Backstory with Larry Potash

You know his name, but have you heard about his time in the ring?

How a man known as the Crazy Balloonatic rose to new heights, and disappeared forever.

How one man is documenting decades-old advertisements painted on the side of Chicago buildings... before they fade away forever.

A historian gets a rare look inside the Royal Archive to read King George's writings about the Revolutionary War, and Larry takes a trip to his hometown of Boston to walk in the footsteps of history.

Ian Fleming worked in British intelligence before he created James Bond... so how much of the world's greatest fictional secret agent was Fleming himself?

He's found several photographs from more than a century ago, and now Mark Hersch is painstakingly recreating these images, and giving them new life — one frame at a time. This is the Backstory.

Fast Eddie helped the feds lock up Al Capone, but that's not all he's known for...

Considered a useless byproduct by many, offal cuisine is gaining in popularity. 

Lipizzans are some of the most beautiful horses in the world, and just north of Chicago.... dozens of them are trained to do a brilliant dance.

The first-ever successful lawsuit brought by a slave was filed by a woman named Henrietta Wood.

The Salem witch trials led to the execution of 20 people in 1629, and just a few decades ago a case documented by the Catholic church inspired "The Exorcist." But what really happened in these tales of witches and demons?

How a ghost story sparked a move towards mysticism in the U.S. — and profiting from it. And meet the experts offering real money for proof of the supernatural.

NASA's revolutionary sales pitch worked to enlist the American public in the space race in the '60s, but that race also stoked Cold War fears, whose remnants are still hidden across Chicagoland.

Bill German was just a teenage Rolling Stones fan when a chance encounter led the band to give him access to their life behind the scenes, so he could document it all.

Gene McConville was dragged away from her 10 kids during Northern Ireland's "Troubles," her body found years later with a single gunshot to the head. Her death remained unsolved, until an author says he found her killer.