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Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

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,

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47:24

Robert the Doll: Legend, History, and Haunting with...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/10/05

As we kick off Spooky Season, Harini is joined by Bobbie Curtis Lee of Oddities on Elm Street to talk about one of America's most haunted items. For over a century, a 40-inch doll named Robert has sat at the center of Key West's strangest story: blamed for car crashes, divorces, and streaks of bad luck that only end with a written apology. He belonged to artist Gene Otto, who gave the doll his own name, his own clothes, and eventually his own room... while his wife Anne quietly unraveled beside him

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40:31

The Voynich Manuscript: The World's Most Mysterious...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/09/28

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 sentence has ever been verified as translated. Emperors paid fortunes for it, the codebreaker who cracked Japan's WWII cipher gave up on it, and supercomputers have made no progress. The evidence is complete and fully photographed... so why can't anyone read it?Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this

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36:57

The Mothman: Appalachian Monster or Guardian Angel?

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/09/21

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 sightings continued for thirteen months. Then, on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River during rush hour, killing 46 people. The creature was never seen again. This episode examines the scientific, historical, and supernatural explanations for what people saw, and how a real community tragedy

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34:32

The Phoenix Lights UFO: Flares, Formation, or...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/09/14

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 border, with no official explanation for hours. The event split into two distinct incidents, each with its own evidence, its own witnesses, and its own stubborn questions that remain unresolved nearly thirty years later. From a governor who changed his story to the one amateur astronomer who put a telescope on the lights,

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32:00

The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers, One Night, No...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/09/07

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, footprints walking calmly into lethal cold, and bodies with catastrophic internal injuries that left no marks on the skin. Nearly seventy years later, the case remains officially unsolved, with theories ranging from a slab avalanche and Cold War weapons testing to espionage and forces the investigators themselves couldn't name.Head

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18:34

Introducing: History Daily

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/09/05

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 happened ‘on this day’ in history.Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time.So

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39:22

The Loch Ness Monster: Science, Hoax, and Enduring...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/08/31

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. The legend exploded in 1933, fueled by newspaper editors, a faked photograph, and a public desperate for wonder during the Great Depression. From DNA sweeps and sonar surveys to a toy submarine and a big-game hunter's revenge plot, the evidence has been tested...and the mystery somehow survives.Head over to our Hidden History

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33:41

The Lead Masks Case: The Mystery of Vintém Hill

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/08/24

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 clear cause of death. They had told their wives they were going one place and quietly went somewhere else entirely...and whatever they swallowed that evening was never identified. Sixty years later, the case remains officially unsolved, with theories ranging from a self-administered ritual gone wrong to robbery, espionage,

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36:42

Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Fire Within

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/08/17

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 2010, whose death an Irish coroner officially attributed to spontaneous human combustion. The pattern is always the same: torso gone, extremities intact, surroundings untouched, and no obvious source of flame. Modern fire science offers a compelling explanation, but a handful of cases still resist easy answers.Head over to

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50:39

Real People. Real Crimes | Introducing CRIMES OF...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/08/12

Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love going down internet rabbit holes, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana-Roga.Every Tuesday, one host brings a set of true-crime stories while the other reacts in real time with no prep, no spoilers asking the questions on everyone’s mind. They pull at every thread until the whole twisted picture comes into view. It’s dark, it’s messy, and the scariest

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36:10

Cleopatra's Lost Tomb: History's Greatest Missing Body

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/08/10

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 thousand years later, that tomb has never been found... and rival archaeologists are still hunting for it in two very different places. This episode examines the real evidence behind Cleopatra's death, the underwater ruins of ancient Alexandria, and the controversial excavation at the Temple of Osiris thirty miles

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37:55

The JFK Assassination: The Evidence, the Theories,...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/08/03

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 Oswald as the lone gunman... but more than sixty years later, most Americans still don't accept that verdict. This episode walks through the physical evidence, the major conspiracy theories, and what the newly released classified files actually reveal.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode:

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32:19

The Lost Confederate Gold: Spent, Stolen, or Sunken?

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/07/27

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 captured weeks later, almost all of it was gone. Did it vanish into soldiers' pockets and wartime chaos, or did a secret society bury it for a future uprising? Some treasure hunters say millions in gold still sit in a railroad boxcar at the bottom of Lake Michigan. This episode traces every dollar from the burning capital

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38:15

D.B. Cooper: The $200,000 Disappearing Act

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/07/20

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 wilderness... and was never seen again. Fifty years of investigation, over a thousand suspects, and a single bundle of rotting bills are all that remain. This episode examines the science, the suspects, and the enduring question of whether D.B. Cooper beat the system entirely.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel

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35:12

The Death of Edgar Allan Poe: Fraud, Disease, Or Murder?

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/07/13

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, he was dead at 40... and no autopsy was ever performed. Over 26 theories have been proposed, from rabies and tuberculosis to political cooping and targeted violence.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new here, don’t forget to follow

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48:00

Introducing: Government That Doesn’t Suck

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/07/09

The government gets a bad rap. But the roads under your feet, the forecast on your phone, and the letter in your mailbox are all government too. Hosted by Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack, Government That Doesn't Suck brings together the sharpest thinkers to reveal the real-world impact of American government, one episode at a time. Follow Government That Doesn’t Suck for a new episode every other Monday. Government That Doesn’t Suck is a Rewind Studios original powered by PAVE

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31:32

The Lost Colony of Roanoke: America's Oldest Mystery

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/07/06

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 without a trace. The only clue was a single word carved into a wooden post: CROATOAN. And to this day, nobody knows where they went.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Hidden History to never miss an

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36:37

The Shrould of Turin: Faith Versus Forensics

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/06/29

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. From the Black Death relic trade to radiocarbon dating and cutting-edge X-ray analysis, this episode examines every angle of one of history's most enduring unsolved mysteries.Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPodIf you’re new here, don’t forget to

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36:10

The Death of Alexander the Great: Two Weeks that...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/06/22

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 disease and poisoning theories to the chilling possibility he was buried alive, this episode breaks down the most compelling explanations... alongside the enduring mystery of his missing tomb. Dive into ancient history, science, and myth as we uncover what might have really happened to Alexander the Great.Head over to our

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31:49

Princes in the Tower: The Murder Mystery that...

Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat ·

2026/06/15

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 power grab by their uncle, Richard III. This episode explores the turbulent backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, examines competing theories, from murder and political conspiracy to survival and hidden identities, and considers how modern research and unanswered questions continue to challenge what we think we know about one of

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