The Podcast

In three episodes, The Hidden Hindenburg podcast tracks a bestselling author’s quest to solve this decades-old mystery. Follow the trail of Michael McCarthy’s investigation into a tale of international intrigue that reveals a whistleblower, a cover-up, and corruption on two continents.

Return with him to the 1930s, and hear the voices of the Zeppelin captains, the radio newscasts, and the chilling account of one of the last surviving Hindenburg eyewitnesses.

Meet the Cast

Charles ‘Rosie’ Rosendahl

He commanded the naval station where the Hindenburg caught fire—then buried a whistleblower’s tip.

Hugo Eckener

Hailed as an heroic Zeppelin builder, he had a sinister past that rendered him an unreliable narrator.

Ernst Lehmann

The ‘Little Captain’ revealed a hazard on the Hindenburg weeks before the tragedy.

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