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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Dorothy Kilgallen, Jack Ruby, and the JFK Assassination

October 9, 2026 · 49 min

On November 8, 1965, the most powerful female journalist in America was found dead in her Manhattan townhouse, in the wrong bedroom, fully dressed, with an unprescribed drug in her blood and no drinking glass in the room. Dorothy Kilgallen…
The Mad Trapper Outran 30 Men and a Plane for 48 Days. Nobody Knows His Name.

October 6, 2026 · 31 min

February 1932. A man lies face down in the snow on the Eagle River with seven bullet holes in him, still holding his rifle. It took 48 days, 30 men, 133 dogs and the first airplane ever used in a Canadian manhunt to put him there. Nobody…
Before Jeffrey Epstein. The FINDERS

October 2, 2026 · 25 min

In 1987 two men were arrested in Tallahassee with six children. Within days the evidence was seized, the headlines faded and the case all but disappeared. Decades later, declassified FBI documents and FOIA releases reopened the mystery…
The Man From 2036. John Titor, the IBM 5100 and the Internet's Greatest Unsolved Mystery

September 29, 2026 · 34 min

On November 2, 2000, someone logged onto a small internet forum and described, in technical detail, a machine that could move a human being through time. Over four months and 151 posts he called himself John Titor, a soldier from 2036 sent…
The Johnny Gosch Files. The Hidden Network They Tried to Erase

September 25, 2026 · 16 min

In 1982 a twelve-year-old paperboy vanished from West Des Moines, Iowa. No body, no note. Four decades later the evidence points toward a hidden network behind legitimate institutions, with patterns that echo the Franklin scandal, the…

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The Death Valley Germans. A Family of 4 Vanished in the Desert. It Took 13 Years to Find Them.

September 22, 2026 · 56 min

In July 1996 a family of four German tourists drove a rented minivan into the most remote corner of Death Valley and never came out. Ninety-one days later a ranger spotted the van buried in sand in Anvil Spring Canyon, and the largest…
The Fountain of Youth Was a Lie. Billionaires Are Still Hunting It.

September 18, 2026 · 31 min

Ponce de Leon never searched for it, yet he became the most famous name attached to a magic spring that nobody has found in 500 years. From a 1521 arrow wound in Florida to a Soviet scientist who promised 150 years and died at 65, to the…
The Stayner Brothers: One Was Kidnapped at 7. The Other Became the Yosemite Killer.

September 11, 2026 · 37 min

In 1972 a convicted child predator took seven-year-old Steven Stayner off a Merced, California street and raised him under a fake name for seven years. Steven came home a hero. His older brother Cary did not, and by 1999 he was the…
The Montauk Project: The Base Is Real. The Records Are Gone.

September 8, 2026 · 56 min

A rusting radar tower on the tip of Long Island became the center of America's wildest conspiracy: time tunnels, a mind-control chair, an army of stolen boys, and a monster summoned in 1983. John separates the Preston Nichols legend from…
Skinwalker Ranch: How the DIA Lost Control of What They Found

September 4, 2026 · 35 min

In 2007 a Defense Intelligence Agency physicist stood in a Utah ranch kitchen and watched an impossible machine hover in midair for thirty seconds. The U.S. government's answer was $22 million and a secret program almost nobody was…
The Connecticut River Valley Killer: She Gave Police His Face, Jeep, and Plate. He Was Never Found.

September 1, 2026 · 29 min

Between 1978 and 1988, at least seven women were stabbed to death along the New Hampshire-Vermont border, and an eighth. 22-year-old Jane Boroski, seven months pregnant, survived 27 stab wounds and gave police a description of her…
The Reincarnation Files: 2,500 Cases. 60 Years Inside the University That Studies Life After Death.

August 28, 2026 · 35 min

Since the 1960s, a division inside the University of Virginia's medical school has quietly built a database of more than 2,500 cases of young children who describe verifiable details of lives they never lived, beginning with founder Ian…

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About the show

America's Strangest History is about the stranger aspects of American history. Our weekly video podcast covers history overlooked by mainstream historians. Join us as we rediscover the untold parts of history. Hosted by John Genua and cohost/law school buddy, Jimmy Molloy. Laugh and learn about historical accounts of true crime, paranormal, Bigfoot, lost treasure and more!