Damn Interesting

In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.

The tumultuous true story of the life of a fast food icon.

In 1981, an international group of doctors identified the devastating disease behind a perplexing outbreak of paralysis ... Read more

A simple telegram plunged America into the Great War. The Zimmermann telegram, intercepted by American intelligence in A... Read more

"I don’t think it belongs here." Such was the assessment of Bob Vinson, the graveyard shift supervisor at Harvey's Wagon... Read more

Faxes From The Far Side by Damn Interesting

The story of the Beale Ciphers; a set of three encrypted notes from the nineteenth century purportedly describing the lo... Read more

Under ordinary circumstances, the final evening of a cruise aboard the luxury turbo-electric ocean liner SS Morro Castle... Read more

The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew

The meeting had not gone well, the man gloomily reflected as he was driven out of East Berlin. His head was still heavy ... Read more

The story of Camp Century: A "nuclear city" under the Greenland ice sheet that was not entirely what it seemed.

Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic crim... Read more

It was the summer of 1936 when Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the atom-smashing cyclotron, received a visit from Emili... Read more

Near the heart of Scotland lies a large morass known as Dullatur Bog. Water seeps from these moistened acres and coalesc... Read more

It was the middle of a cool September night in Munich, Germany. The year was 1939. In an otherwise unoccupied auditorium... Read more

Sometime in the 1940s an improbable encounter occurred at a mental institution in Maryland. Two women, each of whom was ... Read more

The story of a tragic hotel fire of Rube Goldberg proportions.

On the 11th of July 1897, the world breathlessly awaited word from the small Norwegian island of Danskøya in the Arctic ... Read more

A remote bay in Alaska is home to an odd and occasionally catastrophic geology. In 1958, a handful of people experienced... Read more

In April of 1938, representatives from the USSR approached the Finnish government and expressed a concern that Nazi Germ... Read more