History Uncovered

Explore the dark recesses of our past with History Uncovered. Follow us on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/7s57UR52dTMdXZqXzDqpxc) or [Apple](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-uncovered/id1485610570)

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In 1923, Major George S. Patton plunged fully clothed into churning, storm-tossed waters off Massachusetts, battling strong currents to rescue two drowning boys. He would earn the prestigious U.S. Coast Guard Silver Lifesaving Medal.

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/MorsesCode

War correspondents examine a bloodstained sofa by candlelight inside the ruined Führerbunker following the April 30, 1945 suicide of Adolf Hitler.

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/aid2000iscool

A questionnaire answered by Mickey Mantle in 1973 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yankee Stadium in which he describes receiving oral sex under the right field bleachers during a game.

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

On 9 September 1777, Captain James Cook laid waste to a village on the island of Moorea in the South Pacific for the sake of a goat. The incident happened after Mahine, the local chief, took a liking to Cook's livestock and stole his goats. Cook burned Mahine's village, and the goats were returned

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/FullyFocusedOnNought

Video footage of a therapist working with Genie Wiley in the early 1970s. For the first 13 years of her life, she was tied to a training toilet and left in a dark bedroom. She was beaten for making noise of any kind and her father would stand outside her room growling to scare her into silence.⁠

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/HistUncovered

My 82yo CIA mom describes the Great Depression in 2007

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/JohnGonyea

Pictures from the Lebanese Civil War. Beginning in 1975, groups representing different ethnicities and political ideologies began fighting each other across the country. When the war finally ended 15 years later, over 120,000 were dead and another 1 million people had emigrated.

Posted 28th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

Thirteen sons, one family photo. In 1955, the Harrison family of Jonesboro, Tennessee, became known as America’s largest all-boy family — a sight that turned them into a mid-century curiosity.

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/hoosier_catholic

Anthony Crawford was one of the richest black farmers in all of South Carolina until 1916, when he was murdered by a mob. Despite owning 427+ acres of land, he was attacked in broad daylight and his family was given 2 days to flee the state, with the same mob then seizing his land and belongings.

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

Jack Smith, a 42-year-old disabled coal miner, is wheeled down the street by his 16-year-old daughter in Rhodell, West Virginia in 1974. It would take him 18 years to receive workers' compensation for the accident that resulted in the lower half of his body being removed.

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

The Ku Klux Klan takes over an amusement park in Cañon City, Colorado, 1926

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/hoosier_catholic

1996 image of the “Elephant’s Foot,” a mass of molten reactor material beneath Chornobyl’s destroyed reactor, captured with a slow shutter in extreme radiation.

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/aid2000iscool

Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the April 26, 1986 explosions that triggered the worst nuclear disaster in history.

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/aid2000iscool

Robert Kennedy taking a break during his brother, John's, presidential campaign in 1960

Posted 25th Apr 2026u/RealWorldForever

During filming of The Seven Year Itch in 1954, over 1,500 New Yorkers swarmed 51st Street to watch Marilyn Monroe's dress fly up. The crowd chanted "Higher! Higher!" as they gawked, enraging Monroe's husband Joe DiMaggio. He beat her so badly that night that she filed for divorce three weeks later.

Posted 24th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

March 16, 1968, the Mỹ Lai Massacre committed by US soldiers during the Vietnam War

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/The_Mongrel_Tarants

US soldiers smoking weed out of a shotgun, Vietnam, 1968

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/UrbanAchievers6371

In the 1560s, French pirates continuously attacked Spanish shipping in the channel between Florida and the Bahamas. As the wrecked ships started washing up on the shoreline, the Calusa Indians of South-West Florida took gold and silver from the hulks and enslaved castaway Spanish sailors.

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/FullyFocusedOnNought

Palestinian refugee children after the Nakba in a makeshift school in Nablus, West Bank, 1948.

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/The_Mongrel_Tarants

David Bowie flying economy class on a commercial flight during his 1983 Serious Moonlight tour

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/hoosier_catholic

The Pancasila Youth of Indonesia. From 1965 to the present day, they’ve been mass murdering political opposition at the behest of the Indonesian government, a stalwart anti-communist US ally.

Posted 24th Apr 2026u/RevolutionFirm6496

Pope Leo XIV in 1980

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/hoosier_catholic

Photo of a Samurai in Japan, Edo period, 1865, by the first travel photographer, Felice Beato

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/hoosier_catholic

Sgt. Herant J. Dicranian, born on June 29, 1923 in Massachusetts. He served as a Sergeant & Tail Gunner on the US Army. He died October 7, 1944.

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/PeneItaliano

Mexican Singer Chalino Sánchez's Mysterious Murder — And The Note He Got Just Before

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/shadowbannedlol

The aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, taken and smuggled out of the country by Hong Kong photographer Kan Tai Wong.

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/HistUncovered

Victoria Louise of Prussia, photographed in 1910.

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

In 1938, British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was headed on vacation to Switzerland when a friend asked him to go to Czechoslovakia to help child who were in danger from the Nazis. Winton agreed — and saved over 600 children from the Holocaust by forging visa documents and smuggling them to Britain.

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

The Branch Davidian compound at Mount Carmel was engulfed in flames on April 19, 1993, ending a 51-day siege outside Waco and resulting in the deaths of 76 men, women, and children.

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/aid2000iscool

On this day 120 years ago, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco. Though it lasted only 42 seconds, fires soon engulfed almost the entire city. Within days, over 3,000 people were left dead and 80 percent of the city was left in ruins.

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

Karayuki-san (Miss Come Around) which many Japanese girls and women come from poverty-stricken agricultural prefectures were trafficked into prostitution by their government to counties include Australia and Singapore for strong economic base for Japan during late 1880s

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

In 1800s Ireland they wrote brutal anti recruitment songs to rebel against the British. This is the story of Arthur McBride.

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/oli_does_jazz

In 1599, Cornelis de Houtman, the captain who had led the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies, lost his life in a fierce shipboard battle in Aceh, Indonesia. The opposition forces were led by Admiral Malahayati, a female commander who reportedly killed the Dutchman herself with a dagger.

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/FullyFocusedOnNought

My CIA mom talking about her group’s responsibilities at CIA headquarters

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/JohnGonyea

1892, A family poses in front of 1341 year old Sequoia tree nicknamed ‘Mark Twain’ that was felled in 1892 after a team of two men spent 13 days sawing it. The giant tree was 331 feet tall (100 meters) and had a diameter of 16 feet (4.9 meters).

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/No-Marsupial-4050

My CIA mom describing work with Allen and John Foster Dulles

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/JohnGonyea

Can someone tell me what flag this is?

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/weneedjustice14-4

One of the last known photographs of the RMS Titanic, taken on April 12, 1912, days before she sank on April 15.

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/aid2000iscool

A supporting arch for the Old Roman Bridge, which has stood for 2,000 years in Murray Valley outside of Mosul, Iraq. Photographed in the 1940s and the present day.

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/kooneecheewah

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