50 States, 50 Stories: The Most Fascinating Tales from Every US State That Deserve a Full 1-Hour Pod

# Episode: IDAHO: The Bomb at the Gate

In 1866, Hawaii began banishing thousands of its own citizens to the remote Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai, condemning them to permanent exile because they had contracted Hansen’s disease. This episode explores the brutal policy, the geography that m... more

In the late summer of 1921, roughly ten thousand coal miners marched across the mountains of southern West Virginia to confront company forces in the largest armed labor uprising in U.S. history. Known as the Battle of Blair Mountain, the five-day co... more

On January 30, 1925, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped 80 feet underground in Sand Cave when a 25-pound rock pinned his ankle, turning a routine scouting trip into a two-week national media spectacle watched by tens of thousands.

In late September 1984, hundreds of residents in The Dalles, Oregon became violently ill from Salmonella contamination in local restaurant salad bars. This was later revealed as a deliberate bioterrorism attack carried out by members of the Rajneesh ... more

In 1879, Ponca chief Standing Bear walked hundreds of miles carrying his son’s bones so the young man could be buried on their ancestral land along Nebraska’s Niobrara River. His act of love ignited a federal trial that forced the United States, for ... more

In November 1971 an unremarkable businessman boarded a Northwest Orient flight, calmly hijacked it with a briefcase bomb, and parachuted into a Pacific Northwest storm with $200,000—then vanished forever. This episode traces the only unsolved skyjack... more

In the early 1920s, a wave of targeted killings swept through Osage County, Oklahoma, as wealthy Osage citizens were systematically murdered for their oil headrights. This episode traces the chilling chain of events that began with Anna Brown’s disap... more