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Julia Child: Weird History, Spy Secrets and the Making of The French Chef
Episode 158
Julia Child had one of the strangest second acts in American cultural history: before she became the towering voice of French cooking, she worked for…
2 months, 1 week ago
H. H. Holmes: Murder Castle and the Historical True Crime Legend
Episode 157
America’s most infamous Murder Castle still looms over the H. H. Holmes story: a Chicago hotel of rumours, hidden rooms, insurance schemes and a seri…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Biosphere 2: Weird History of a Sealed World That Ran Out of Oxygen
Episode 156
A sealed world in the Arizona desert was meant to prove humans could live beyond Earth — then the oxygen began to vanish.
Biosphere 2 promised a futu…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Morgan Metzer: What Really Happened in the Gaslit by My Husband Case
Episode 155
Morgan Metzer survived a terrifying New Year’s Eve attack that first looked like a violent home invasion. But the truth behind the Morgan Metzer case…
3 months ago
Nellie Bly: Her Strange True Story of Ten Days in a Mad-House and 72 Days Around the World
Episode 154
A young reporter walks into an asylum and changes journalism forever. Nellie Bly became one of the most daring historical figures of the Gilded Age b…
3 months, 1 week ago
eBay Stalking Scandal: How Corporate Scandals Turn Into Cyberstalking and Revenge
Episode 153
A newsletter criticised eBay. Then came dead insects, sinister messages, fake accounts and masked surveillance outside a couple’s home.
The eBay Stal…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
West Memphis Three: Paradise Lost and What Really Happened in Satanic Panic
Episode 152
Three children were murdered in West Memphis, and three teenagers were blamed in a case where fear seemed to outrun evidence. The West Memphis Three …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
McMillions: The McDonald’s Monopoly Frauds and Scams Story Explained in Full
Episode 151
The McDonald’s Monopoly game promised instant riches, but behind the golden arches was a fraud so bold it sounds invented. McMillions tells the stran…
4 months ago
Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping: Historical True Crime and the School Bus Buried Alive
Episode 150
Twenty-six children climbed onto a school bus in California. Hours later, they had vanished — and by nightfall, they were buried alive underground.
T…
4 months, 1 week ago
Suffolk Strangler: Steve Wright, British True Crime and the Ipswich Murders
Episode 149
Five women were murdered in Ipswich, and a city already used to being ignored suddenly found itself at the centre of a national manhunt. The Suffolk …
4 months, 2 weeks ago