The Backstory with Patty Steele

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The Backstory (Replay): The unexplained blast that shook the world

In this replay episode: On a beautiful summer morning in 1908, a massive explosion hit Siberia. It downed 80 million trees and lit the night sky 3,000 miles away in Sweden. But to this day, no one knows what caused it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  The Backstory: Did Leonardo da Vinci invent robots and the helicopter??

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  The Backstory: Date raped by a superstar in classic Hollywood

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  The Backstory: Surviving a grizzly attack

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  The Backstory: From prostitute to queen of the pirates

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  The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge

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  The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman

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  The Backstory: Back from the dead to take the gold

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  The Backstory: Demons to moon landings – the story that inspired The Exorc…

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  (Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier

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  The Backstory: All the money in the world…and a torturous upbringing

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  The Backstory: Fatal obsession with a rising star

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  The Backstory (Replay): Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility

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  The Backstory: Getting inked…5,000 years ago

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  The Backstory: Weird trends: from live ornamental hermits to garden gnomes

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  The Backstory: Spiderman and…presidential corruption?!

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  The Backstory (Replay): Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles