In the 1920s, young women were told radium was harmless.

They painted their teeth with it. They even licked their brushes.

Months later, their bones glowed in the dark, and their jaws crumbled from their faces.

This is the horrifying true story of the Radium Girls:
In the 1910s, radium was the wonder element.

It was sold in face creams, energy tonics, and even toothpaste.

People believed it gave life.

No one realized it was lethal except the companies that used it.

In 1962, one Soviet officer had 10 seconds to decide.

Launch a nuclear torpedo and start World War III.

Or refuse and defy his captain.

What he did next saved 100 million lives.

This is the untold story of the Cuban Missile Crisis...
By the early 1960s, the U.S. and USSR were locked in the Cold War.

Both nations had nuclear arsenals capable of global annihilation.

But America had a massive advantage: Jupiter missiles in Turkey, right on the Soviet border.

Hitler’s deadliest weapon wasn’t a bomb, it was a doctor.

Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death,’ turned Auschwitz into a twisted lab of horrors.

Children, pregnant women, the disabled, no one was spared.

Here’s how he vanished after the war & why his story still haunts history:
Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in Günzburg, Germany, into a wealthy family.

He earned a PhD in anthropology and a medical degree in genetics and heredity.

Mengele was influenced by the pseudoscientific theories of racial hygiene, the genetic "purity" of the Aryan race.

Hitler trusted his unbreakable Enigma machine.

But in a quiet English estate, a team of mathematicians, misfits and mavericks proved him wrong.

They didn’t just crack the code, they shortened WWII by 2 years & saved millions of lives.

This is the incredible story of Station X:
By the late 1930s, Nazi Germany had developed the Enigma machine, capable of encrypting messages into a seemingly unbreakable code.

With over 150 million possible configurations, the Germans believed their communications were secure.

But Britain recognized the danger.

The Titanic didn’t sink by accident.

J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic.

But he canceled at the last minute.

His biggest financial rivals stayed onboard and never made it back.

Here’s the wild theory behind the ‘unsinkable’ ship:
On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, killing over 1,500 people.

A tragic accident. A maritime disaster.

But some researchers argue that the Titanic didn’t sink by accident, it was sunk on purpose.

In 1947, a U.S. Navy pilot flew over Antarctica.

Instead of endless ice, he claimed to have seen lush green land, a warm inner sun, and giant flying discs bearing swastikas.

This is the real story behind the Hollow Earth conspiracy and the lost city of Agartha:
It all began with one of the greatest scientists of the 1600s: Edmund Halley, the man behind Halley’s Comet.

In 1692, he proposed a scientific theory that the Earth was hollow. His logic?

It would explain strange compass readings and Earth’s magnetic field variations.

World War II wasn’t just won on the battlefield, it was won on the assembly line.

Ford built bombers.
Kaiser launched ships in days.
Boeing took the war to the skies.

Here’s how mass production won the war and reshaped the modern world:
In 1941, Henry Ford’s assembly line revolution met the U.S. military’s demand for airplanes.

The Willow Run plant, 4.2 million square feet, was designed to produce the B-24 Liberator bomber.

At its peak, the factory produced one B-24 per hour, cutting production time by 90%.

In the morning, Pompeii was a thriving Roman city.

By evening, it was frozen in time.

For 2,000 years, its secrets lay buried in ash.

Now, scientists and archaeologists are racing against time to uncover the city's last moments.

What they’ve found will leave you stunned:
On an ordinary day in 79 AD, Pompeii was alive with the hum of Roman life.

Shopkeepers haggled in the markets.

Gladiators prepared for combat.

Families dined, laughed, and went about their daily routines.

Above them loomed Mount Vesuvius, silent yet ominous.

In 1763, Britain became the world's most powerful empire.

It crushed France and seized new lands.

But to pay for victory, it taxed its colonies.

And in doing so, it created something it never saw coming.

This is the story of the beginning of the American Revolution: In 1763, Britain defeated France in the Seven Years’ War.

It gained vast territory in Canada, Florida, and dominance in India.

For the first time, it truly ruled an empire on which the sun never set.

But that victory came with a $200 million problem: debt.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler betrayed Stalin and launched the deadliest invasion in history.

3 million German soldiers stormed into Soviet territory, expecting victory in weeks.

Instead, it became Germany’s biggest blunder and the start of its collapse.

This is the story of Operation Barbarossa:
In 1939, Hitler was obsessed with conquering Poland, but there was a problem:

Britain and France had pledged to defend Poland.

Even worse, attacking Poland could drag the Soviets into the war, creating a two-front conflict...

A scenario that Hitler was desperate to avoid.

The Lost City of Troy was once thought to be pure myth.

Then, one German archaeologist defied every expert

And uncovered a secret that had been buried for 3,000 years.

This is the real story of the city that was never supposed to exist:
For centuries, scholars searched for Troy, the city Homer described in The Iliad.

Kings. Gods. A stolen queen named Helen.

And a wooden horse that ended a 10-year siege.

But was any of it real?

Or just epic poetry?

Adolf Eichmann murdered 6 million people from behind a desk.

Then he vanished.

15 years later, 7 Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina.

They weren’t there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him.

This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:
Eichmann wasn't a general.

He didn’t fire a bullet.

But he masterminded the Final Solution, Hitler’s plan to wipe out European Jewry.

He designed the system of trains, ghettos, and death camps.

He made genocide efficient.

In 1969, the US achieved the impossible: landing on the moon.

Yet, 50 years later, millions still believe it was the biggest hoax of all time.

Did NASA fake the moon landing, or is that just a conspiracy theory?

Here’s the truth behind the Apollo 11 mission:
The Case for the Moon Landing Being Real

1. Massive Scale of Collaboration

NASA’s Apollo program employed over 400,000 scientists, engineers, and support staff.

To fake such an event would require an airtight conspiracy across thousands of individuals.

The Nazis weren’t history’s only monsters.

Japan’s Unit 731 froze prisoners alive, dissected children without anesthesia, and unleashed plague bombs on cities.

And one man, Shirō Ishii, led it all.

Here’s the forgotten horror of WWII:
Shirō Ishii was born in 1892 into a wealthy Japanese noble family.

After earning his PhD in microbiology, he quickly climbed the ranks in Japan’s Imperial Army Medical Corps.

But Ishii wasn’t just interested in medicine, he wanted power.

In 1979, Iran’s 2,500-year monarchy collapsed in 14 days.

The Shah of Iran, once the U.S.’s closest ally, was exiled.

An exiled cleric, Ruhollah Khomeini, returned.

And the Middle East hasn’t been the same since.

Here’s the story of how Iran’s Islamic Revolution shook the global order: The fall of Iran’s monarchy wasn’t sudden.

It unraveled gradually, then all at once.

For decades, the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran tried to modernize the country at breakneck speed.

But he underestimated the power of religion, resentment, and revolution.

In 1982, "God’s Banker" was found hanging from a London bridge.

A $790M scandal, mafia ties & secret Vatican accounts, all leading to one question:

How did the Vatican build a financial empire so powerful yet shrouded in mystery?

Here’s the untold story of power & corruption:
The Vatican wasn’t always a financial titan.

In the early 19th century, the church faced its gravest crisis.

After Napoleon invaded Rome in 1798, Pope Pius VI was taken captive, and the Papal States, a key source of income, were lost.

The Vatican was on the brink of collapse.

In the 1950s, the CIA drugged Americans with LSD without their knowledge.

They used hypnosis, torture, and electroshock to try to control their minds.

It was called MKUltra.

And this is the story of the most horrifying government experiment in US history: After World War II, the CIA feared the Soviets had mind control technology.

They wanted a weapon to control human behavior, and in 1953, MKUltra was born.

The mission?

Turn science fiction into reality, no matter the cost.

In 1860, a French explorer stumbled upon a lost empire buried in the Cambodian jungle.

Angkor Wat—larger than medieval London, built by god-kings, powered by advanced engineering.

Then it mysteriously vanished.

Here’s the untold story of its rise and fall: Mouhot was astonished by the sheer scale of what he uncovered.

Angkor Wat, a 900-year-old religious complex, is the largest religious monument in the world.

Its intricately carved stone reliefs, vast corridors, and lotus-shaped towers rival the great cathedrals of Europe.

For over 300 years, Barbary pirates enslaved 1 million Europeans & Americans.

They raided ships, burned villages, and sold captives like cattle.

Until 8 U.S. Marines took on a pirate empire and ended the white slave trade forever.

Here’s the untold story that changed history: Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the Barbary corsairs operated from the North African coast, targeting ships from Europe and the Americas.

These pirates from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya loot cargo and enslave crews.

2,500 years ago, Persia ruled the world.

At its heart stood Persepolis—a city so rich that the Greeks called it paradise on earth.

Then, in a single night, it was burned to the ground.

Here's how Persia built the greatest empire in history and how it was erased: In 515 BC, Darius the Great ordered the construction of a new ceremonial capital, Persepolis.

Built on a grand terrace carved into a mountainside, the city was unlike anything the world had seen.

Every detail was designed to project Persian power.

In the 1950s, the CIA turned innocent Americans into lab rats.

LSD, Hypnosis & Electroshock Therapy.

They used every weapon in their arsenal to control the human mind.

This is the true story of MKUltra: the CIA’s most horrifying secret experiment:
After World War II, the CIA feared the Soviets had mind control technology.

They wanted a weapon to control human behavior, and in 1953, MKUltra was born.

The mission?

Turn science fiction into reality, no matter the cost.