History's Mysteries

More than 30,000 Jews were murdered near Kiev over a two-day period during the Holocaust. Why Ukrainians, Russians, and Germans are only now coming to terms with this black chapter in their histories?

Neanderthals may have coexisted with our predecessors.

Tracing the ancient roots of the Freemasons, including the murderous legend that inspired their rituals.

The rumors have persisted for over fifty years. They have all the trappings of fiction, yet there are those who persist on believing that the U.S. Navy actually rendered a warship invisible and teleported it to and from the Philadelphia Naval Yards in a top-secret project. The True Story of the Philadelphia Experiment chronicles the origins and spread of this tallest of all sailor’s tall tales, revealing how research into anti-submarine technology likely provided the catalyst for the accounts and documenting stages in the story’s development in the pages of pulp fiction.

Sir Francis Drake sails around the world, but accounts of his feat are covered up.

Exploring the Salem Witch Trials, which took place in 17th-century Massachusetts. The hour looks at recorded accounts of accusation, imprisonment, trial and execution.