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Hosted by Atlas Gray · history · EN-US
From vanished explorers and buried treasure to ancient legends and unexplained phenomena, each episode takes you deep into the world’s most compelling enigmas. We investigate the evidence, examine the theories, and follow the trails left behind by time.If you’re fascinated by lost civilizations, daring expeditions, unsolved disappearances, and the secrets history tried to forget — you’re in the right place.The truth is out there. Let’s go find it.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFrom vanished explorers and buried treasure to ancient legends and unexplained phenomena, each episode takes you deep into the world’s most compelling enigmas. We investigate the evidence, examine the theories, and follow the trails left behind by time. If you’re fascinated by lost civilizations, daring expeditions, unsolved disappearances, and the secrets history tried to forget, you’re in the right place.
Unlocking the Unknown is hosted by Atlas Gray. The show has published 109 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Tomb China Won't Open: Rivers of Mercury and the First Emperor" (29 October 2026, 14 minutes), "The Beer Hall Bomb: The Carpenter Who Nearly Killed Hitler" (28 October 2026, 48 minutes), and "The Glider Raid That Took Belgium's Impregnable Fort: Fort Eben-Emael" (27 October 2026, 62 minutes).
Unlocking the Unknown publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 109 episodes.
Booking probability for Unlocking the Unknown is 41%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Unlocking the Unknown requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Unlocking the Unknown's contact route on record: public web form.
Atlas Gray hosts Unlocking the Unknown, a history podcast with 109 episodes published.
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Unlocking the Unknown
Near Xi'an lies the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the man who united China in 221 BC. Archaeologists know where it is and have mapped it from outside, yet more than 2,000 years after his death the burial chamber has never been...
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In November 1939 a carpenter named Georg Elser spent more than 30 nights locked inside a Munich beer hall, hollowing out the pillar behind Hitler's podium and hiding a time bomb inside it. On 8 November it exploded...
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In May 1940, Belgium's newest fortress guarded the bridges Hitler's army needed to break into the Low Countries. It was reputed to be impregnable. Then, at dawn on 10 May, silent gliders landed on its roof. We follow...
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In October 1942, a small Norwegian fishing boat named Arthur sailed into Trondheimsfjord with forged papers, a cargo of peat and two British Chariot human torpedoes hidden underneath. Their target was Hitler's biggest...
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On the night of 22 to 23 October 1943, as RAF bombers headed for Kassel, German night fighter pilots heard something strange on their radios: a second controller, speaking perfect German, giving them the wrong orders...
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On 5 November 1940, Convoy HX 84, 38 merchant ships with a single escort, the converted liner HMS Jervis Bay, ran into the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer in the middle of the Atlantic. In this deep dive: how...
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On 25 October 1944, a handful of small American escort carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts found the battleship Yamato and Admiral Kurita's fleet bearing down on them off Samar. In this deep dive: how Halsey's...
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On the night of 18-19 December 1941, six Italian divers riding manned torpedoes, nicknamed "pigs", slipped into Alexandria harbour through a gate the British had opened for their own destroyers. By morning, the...
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During World War II, Allied forces employed innovative tactical deceptions—such as Operation Bodyguard, Operation Taxable , Operation Glimmer , and Operation Titanic using Rupert dummy paratroopers —to mislead German...
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On the night of 15 October 1946, hours before he was due to hang, Hermann Göring bit into a cyanide capsule in the most closely guarded cell block in Europe. Eighty years later, nobody can say for certain how he got it...
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On 14 October 1939, a single German U-boat slipped through a gap in the defences of Britain's "impregnable" fleet anchorage at Scapa Flow and torpedoed the battleship HMS Royal Oak at anchor. 835 men and boys died in...
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During World War II , the British military employed ingenious visual deception and stagecraft to mislead the Axis powers. A notable figure in these operations was Jasper Maskelyne , a famous stage illusionist who joined...
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During World War II , the British intelligence agency MI5 operated the Double-Cross System to capture, turn, and utilize enemy operatives as double agents to feed fabricated data to Nazi handlers. Overseen by the Twenty...
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These sources document the clandestine history of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and the 3133rd Signal Service Company, elite American units known as the Ghost Army. During World War II, these soldiers utilised...
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These sources detail Operation Frankton, the December 1942 Cockleshell Heroes raid in which Royal Marines paddled canoes up the Gironde to attack Axis shipping in Bordeaux with limpet mines. The narrative covers the...
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These sources detail the covert SOE raid known as Operation Postmaster, in which Allied operatives seized three Axis ships from the Spanish colonial harbour of Santa Isabel on Fernando Po in January 1942. The narrative...
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Britain once explored an extraordinary wartime proposal: a vast floating airfield made from reinforced ice. This deep dive follows Project Habakkuk from the Battle of the Atlantic and Geoffrey Pyke’s radical idea to Max...
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The historical reality behind the movie Operation Mincemeat , a cinematic portrayal of an audacious World War II deception . British intelligence officers Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley orchestrated a plan to...
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Operation Mincemeat , a legendary British intelligence deception executed during the Second World War to mislead the Axis powers regarding the invasion of southern Europe. The primary records from the UK National...
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the historical and scientific legacy of the 1888 Matchgirls' Strike , highlighting the activism of figures like Sarah Chapman and James Barker . They detail the horrific medical reality of phossy jaw , a necrotic...
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