idling truck engines, but there doesn't seem to be an explanation for it. So what is causing the hum? We'll tell you in this episode.
In 1942 four Birmingham boys looking to distract themselves from the nightly German bombings wandered into Hagley Woods and found a woman's skeleton in a wych elm tree. Many theories have cropped up as to who killed the woman and how she got into the tree, but we'll tell you in this episode what really happened.
In the mid 1800s, the ship Die Gratia came across a derelict and abandoned ship near the Azores islands called the Mary Celeste. Upon investigation, no one could come up with a logical reason for why this ship had been abandoned. So what happened to the crew? We'll tell you on this episode.
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