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Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

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Dr. Harini Bhat, a clinical pharmacist and science storyteller, unravels real historical events that still defy explanation: mass hysterias, medical oddities, vanished civilizations, and strange signals that echo across centuries. Hidden History treats these as incomplete case files, not myths; shaped by the limits of knowledge and record-keeping, and revealing what the unknown says about human experience.Hidden History is a Rewind Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch on YouTube @hiddenhistorypod. Follow @RewindStudios on Instagram.

23 episodes

The Voynich Manuscript: The World's Most Mysterious Book, Explained 28 Sept 2026 · 41 min Locked in Yale's Beinecke Library sits a 600-year-old book written in an alphabet that exists nowhere else on Earth: roughly 38,000 words across 240 pages of calfskin, and not one…

The Mothman: Appalachian Monster or Guardian Angel? 21 Sept 2026 · 37 min In November 1966, four witnesses driving through an abandoned munitions plant outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported a towering winged figure with glowing red eyes... and…

The Phoenix Lights UFO: Flares, Formation, or Something Else? 14 Sept 2026 · 35 min On the night of March 13th, 1997, thousands of Arizonans watched a massive, silent V-shaped formation of lights drift slowly across the entire state, from Nevada to the Mexican bo…

The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers, One Night, No Answers 7 Sept 2026 · 32 min In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers set out across the frozen Ural Mountains...and never came back. Searchers found their tent slashed open from the inside, footprint…

Introducing: History Daily 5 Sept 2026 · 19 min On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that ha…

The Loch Ness Monster: Science, Hoax, and Enduring Mystery 31 Aug 2026 · 39 min For over 1,500 years, people have reported a massive creature lurking in the depths of Loch Ness, a 23-mile-long Scottish lake so dark and deep that it swallows light entirely. Th…

The Lead Masks Case: The Mystery of Vintém Hill 24 Aug 2026 · 34 min In August of 1966, two Brazilian electronics technicians were found dead on a hillside outside Niterói, dressed in suits and handmade lead masks, with a cryptic schedule and no cl…

Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Fire Within 17 Aug 2026 · 37 min For nearly three hundred years, people have been found burned almost to ash in rooms that barely show a scorch mark: from Countess Cornelia di Bandi in 1731 to Michael Faherty in…

Cleopatra's Lost Tomb: History's Greatest Missing Body 10 Aug 2026 · 36 min In 30 BCE, Cleopatra VII died on her own terms rather than face humiliation in Rome, and was buried beside her lover Mark Antony in a tomb described as surpassingly beautiful. Two…

The JFK Assassination: The Evidence, the Theories, and the Unanswered Questions 3 Aug 2026 · 38 min On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Within days, the government named Lee Harvey…

The Lost Confederate Gold: Spent, Stolen, or Sunken? 27 Jul 2026 · 32 min When Richmond fell in April 1865, the Confederate government fled south with its entire treasury: gold bars, silver coins, and pieces of eight. And by the time Jefferson Davis was…

D.B. Cooper: The $200,000 Disappearing Act 20 Jul 2026 · 38 min On the night before Thanksgiving 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Boeing 727, collected $200,000 in ransom, parachuted into a stormy Washington w…

The Death of Edgar Allan Poe: Fraud, Disease, Or Murder? 13 Jul 2026 · 35 min On October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious outside a Baltimore polling place, wearing a stranger's clothes, with no memory of the previous five days. Four days later,…

The Lost Colony of Roanoke: America's Oldest Mystery 6 Jul 2026 · 32 min In 1587, around 115 English men, women, and children were left on a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina... and three years later, every single one of them had vanished…

The Shrould of Turin: Faith Versus Forensics 29 Jun 2026 · 37 min A fourteen-foot strip of linen in Turin, Italy bears the ghostly image of a crucified man... and has divided scientists, historians, and believers for nearly seven hundred years.…

The Death of Alexander the Great: Two Weeks that Changed the Ancient World 22 Jun 2026 · 36 min Explore the mysterious death of Alexander the Great, one of history’s most legendary conquerors, whose sudden demise at age 32 in 323 BCE still puzzles historians today. From dise…

Princes in the Tower: The Murder Mystery that Inspired Game of Thrones 15 Jun 2026 · 32 min Learn about the enduring mystery of the Princes in the Tower, where two young heirs to England’s throne vanished in 1483 amid political betrayal, royal intrigue, and a ruthless po…

The Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot Film: Hoax or Proof Bigfoot Exists? 8 Jun 2026 · 45 min Dive into the legend of Bigfoot through the infamous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, a 59-second clip that has divided scientists, skeptics, and believers for decades. This episode tr…

The Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship of the Atlantic 1 Jun 2026 · 50 min Uncover the chilling mystery of the Mary Celeste, the infamous “ghost ship” found drifting in the Atlantic in 1872 with its entire crew vanished without a trace. From explosive al…

The Blast That Shook the World: Meteor, Comet, or Mystery? 25 May 2026 · 37 min In 1908, a massive explosion tore through the Siberian wilderness. It flattened 80 million trees. Shattered windows hundreds of miles away. And lit up the skies across Europe. But…

The Roswell Incident: UFO Crash, Cover-Up, or Cold War Secret? 18 May 2026 · 39 min In July 1947, something crashed in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico. The military’s first announcement? They had recovered a flying saucer. Just hours later, they changed th…

The Dancing Plague of 1518: A Deadly Epidemic That Made People Dance to Death 11 May 2026 · 37 min What would make hundreds of people dance uncontrollably for weeks, until they collapsed? In 1518, the city of Strasbourg was overtaken by one of the strangest epidemics in recorde…

Introducing Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat 21 Apr 2026 · 2 min Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every week she investigates real events that def…