A brilliant scientist stood alone in a St. Petersburg laboratory. Moments later, a silent, glowing sphere entered the room—and killed him instantly. What followed was buried in technical euphemism, discredited by peers, and quietly erased from history.

In 1753, Russian physicist Georg Wilhelm Richmann became the first person in recorded history to die while attempting to measure atmospheric electricity. Witnesses described a floating ball of light that struck him mid-experiment—leaving no scorch marks, only a hole in his forehead.

This episode reconstructs the fatal experiment, the suppressed reports, and the forgotten legacy of The Ball Lightning Executioner.

In 1962, more than a hundred children and factory workers were ushered into a Havana movie theater for a secret screening. Within minutes, they were screaming, convulsing, and clawing to escape. The film was never shown again—and its existence swiftly erased from Cuban records.

This episode reconstructs the lost story of The Screaming Room, a propaganda experiment gone catastrophically wrong during the Cold War. Drawn from declassified medical reports, eyewitness accounts, and archival CIA cables, it unravels a real event long dismissed as rumor: the day a film broke an audience’s mind.

The footage is gone. But what happened inside the Payret Cinema still echoes.

In the winter of 1517, villagers near Verdellino, Italy, reported an impossible vision: armies of ghostly soldiers clashing in a frozen field, day after day, then vanishing without a trace. Witnesses included peasants, priests—even a Venetian mercenary commander who saw the battle with his own eyes.

This episode reconstructs the events surrounding the so-called Battle That Never Was, a mass apparition—or hallucination—that spread through Lombardy and reached the halls of the Vatican. Based on firsthand accounts, sealed letters, and early printed pamphlets, it remains one of Europe’s most unnerving historical anomalies.

What hundreds swore they saw has been nearly erased. This is the record that remains.