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Andrew Jackson once declared: "I was born for the storm; calm does not suit me." And throughout his life, Jackson was no stranger to close calls. The scrappy president from Tennessee had been a boy when the Revolutionary War broke out, and he
Most people know the “Ring Around the Rosie” nursery rhyme, and most people have heard that it has a dark meaning: It’s all about the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which tore through Europe in the 14th century.But is that really true?https:
Last seen with Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba during a trip with her Alabama high school class in May 2005.https://allthatsinteresting.com/natalee-hollowaycredits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-creditsHis
Discover why the wider Abraham Lincoln assassination plot was far larger than the death of one man and how this three-pronged attack sent out violent aftershocks for decades to come. https://allthatsinteresting.com/abraham-lincoln-assassinatio
On October 14, 1912, Teddy Roosevelt — then running for an unprecedented third term under the banner of the Bull Moose Party — set out to give a speech at the Milwaukee Auditorium in Wisconsin. En route, he crossed paths with a mentally ill sal
It’s the end of March 2024, and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about…The discovery of a mass grave of Black Death victims in Nuremberg……the story of how a well-preserved Ming t
Most depictions of Mary Magdalene in popular culture characterize her in the same way: as a sex worker. In the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, for example, Mary is critiqued by Judas for her "profession" and later describes how she's quote-unqu
In the 1920s, the hills of northeast Oklahoma were soaked in oil — and blood. Though the oil deposits found in the area had made the Osage Native Americans who owned the land rich, tribe members soon began to die at an alarming rate. And they o
So who was Jack the Ripper? More than a century later, the killer's identity continues to elude investigators. Some theories are outlandish — like that writer Lewis Carroll or even British royal Prince Albert Victor were behind the heinous crim
It’s the end of February 2024, and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about…How Amelia Earhart's missing plane may have been found in the Pacific Ocean……the discovery of a warrior'
Like Jack the Ripper himself, little is known about his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly. Her heavily mutilated body was found in a leased room on Dorset Street in East London on November 9, 1888. She had been living in a slum frequently occupied b
On October 16, 1888, a Whitechapel neighborhood watch group received a letter addressed "From Hell" which chillingly described a murder. Even more chillingly, the letter came with what appeared to be a piece of a human kidney preserved in spiri
As the summer of 1888 gradually turned to autumn, the growing fear of Jack the Ripper began to reach its peak. Throughout London’s “Autumn of Terror,” the people of Whitechapel were always on the lookout, wary that the Ripper might be lurking a
It's the end of January 2024 and we've picked a few of our favorite history news stories from this month as well as a handful of significant anniversaries from decades past.The mysterious coded note found in the pocket of a 19th-century dress…
Here's the tragic story of Jack the Ripper's second victim, and how Chapman's brutal death spread fear throughout London, spurned the police to start arresting suspects, and even sparked a response from the killer himself.https://allthatsinte
On August 31, 1888, a young woman by the name of Mary Ann Nichols was found dead, her body gruesomely mutilated on the streets of London’s Whitechapel neighborhood.Police didn’t know it at the time, but Nichols’ murder was just the first of s
Today we look back at 100 episodes, and discuss updates to our favorite stories.https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-uncoveredcredits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-creditsHistory Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media netwo
Each Christmas, millions of children around the world eagerly await the arrival of Santa Claus, the jolly old man in the bright red suit who carries a sack full of presents for all the good boys and girls. However, the iconic representation of
Of the great mass of people staring up at the towering white structures in Chicago’s Jackson Park and enjoying the sight of the world’s first Ferris Wheel, no one knows that the blue-eyed devil walks among them. His name is Dr. H. H. Holmes.ht
It's the end of November 2023 and we've picked a few of our favorite history news stories from this month as well as a handful of significant anniversaries from decades past.Over the past month, we've covered a number of fascinating stories, i
From the moment CBS News broadcaster Walter Cronkite lowered his glasses on November 22, 1963, and told the American public that President John F. Kennedy was dead, the same question has echoed in the minds of countless people throughout the U.
In 1949, priests performed an exorcism on a boy referred to as "Roland Doe," a.k.a. Ronald Hunkeler, in a chilling ordeal that became the real-life inspiration for The Exorcist.https://allthatsinteresting.com/roland-doe-the-exorcist-true-stor
Today, we'll be discussing people who have fallen from mind-boggling heights. And most — though tragically not all — managed to survive. These are their remarkable stories. https://allthatsinteresting.com/vesna-vuloviccredits: https://alltha
As legend has it, the flying Mothman horrified countless Point Pleasant residents in the late 1960s. And when the Silver Bridge collapsed, the creature was blamed for the deaths of 46 people.https://allthatsinteresting.com/mothmancredits: ht
The Enfield Haunting began with a bang. Literally. In the summer of 1977, Peggy Hodgson heard loud noises coming from her daughters' room, upstairs at their house at 284 Green Street, in Enfield, North London. Hodgson went upstairs to investiga
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