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Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 49:00
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
“I think it was around 3:00 a.m., and that’s when I heard a strange man’s voice waking me from sleep.”
This is part one of a two-part episode. Lis...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 52:27
On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, jus...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 43:07
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
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 36:45
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
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
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
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
Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 37:16
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
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
