Mysteries and Histories
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Mysteries and Histories
Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!
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Four WILD Cases of MASS HYSTERIA
Across centuries, crowds have convulsed, nuns have meowed like cats, factory workers have fallen “sick” from phantom June bugs, men have panicked that...
The Stayner Brothers : a Miracle Escape and a Murderous Secret
The Stayner brothers’ story is a nightmare split in two: in 1972, seven‑year‑old Steven Stayner was abducted on his way home from school in California...
Exposing the Unspoken Tragedy of the Fernald School : RADIATION Tested on Children
Behind the brick walls of the Fernald State School in Massachusetts, thousands of children, many poor, disabled, or simply unwanted, were warehoused f...
The MONSTER With 21 Faces : Japan's Greatest Unsolved Mystery
In the mid‑1980s, a shadowy group calling itself “The Monster with 21 Faces” terrorized Japan by tampering with popular candy and snack brands, sendin...
The Case Of Julia Wallace: The IMPOSSIBLE Murder
On a cold January night in 1931, Liverpool insurance agent William Herbert Wallace received a mysterious phone message sending him to a fake address a...
Girl Gets Off Bus Metres From Home And VANISHES
On a February afternoon in 1985, eight‑year‑old Cherrie Mahan got off her school bus near her rural Pennsylvania home and walked toward her driveway,...
Horrific Medical Research On HUMANS By US Doctors
The Guatemala Syphilis Study is one of the darkest chapters in medical history: a U.S., funded experiment in the 1940s where doctors deliberately infe...
How did Milly Dowler's case FINALLY get SOLVED?
On a March afternoon in 2002, 13‑year‑old schoolgirl Milly Dowler disappeared while walking home from the train station in Surrey, turning an ordinary...
ACCIDENT OR ABDUCTED? Remains Never Found After House Fire
On a September night in 2012, nine‑year‑old Chloie Leverette and seven‑year‑old Gage Daniel were believed to have died in a Tennessee house fire, unti...
The DARK TRUTH Behind the Story of Sleeping Beauty
Long before she was a Disney princess, “Sleeping Beauty” was a much darker story about power, consent, and punishment. In the earliest versions, the s...
How The SOLVED Case Of Sarah Payne Changed Britain Forever
On a summer evening in 2000, eight‑year‑old Sarah Payne vanished while playing near her grandparents’ home in West Sussex, turning an ordinary family...
A Chilling Tale of Abuse and Survival: The Dozier School for Boys
Hidden in the trees of rural Florida, the Dozier School for Boys sold itself as a “reform school” for troubled kids but behind its fences, it became a...
Adopted Child Goes MISSING: Are Parents Involved?
On a November night in 2007, 12‑year‑old Jaliek Rainwalker vanished from upstate New York and was never seen again. He was officially reported missing...
Helen Duncan: Convicted of Witchcraft in the 20th Century?!
During the Second World War, Scottish medium Helen Duncan claimed to pull the dead out of the dark, until the British state decided her séances were d...
CONFESSED To 600 Murders... But How Many Are True?
Henry Lee Lucas built a reputation as America’s most prolific serial killer, then the truth started to fall apart. He confessed to hundreds of murders...
The GRUESOME Tale Of The Donner Party: What Would You Do To Survive?
A wagon train chasing the promise of a better life, a shortcut that became a death sentence, and a winter no one was ready for.
The Donner Part...
Delivery Driver Lured To His Death With Fake Order
Paul Logan was just doing his job, dropping off a takeaway order like countless nights before, until the address on his delivery route turned out to b...
The Tragic Journey Of The British Home Children STOLEN From Their Homes
Thousands of children, one empire, and a promise that was a lie. For decades, “British Home Children” were shipped overseas from the UK to Canada, Aus...
Outed at Their Own Funerals: Unsolved Case Nearly 30 Years Later
In 1996, hiking partners Julie Williams and Lollie Winans set out into Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park for a quiet camping trip and were found day...
Who Was The FEMALE Spy Who Changed The Course Of The American Revolution?
In the middle of the American Revolution, there was a spy so secret we still don’t know her name, only her code: Agent 355. Moving through British‑occ...
The Forest Hiking Trip That KILLED 5 School Boys
In 1936, a group of English schoolboys set off on what was meant to be a scenic hike through Germany’s Black Forest and walked straight into a blizzar...
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS On Abandoned CHILDREN Living In Squalor
Willowbrook State School was supposed to be a “school” for children with intellectual disabilities but behind its doors, it became a warehouse of huma...
18-Year-Old Confesses To Mother's BRUTAL Murder... But Did He Do It?
On a September night in 1973, 40‑year‑old Barbara Gibbons was found brutally murdered in her Connecticut home, her body so savagely attacked that the...
The Mysterious Illness That Caused You To Sleep For YEARS
Imagine getting sick and then slipping into a sleep you can’t wake up from, not for days, not for months, sometimes not for years. In the early 1900s,...
CCTV Captures Him RUNNING Out Of The Airport... And He Was Never Seen Again
In July 2014, 28‑year‑old German tourist Lars Mittank vanished after a series of strange, paranoid behaviours at a Bulgarian airport, caught on CCTV r...
The People Who Believe They're DEAD : The Walking Corpse Syndrome
Imagine waking up convinced you’re dead. Walking Corpse Syndrome, or Cotard’s Syndrome, is a rare condition where people genuinely believe they have n...
MURDERED By A Stranger On Her Own Driveway
On the morning of January 25, 2019, 29-year-old Liz Barraza was shot and killed in front of her own home while setting up a garage sale. The suspect w...
Body Found In An Impossible Place... Could ALIENS Be Responsible?
On a June afternoon in 1980, coal miner Zigmund Adamski vanished after popping out for a quick trip to the shops and was found days later on top of a...
The Tragic Murder of Rachel Nickell and How Police Destroyed the Case
On a July morning in 1992, 23‑year‑old Rachel Nickell took her young son and their dog for a walk on Wimbledon Common and never came home. She was bru...
The First Murder Case Ever SOLVED Using DNA
Two schoolgirls, one quiet English village, and a killer who thought he’d gotten away with murder, until science caught up with him. In the 1980s, the...
The Weekend Away That Ended In MURDER By Friends?
On a summer weekend in 2015, 21‑year‑old Lauren Agee headed to a cliff‑side campsite at Center Hill Lake for a party, by Sunday morning, her body was...
What Caused The 'Madness' Of King George III?
For centuries, Britain watched its king slowly unravel. George III, once seen as a dutiful, steady ruler, began to speak in torrents, pace through the...
151: The unsolved case of Vera Anderson
32 years ago, much-loved mum Vera Anderson received a phone call that resulted in her leaving her home at 10pm on a Saturday night and driving to a qu...
The Craziest CULTS That You've Probably Never Heard Of
Hidden away in suburbs, small towns, and rented halls, some of the strangest cults in history never made the headlines but their stories are wilder th...
Who Is The Cheerleader In The Trunk?
In 1982, a steamer trunk abandoned near a quiet Maryland roadside was opened to reveal the decomposed body of a young woman, nicknamed the “Cheerleade...
Just How Gay WAS Ancient Rome?
Just how gay was Ancient Rome? To answer that, you have to step into a world where desire wasn’t neatly labelled, and power mattered more than gender....
A MOTHER Forced To Find Her DAUGHTER'S Remains Under The Bath Tub
In December 1989, 22‑year‑old pizza delivery girl Julie Hogg vanished from her home in Billingham, Teesside, leaving behind a locked house, an unfinis...
The DARK HISTORY Of Birth Control
Long before the pill became a symbol of choice and freedom, birth control was built on secrets, lies, and experiments done on bodies that never truly...
Teenage Girl ABDUCTED From Her Own Home : The Leigh Occhi Case
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Leigh Occhi or details about her disappearance is asked to call the Tupelo Police Department at (662) 84...
The Serial Killer Who Never Touched Her Victims
Giulia Tofana was the whispered secret of desperate wives: a woman who bottled death and sold it as salvation. Her creation, the infamous Aqua Tofana,...