Skip to content
Melo Podcasts Home
CategoriesLanguagesFollowing

Episode 14 · Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

Cleopatra's Lost Tomb: History's Greatest Missing Body

10 Aug 2026 · 36 min

Play episode WhatsApp Download

Episode notes

In 30 BCE, Cleopatra VII died on her own terms rather than face humiliation in Rome, and was buried beside her lover Mark Antony in a tomb described as surpassingly beautiful. Two thousand years later, that tomb has never been found... and rival archaeologists are still hunting for it in two very different places. This episode examines the real evidence behind Cleopatra's death, the underwater ruins of ancient Alexandria, and the controversial excavation at the Temple of Osiris thirty miles away.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode:…

Podcast

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

Rewind Studios · History · English

Dr. Harini Bhat, a clinical pharmacist and science storyteller, unravels real historical events that still defy explanation: mass hysterias, medical oddities, vanished civilizations, and strange signals that echo across centuries. Hidden History treats these as incomplete case files, not myths; shap

More from Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat All episodes →

  1. E19 · 14 Sep 2026 · 35 min

    The Phoenix Lights UFO: Flares, Formation, or Something Else?

    On the night of March 13th, 1997, thousands of Arizonans watched a massive, silent V-shaped formation of lights drift slowly across the entire state, from Nevada to the Mexican border, with no official explanation for hours. The event split into two distinct incidents, each with its own evidence, its own witnesses, and its own stubborn questions that remain unresolved nearly thirty years later. From a governor who changed his story to the one amateur astronomer who put a telescope on the lights, every clue points somewhere different.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH…

  2. E18 · 7 Sep 2026 · 32 min

    The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers, One Night, No Answers

    In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers set out across the frozen Ural Mountains...and never came back. Searchers found their tent slashed open from the inside, footprints walking calmly into lethal cold, and bodies with catastrophic internal injuries that left no marks on the skin. Nearly seventy years later, the case remains officially unsolved, with theories ranging from a slab avalanche and Cold War weapons testing to espionage and forces the investigators themselves couldn't name.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode:…

  3. E17 · 31 Aug 2026 · 39 min

    The Loch Ness Monster: Science, Hoax, and Enduring Mystery

    For over 1,500 years, people have reported a massive creature lurking in the depths of Loch Ness, a 23-mile-long Scottish lake so dark and deep that it swallows light entirely. The legend exploded in 1933, fueled by newspaper editors, a faked photograph, and a public desperate for wonder during the Great Depression. From DNA sweeps and sonar surveys to a toy submarine and a big-game hunter's revenge plot, the evidence has been tested...and the mystery somehow survives.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new…

  4. E16 · 24 Aug 2026 · 34 min

    The Lead Masks Case: The Mystery of Vintém Hill

    In August of 1966, two Brazilian electronics technicians were found dead on a hillside outside Niterói, dressed in suits and handmade lead masks, with a cryptic schedule and no clear cause of death. They had told their wives they were going one place and quietly went somewhere else entirely...and whatever they swallowed that evening was never identified. Sixty years later, the case remains officially unsolved, with theories ranging from a self-administered ritual gone wrong to robbery, espionage, and contact with the unexplained.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this…

  5. E15 · 17 Aug 2026 · 37 min

    Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Fire Within

    For nearly three hundred years, people have been found burned almost to ash in rooms that barely show a scorch mark: from Countess Cornelia di Bandi in 1731 to Michael Faherty in 2010, whose death an Irish coroner officially attributed to spontaneous human combustion. The pattern is always the same: torso gone, extremities intact, surroundings untouched, and no obvious source of flame. Modern fire science offers a compelling explanation, but a handful of cases still resist easy answers.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode:…

  6. E13 · 3 Aug 2026 · 38 min

    The JFK Assassination: The Evidence, the Theories, and the Unanswered Questions

    On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Within days, the government named Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman... but more than sixty years later, most Americans still don't accept that verdict. This episode walks through the physical evidence, the major conspiracy theories, and what the newly released classified files actually reveal.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Hidden…

  7. E12 · 27 Jul 2026 · 32 min

    The Lost Confederate Gold: Spent, Stolen, or Sunken?

    When Richmond fell in April 1865, the Confederate government fled south with its entire treasury: gold bars, silver coins, and pieces of eight. And by the time Jefferson Davis was captured weeks later, almost all of it was gone. Did it vanish into soldiers' pockets and wartime chaos, or did a secret society bury it for a future uprising? Some treasure hunters say millions in gold still sit in a railroad boxcar at the bottom of Lake Michigan. This episode traces every dollar from the burning capital to the cold dark of the Great Lakes... and separates the ledger from the legend.Head over to…

  8. E11 · 20 Jul 2026 · 38 min

    D.B. Cooper: The $200,000 Disappearing Act

    On the night before Thanksgiving 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Boeing 727, collected $200,000 in ransom, parachuted into a stormy Washington wilderness... and was never seen again. Fifty years of investigation, over a thousand suspects, and a single bundle of rotting bills are all that remain. This episode examines the science, the suspects, and the enduring question of whether D.B. Cooper beat the system entirely.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new here, don’t…

  9. E10 · 13 Jul 2026 · 35 min

    The Death of Edgar Allan Poe: Fraud, Disease, Or Murder?

    On October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious outside a Baltimore polling place, wearing a stranger's clothes, with no memory of the previous five days. Four days later, he was dead at 40... and no autopsy was ever performed. Over 26 theories have been proposed, from rabies and tuberculosis to political cooping and targeted violence.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Hidden History to never miss an episode! Hidden History is a Rewind Original Podcast, powered by…

  10. E9 · 6 Jul 2026 · 32 min

    The Lost Colony of Roanoke: America's Oldest Mystery

    In 1587, around 115 English men, women, and children were left on a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina... and three years later, every single one of them had vanished without a trace. The only clue was a single word carved into a wooden post: CROATOAN. And to this day, nobody knows where they went.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Hidden History to never miss an episode! Hidden History is a Rewind Original Podcast, powered by PAVE StudiosFollow us on…

Take it with you

The Melo app keeps playing with the screen off, works in the car and on your watch, wakes you to your station, and browses the whole catalogue offline. Free, no ads, no account.

Get it on Google Play