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America’s First Monster Quarterback
Episode 250
He was the greatest quarterback of his era. In the late 1950s, Moby Dickman won every award the sport could offer and became the country’s newest obs…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Grow-A-Guy Recall
Episode 249
In 1996 a toy called Grow-A-Guy—marketed to “fizz, grow, and become a buddy overnight”—was recalled after officials linked it to a series of serious …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Good Night, Neighbors
Episode 248
In 1998, outside Seattle, Fred Foster lived quietly after his wife’s death. He spent his days building tiny cardboard houses, fake trees, even street…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Real-Life Texas Chainsaw
Episode 246
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn’t born in Hollywood. It came from Plainfield, Wisconsin, 1957 — and from one quiet man named Ed Gein. To neighbors, …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Elliot Crane Night
Episode 245
Kentucky, summer 1995. For three nights a tall, thin man stands motionless in the fields, watching a farmhouse from the dark. On the third night, Unc…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Banquet Hall King
Episode 244
St. Louis, 1883. Harold Crane styled himself a king and built a banquet hall that looked like a throne room—red cloth sagging from beams, stolen chan…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Gingerbread Ashes
Episode 243
Central Pennsylvania, 1891. The frost comes early. A kitchen smells of smoke and sugar. Elsie’s little brother doesn’t wake—the stove fire died in th…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Street Called Him the Milk Man
Episode 242
1963, New York City. A door-to-door seller with a gentle smile and a script that always began, “Is the father home?” Neighbors called him The Milk Ma…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Real “Pinocchio” Legend
Episode 241
Early 1900s. A famed dollmaker, Woody Forrest, takes one wooden boy everywhere. In 1911 he dies, and the doll is sold at auction to a local dentist k…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Real “Pinocchio” Legend
Early 1900s. A famed dollmaker, Woody Forrest, takes one wooden boy everywhere. In 1911 he dies, and the doll is sold at auction to a local dentist k…
2 months, 4 weeks ago