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Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

Rewind Studios

27 episodes

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.

Episodes

  1. The Enfield Poltergeist with Josh Nannochio of What Lurks Beneath

    · 43 min · Episode 25

    As spooky season comes to a chilling end, Josh Nannochio from the What Lurks Beneath channel joins Harini to discuss the terrifying Enfield Poltergeist. In August 1977, a single mother and her four children in north…

  2. The Jersey Devil: America's Oldest Monster Explained

    · 31 min · Episode 24

    For nearly three hundred years, something strange has been stalking the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey: a winged, hooved, horse-headed creature first reported in 1735 and seen by hundreds in a single terrifying…

  3. Buried No More: Giants, Ghosts, and Our Forgotten Relatives

    · 36 min · Episode 23

    For most of human history, we thought we knew who our closest relatives were. Then a fragment of pinky bone in a Siberian cave, a skull hidden in a well for decades, and a chamber full of bones deep in a South African…

  4. Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!

    · 38 min · Bonus

    Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new…

  5. Robert the Doll: Legend, History, and Haunting with Bobbie Curtis Lee of Oddities on Elm Street

    · 47 min · Episode 22

    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…

  6. The Voynich Manuscript: The World's Most Mysterious Book, Explained

    · 41 min · Episode 21

    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…

  7. The Mothman: Appalachian Monster or Guardian Angel?

    · 37 min · Episode 20

    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…

  8. The Phoenix Lights UFO: Flares, Formation, or Something Else?

    · 35 min · Episode 19

    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…

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

    · 32 min · Episode 18

    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…

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

    · 39 min · Episode 17

    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…

  11. The Lead Masks Case: The Mystery of Vintém Hill

    · 34 min · Episode 16

    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…

  12. Spontaneous Human Combustion: The Fire Within

    · 37 min · Episode 15

    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…

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

    · 36 min · Episode 14

    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…

  14. The JFK Assassination: The Evidence, the Theories, and the Unanswered Questions

    · 38 min · Episode 13

    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…

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

    · 32 min · Episode 12

    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…

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

    · 38 min · Episode 11

    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.…

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

    · 35 min · Episode 10

    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…

  18. The Lost Colony of Roanoke: America's Oldest Mystery

    · 32 min · Episode 9

    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…

  19. The Shrould of Turin: Faith Versus Forensics

    · 37 min · Episode 8

    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…

  20. The Death of Alexander the Great: Two Weeks that Changed the Ancient World

    · 36 min · Episode 7

    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…

  21. Princes in the Tower: The Murder Mystery that Inspired Game of Thrones

    · 32 min · Episode 6

    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.…

  22. The Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot Film: Hoax or Proof Bigfoot Exists?

    · 45 min · Episode 5

    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 traces the creature’s roots in Indigenous…

  23. The Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship of the Atlantic

    · 50 min · Episode 4

    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 alcohol fumes and navigation errors to…

  24. The Blast That Shook the World: Meteor, Comet, or Mystery?

    · 37 min · Episode 3

    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 here’s the problem: there was no…

  25. The Roswell Incident: UFO Crash, Cover-Up, or Cold War Secret?

    · 39 min · Episode 2

    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 their story. It was only a weather…

  26. The Dancing Plague of 1518: A Deadly Epidemic That Made People Dance to Death

    · 37 min · Episode 1

    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 recorded history. It wasn’t the plague. It…

  27. Introducing Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat

    · 1:33 · Trailer

    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 defy easy explanation. Mass hysterias.…

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