Episode 155 | History's Mysteries — Mysterious Events

In this Mystery episode we focus on the Yuba County Five — five friends who drove to a basketball game in 1978, abandoned their running car on a mountain road 70 miles from home, and were found dead months later including one man who starved in a trailer fully stocked with food and heating supplies he never used, and one man who walked out barefoot into a northern California winter and was never found.

Four found dead. One walked out with no shoes. He was never seen again.

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Episode 154 | Historical Events

In this History episode we focus on where the Black Death actually came from — following Yersinia pestis from the grasslands of Central Asia along the Silk Road to Caffa in Crimea, where Mongol forces may have committed the first documented act of biological warfare by catapulting plague-infected bodies over the city walls, and onto the Genoese ships that carried it to Sicily in 1347.

A flea. On a rat. On a ship. Sailing west.

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Episode 153 | Human History — Individuals

In this History episode we focus on Napoleon Bonaparte — the Corsican outsider who arrived at the French military academy speaking Italian with a thick accent, made himself Emperor of France, conquered most of Europe, lost it all in Russia, was exiled twice, and died alone on a remote island in the South Atlantic at 51.

He conquered Europe. He lost it in Russia. He was exiled twice. He died on an island nobody could find on a map.

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