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Strange History and Unsolved Mystery Stories Worth Exploring
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items A curated collection of fascinating strange-history stories, unsolved mysteries, forgotten women, and real cases that sent me down a rabbit hole. You’ll find podcast episodes, helpful articles, books, and other recommendations for curious women who l...
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Her Strange Hour Podcast Episodes
Unsolved Mysteries and Strange History to Read
Her Strange Hour Podcast Episodes
Fascinating episodes from Her Strange Hour featuring strange history, unsolved cases, forgotten women, and real mysteries told with compassion.
The strange disappearance of Aaron Burr’s daughter during a sea voyage in 1812.
Theodosia Burr: The Vice President’s Daughter Who Vanished at Sea
A little-known Chicago poisoning case involving a woman who seemed to predict the deaths of the people around her.
The Woman Who Scheduled Her Husbands’ Deaths: Tillie Klimek
A mother vanished from her home under circumstances that still raise unsettling questions decades later.
She Woke Up to a Stranger Carrying Her Mother Away
If you prefer to read the show notes and get a good explanation of the story thats mentioned in the podcast, check out the show notes by reading this publication.
Her Strange Hour
Three women whose disturbing asylum experiences reveal how easily inconvenient women could be dismissed and confined.
3 Bizarre Asylum Cases From the 1800s
Linda Hazzard had no medical degree, but she convinced people that extreme fasting could cure illness. This episode looks at her deadly sanitarium, the patients who trusted her, and how she was allowed to keep practicing for so long.
How a Fake Doctor Got Away With Murder | Linda Hazzard
In 1917, Ruth Cruger vanished after visiting a motorcycle shop to have her skates sharpened. Police searched the building and found nothing, but months later investigator Grace Humiston helped uncover what they had missed beneath the basement floor. ...
The Girl Police Missed Beneath Their Feet | Ruth Cruger & “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
I wanted to tell Bonnie Nettles’ story because her role in creating Heaven’s Gate is often overshadowed by Marshall Applewhite. This episode explores the woman behind the infamous group and how her influence continued long after her death.
Who Was Bonnie Nettles? The Woman Behind the Heaven’s Gate Cult
Reet Jurvetson went without her name for 46 years. I wanted to share the story of the young woman behind the Jane Doe mystery, how her identity was finally restored, and the questions about her death that remain unanswered.
Jane Doe #59: The Unsolved Murder of Reet Jurvetson
Unsolved Mysteries and Strange History to Read
Interesting reads about unsolved mysteries, forgotten history, unusual disappearances, and real stories that will send curious readers down a rabbit hole.
The life and unsolved murder of the woman remembered as the Bandit Queen of the Old West.
Who Killed Belle Starr? The Unsolved Murder of an Outlaw Queen
A minister, a choir singer, and one of the most sensational unsolved murder cases of the 1920s.
The Hall-Mills Murder: A Scandalous Unsolved Mystery
A collection of real historical puzzles that still have no clear explanation.
7 Baffling Unsolved Mysteries That Still Have No Explanation
Tillie Klimek was a Chicago housewife who seemed to have a very strange habit — predicting when the men in her life were going to die. And somehow, those predictions kept coming true. This story gets even stranger when arsenic, suspicious deaths, and...
Tillie Klimek: Chicago’s Serial Poisoner or Media Myth?
In 1943, four boys exploring a wooded area in England found something horrifying inside a hollow wych elm tree — the remains of a woman whose identity is still unknown. Soon after, strange graffiti began appearing asking, “Who put Bella in the Wych E...
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? Inside Britain’s Most Haunting Unsolved Mystery
As a stay-at-home mom who loves true crime, I’ve often wondered why so many women are drawn to it. I wrote this post to explore how curiosity, survival instincts, maternal anxiety, and the desire to feel prepared may all play a part.
Why Women Love True Crime: The Psychology & Survival Instincts