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• The Salem Witch Trials: What Really Happened in 1692

  October 9, 2026 · 25 min

  In colonial Massachusetts in sixteen ninety-two, reports of affliction in the household of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris became accusations, warrants, examinations, trials, imprisonment, and executions. This episode follows the…

• The Titanic: What Really Happened During the Final Hours

  October 2, 2026 · 26 min

  In the final hours of April fourteenth and fifteenth, nineteen twelve, Titanic entered a known ice region, struck an iceberg, flooded beyond the limits of its subdivision, and sank with only enough lifeboat space for a little over half the…

• The Black Death: What It Was Like to Live Through the Plague

  September 25, 2026 · 23 min

  In thirteen forty-eight, the first great wave of the Black Death reached Tuscan cities that had laws, churches, households, burial customs, markets, and councils, but no way to see the organism killing them. This episode follows the…

• Chernobyl: What Really Happened Inside the Nuclear Disaster

  September 17, 2026 · 33 min

  At one twenty-three in the morning on April twenty-six, nineteen eighty-six, Reactor Four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed during a turbine rundown test. This episode reconstructs the final hours inside Unit Four…

• The Electroshock Experiments on Institutionalized Patients

  September 11, 2026 · 28 min

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