melancholy podcasts
The beautiful ache. Loss, memory, and what remains. Every show links to its kindred spirits. Find one you love, then follow the thread.
Dateline: Missing in America
NBC News · True Crime
Dateline digs into missing persons cases that never made the broadcast.
S-Town
Serial Productions · Personal Journals
A tip about a murder unspools into a haunting portrait of one Alabama town.
Someone Knows Something
CBC · True Crime
A veteran investigator revisits cold cases with the families still waiting.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
Fall of Civilizations Podcast · History
Feature-length elegies for collapsed civilizations, gorgeous and devastating.
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild · History
Royal history's bloodiest footnotes, delivered like bedtime stories with knives.
Thanks For Asking
Feelings & Co. · Personal Journals
Honest stories about grief and the complicated middle of getting through.
World War II with Tom Hanks
The HISTORY Channel | Back Pocket Studios | Audacy · History
Tom Hanks walks the Second World War from invasion to atom bomb.
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