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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Season 1

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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