Case file 034Space & Beyond
Lights Beyond the Gate
American airmen followed mysterious lights into Rendlesham Forest, venturing into the darkness with a tape recorder to investigate what some believed was a spacecraft.
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Case file 033Crime & Mystery
An Appointment with Nobody
Julia Wallace was killed in her Liverpool parlour while her husband searched for a man who did not exist, and his alibi became the case against him.
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Case file 029The Unexplained
Death Came for the Fortune Teller
A psychiatrist set out to test whether premonitions could prevent disasters, and found warnings of his own death among the predictions.
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Case file 025The Unexplained
Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies
Two Yorkshire cousins cut fairies out of paper and convinced the creator of Sherlock Holmes, then could not agree on how the joke had worked.
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Case file 024Power & Secrets
Who Really Shot Bobby Kennedy?
Robert Kennedy was shot moments after winning the California primary, but a conviction has never ended the argument over what happened in the hotel pantry.
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Case file 023Power & Secrets
Guy Fawkes - The Fall Guy?
A plan to blow up King James and Parliament was foiled by an anonymous letter, but how much did the government know before it arrived?
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Case file 021Forgotten Histories
A Wonder from Godalming
Mary Toft’s supposed rabbit births fooled the king’s surgeons and made her a national joke, but the doctors wrote down far more than she ever got to say.
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Case file 016Forgotten Histories
Last Landing at Lakehurst
Filmed from the ground as it burned, Hindenburg left investigators arguing over sabotage, static and the fabric of its skin.
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Case file 015Power & Secrets
Captives of the Atomic Age
Britain secretly recorded Germany’s leading nuclear scientists at the end of the war, and what they said in private undermined the story they later told about Hitler’s bomb.
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Case file 014Forgotten Histories
Brotherhood of the Eye
Behind the Copiale cipher lay the Oculists, a secret society that staged eye operations on its recruits and set out to expose the Freemasons.
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Case file 013Crime & Mystery
Scandal at Dublin Castle
The theft of Ireland’s crown jewels on the eve of a royal visit ended one official’s career, but neither the jewels nor the thief was ever found.
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