The history you remember is only part of the story.
Some people changed the world and were nearly forgotten. Others survived the impossible, made decisions that quietly altered history, or lived through events so extraordinary they sound like fiction.
Lost in the Record tells their stories.
New here? Start with these five.
The 11-year-old girl who named Pluto
In 1930, news of a newly discovered world reached a breakfast table in Oxford.
An eleven-year-old girl suggested a name.
Pluto.
It stuck. Her part in the story nearly disappeared.
The man who may have prevented World War III
A Soviet warning system reported that American nuclear missiles were heading toward the USSR.
Stanislav Petrov had minutes to decide whether the warning was real.
Instead of escalating it, he waited.
The woman who survived the Titanic...and wasn’t finished
Violet Jessop survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Four years later, she was aboard the Britannic when that ship sank too.
And somehow, that still isn’t the whole story.
The teenager who fell two miles into the Amazon
On Christmas Eve 1971, Juliane Koepcke’s plane disintegrated in midair over the Peruvian rainforest.
She fell approximately two miles, still strapped to her seat.
She survived.
Then she had to find her way out of the Amazon alone.
The doctor who was right before the world was ready to listen
Ignaz Semmelweis discovered something astonishingly simple.
When doctors washed their hands, far fewer women died after childbirth.
Deaths fell dramatically.
Instead of celebrating him, the medical establishment rejected him.
History is full of stories like these.
People whose names disappeared.
Decisions whose consequences weren’t understood until years later.
Survivors who shouldn’t have survived.
Discoveries nobody believed.
Lost in the Record goes looking for them.
One true story at a time.
If that’s your kind of history, come along.