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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
This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
When Aaron Quinn called the Vallejo police to report tha...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 43:40
In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 44:17
Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:19
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
John U. Bacon talks about his latest book, "The Great Halifax Explosion."
Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Dec 08, 2018
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 3
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
Helen James grew up in a military family – her great great grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 24:39
In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roommate. Detectives asked her to help gather inform...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 34:29
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
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
Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn’t leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 26:32
- Purchases: 1
One of the things that people who live in New York know is that “you don’t talk to people on the subway”. I think this is a common feeling on train...
- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 11:33
In 2014, 16-year-old Wildin Acosta left Olancho, Honduras and traveled toward the U.S. border. When he arrived, he turned himself in to border patr...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 22:47
- Purchases: 1
In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 19:39
- Purchases: 1
SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this. This is the second episode of a two-part story.
Melinda...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 31:45
- Purchases: 2
When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 25:27
- Purchases: 2
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: 01:01:02
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Jarvis Johnson was a basketball prodigy by age 2. He’d developed elite basketball skills by the time he was 12, which is also about the time he dis...
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00:04
It was Shirley Dygert's first time jumping from a plane. When everything went wrong, skydiving instructor David Hartsock determined that there was ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 08:29
- Purchases: 2
When Brandy Gibson was pregnant the first time, she noticed that opening her freezer gave her an odd, pleasant feeling. But when she got pregnant a...
- Added: Sep 27, 2015
- Length: 15:59
- Purchases: 2
Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 07:27
- Purchases: 3
The anatomy of a sentencing hearing for a juvenile in Michigan facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. Charles Lewis, Jr was 13 wh...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 17:14
- Purchases: 2
Terry's cell at Orleans Parish Prison became a drowning cage as the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina rose almost to the ceiling. As his drowned...
- Added: Aug 21, 2010
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
