Episodes

  • Lavender Haze
    Jul 27 2023

    In the 1950s the United States launched a witch hunt, and it's not at all what you think.

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    29 mins
  • Hungry For Justice
    Jul 13 2023

    What would you do when faced with a life-or-death situation? Alferd Packer had to answer this question for himself, and do something that is -- for many -- unthinkable. 

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    30 mins
  • A Morbid Obsession
    Jun 29 2023

    The story of a man who loved his mother. Too much.

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    32 mins
  • Like The Wind
    Jun 15 2023

    When the bicycle was invented it did more than simply change people's lives, leisure and mobility. It ignited a controversy over traditional gender roles. One woman set out to change all that.

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    26 mins
  • Louder Than A Riot
    Jun 1 2023

    The fight for equal rights was long and slow until one day a fight broke out with police, culminating in a riot. What happened next is history.

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    28 mins
  • A Deadly Isle
    May 18 2023

    Prussian immigrant Louis Wagner came to America hoping to make a better life for himself. Working as a fisherman in the Isle of Shoals it seemed he was living the dream, until he found himself down on his luck.

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    30 mins
  • Boneheads
    May 4 2023

    The Gilded Age was a time of opulence and opportunism, an age that turned businessmen into household names. But it also created some of the biggest rivalries in the rush to unearth the past.

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    28 mins
  • Bad Medicine
    Apr 20 2023

    Thomas Neill Cream wanted nothing more than to leave the family shipping business to become a medical doctor. Having graduated with honors, his future seemed promising -- until the bodies began to appear. 

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    31 mins