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

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   E22 · 5 Oct 2026 · 47 min

   Robert the Doll: Legend, History, and Haunting with Bobbie Curtis Lee of Oddities on Elm Street

   As we kick off Spooky Season, Harini is joined by Bobbie Curtis Lee of Oddities on Elm Street to talk about one of America's most haunted items. For over a century, a 40-inch doll named Robert has sat at the center of Key West's strangest story: blamed for car crashes, divorces, and streaks of bad luck that only end with a written apology. He belonged to artist Gene Otto, who gave the doll his own name, his own clothes, and eventually his own room... while his wife Anne quietly unraveled beside him. The haunting may be real, but the doll might not be where it lives.Head over to our Hidden…

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   E21 · 28 Sep 2026 · 41 min

   The Voynich Manuscript: The World's Most Mysterious Book, Explained

   Locked in Yale's Beinecke Library sits a 600-year-old book written in an alphabet that exists nowhere else on Earth: roughly 38,000 words across 240 pages of calfskin, and not one sentence has ever been verified as translated. Emperors paid fortunes for it, the codebreaker who cracked Japan's WWII cipher gave up on it, and supercomputers have made no progress. The evidence is complete and fully photographed... so why can't anyone read it?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…

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   E20 · 21 Sep 2026 · 37 min

   The Mothman: Appalachian Monster or Guardian Angel?

   In November 1966, four witnesses driving through an abandoned munitions plant outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported a towering winged figure with glowing red eyes... and sightings continued for thirteen months. Then, on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River during rush hour, killing 46 people. The creature was never seen again. This episode examines the scientific, historical, and supernatural explanations for what people saw, and how a real community tragedy became one of America's most enduring cryptid legends.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube…

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   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:…

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   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…

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   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…

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   7 Oct 2026 · 38 min

   Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!

   Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you Hidden History.Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull three unbelievable true facts every week and tell you the full story behind each one. Nothing is off limits. Myths and monsters. Forgotten scandals. Accidental discoveries. Untold stories behind the songs…

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   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:…

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   E14 · 10 Aug 2026 · 36 min

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

   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:…

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    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…

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