Futility Closet

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Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles.

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Recent Episodes
  • 365-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
    Nov 29, 2021 – 32:00
  • 364-Sidney Cotton's Aerial Reconnaissance
    Nov 22, 2021 – 34:12
  • 363-The Lambeth Poisoner
    Nov 15, 2021 – 33:34
  • 362-The Leatherman
    Oct 25, 2021 – 33:14
  • 361-A Fight Over Nutmeg
    Oct 18, 2021 – 29:30
  • 360-Haggard's Dream
    Oct 11, 2021 – 30:38
  • 359-Stranded in Shangri-La
    Oct 4, 2021 – 30:03
  • 358-The Radium Girls
    Sep 13, 2021 – 30:34
  • 357-Scenes From an Earthquake
    Sep 6, 2021 – 33:45
  • 356-A Strawberry's Journey
    Aug 30, 2021 – 30:23
  • 355-The Auckland Islands Castaways
    Aug 23, 2021 – 32:17
  • 354-Falling Through a Thunderstorm
    Aug 16, 2021 – 33:05
  • 353-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
    Aug 9, 2021 – 32:22
  • 352-A Victorian Hippopotamus
    Jul 26, 2021 – 31:44
  • 351-Notes and Queries
    Jul 19, 2021 – 33:21
  • 350-Symmes' Hole
    Jul 12, 2021 – 32:19
  • 349-The National Hotel Disease
    Jul 5, 2021 – 32:15
  • 348-Who Killed the Red Baron?
    Jun 28, 2021 – 32:59
  • 347-The Cottingley Fairies
    Jun 21, 2021 – 30:25
  • 346-A Desperate Winter in Antarctica
    Jun 14, 2021 – 33:01
  • 345-Climbing Mont Blanc
    Jun 7, 2021 – 32:15
  • 344-Martin Couney's Incubator Babies
    May 24, 2021 – 30:26
  • 343-Operation Cowboy
    May 17, 2021 – 31:16
  • 342-A Slave Sues for Freedom
    May 10, 2021 – 33:01
  • 341-An Overlooked Bacteriologist
    May 3, 2021 – 30:53
  • 340-A Vanished Physicist
    Apr 26, 2021 – 33:09
  • 339-The Baron of Arizona
    Apr 19, 2021 – 32:16
  • 338-A Point of Law
    Apr 5, 2021 – 29:48
  • 337-Lost in a Daydream
    Mar 29, 2021 – 31:18
  • 336-A Gruesome Cure for Consumption
    Mar 22, 2021 – 33:14
  • 335-Transporting Obelisks
    Mar 15, 2021 – 32:14
  • 334-Eugene Bullard
    Mar 8, 2021 – 33:18
  • 333-Stranded in the Kimberley
    Feb 22, 2021 – 33:00
  • 332-Princess Caraboo
    Feb 15, 2021 – 30:03
  • 331-The Starvation Doctor
    Feb 8, 2021 – 31:39
  • 330-The Abernathy Boys
    Feb 1, 2021 – 33:23
  • 329-The Cock Lane Ghost
    Jan 25, 2021 – 30:47
  • 328-A Canine Prisoner of War
    Jan 18, 2021 – 30:47
  • 327-The Misplaced Tourist
    Jan 11, 2021 – 29:19
  • 326-The Recluse of Herald Square
    Jan 4, 2021 – 31:13
  • 325-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
    Dec 28, 2020 – 31:52
  • 324-The Bizarre Death of Alfred Loewenstein
    Dec 21, 2020 – 31:53
  • 323-The Blind Traveler
    Dec 14, 2020 – 30:06
  • 322-Joseph Medicine Crow
    Dec 7, 2020 – 30:52
  • 321-The Calculating Boy
    Nov 30, 2020 – 32:41
  • 320-John Hornby and the Barren Lands
    Nov 23, 2020 – 35:34
  • 319-Friedrich Kellner's Opposition
    Nov 16, 2020 – 33:49
  • 318-Peace Pilgrim
    Nov 2, 2020 – 33:15
  • 317-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
    Oct 26, 2020 – 31:51
  • 316-A Malaysian Mystery
    Oct 19, 2020 – 33:22
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