We could start this episode of today explained in lots of places.

We could start in January 2024 when museums across the country all of a sudden just shut down exhibits.

We have taken off display or covered the cases with objects that are of cultural sensitivity.

Or we could start with the 1990 law they're attempting to comply with?

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,

or we could start in the decades prior to the passage of that law,

when Native American tribes were clamoring for it.

It wasn't just given.

Some Cheyenne woman didn't make that trust and say, here you go.

Those were gotten in a really, really violent genocidal manner.

Or we could go to the 19th century

when some of the country's most prestigious archaeologists

spent their time grave robbing.

On the show today, we're going to talk about how all the affected tribes might finally get their

ancestors and their stuff back.

In 1937, two researchers had a kind of dangerous idea.

So they figured the perfect place to test it out was in an elementary school, on kids, on the eve

of a massive epidemic. The idea was air would go

through these things they called a radiation chambers. E. V. Rays would blast the

air and it would kill off the pathogens.

This week on Unexplainable, could a century old hunch about ultraviolet light save us

from respiratory disease?

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