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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
The U.S. Navy attempted to develop a shark attack repellant after many sailors were attacked during WWII. The first step was the formation of a “Sh...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 24:15
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
Three mysteries we can’t stop thinking about.
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 33:48
- Purchases: 2
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
Amber Dawn was 20 when she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Enumclaw, Washington. On her very first night, she began to notice strange sounds....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 17:55
- Purchases: 1
Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the ’70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and int...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 27:10
In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 26:14
- Purchases: 1
We travel to China and find ourselves dancing in between the communist government and religion, outsiders and Christianity, parents and the next ge...
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 30:53
In part one of our "China's road to Jerusalem" series, we set the the stage for the inevitable collapse of the west as we know it.
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 12:22
For the past several months I have been covering the largest religious conversion the world has ever seen, Christianity in China. It is a story tha...
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 02:19
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
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
In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: “We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for a...
Bought by WFAE
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 29:37
- 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
Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 27:50
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Students explore Martin Middle School urban legend Emily. Asking classmates and staff they get some pretty surprising answers as to who she was and...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 05:40
On April 13, 2014, former KKK member Frazier Glenn Cross pulled into a Jewish Community Center and ambushed a grandfather and grandson, killing bot...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 4
For nearly a century we’ve been trying to read someone’s truthfulness by the way they act — through machine, or our own intuition. The police, the ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 13:10
- Purchases: 4
David Barclay tells the story of the time he recorded the deepest sounds in the ocean.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 2
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
