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I Lived in a Haunted Apartment That Didn't Like to Be Alone
Season 1 Episode 78
In the early 2000s, musician Nathan Munn moved into a tiny, ornate apartment in Montreal. At first, he and his flatmates brushed off its strange ener…
9 months, 1 week ago
How a Sinking Ship Refloated our Marriage
Season 1 Episode 77
In 2012, a cruise liner named the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people. But Australian couple Rob and Tracy Elcombe survive…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
I Visited an Uncontacted Tribe in the Amazon
Season 1 Episode 76
The Awá, an Indigenous group in Brazil's Amazon, had no contact with the outside world until recently. In 2010, BBC journalist Justin Rowlatt visited…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
I Slept With New York's Elite to Rob Them
Season 1 Episode 75
In 2009, Kari Ferrell was outed by the media for writing bad checks and robbing trust fund babies across Manhattan. Dubbed the 'Hipster Grifter,' Kar…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
SCAMMERLAND: How a Fake Job Offer Landed Me in Slavery
Season 1 Episode 74
This is the first episode of our new What It Was Like series, SCAMMERLAND. It's based on an episode we did last year, looking at how online scams are…
10 months ago
Wellness and Lies: My Friendship With Belle Gibson
Season 1 Episode 73
In 2015, wellness influencer Belle Gibson was outed for pretending to have cancer. Now she's back in the headlines thanks to a new show on Netflix. I…
10 months, 1 week ago
I Watched Tornado Chasing Go from Subculture to Saturation
Season 1 Episode 72
Tornado chasing was a niche hobby when Tim Marshall started in the 1970s. But over time, he watched it grow in popularity and then explode into the m…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Discovering My Grandfather's Secret Nazi Past
Season 1 Episode 71
Julie Lindahl always knew there was something different about her family. Her German grandparents had fled to Brazil after the war, but she didn't kn…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Getting Stuck in a Washing Machine Changed My Life
Season 1 Episode 70
In 2014, Laurence Hearn was drinking too much and struggling to make ends meet. Then he accidentally got stuck in a washing machine. What followed wa…
11 months ago
Why Did My Schoolmate Murder His Family?
Season 1 Episode 69
In 1989, Melissa Fyfe was a high school student in Tasmania when her classmate killed his parents and younger brother. Shocked, the community buried …
11 months, 1 week ago