Where Did Everyone Go? Histories of the Abandoned
The world is littered with abandoned ruins. Places where you can’t help but wonder - where did everyone go? Join historian Sascha Auerbach, and comedian Tom Ward, as they reveal the incredible stories behind eerie ghost towns, ruined mansions, forgotten factories, crumbling castles, wartime relics, haunted prisons, and much more.
With insightful interviews from local experts, laugh-out-loud comedy and fascinating nuggets of weird history – Where Did Everyone Go? is an entertaining journey to the world’s most remarkable abandoned places. From the producers of the Forbidden History podcast.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 44
- Years Active
- 2025
43. Amboy – The Original Route 66 Ghost Town
Discover the desert town of Amboy, a community tied to the tumultuous history of Route 66 - America’s most beloved and storied road.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Producer: Lewis Rumbol
Assista…
00:39:19 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
42. The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown
The dramatic tale of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Producer: Lewis Rumbol
Assistant Producer: Alice Ch…
00:32:26 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
41. The Caribbean City Buried by a Volcano
Listen to the incredible first-hand tales of escaping an erupting volcano and the devastating impact the disaster had on this tropical island of Montserrat.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Prod…
00:36:03 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
40. The Brooklyn Army Terminal - Elvis Presley, Prohibition & WW2
This colossal building in Brooklyn played a vital role in a World War, helped enforce prohibition in New York and was the scene of a fascinating moment in the life of Elvis Presley.
Hosts: Sascha …
00:40:11 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
39. Amelia Earhart’s Secret Wyoming Getaway
Hidden in the wilds of Wyoming is the cabin of famous aviator Amelia Earhart, a little-known chapter of this amazing woman’s life… a life that ended in tragedy and an enduring mystery.
Hosts: S…
00:41:45 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
38. Romania’s Infamous Political Prison
Hear how inmates secretly published their own newspaper and plotted their eventual rise to national power…. Until it all came crashing down in one of the most dramatic downfalls in political history.…
00:39:04 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
37. The Notorious ‘Alaska Syndicate’ & the Richest Mine in the World
Learn how a shady organisation run by the Rockefeller and Guggenheim families took control of Alaska and made billions in the process.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Producer: Lewis Rumbol
As…
00:35:38 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
36. The Disturbing Paris Catacombs & the Remains of 6 Million People
Beneath the streets of Paris lie millions of human bones painstakingly arranged in a breath-taking pattern. But who were these people and how did they end up here?
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward…
00:38:37 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
35. The Secret Nazi Nuclear Fusion Lab
The amazing story of a secret laboratory in Argentina run by Nazis that almost cracked the holy grail of science… nuclear fusion.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Producer: Lewis Rumbol
Assistan…
00:37:54 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
34. America’s Mothballed “Rocket Car” Program
Discover how new, ultra-fast trains came close to changing America forever and why the prototypes now sit discarded in a yard on the edge of downtown Pueblo, Colorado.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom …
00:40:22 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
33. The Real POW Camp From "The Great Escape” Movie
A prisoner-of-war camp in Poland hides the story of one of the greatest escapes in military history… an escape immortalized by the 1963 movie “The Great Escape” starring Steve McQueen.
Hosts: Sa…
00:43:42 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
32. Colorado’s Gunslinging Ghost Town (+ Sascha & Tom React to Comments)
Head to the town of Victor, the epicentre of the bloody ‘Colorado Labor Wars’, and hear how the fight for miner’s rights involved dynamite booby-traps, train-bombs, and a mass shoot-out on main stree…
00:29:55 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
31. World’s Largest Nuclear Fallout Shelter
Why was the world’s biggest nuclear fallout shelter a spectacular failure and what was it doing in Switzerland!?
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Producer: Lewis Rumbol
Assistant Producer: Alic…
00:33:54 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
30. Georgia’s Alien Research Facility
Hear how a cutting-edge scientific complex in rural Georgia helped the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and once came incredibly close to a jaw-dropping discovery.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, …
00:40:43 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
29. Taiwan’s Giant Propaganda Speaker
Discover how a gigantic speaker was part of a fascinating battle between the Chinese Communist Party and Taiwan for control of a small but strategically important island.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach…
00:33:10 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
28. America’s World Record-Breaking Ocean Liner
The SS United States – one of America’s greatest ocean liners now sits rusting at a dock in Philadelphia. Hear how this incredibly luxurious ship broke a prestigious speed record and had a secret pur…
00:41:47 |
Wed 28 May 2025
27. Muhammad Ali's African Training Palace
An abandoned palace and stadium in The Congo that played host to Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle' - one of the most legendary sporting events of all time.
Hosts: Sascha …
00:41:01 |
Sun 25 May 2025
26. New Orleans’ Forgotten Home of Jazz
A street in a neglected corner of New Orleans hides three venues that changed the course of music in America and gave birth to one of its greatest stars...
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Prod…
00:45:46 |
Wed 21 May 2025
25. England's Long-Lost "Tunnel Town"
Discover how a network of cleverly engineered tunnels saved an entire town’s population from being massacred before being transformed into a remarkable subterranean neighbourhood.
Hosts: Sascha…
00:29:35 |
Sun 18 May 2025
24. Pablo Escobar's Mansion Fortress
Step into the fortified luxury home of legendary gangster Pablo Escobar and hear about how it was partially destroyed in an audacious assassination attempt.
Hosts: Sascha Auerbach, Tom Ward
Pr…
00:34:56 |
Wed 14 May 2025
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