Episodes
Published 11/29/21
Play along as we untangle eight strange-sounding situations using yes-or-no questions.
Published 11/29/21
Sidney Cotton risked his life to gather aerial photos during World War II.
Published 11/22/21
In 1891, an unknown criminal began poisoning women in London.
Published 11/15/21
Between 1856 and 1889, a mysterious leather-clad man walked the roads of Connecticut and New York.
Published 10/25/21
Englishman Nathaniel Courthope spent four years defending a tiny island's nutmeg from the Dutch.
Published 10/18/21
One night in July 1904, H. Rider Haggard dreamed that his daughter's dog was dying.
Published 10/11/21
In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in the highlands of New Guinea.
Published 10/04/21
In the 1920, painters of luminous watch dials began to fall mysteriously ill.
Published 09/13/21
A French spy, a transatlantic voyage, and the birth of the modern strawberry.
Published 08/30/21
In 1864, two ships were wrecked on the same remote island. Unaware of each other, their crews struggled separately to survive.
Published 08/23/21
In 1959, Marine pilot William Rankin parachuted through a violent thunderstorm.
Published 08/16/21
Play along as we untangle six strange-sounding situations using yes-or-no questions.
Published 08/09/21
In 1850, a Nile hippo created a stir when it arrived at the London Zoo.
Published 07/26/21
A selection of curiosities and questions from Greg's research database.
Published 07/19/21
In 1857, guests at Washington D.C.'s National Hotel began to come down with a mysterious illness.
Published 07/05/21
It's still uncertain who fired the shot that killed Manfred von Richthofen.
Published 06/28/21
In 1917 two English girls came home with a photograph of fairies.
Published 06/21/21
In 1898 a Belgian ship was frozen into the ice off the coast of Antarctica.
Published 06/14/21
In 1838 Frenchwoman Henriette d'Angeville set out to climb Mont Blanc despite almost universal opposition.
Published 06/07/21
For nearly 50 years, Martin Couney ran a sideshow in which babies were displayed in incubators.
Published 05/24/21
In 1945, a group of American soldiers set out to rescue hundreds of horses from a Nazi farm in Czechoslovakia.
Published 05/17/21
In 1844, New Orleans slave Sally Miller claimed to be a free German immigrant pressed into bondage.
Published 05/10/21
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