Episodios

  • Bomber Down: Part Two

    Bomber Down: Part Two
    Mar 11 2025
    The story of the missing B-52 is about Cold War readiness and the sacrifices that families make. MEAL-88 is on a night-time exercise, practicing evasion of enemy radar and simulating bombing runs when the plane and crew disappear. A search by the Air Force and Coast Guard comes up empty. Then, a crew member’s wife scours the waters and beaches of the Texas gulf coast and makes an incredible discovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    56 m
  • Bomber Down: Part One

    Bomber Down: Part One
    Feb 25 2025
    On February 28, 1968, a B-52 bomber carrying eight members of the U.S. Air Force crashes while on a training flight near Matagorda Island, Texas. There is no distress call, and no one ejects from the eight-engine, jet-powered bomber before it disappears beneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 m
  • Bonus Episode | Flight 293 Remembrance Act

    Bonus Episode | Flight 293 Remembrance Act
    Feb 11 2025
    Season One of Unsolved Histories: What Happened to Flight 293? has inspired Congress to close a loophole that meant the Department of Defense turned its back on the families of hundreds of active-duty servicemembers missing after non-combat military plane crashes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 m
  • Vanishing Landscape of the Everett Massacre

    Vanishing Landscape of the Everett Massacre
    Jan 28 2025
    A lumber strike in a blue-collar town on Puget Sound attracts members of the IWW – the Industrial Workers of the World or “Wobblies” – from nearby Seattle to join in the labor action. Violence escalates, and in the culminating battle, seven men are killed. More than a century later, the history, and the places where it happened, are disappearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 m
  • Forgotten Airship SHENANDOAH

    Forgotten Airship SHENANDOAH
    Jan 14 2025
    A giant airship sets out on a cross-country tour, testing the viability of lighter-than-air travel for the U.S. Navy. In the skies above Ohio, something goes wrong and the SHENANDOAH breaks apart. A century later, a few artifacts and dedicated historians help keep the story alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 m
  • The Deadly Voyages of Captain Thorn

    The Deadly Voyages of Captain Thorn
    Dec 31 2024
    The richest man in America sends a team by sailing ship to the Oregon Country for a share of the fur trade. Before they can land, they must cross the hazardous waters at the mouth of the Columbia River. Then, their tyrannical sea captain sails north, setting the stage for deadly disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 m
  • Forgotten 707 Crash in Boeing’s Backyard

    Forgotten 707 Crash in Boeing’s Backyard
    Dec 17 2024
    A survivor recounts the final minutes aboard a Boeing 707 before it becomes the only jetliner ever to crash in Boeing’s home state of Washington. The next day, a man visits the crash scene with a camera, only to pack away his rare photos for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 m
  • The Search For The Cayuse Five

    The Search For The Cayuse Five
    Dec 3 2024
    In 1850, five Indigenous men are charged in the death of missionary Marcus Whitman in the old Oregon Country. The men are convicted and hanged in Oregon City, 250 miles from the Cayuse homeland. What happens to the bodies of The Cayuse Five after the execution remains a mystery 170 years later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 m