FORGOTTEN HISTORY

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November 11, 2026 2.6x the video's usual pace The Edmund Fitzgerald: What Really Happened That … The video ran that day at 56,346 views a day, 2.6 times its usual pace (21,987).

This week on the channel +1.5M views this week

FORGOTTEN HISTORY follows Skorzeny from commandos to Cold War espionage

Michael Droberg hosts the week's most-watched new upload, tracing a Nazi officer's wartime operations and reported recruitment by Mossad.

Channel: FORGOTTEN HISTORY · Story of November 3, 2026

This week on the channel +1.2M views this week

USS Indianapolis, a scapegoated captain and an eleven-year-old's campaign on Forgotten History

Michael Droberg wrote and hosted the long episode on the 1945 sinking, and two shorts on Captain Charles McVay followed it.

Channel: FORGOTTEN HISTORY · Story of October 4, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

The Edmund Fitzgerald: What Really Happened That Night?

Video published

November 5, 2026

Video views so far

157,976

Video views, pace per day

56,346

Views in its first 32 hours

40,826

YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.5% of all views the category's channels gained this week

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Why The U.S. Marines Became the World’s Most Feared Fightin…	November 10, 2026	46:29	11,712	23,578	11,712 (8 hours)	675	121
Edmund Fitzgerald’s Final Radio Warning Before the Storm #s…	November 10, 2026	0:44 short	4,157	5,223	4,157 (15 hours)	118	0
The Fitzgerald Vanished From Radar—But Visibility Was Clear…	November 9, 2026	0:37 short	1,858	1,232	1,678	88	2
Edmund Fitzgerald: What Really Happened in Its Final Hours?…	November 9, 2026	0:21 short	4,619	1,669	3,706	148	4
Project Azorian: The Secret Mission That Honored Six Sailor…	November 9, 2026	1:28 short	2,039	198	1,735	178	4
Project Azorian: The CIA Secret Undone by Stolen Papers #sh…	November 8, 2026	1:51 short	2,319	133	1,973	183	6
K-129 Recovery: The Secret Mission 4,000 Feet Below #shorts	November 8, 2026	0:43 short	3,676	390	2,284	147	6
Glomar Explorer: The Secret Mission to Recover K-129 #shorts	November 7, 2026	2:00 short	2,963	328	2,049	196	8
Project Azorian: The CIA’s Secret Mission to Recover K-129 …	November 7, 2026	0:50 short	3,825	233	2,227	168	7
CIA’s Secret K-129 Recovery: What They Found Below #shorts	November 6, 2026	2:31 short	2,505	17	1,962	197	3
The Edmund Fitzgerald: What Really Happened That Night?	November 5, 2026	21:49	157,976	56,346	40,826 (32 hours)	2,542	248
Operation Sea-Spray: The Secret 1950 San Francisco Test #sh…	November 4, 2026	0:30 short	2,710	29	1,634	145	10
Operation Sea-Spray: San Francisco’s Secret Navy Experiment…	November 4, 2026	0:30 short	2,271	17	1,420	130	9
Project Azorian: The CIA's Greatest Underwater Heist	November 3, 2026	25:37	32,618	1,016	15,643	824	103
Operation Panzerfaust: How Hitler Forced Hungary Back Into …	November 2, 2026	1:22 short	4,500	8	2,883	252	9

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

25.0 in the category: 19.7

comments per 1,000 views

2.3 in the category: 1.2

a video's usual first day on this channel

2,863 views

short vs long

12 short (up to 3 minutes), 3 long
average views per short video: 3,120
average views per long video: 67,435

YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)

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MOST CORRUPT SERIES: Lyndon Baines Johnson - LBJ - Forgotte…	August 22, 2023	22:47	2,593,851
America's Deadliest Mass Shooting - Forgotten History	July 17, 2024	19:01	2,504,888
The Entebbe Raid - Forgotten History	November 22, 2023	21:36	2,053,421

YouTube: Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Saviors of Buchenwald - Forgotten History Shorts	October 3, 2022	1:00	1,466,022
Medal of Honor Recipient Gen. James Livingston - Forgotten …	December 18, 2022	1:00	1,263,476
Deadly encounters: P51 Mustang vs Me 262 - Forgotten Histor…	June 8, 2023	1:00	1,219,777
When Werewolves KILLED an entire platoon - WW2 - Forgotten…	September 9, 2022	1:00	474,513
Lewis B "Chesty" Puller - Forgotten History Shorts	November 16, 2022	1:00	443,824

YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. November 11, 2026Video surgingThe Edmund Fitzgerald: What Really Happened That … The video ran that day at 56,346 views a day, 2.6 times its usual pace (21,987).
2. October 29, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 576,488 views a day, 3.4 times a normal day (168,202).
3. October 16, 2026Video taking offBlackwater: The Private Army That Changed Modern … The video opened at a pace of 123,071 views a day, 4.8 times a normal first day on this channel (25,883).