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In 1949, a thirteen-year-old boy was exorcised by the Catholic Church.  The case became the most famous possession story in American history  and inspired The Exorcist — one of the highest-grossing horror films  ever made. For 75 years, the story has been told the same way: a boy possessed,  priests battling for his soul, a miracle ending. But a 29-page diary, a forgotten interview, and decades of...

For centuries, the greatest musicians in history have been linked to the same story. A deal made in the dark. A talent no human being should possess. A price paid in full. This is the story of the Devil in Music. From Niccolò Paganini — the violinist so impossibly skilled that audiences believed he was guided by a demonic hand — to Robert Johnson, who walked to a Mississippi crossroads at midnight...

In 1920 American doctors measured skulls at state fairs and gave trophies to the fittest families. By 1927 the Supreme Court had ruled that forced sterilization was constitutional. Sixty thousand Americans were sterilized against their will. After Nuremberg nobody used the word eugenics anymore. They changed the job titles. The idea didn't go anywhere. In 2018 a scientist in China edited the DNA o...

In 1904, a boy was born in the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg. He was the heir to the Russian throne. And his blood wouldn't clot. That single biological fact set in motion a chain of events that would end a 300-year dynasty, bring Lenin to power, and reshape the 20th century. Rasputin is barely half the story.

In 1977, a police officer in North London filed a report stating she watched a chair slide four feet across a floor with no one near it. She signed it under oath. That's where this starts. This documentary examines four documented cases of poltergeist activity across three countries and five decades — and asks whether science has a better explanation than a ghost. It does. Partially. What's left o...

For over a century, one question keeps coming up: could H.H. Holmes — America's first serial killer — also have been Jack the Ripper? Books have been written. DNA has been tested. Holmes's own great-great-grandson spent years trying to prove it. I looked closely at the evidence — and at the five most serious Ripper suspects on record. For each one, two questions: what does the evidence actually sh...

In 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were shot dead in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville. The haunting was a distraction. The hoax was a distraction. This is what the evidence actually points to — and it's more disturbing than either.