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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 26:07
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
A woman moves into her new student digs and hears something coming from the basement...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 10:36
Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:19
The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the insid...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 33:06
- Purchases: 1
World-class biathlete Kari Swenson was on an afternoon trail run in the mountains near Big Sky, Montana in July 1984 when two men blocked her path.
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 38:59
When 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared in 1917, newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend. New York police said that there w...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 27:01
- Purchases: 1
Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a loca...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 33:34
One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 26:51
- Purchases: 1
When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she received something very strange in the mail. She didn’t know who it was from, or why they would have sent i...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 25:31
- Purchases: 1
“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:22
In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, a 69-year-old woman named Linda Gillman hired a man named Christian Olsen to do some repairs on her condo. A...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 29:20
On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in a neighborhood in Atlanta called Little Five Points. The home be...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 24:56
- Added: Jun 13, 2019
- Length: 05:39
- Purchases: 1
John “Sonny” Franzese was once described as “largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He’d been active in the...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 23:46
- Purchases: 1
This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 22:48
- Purchases: 1
On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a sawed-off rifle, and a plan.
Bought by ABC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 31:31
- Purchases: 2
When Tyler Wetherall was a kid, her mother and father packed up the family car and drove through the night. They were on the run from the FBI. And ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 26:41
- Purchases: 2
An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 23:07
- Purchases: 3
In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and...
Bought by HowSound
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 25:03
- Purchases: 1
An American scientific research ship responds to a sinking boat full of refugees in the Mediterranean.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 08:31
- Purchases: 1
A telescoped version of NASA audio as it tells the public specifics about the shuttle as it glides in for a landing.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 2
I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 14:44
Will Ted, an 82-year-old man keep his license -- or will be be stuck in his suburban home with nothing to do and nowhere to go? The subject is also...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 21, 2012
- Length: 11:46
- Purchases: 1
A family of Bukharan Jewish dancers and musicians escape war-torn Tajikistan. They move to an apartment near Queens BLVD, and go from dodging bulle...
Bought by Remix Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2009
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 1
