Hosted by J.J. · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 69 episodes
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Mysteries and Backstories is where history gets dark, strange, and unforgettable. Each episode dives into true survival stories, unsolved disappearances, eerie artifacts, and the people who got caught in the middle of it all. From doomed expeditions to chilling historical mysteries, we tell gripping, real-life tales that blur the line between fact and folklore—without the fluff. New episodes every other Wednesday.
J.J. hosts Mysteries and Backstories, a society show with 69 episodes published.
In 1819, Sir John Franklin led an overland expedition into the Canadian Arctic with one goal: chart the northern coastline of North America. What followed became one of the most horrifying survival disasters in Arctic ex
In April 1789, one of history’s most infamous mutinies unfolded aboard the HMS Bounty. Led by Fletcher Christian, a group of sailors turned on their commander and cast Captain William Bligh adrift in the middle of the Pa
Scott’s Doomed Terra Nova Expedition - In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott led the British Antarctic Expedition, better known as the Terra Nova Expedition, determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. What began
Juana María was abandoned on San Nicolas Island stranded alone for 18 years. She became the last of the Nicoleño people, cut off from the world and forced to survive in total isolation. This is one of the most astonishin
In 1552, the Portuguese carrack São João shattered on a remote stretch of the South African coast, throwing more than 600 people into the surf. Those who survived the wreck were left stranded with almost no food or water
In April 1943, the Lady Be Good, a brand-new B-24 Liberator bomber, vanished after its first mission. Believing they had bailed out over the Mediterranean, her crew parachuted into the Libyan desert with almost no food,
When The Mignonette sank in the South Atlantic, it left four men adrift in a tiny open boat with no water and only two tins of turnips. Among them was 17-year-old Richard Parker. As days turned to weeks, starvation and t
This is the story of Tromelin Island. In 1761, the French ship Utile wrecked on a barren sandbank in the Indian Ocean. On board were nearly 150 Malagasy captives, chained in the hold, and over 140 French sailors. The wre
Shipwrecked captain James Riley faced the unthinkable when the brig Commerce ran aground off the African coast in 1815. Captured by desert tribes and forced to march through the brutal Sahara, Riley’s survival came at th
In 1913, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson was stranded alone in Antarctica after the deaths of both companions during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition.Starving, frostbitten, and crawling across the ice with his sk
In 1917, U.S. sailors arrived on Clipperton Island and discovered something horrifying: a skeletal woman and starving children stumbling from the wreckage of a forgotten colony. For three years, a group of women and chil
Fighting forest fires is a dangerous job. The Granite Mountain Hotshots were one of the most elite wildland firefighting crews in the United States. On June 30, 2013, nineteen members were trapped and overrun by flames d
In 1871, Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall died mysteriously on the ice — his final words: “He’s trying to kill me.” For over a century, no one knew the truth.What followed was chaos: a divided crew, a mutiny, and 19
In 1910, Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen and engineer Iver Iversen set out on a desperate Arctic rescue mission—to recover the lost records of the ill-fated Denmark Expedition. But when their ship, the Alabama, was crush
In 1823, frontiersman Hugh Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear and abandoned by his expedition team. With a shattered leg, deep wounds, and no weapons, Glass crawled and limped over 200 miles through the wilderness to sur
In 1912, the Russian ship St. Anna became trapped over 1,000 km from land. For nearly two years, it drifted through the Arctic as the crew faced scurvy, starvation, and total isolation. One man made a desperate 500 km jo
In 1864, the Grafton and the Invercauld were wrecked on opposite ends of Auckland Island, a desolate patch of land in the sub-Antarctic. Stranded just miles apart, the two crews fought to survive the same brutal environm
Survival was his only option. Marooned in 1704, Alexander Selkirk endured four years alone on a Pacific island — a true story that would later inspire Robinson Crusoe.This is the harrowing tale of what it means to surviv
In 1741, HMS Wager wrecked off the remote coast of Patagonia. Stranded and starving, the crew faced not just the elements—but each other. When leadership collapsed, a mutiny split the survivors. Some followed Captain Dav
In 1513, an Ottoman admiral drew a map that shouldn’t exist. The Piri Reis Map charts parts of South America, Africa—and possibly even Antarctica—centuries before they were officially discovered. Based on lost sources an
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Mysteries and Backstories is hosted by J.J.. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 69 episodes.
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