Raquel de la Morena
Inducted in 2026
Why it is in the collection
Channels about enigmas usually pick one of two roads: believe everything, or mock everything. Raquel de la Morena and Pedro Estrada take a third and more laborious one, which is to take the question seriously without granting the answer.
That choice shows in a small, telling detail: when they announce a video on UFOs, they add that it will be done seriously. It is a promise that binds — and it binds the method more than the subject. The same holds in the biographies, where the interest lies in separating the documented life from the inherited story, and in the videos on religion, handled as the history of institutions and of the decisions they made.
It is in the collection for that pairing of wide curiosity and caution. A catalogue running from the Odyssey to diabetes, from Velázquez to palaeontology, could easily scatter; what holds it together is a single way of asking. And for the generosity of the format: long, unhurried pieces, made to keep company with anyone willing to understand something whole.
About this channel
Raquel de la Morena hosts, together with Pedro Estrada, a channel devoted to history, biography, enigmas and mysteries. The territory is wide: lost civilisations, heterodox archaeology, the UFO phenomenon, biblical mysteries, curiosities of the past, and scientific subjects too: biology, health, nutrition, palaeontology.
Its backbone is the long-form biography of figures popular culture half knows, worked up with the declared aim of going beyond the myth. Around these sit sections on the great painters, on major women in history, on myths and legends, and on the enigmas of the past. The titles show the angle: the great Velázquez fraud, the true route of the Odyssey, Mary Magdalene recast as a prostitute by papal decision, Catherine the Great beyond courtly anecdote. The recurring question is not what the story says, but who decided it should be told that way.
The same disposition appears on slipperier ground. One video announces that UFOs will be discussed "seriously", and that qualifier describes the stance well: mystery treated as an object of study rather than as a claim. Scientific and health topics ( diabetes, with its types, symptoms, causes and myths ) get an equally orderly treatment. There are also broad compilations gathering the great biblical or historical enigmas into a single piece. Visitors will find long narratives, made to be listened to unhurriedly, and a constant invitation to distinguish the documented from the probable and from the merely repeated.