Strange History

Unexplained History has been highlighted by Million Podcasts in its historical mysteries podcast rankings, giving fresh outside recognition to the show’s eerie blend of vanished people, strange artifacts, and history’s most stubborn mysteries.

An 1891 Texas newspaper story claimed a fallen meteorite gave off poisonous effects and left people sick. More than a century later, the tale still survives through clippings, reposts, and retellings.

A carved U.S. Great Seal given as a friendly Soviet gift in 1945 reportedly hid one of the Cold War’s most ingenious listening devices — and the story still feels too perfect to be real.

The Serapeum of Saqqara mystery keeps pulling believers back to the giant granite boxes that look too precise, too heavy, and too strange to forget.

A careful look at the viral claim that ancient stone chambers across the British Isles were tuned to 110 Hz and may have altered the human brain, separating real archaeoacoustics research from internet overreach.

Rome’s Porta Magica is a real 17th-century doorway covered in alchemical symbols, but the legend of vanished gold-making and secret knowledge is harder to prove.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole did not record literal screams from hell, but the real science behind the deepest hole ever drilled is strange enough on its own.

Claims of a buried second Sphinx beneath Giza continue to circulate, but the evidence remains ambiguous and far less dramatic than the legend.

Archaeologists excavating Viking graves have made a striking discovery: artifacts that appear to be physical representations of objects described in Norse mythology and Icelandic sagas. What once looked like ordinary grave goods may actually have been objects the Norse considered powerful, symbolic, and perhaps even mythically real. The finding adds a new layer to one […]