Ottawa, Illinois looked like an ordinary Midwestern town, but behind its thriving watch industry was one of America's most disturbing workplace disasters. This week, we uncover the heartbreaking story of the women unknowingly exposed to radioactive paint and the fight that changed worker safety forever.
Jul 27
34 min
New London: Why Gas Smells Like Rotten Eggs tells the true story behind the deadliest school disaster in American history. On March 18, 1937, nearly 300 students and teachers were killed when the London Consolidated School exploded without warning. There was no smell. No alarm. No chance to escape.
Jul 20
37 min
Bath, Michigan: The First Explosion Wasn't the End. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster becomes even more disturbing after investigators uncover what really happened on May 18, 1927.
Most people know the explosion.
Almost nobody knows what happened next.
Jul 13
32 min
Bath, Michigan: The Bomb Beneath the Children. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster begins with an almost impossible fact: for months, children attended class directly above explosives hidden beneath their school.
Jul 6
30 min
Love Canal: The American Dream That Poisoned America is one of the most shocking true crime history and environmental disaster stories in American history. What began as a quiet neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York became one of the nation's darkest examples of government failure, buried toxic waste, and families fighting to save their children.
Jun 29
32 min
Lily Dale's Forgotten Mystery takes us to a tiny community in western New York where thousands of people still travel hoping to hear from loved ones who have died. This is the true crime history, spiritual history, and unsolved mystery of one of America's most unusual small towns.
Jun 22
33 min
Dryden Mystery: Inside the Village of the Damned explores one of the most disturbing chapters in New York true crime history. For nearly a decade, the small town of Dryden, New York became the center of a string of murders, disappearances, suspicious deaths, and tragedies that left residents wondering if their community had somehow become cursed.
Jun 15
35 min
Black Donnellys: The Family Nobody Would Save is the chilling true crime history of a family whose name became synonymous with fear, violence, and controversy in rural Ontario. This forgotten mystery explores how decades of feuds, rumors, and small-town resentment culminated in one of the most infamous acts of vigilante justice in Canadian history.
Jun 8
32 min
Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? That's the question that has haunted this abandoned Alaskan settlement for decades. In this true crime history and unsolved mystery deep dive, we investigate the legend of the Nantiinaq, the mysterious creature some locals believed drove an entire town away.
Jun 1
32 min
Deep in rural Quebec, the Burnt River Horror became one of the most disturbing true crime history cases Canada has ever seen. The Ant Hill Kids cult began as a peaceful back-to-the-land commune before transforming into a nightmare filled with manipulation, isolation, abuse, and horrifying amateur surgeries performed deep in the wilderness.
May 25
32 min
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