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DAY 2: Werewolves (ShortHand’s 13 Days of Halloween)
Episode 10032
In the last 13 days before Halloween, a different ShortHand will rise from the archives for 24 hours only – before disappearing back into the vault. …
1 year ago
DAY 1: Japan’s Suicide Forest (ShortHand’s 13 Days of Halloween)
Episode 10031
In the last 13 days before Halloween, a different ShortHand will rise from the archives for 24 hours only – before disappearing back into the vault. …
1 year ago
The Baraboo Bonebreaker | #421
Episode 421
The police knew their suspect was a sexual sadist – one who had trapped a young boy for days and took great pleasure in slowly, methodically, snappin…
1 year ago
FROM THE VAULT: Ian Watkins: Rock Star, Paedophile, Nepiophile
Episode 10029
*Update* Ian Watkins has been stabbed to death in Wakefield Prison by two fellow inmates, on Saturday 11th October 2025. He was previously stabbed in…
1 year ago
Unit 731: Japan’s Secret Human Testing Program | #420
Episode 420
One of WWII’s lesser-known horrors, Japan’s secret biological warfare testing program is so brutal and inhumane that it’s hard to believe it could ev…
1 year ago
ShortHand: Hell
Episode 163
Boiled in blood, hacked at by knives, torn apart by iron dogs… the world’s religions differ on what exactly might await sinners in the afterlife. But…
1 year ago
Arne Cheyenne Johnson: The Devil Made Me Do It | #419
Episode 419
In 1981, nineteen-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabbed his landlord to death – but claimed he wasn’t guilty. Why? Because he was possessed by the l…
1 year ago
Madeline Soto: Handed to a Monster | #418
Episode 418
Almost immediately after 13-year-old Madeline Soto was reported missing in February 2024, something didn’t seem quite right.
Her mother Jennifer Soto …
1 year ago
Ed Gein: America’s Real-Life Psycho | #417
Episode 417
We’re finally diving into the case of infamous bodysnatcher, human-skin-furniture-maker, and OG mummy’s boy...Ed Gein.
A shy bachelor who terrorised …
1 year, 1 month ago
FROM THE VAULT - Thabo Bester: Twisted Firestarter
Episode 10028
Due to a huge number of requests following a new Netflix doc on Thabo Bester, we're re-releasing our 2023 episode on the shocking, shameless, madder-…
1 year, 1 month ago