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Lake Superior can change in a heartbeat; one minute it’s calm ― the next it's raging into a wild storm. When people in the water get caught off-gua...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:46
When hunter Ben Karasch sees something move out of the corner of his eye, he assumes it’s a deer. But as Karasch gets a better look, he realizes it...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 12:54
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
Remember campfires? We sure do. Standing around a campfire telling stories and socializing used to be a big part of the Desert Oracle "workflow," a...
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
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
A peek behind the curtain of a classic horror soundtrack
- Added: Feb 21, 2020
- Length: 38:30
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
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
We're taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new docum...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day war, a Palestinian lawyer and two Israeli army reservists nearly brokered a peace agreement that could ha...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 1
As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of the dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds Natio...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 28:20
- Purchases: 1
The story of two explorers chased down—well, technically up—by a jaguar.
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 28:08
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 16:50
Why nuclear energy is a main source of energy for Ontario and who is using renewables?. And how lawsuits silence environmentalists.
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 12:18
The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact, coastal temperate rainforest in the world, running up the coast of BC to Alaska. Elizabeth Arnold ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 03:13
A young American woman goes with her husband to inspect his business in Guatemala when local guerrilla insurgents storm the house they're staying a...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 13:29
Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobod...
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 21:00
- Purchases: 3
Billy finally saved enough money to move his family from a trailer to a house in West Texas. He thought he left his problems behind… until some of ...
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 11:09