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It's Raining Meat
In this episode of The Compendium, we hand over the mic to our friends at Horrifying History for a crossover episode. Its a tale so bizarre, it sound…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Erin Patterson: Australian True Crime and the Mushroom Murders True Story
Episode 138
A family lunch in rural Victoria ended with three people dead, one survivor, and a Beef Wellington at the centre of Australia’s most infamous mushroo…
7 months ago
Space Cadets: Famous Hoaxes and the Reality TV Fake Space Mission
Episode 137
A group of contestants believed they had blasted into orbit, but their “space mission” had never left the ground. Space Cadets was Channel 4’s wildly…
7 months, 1 week ago
Aileen Wuornos: What Really Happened to America’s Notorious Female Serial Killer
Episode 136
Aileen Wuornos became one of America’s most infamous female serial killers, but the case is more than a simple monster story. Behind the highway murd…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Reeva Steenkamp: Famous Trials and the Oscar Pistorius Shooting Case
Episode 135
A locked bathroom door, four gunshots, and a courtroom battle over fear, intent and truth.
Reeva Steenkamp was a model, law graduate and public figur…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Monster of Florence: Unsolved Mysteries and Italy’s Lover’s Lane Murders
Episode 134
A killer stalked couples in the Tuscan hills for nearly twenty years, and the fear never really left. The Monster of Florence case became one of Ital…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Princess Diana Part 3: The Final Year, The Fatal Chase, The Last Goodbye
Episode 133
A princess spent her final year caught between private love, public myth and the cameras that never seemed to stop. Princess Diana had left royal lif…
8 months ago
Kony 2012: Internet Scandals and the Viral Activism Campaign That Imploded
Episode 132
A viral video promised to stop a warlord. Then the movement became a global sensation, a punchline, and a warning about internet activism.
Kony 2012 …
8 months, 1 week ago
Ed Gein: The True Story Behind Movies, Murder and Hollywood Nightmares
Episode 131
A quiet farmhouse in Wisconsin became the source of some of cinema’s darkest nightmares. Ed Gein was not just another name in American crime; his mur…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Princess Diana Part 2: The Truth Behind Her Divorce from Charles and the Royal Fallout
Episode 130
A royal marriage collapsed in public, and every headline seemed to turn private pain into national theatre. Princess Diana was no longer just the Pri…
8 months, 3 weeks ago