215 episodes
San Francisco, California: The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 | Hometown History
October 6, 2026 · 20m
Shawneetown, Illinois: The Town That Kept Building the Wall Higher
September 29, 2026 · 19m
Pascagoula, Mississippi: The Phantom Barber's Midnight Crime Spree
September 22, 2026 · 19m
Peshtigo, Wisconsin: America's Deadliest Fire You've Never Heard Of
September 15, 2026 · 20m
Escalante, Utah: The Mysterious Disappearance of Everett Ruess
September 8, 2026 · 20m
Thaxton, Virginia: The Forgotten Train Disaster of 1889
September 1, 2026 · 19m
Bath, Michigan: The School Treasurer Who Spent Eight Months Planting Dynamite
August 25, 2026 · 19m
Tucker, Arkansas: Secrets of Tucker Prison Farm - The Torture Machine
August 18, 2026 · 22m
Little Rock, Arkansas: The Asylum That Buried Thousands in Unmarked Graves
August 11, 2026 · 21m
Jackson, Kentucky: The Lawyer Who Carried His Baby as a Bulletproof Shield
June 2, 2026 · 18m
The Gainesville Tornado: 203 Dead in 3 Minutes
May 26, 2026 · 15m
Jacksonville, Florida: The 1888 Yellow Fever Epidemic That Built Public Health
May 19, 2026 · 22m
Bessemer City, North Carolina: The Ballad Singer the Mill Bosses Couldn't Silence
May 12, 2026 · 20m
Forsyth County, Georgia: The Town Georgia Tried to Bury Twice
May 5, 2026 · 25m
Carrollton, Mississippi: The 1886 Courthouse Massacre That History Forgot
April 28, 2026 · 22m
Dover, Delaware: The Poisoned Chocolates That Changed American Law
April 21, 2026 · 22m
Brattleboro, Vermont: The Asylum Tower Holding a Century of Secrets
April 14, 2026 · 20m
Waterbury, Vermont: The Asylum That Turned a Towns Name Into a Warning
April 7, 2026 · 23m
Riceville, Maine: The Ghost Town Whose Plague Never Happened
March 31, 2026 · 16m
Prudence Island: The Keeper Who Relit the Light After Losing Everything
March 24, 2026 · 18m
Watch Hill, Rhode Island: The Fort Road Massacre That Killed 15
March 17, 2026 · 19m
Deal Beach, New Jersey: 240 Immigrants Drowned 150 Yards From Shore
March 10, 2026 · 21m
Hazardville, Connecticut: When Gunpowder Made—and Destroyed—a Town
March 3, 2026 · 16m
Ord, Nebraska: The Teenage Teacher Who Saved 13 Children in the 1888 Blizzard
February 24, 2026 · 17m
Lewistown, Montana: When the Guide Became the Killer (1889)
February 17, 2026 · 19m
Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room
February 10, 2026 · 20m
Taos, New Mexico: The Headless Body in the Fortress Mansion
January 27, 2026 · 19m
East Montpelier, Vermont: The 14-Hour Marriage That Ended in Murder
January 20, 2026 · 18m
Turtle Lake, North Dakota: The Wolf Family Murders of 1920
January 13, 2026 · 23m
Boise City, Oklahoma: The Night America Bombed Its Own Town
January 6, 2026 · 19m
Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
January 3, 2026 · 23m
Edgefield, South Carolina: The Devil's Bargain Murder Trial of 1850
December 30, 2025 · 21m
Hagerstown, Indiana: The Blind Engineer Who Invented Cruise Control
December 23, 2025 · 15m
Gay Head, Massachusetts: 103 Souls Lost Half a Mile from Shore
December 16, 2025 · 26m
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: America's Deadliest Industrial Cover-Up
December 9, 2025 · 19m
Wheeling, West Virginia: When Steel Workers Became Radio Stars
December 2, 2025 · 24m
Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36
November 25, 2025 · 22m
Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the Limits of Armed Reform
November 18, 2025 · 13m
Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI
November 11, 2025 · 22m
Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony
November 4, 2025 · 22m
Africatown, Alabama: The Last Slave Ship and the Town Built by Survivors
October 28, 2025 · 29m
Exeter, Rhode Island: America's Last Vampire Exhumation
September 26, 2025 · 10m
Ottawa, Illinois: The Radium Girls' Fight for Justice
September 5, 2025 · 17m
Wahpeton, North Dakota: When Lightning Struck the Circus in 1897
August 5, 2025 · 35m
Hickory, North Carolina: The 54-Hour Polio Hospital Miracle of 1944
July 7, 2025 · 55m
How Wabash, Indiana Saved Its Main Street
June 24, 2025 · 41m
American Nursing: How a Profession Was Born from War and Reform
June 17, 2025 · 9m
The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale's War on Death
June 12, 2025 · 9m
London: The Dark Origins of Nursing
May 30, 2025 · 18m
West Virginia: The Vanishing of the Sodder Children
March 28, 2025 · 13m
The American West: The Bone Wars of the 1870s
January 29, 2025 · 15m
Hollywood's Cursed Film: The Rebel Without a Cause Tragedy
January 16, 2025 · 15m
Moscow, Idaho: Psychiana and America's Mail-Order Religion Movement
December 30, 2024 · 15m
New York's Greatest Mystery: Judge Crater's Vanishing
November 20, 2024 · 14m
How a Telegraph Cable Launched Tiffany & Co. to Fame
November 5, 2024 · 15m
Indiana's Ambrose Bierce: The Writer Who Vanished in Mexico, 1913
October 21, 2024 · 13m
White Sulphur Springs: Project Greek Island's Secret Congressional Bunker
October 10, 2024 · 14m
San Francisco's Great Diamond Hoax of 1872
September 19, 2024 · 15m
Homestead, Florida: The Coral Castle Mystery
September 4, 2024 · 13m
Paul Revere: Boston's Revolutionary Propagandist
August 19, 2024 · 17m
Cleveland's Mad Butcher: The Unsolved Torso Murders
August 14, 2024 · 16m
America's Secret Societies: The Benevolent Brotherhood
August 8, 2024 · 14m
America's Japanese Internment After Pearl Harbor
July 31, 2024 · 16m
America's Youngest Serial Killer: Jesse Pomeroy
July 22, 2024 · 16m
When Paradise Becomes Prison: The Rat Utopia Experiment
July 15, 2024 · 16m
The USS Cyclops: America's Greatest Naval Mystery
July 8, 2024 · 14m
The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism
June 25, 2024 · 16m
Three Forgotten Wholesome Stories from America
June 13, 2024 · 16m
The Night Doctors: American Medical Terror
June 3, 2024 · 16m
The Hollywood Blacklist: When Fear Silenced the Stars
May 27, 2024 · 24m
Lewis Howard Latimer: The Genius Behind Edison's Bulb
May 20, 2024 · 22m
Hollywood's Scandal That Created Movie Censorship
May 13, 2024 · 22m
How Charles Brush Illuminated a City and Changed America Forever
May 6, 2024 · 23m
Chicago's Haymarket Affair: The Bloody Birth of May Day
April 29, 2024 · 23m
The Philadelphia Experiment: WWII's Invisibility Hoax
April 22, 2024 · 27m
The Battle of Alcatraz: Two Days of Violence
April 15, 2024 · 25m
Anne Bonny and Mary Read: Caribbean's Female Pirates
April 8, 2024 · 21m
Grant's Whiskey Ring: The $3 Million Tax Fraud
April 1, 2024 · 23m
Dayton's Project Blue Book: The UFO Investigation
March 25, 2024 · 27m
San Jose's Mansion Built to Confuse Ghosts
March 18, 2024 · 24m
The First Electric City Tour: Wabash, Indiana (1880)
March 11, 2024 · 34m
Baltimore's Underground Railroad Network
March 11, 2024 · 24m
Roanoke Island: America's First Vanished Colony
March 4, 2024 · 25m
The Scopes Monkey Trial: Evolution on Trial
February 26, 2024 · 21m
Chicago's Crime of the Century: Leopold and Loeb
February 19, 2024 · 25m
When Jacksonville, Florida Was Hollywood
February 12, 2024 · 21m
The Teapot Dome Scandal: When Oil Money Bought Washington
February 5, 2024 · 26m
The Kentucky Meat Shower Mystery
January 29, 2024 · 23m
Edith Wilson: America's Secret President
January 22, 2024 · 27m
Hannah Duston: Colonial America's Dark Heroine
January 15, 2024 · 24m
The Met Museum's Dark History of Art Theft
January 1, 2024 · 26m
Secrets of the Met Museum: The Humble Beginnings
December 18, 2023 · 24m
Virginia Hall: America's Most Dangerous Spy
December 4, 2023 · 24m
Project Sunshine: America's Dark Secret
November 20, 2023 · 22m
The Night Witches: Soviet Women Who Terrorized the Nazis
November 6, 2023 · 23m
North Carolina's Forgotten Gold Rush of 1799
October 9, 2023 · 23m
When Washington Poisoned Prohibition Alcoholv
September 25, 2023 · 24m
Sweet Success: Milton Hershey's Legacy of Generosity
September 12, 2023 · 39m
When Las Vegas Marketed Atomic Bomb Tests
August 28, 2023 · 19m
Las Vegas: From Railroad Stop to Sin City
August 14, 2023 · 31m
West Baden's Impossible Dome and Hidden Stories
July 31, 2023 · 26m
West Baden's Forgotten Palace: The Eighth Wonder of the World
July 17, 2023 · 32m
Gus Grissom and the Dawn of American Spaceflight
July 10, 2023 · 36m
Baltimore's Clown Who Became a Historian
July 3, 2023 · 25m
Terre Haute's Eva Kor: A Holocaust Survivor's Legacy
June 18, 2023 · 30m
From Ashes: The CANDLES Museum's Story of Resilience
June 5, 2023 · 23m
Terre Haute's Holocaust Museum: Survival and Arson
May 22, 2023 · 30m
Florida's Unconquered: The Miccosukee Stand in the Everglades
April 24, 2023 · 26m
Bristol: The Twin Towns That Birthed Country Music
April 17, 2023 · 34m
Brown County, Indiana: How T.C. Steele Created an American Art Colony
April 10, 2023 · 37m
Washington State Gold Panning: Chasing the 1880s Rush in Modern Rivers
March 27, 2023 · 38m
Bean Blossom, Indiana: Inside Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Hall of Fame
March 20, 2023 · 30m
Spencer County, Indiana: How Lincoln's Boyhood Shaped a President
March 13, 2023 · 29m
Lincoln City, Indiana: Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Years, 1816-1830
March 6, 2023 · 22m
West Columbia, South Carolina: The 1963 Champions' Field Reborn
February 27, 2023 · 31m
West Columbia, South Carolina: The Dust Bowl Champions of 1963
February 21, 2023 · 43m
America's Utopian Communes: The Rise and Fall of Radical Communities
February 13, 2023 · 39m
New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen's Utopian Community Experiment (1825-1827)
February 6, 2023 · 21m
New Harmony, Indiana: The German Commune That Built and Sold a Town
January 30, 2023 · 25m
Wabash, Indiana: The 1826 Treaty That Prevented a Frontier War
January 23, 2023 · 16m
San Francisco's North Beach: The Beat Generation's Bohemian Heart
January 16, 2023 · 29m
San Francisco's Beat Museum: The 1950s Literary Rebellion
January 9, 2023 · 21m
Reno, Nevada: The Six-Week Divorce Capital of America
January 2, 2023 · 22m
St. George, Utah: Hollywood's Deadliest Film Set
December 26, 2022 · 17m
Virginia City, Nevada: The Underground Tunnels Beneath the Silver Boom
December 19, 2022 · 35m
Crescent City, California: Surviving Three Devastating Tsunamis
December 11, 2022 · 27m
San Juan Islands, Washington: The Pig War's Diplomatic Resolution
December 5, 2022 · 25m
San Juan Islands: The Pig War That Nearly Started a US-British Conflict
November 28, 2022 · 33m
Desolation Peak, Washington: Jack Kerouac's 63 Days of Solitude
November 21, 2022 · 32m
Crater Lake National Park: Oregon's Volcanic Wonder and America's Deepest Lake
November 14, 2022 · 32m
Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps: Reviving a Green Legacy
November 7, 2022 · 20m
Lake Mead, Nevada: America's Largest Reservoir and Its Shrinking Future
October 31, 2022 · 39m
Holiday Crossover Special: A Nightmare Before Halloween, Part 2
October 25, 2022 · 2h 20m
Death Valley, California: The Hottest Park and Scenic Nationalism
October 17, 2022 · 35m
Grand Canyon, Arizona: The Hidden History Behind an American Icon
October 10, 2022 · 30m
Northern California: The 50-Year Fight to Save the Coastal Redwoods
October 3, 2022 · 37m
Yellowstone National Park: How Art and Artists Created America's First National Park
September 26, 2022 · 43m
Yosemite National Park: America's First Protected Wilderness and Conservation Legacy
September 19, 2022 · 40m
Welcome to Hometown History
September 13, 2022 · 0m
America's Conservation Presidents: Roosevelt to Carter and the National Park Legacy
September 12, 2022 · 36m
Fountain City, Indiana: The Underground Railroad's Grand Central Station
September 5, 2022 · 25m
August 29, 2022 · 19m
Nashville, Tennessee: Enslaved Lives at Jackson's Hermitage
August 23, 2022 · 16m
Nashville's Hermitage: How Andrew Jackson Built Power Through Slavery
August 15, 2022 · 23m
Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee: Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escape
August 8, 2022 · 30m
Nashville, Tennessee: The Full-Scale Parthenon Replica of Music City
August 1, 2022 · 20m
Memphis, Tennessee: Dewey Phillips and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll Radio
July 25, 2022 · 14m
Memphis, Tennessee: Sun Studio's Million Dollar Quartet and Rock's Golden Age
July 18, 2022 · 24m
Sun Studio: Where Rock 'n' Roll Was Born
July 11, 2022 · 18m
Nashville's Fort Negley: The Fortress That Never Fired a Shot
July 4, 2022 · 20m
Memphis: The City That Blues Built
June 27, 2022 · 24m
The Wabash Hanging: 6,000 Witnesses (Part 4)
June 20, 2022 · 20m
The Trial of John Hubbard: Wabash, Indiana (Part 3)
June 13, 2022 · 20m
The Canal Killer of Rich Valley (Part 2)
June 6, 2022 · 22m
The French Family Murders of Wabash (Part 1)
May 30, 2022 · 21m
The Peshtigo Fire: America's Deadliest Wildfire
May 23, 2022 · 12m
Pictured Rocks: Michigan's Climate Refuge (Part 8)
May 16, 2022 · 16m
The Quincy Mine: Michigan's Two-Mile Deep Death Trap (Part 7)
May 9, 2022 · 15m
The Ghost Town of Gay, Michigan (Part 6)
May 2, 2022 · 17m
The Guardian of Phoenix: Michigan's Last General Store (Part 5)
April 25, 2022 · 17m
The Ghost Towns of Michigan's Copper Country (Part 4)
April 18, 2022 · 29m
The Keweenaw Copper Rush: America's First Mining Boom (Part 3)
April 11, 2022 · 12m
The Mackinac Bridge Tragedy (Part 2)
April 4, 2022 · 12m
Upper Peninsula: America's Future Refuge (Part 1)
March 28, 2022 · 10m
Alcatraz East: Crime Museum in the Smokies
March 14, 2022 · 13m
Biltmore Estate: America's Castle & Its WWII Secret
February 28, 2022 · 21m
The Cherokee: Saving a Dying Language in North Carolina
February 14, 2022 · 21m
The Cherokee's Broken Treaties (Part 1)
January 30, 2022 · 12m
Oak Ridge's Secret Army: The Calutron Girls (Part 2)
January 18, 2022 · 18m
Oak Ridge: The Secret City That Built the Bomb (Part 1)
January 3, 2022 · 15m
Lepa Radić: Yugoslavia's 17-Year-Old Resistance Fighter
December 13, 2021 · 11m
Indianapolis Moved a Building (With Workers Inside)
December 6, 2021 · 7m
Belle Boyd: The Teenage Spy Who Changed the Civil War
November 29, 2021 · 12m
The Friends of Dorothy Investigation
November 8, 2021 · 11m
Richmond's Spy Mistress: The Elizabeth Van Lew Story
November 1, 2021 · 12m
The Live Burial of Hammond, Indiana
October 25, 2021 · 11m
The Princes in the Tower: London's Darkest Royal Mystery
October 18, 2021 · 14m
The Key That Didn't Work: Bill Russell in Marion
October 12, 2021 · 7m
The Straw Hat Riots of New York
October 4, 2021 · 6m
Lincoln's Gettysburg Disaster
September 27, 2021 · 9m
The Harvard Soldier Who Hated War
September 20, 2021 · 12m
The Courtroom Tragedy: Monica Seles' Near-Fatal Match
September 13, 2021 · 11m
Alexandria: Where Washington Changed History
September 6, 2021 · 5m
The Marshall House Tragedy: Alexandria's First Civil War Deaths
August 23, 2021 · 12m
The Italian Hall Disaster of Calumet
August 9, 2021 · 6m
The Potsdam Giants: Prussia's Regiment of Kidnapped Tall Men
July 19, 2021 · 7m
Madam C.J. Walker: First Self-Made Millionaire, Part 2
July 13, 2021 · 12m
Madam C.J. Walker: From Cotton Fields to Empire (Part 1)
June 21, 2021 · 10m
Robert Smalls Stole a Confederate Ship
June 14, 2021 · 9m
Dispelling Myths: The "Dumb Blonde" Stereotype
June 7, 2021 · 10m
Almeda Huiet: The Forgotten Victim of Rowan, Indiana
May 17, 2021 · 11m
Almeda Huiet: H.H. Holmes' Forgotten Victim
May 10, 2021 · 33m
The Man Who Darkened His Skin to Fight Racism
May 3, 2021 · 8m
Monopoly's Secret Origin: The Woman They Erased
April 19, 2021 · 8m
The Cadaver Synod: Rome's Trial of a Dead Pope
April 12, 2021 · 14m
Lincoln's Springfield Home: The Man Before the Monument
April 5, 2021 · 22m
When the BBC Convinced Millions Spaghetti Grows on Trees
March 29, 2021 · 10m
America's First Free Speech Crisis (1798)
March 22, 2021 · 29m
Franklin's Turkey: America's Almost National Bird
March 15, 2021 · 21m
When More Democracy Means Less Freedom
March 8, 2021 · 13m
The Burning Rag: Delaware's Deadly Powder Mills
March 1, 2021 · 34m
The Witch of Wall Street: Hetty Green's Story
February 15, 2021 · 28m
The Philosopher Who Told Alexander the Great to Move
February 2, 2021 · 15m
The Sailor Who Rejected Nazi Germany
January 15, 2021 · 19m
The Man Who Could Never Stop Eating
December 15, 2020 · 14m
San Francisco's Self-Proclaimed Emperor
December 1, 2020 · 19m
Belle Isle: Detroit's Abandoned Paradise
November 15, 2020 · 13m
Michigan's Sleeping Bear: A Nazi Ship Still Haunts These Waters
November 2, 2020 · 12m
Mackinac Island: Where Cars Were Banned in 1898
September 30, 2020 · 14m
The Fox Islands and the Children of the Snow
September 15, 2020 · 11m
High Island's House of Virgins: Michigan's Cult
September 1, 2020 · 9m
America's Only King: Beaver Island's James Strang
August 10, 2020 · 12m
The Real Dorothy of Oz: A Bloomington Tragedy
July 1, 2020 · 10m
Wabash's Blinding Light: First Electric City
May 1, 2018 · 13m
Myths & Malice