Stuff You Missed in History Class

The 1973 horror film “The Exorcist” was inspired by a 1949 alleged possession case in a suburb of Washington, D.C. Roland Doe’s story is more [Read more]

Interest in being scared on purpose — for fun — led to the development of haunts as entertainment over the last several hundred years. But [Read more]

This 2011 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina covers the story of Marie Tussaud and her famous wax figures. So who exactly was she, [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss a surprise change to the research process for Unearthed! episodes. They also talk about analysis of post-mortem stomach contents, and discuss [Read more]

Part 2 of our October 2021 coverage of items literally or figuratively unearthed covers exhumations, shipwrecks, books and letters, and edibles and potables. And it [Read more]

This October 2021 instance of Unearthed! covers updates, some oldest things, animals and graves. There’s also an exception to the show’s moratorium on including coin [Read more]

This 2018 episode covers an even from June 30, 1908, when at approximately 7:15am, the sky over Siberia lit up with what was described by [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss problematic aspects of trials and the parts of Rice’s story that they each found themselves thinking about. Then, Palmer’s status as [Read more]

William Palmer often turns up on lists of historical serial killers. Though his trial for murder is generally considered a settled case, it was judged [Read more]

Rice amassed a big enough fortune to establish a whole university – and become a target for murder. But is that actually how he died? Learn [Read more]