A plane carrying 101 people disappears with no distress call (Season 1 | Flight 293). A ship runs aground in the darkness spawning myths and legends. Descendants of five men convicted in a dubious trial search for their graves 170 years later. Unsolved Histories by KSL explores forgotten mysteries and other little-known stories.
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Check out History Daily!
On History Daily, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to relive pivotal moments that shaped history. In this special teaser, Gra…
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43 min
Bomber Down: Part Four
An informal network of volunteers, most of whom are military veterans, is working behind the scenes and out of the limelight to help find missing military aircraft and crewmembers.…
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37 min
Bomber Down: Part Three
The B-52, the model of plane that disappeared in February 1968, is a remarkable and enduring aircraft. More than seven decades after the eight-engine bomber first flew, dozens are…
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21 min
Listen to American Criminal Now!
American Criminal dives deep into the lives and misdeeds of some of history’s most notorious criminals, exploring the dark side of the American Dream. Today, we bring you a clip fr…
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52 min
Bomber Down: Part Two
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 simulati…
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36 min
Bomber Down: Part One
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…
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24 min
Bonus Episode | Flight 293 Remembrance Act
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 hun…
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40 min
Vanishing Landscape of the Everett Massacre
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 acti…
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37 min
Forgotten Airship SHENANDOAH
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 SHENANDO…
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The Deadly Voyages of Captain Thorn
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…
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Forgotten 707 Crash in Boeing’s Backyard
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 cra…
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41 min
The Search For The Cayuse Five
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 Ca…
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41 min
Have You Seen The Phantom Ship?
When the captain of a passenger steamer misses a critical right turn on a dark January night, it sets in motion a tragedy that still haunts the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about…
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Flight 293 | Ep 8: Closure, or as Close as Our Language Can Come
After Flight 293 disappeared and the US military turned its back on the families of the lost, a community of tragedy forms by those left behind. Decades later, led by Greg Barrowma…
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Flight 293 | Ep 7: Leave No One Behind
Since the Revolutionary War, the US military has promised active duty members that, wounded or dead, they’ll never be left behind. Having a body to mourn and bury can bring comfort…
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Flight 293 | Ep 6: The Crew
Pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, gate agents and other airline employees form tight networks many of them describe as a “family.” When a plane goes down, news quickly spreads…
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Flight 293 | Ep 5: The Ditching
Less than a year before Flight 293 vanished, an identical airliner on the exact same route – with, incredibly, the exact same flight number – loses an engine midway through the tri…
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Flight 293 | Ep 4: Scuttlebutt
Captain Albert Olsen has thousands of hours as a commercial and military pilot. He’s exactly the kind of skilled, experienced aviator you’d want in the cockpit if a problem came up…
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Flight 293 | Ep 3: Best Friends
When Susan, a teenager in Texas, sees her best friend Jody walking toward her one afternoon in June, she doesn't quite know what to think. Jody shouldn’t be here. She and her famil…
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Flight 293 | Ep 2: The Wreckage
In the Gulf of Alaska, Coast Guard ships from the US and Canada search for any sign of the missing airliner, which sent no distress call. What they find – and what they don’t – wil…