Episodes

Have You Seen The Phantom Ship?

When the captain of a steamer packed with passengers misses a critical right turn on a dark January night, it sets in motion a tragedy that echoes throughout the Pacific Northwest and begets more than a century of haunting stories, myths and legends.

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The Search for The Cayuse Five

In 1850, five Indigenous men are charged in the death of missionary Marcus Whitman in the old Oregon Country. The men are convicted and hanged in Oregon City, 250 miles from the Cayuse homeland. What happens to the bodies of The Cayuse Five after the execution remains a mystery 170 years later.

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Forgotten Jetliner Crash in Boeing’s Backyard

In more than 100 years of Boeing history in the company’s original home of Washington, only once has a Boeing jetliner crashed within the borders of the Evergreen State. A survivor of the forgotten 707 crash of 1959, and a man who photographed the scene north of Seattle, share their haunting stories.

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The Deadly Voyages of Captain Jonathan Thorn

When a ship from New York arrives on the Northwest Coast, the men aboard are intent to land and begin building a base of operations for a global fur-trading enterprise. But first, they must cross the treacherous Columbia Bar – and hope to survive another deadly voyage of Captain Jonathan Thorn.

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Forgotten Airship SHENANDOAH

A giant airship sets out on a cross-country tour, testing the viability of lighter-than-air travel for the U.S. Navy. In the skies above Ohio, something goes wrong and the SHENANDOAH breaks apart. A century later, a handful of artifacts and a few dedicated historians help keep the story alive.

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Vanishing Landscape of the Everett Massacre

In an old mill town on Puget Sound north of Seattle, a stretch of early 20th century brick road is crossed by a vintage railroad bridge. This spot is the only part of the landscape in Everett, Washington that remains unchanged from one of the darkest days in the city’s history more than 100 years ago.

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BONUS EPISODE: Flight 293 Remembrance Act

"Unsolved Histories: What Happened to Flight 293?" has inspired creation of bipartisan bills in the U.S. Congress. If passed, the new legislation would recognize and support the families of hundreds of military members missing on dozens of non-combat military plane crashes since World War II.

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Bomber Down: Part One

On February 28, 1968, a B-52 bomber carrying eight members of the U.S. Air Force crashed while on a training flight near Matagorda Island, Texas. There was no distress call, and no one ejected from the eight-engine, jet-powered bomber before it disappeared beneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Bomber Down: Part Two

The B-52 is on a night-time exercise, practicing evasion of enemy radar and simulating bombing runs when the plane disappears. A search by the Air Force and Coast Guard comes up empty. Then, a crew member’s wife scours the waters and beaches of the Texas gulf coast and makes an incredible discovery.

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An airliner carrying 101 people took to the skies near Seattle moving military personnel and their families to their new assignments in Anchorage. Flying 14,000 feet above the Gulf of Alaska, one of the pilots radioed air traffic control asking to change altitude. It was the last thing anyone heard from Flight 293.

The Unsolved Histories Team