356: The Bizarre “Cult” That Created Your Favorite Sleepytime Tea
Chances are, you or your family has a box of Celestial Seasonings somewhere in your house. Easily the highest-selling tea brand of all time, Celestial Seasonings has come a long way since founder Mo Siegel and his friends were picking herbs in the Rocky Mountains. But the truth behind the brand is that it has its roots in a strange early 20th-century cult, involving everything from Jesus, Alien...
1hr 10m Jul 31, 2025
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355: This Scientist Researched the Simulation Theory & Suspiciously Disappeared: Conspiracy or Murder?
In 1994, Mexican Scientist Jacobo Grinberg was at the height of his career. His studies, which focused on the scientific elements of paranormal and psychic phenomena, had gained international recognition as he studied the brain waves of shamans, healers, and other practitioners of indigenous cultures. That’s why it shocked everyone that he disappeared only two days before his birthday. Could i...
1hr 23m Jul 24, 2025
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354: He Went To "Murder Mountain" To Work & Never Came Home... Dark Secrets Remain
Since the 1970s, Northern California’s Humboldt County has been a major weed distributor across the country. When Medical marijuana was legalized in the 90s, this created a “green rush” of traveling workers, profitable farms, and more dangerous people looking to turn a buck on the grey and black markets. An area known as Murder Mountain had a reputation for violence and more dangerous individua...
1hr 13m Jul 17, 2025
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353: Police Took Years To Solve Her Murder... Her Killer Hid In Plain Sight
In August of 2012, Katelyn Markham seemed to have a flourishing life ahead of her. Just days away from her 22nd birthday, Katelyn was about to graduate from Art School and had planned to move to Colorado with her longtime fiancé, John Carter. However, one night after John left Katelyn’s house, she simply disappeared without a trace. What followed was over a decade of false leads, lies to invest...
1hr 14m Jul 10, 2025
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352: Ship Wrecked, A Shark Attack & 76 Days Alone At Sea: The Shocking Steven Callahan Story
By the time Stephen Callahan was about to turn 30, his life needed direction. He had spent his 20s designing sailboats but found himself in a failed marriage and with little to no money. Looking for clarity, Steve took what he had left to build Napoleon Solo, a small sailboat capable of crossing the Atlantic. Steve made the passage without incident on his first voyage, from the Caribbean to Eng...
1hr 31m Jul 03, 2025
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351: He Knew His Sub Wasn't Safe... The OceanGate Titan Disaster Gets Worse
On June 18th, 2023, the Titan Submersible operated by Oceangate Expeditions lost contact with its mothership, the Polar Prince, while on a commercial dive to visit the Titanic wreck. Hours later, the Polar Prince alerted the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards, and the search was on to locate the Titan’s pilot and Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush, along with four other passengers. The imploded remains of...
1hr 50m Jun 26, 2025
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350: Last Seen On CCTV Acting Bizarre & Then He Suspiciously Vanished: The Damien Nettles Mystery
During the winter of 1996, 16-year-old Damien Nettles seemed to have it all: a close, loving family, friends and bandmates he saw most days, and an excellent academic career that he hoped one day would turn into a job in Marine Biology. However, being situated on the Isle of Wight just off the mainland of England, Damien and his friends had become associated with some of the most notorious drug...
1hr 14m Jun 19, 2025
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349: She Was Murdered While Visiting Mozambique & They Covered It Up: Justice for Elly Warren
Australian Elly Warren had a bright future ahead of her when she volunteered to work with a marine biology organization based out of Mozambique in November 2016. As a seasoned solo traveler, even at the age of 20, Elly had already been across the world and had made friends with locals and colleagues alike. However, that all changed when she was found dead outside of a public toilet block in the...
1hr 4m Jun 12, 2025
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348: From Kidnapped Heiress to America’s Most Wanted Fugitive
The 70's were a crazy time to be alive. Between the war in Vietnam, dozens of political assassinations, and hundreds, if not thousands, of domestic bombings, it seemed as though you couldn't go a day without some new form of armed, radical action. However, the most famous came when, in 1974, Patty Hearst, who was raised in ultra-rich high society, was kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Libe...
1hr 14m Jun 05, 2025
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347: He Abruptly Left Home & Went On A Bizarre Road Trip To Get Away... The Mysterious Murder of Blair Adams
In the summer of 1996, 31 year old Blair Adams seemed like he had gotten his life together. He had a successful job working for a family construction company, done work overseas, and had even gotten completely sober after attending weekly AA meetings. However, out of nowhere, that all changed. He stopped showing up to meetings, quit his job, and took all of his saved cash and valuables out of t...
1hr 5m May 29, 2025
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346: Murdered By Her Conspiracy Loving Husband & Her Body's Never Been Found...
At 8 AM on September 10th, 1999, Kathy Semansky called the police. Her coworker, Girly Chew Hossencofft, was ten minutes late for her shift at a Bank of America branch in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Kathy knew something was wrong. Her soon-to-be ex-husband, Diazien (Die-Zen) Hossencofft, had not only abused Girly but had tricked several women into believing he was a 400-year-old alien who had ...
1hr 22m May 22, 2025
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345: Their Plane Crashed & For 73 Days They Did The Unthinkable To Survive...
Throughout history, there have been miraculous tales of survival in the harshest environments. However, none may be more intense than that of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed on Friday, October 13th, 1972. For 72 days, the survivors of the crash survived in -30 degree weather using scavenged pieces of luggage, improvised sunglasses, and sleeping bags made from the airplane wreckage...
1hr 57m May 15, 2025
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344: World's Smartest Man Claims To Have Proven God Exists...Yet His Other Views Are Disturbing
Dozens of geniuses have fundamentally changed our understanding of the world around us, and a select few have even developed working “Theories of everything” that use mathematics and physics to describe the nature of our reality, our consciousness, and our universe. What if there was a guy among us with the highest measured IQ in the world and a working metaphysical theory of everything? What i...
1hr 51m May 08, 2025
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343: Her Harry Potter Obsessed Husband Took Things Way Too Far: The Suspicious Death of Bethany Deaton
Bethany Leidlein thought she had found a community of like-minded individuals when she began her Junior year at Southwestern College near Austin, Texas. The community, run by the charismatic Tyler Deaton, met regularly to discuss their favorite fantasy novels, such as Narnia and Harry Potter, and prayed together. However, once Tyler got involved with the International House of Prayer, a Christ...
1hr 19m May 01, 2025
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342: She Became A Guru, Started A Yoga Cult & Scammed Thousands
For many in the West, Yoga’s ancient roots have been taken and twisted by scam artists, woo-girl bosses, and capitalist marketers using spiritual liberation as a selling point. Perhaps none have been more successful in this line of work than Katie Griggs. After celebrity endorsements from Alicia Keys, Kate Hudson, and Russell Brand skyrocketed her to fame, it was revealed that Katie was engaged...
2hr 6m Apr 24, 2025
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341: The Highly Controversial World Of Evangelical “Hell Houses”
Over-the-top violence and shame, dramatized into an absurd religious haunted house, traumatized evangelical youth for decades— all in the name of Jesus. In this episode, we dig into the bizarre and disturbing theatrical violence portrayed in Christian hell houses and the vulnerable indoctrination that comes along with them. The moralistic goal of these haunted attractions might not be as pure a...
1hr 32m Apr 17, 2025
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340: Four 911 Calls, Two Murders & A Suspicious Death: The Unsolved Anaqua Springs Case
Nichol Olsen, a 37-year-old mother of three, had finally achieved what many would call her “dream life”, Nichol had made a life for herself as a successful hairstylist and business owner. Around 2017, she moved in with her wealthy boyfriend, Charlie Wheeler, who owned a massive estate in the Anaqua Springs neighborhood near San Antonio, She lived with her two daughters, Alexa Montez, who was 16...
1hr 38m Apr 10, 2025
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339: Ancient Mysteries Solved? Shroud of Turin, Pyramid’s True Purpose & the Emerald Tablet of Thoth
Throughout history, objects, structures, and stories have intrigued and enticed us to wonder where we really came from. On today’s episode, we cover underground structures found beneath the Pyramids of Giza, the mysterious origin of the shroud of Turin, and the esoteric writing known as the emerald tablet that may have created modern science as we know it. Are these objects and theories real, o...
1hr 24m Apr 03, 2025
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338: Diddy's Downfall Continues..."Wild King Nights"Revealed, Shocking Lawsuits & New Victims
Last year, we covered P-Diddy after massive homeland security raids targeted his Florida and California homes. At that point, Diddy had been the subject of at least two lawsuits: one by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who produced Diddy’s latest album, Love: Off the Grid, and another by his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
1hr 32m Mar 27, 2025
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337: A Grisly Campsite & Confusing Evidence Leaves Police Baffled: The Mysterious Death of Jordan Grider
Death is no stranger to many national parks across the country. Visitors often succumb to the elements, an accident, or animal activity, or are even victims of a crime. While cases in national parks can go unsolved for decades, most of the time, investigators can typically piece together what happened due to the remote nature of the environments involved. However, that was not the case for Jord...
1hr 32m Mar 20, 2025
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336: Jack the Ripper Identified, An Ancient City Uncovered & Shocking AI Tech Unveiled
Every year brings significant discoveries, and 2024 was no different. This week, we dive into noteworthy breakthroughs, from super-earths and water on Mars to cancer vaccines and super-powered AI. The identity of Jack the Ripper and a revolutionary new treatment for HIV: Are these discoveries here to stay, or are they just headlines meant to grab our attention?
1hr 17m Mar 06, 2025
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335: The Bizarre Zizians Death-Cult Possibly Tied to 6 Murders
On January 20th, 2025, Border Patrol Agent David Maland was shot and killed while in a standoff with Milo Youngblut and Ophelia Baukholt. Ophelia was killed in the exchange, and Milo was quickly rushed to hospital and survived. After Law Enforcement searched their vehicle, they found cell phones wrapped in tin foil, riot gear, hollow-point ammunition, and a pistol registered to Michelle Zajko, ...
1hr 56m Feb 27, 2025
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334: BRYAN JOHNSON: The Controversial Anti-Aging Millionaire Determined To Live Forever
If you’ve been on social media for more than 20 minutes in the past two years, chances are you know about Bryan Johnson, the tech millionaire in Silicon Valley intent on living forever. For most of his career, Bryan has been an unassuming CEO in the style of early Jeff Bezos. He has been documenting every moment of his process on social media, including the 100 pills he takes every day, constan...
2hr 33m Feb 20, 2025
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333: High School Sweethearts Murdered In A Subway On Valentine's Day & There's Still No Justice
As of February 2000, High School sweethearts Nick Kunselman and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell had been together for two years and, by all accounts, were madly in love and wanted to stay together forever. The two had survived the Columbine school shooting only 10 months prior in April 1999, and by all accounts, their shared experience had only made the two grow closer. However, early in the morning on...
1hr 10m Feb 13, 2025
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332: Young Girl Goes Missing, Parents Suspected of Murder & An "Imposter" Emerges: The Mary Day Case
On a July night in 1983, 13-year-old Mary Louise Day disappeared from her family’s home on a military base in Seaside, California. As her siblings grew older, they began to ask questions of their parents about what had actually happened to their older sister, but they were met with a refusal even to say Mary’s name. In 2002, Seaside police finally looked into the case and discovered that Willia...
1hr 10m Feb 06, 2025
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331: He Vanished From A Public Bathroom & His Parents Were Accused of Murder: Where is Steven Clark?
Steven Clark was born in Colchester, Essex, near London, on the 30th of August, 1969. His parents, Doris and Charles Clark, had met while serving on the police force in Cleveland, a subregion of Yorkshire with jurisdiction over Marske , Saltburn, Redcar, and other small beachside communities. The name Cleveland originally means (quote) “cliff-land,” as numerous, massive cliffs overlook the beac...
1hr 23m Jan 30, 2025
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330: Ex-Cop Staged His Wife’s Murder & Then His Next Wife Disappeared: The Shocking Drew Peterson Case
In October of 2007, the small suburban community of Bolingbrook, Illinois, was the subject of nationwide attention when 23-year-old mother of four, Stacy Peterson, went missing. While search teams spent countless hours searching woods, lakes, and other potential areas of interest, one man remained at the center of the search: her 49-year-old police officer husband, Drew Peterson. Drew became a ...
1hr 54m Jan 23, 2025
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329: Struck By Lightning & Experienced The Craziest Near-Death Experience: Who is Dannion Brinkley?
Throughout human history, we have attempted to answer several core questions about our existence. Where did we come from? What is our purpose? And perhaps, most important, what happens to us after we die? We have attempted to answer this central question through various means: religion points to the idea of an afterlife, spirituality looks to reincarnation and the concept of the karma of our pa...
1hr 50m Jan 16, 2025
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328: She Was Attacked By A Fellow Soldier & Never Made It Home: The Suspicious Death of Denisha Montgomery
As of July 2022, Denisha Montgomery-Smith had been stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany, with the 139th Military Police Company for three months of her nine-month rotation. The rotation had been largely uneventful, and on July 19th, Denisha went to a waterpark/theme park with five of her colleagues, including her bunkmate in the barracks. That evening, after returning from the water park, Denisha fr...
1hr 24m Jan 09, 2025
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327: She Left A Disturbing Voicemail & Then She Vanished: What Happened to Kelley Brannon?
Kelley Brannon had been living a nomadic lifestyle throughout her 20s and 30s. Spending months on the road, traveling from bar to bar and performing in various punk acts and her own one-woman band. Kelley had made tons of friends across the country and was involved in numerous protests throughout the 2010s, from Occupy Wall Street to being at the frontline of Standing Rock protesting the Dakota...
1hr 21m Dec 19, 2024
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326: US Congress UFO Hearing Dropped Some Bombshells.. New Footage & Pentagon Secrets You Missed
On Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, a Joint House Oversight Committee was convened regarding the phenomenon of UAP and government accountability surrounding its secrecy. This comes over a year after retired Major David Grusch testified before a similar committee. Grusch, who was formerly a member of the previously secret Pentagon program called The UAP Task Force, alleged that not only did the g...
1hr 37m Dec 12, 2024
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325: Vegas Icon "Buffalo Jim" Barrier's Sudden Death Ruled Accidental Despite Evidence Pointing To Murder
“Buffalo,” Jim Barrier was a Las Vegas icon. His flashy style, kind heart, and successful businesses had pushed him to celebrity status among Vegas locals. Jim’s close friend, journalist, and former city councilman Steve Miller said (quote), “Vegas is Liberace, Elvis, and Buffalo Jim". Jim was even an outspoken critic and opponent of the Mafia in Las Vegas, who many had said had left the town i...
1hr 34m Dec 05, 2024
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324: He Vanished After Leaving A Note About Going On An Interstellar Journey: The Granger Taylor Story
The small town of Duncan on the heavily forested Vancouver Island in Canada was the kind of small town where you knew everyone. If you walked through the downtown area on any given day, chances are you’d run into someone you knew. So, it made sense that in 1980, everybody knew about Granger Taylor, the soft-spoken “Industrial Archaeologist” who lived on his parent's farm in the woods and spent ...
1hr 22m Nov 27, 2024
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323: He Hijacked A Plane Then Jumped with $200K & Vanished: The Unsolved D.B. Cooper Case
November 24th, 1971, was a routine, busy day at Portland International Airport. As it was Thanksgiving day, hundreds of passengers made their way through the airport, many purchasing their tickets at the counter, hoping to make it home for the holiday. Little did they know, that they were going to be sharing that plane with the most famous (or infamous) hijacker of all time. The one and only un...
1hr 33m Nov 21, 2024
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322: He Was Living A Lie Until His Parents Found Out & Then He Snapped... The Twisted Chandler Halderson Case
Bart and Krista Halderson lived ideal lives in a beautiful suburb outside Madison, Wisconsin. They were deeply involved in their family, and their two boys seemed happy and successful. However, their 23-year-old son Chandler seemed broke despite a high-paying internship and an impending move to Florida to work for SpaceX. But after a call to Chandler’s college revealed that he hadn’t been telli...
2hr 2m Nov 07, 2024
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321: Skeptics vs. Believers: The Terrifying Mothman Seen By Thousands Yet Some Still Defy His Existence
Rural America has been full of folklore, tall tales, and cryptids since its beginning. Whether attributed, falsely sometimes, to Indigenous stories of strange creatures and giant animals, or sometimes the result of new animals unfamiliar to early settlers, or tales of jackalopes, snipes, and hundreds of other odd creatures that were in the stories of early settlers around their campfires. Howev...
1hr 41m Oct 31, 2024
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320: She Was Last Seen Riding ATV with Sketchy Neighbor & Then Found Murdered... The Judy Rawlings Case
Judy Rawlings was born in 1985 and grew up in Sophia, a tiny community near Asheboro, North Carolina. Her mother, Tammy, and her sister, Tiffany, said that Judy was (quote) “The sweetest sister anybody could ask for” and was the clown of the bunch to keep everybody happy. On the morning of October 2nd, 2001, Tammy left their home for a Doctor’s Appointment in Greensboro, around thirty minutes a...
2hr 13m Oct 24, 2024
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319: She Was Murdered Halloween Night & Despite CCTV & DNA Her Case Is Unsolved: Who Killed Nori Amaya?
Nori Amaya was born on September 9th, 1971, in El Salvador. Not much is known about her early life or even her parents' names. We know that her mother would remain a constant in her life, but it’s unclear if her father was involved in her childhood in El Salvador. Two years later, her younger brother Carlos was also born. What is known about Nori, was the bizarre and disturbing circumstances of...
1hr Oct 17, 2024
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318: Creepy Stories So Crazy You Won't Know If They're Real or Not
Folk tales, true or not, have entertained us since we first started telling stories. You might think that because we live in an age where everyone is connected and the paranormal can be fact-checked, we don’t have any modern folk tales, but you’d be wrong. Remember when we were all scared of the secret society of clowns that were going to rampage across the U.S. in 2016? Or ever heard of the ra...
1hr 12m Oct 10, 2024
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317: She Left Work Got In Her Boyfriend's Truck Bed Then Disappeared: What Happened to Patti Adkins?
Patricia “Patti” Adkins was born on May 4th, 1972, near Marysville, Ohio. Not much has been reported about her early life. We know she had a brother and two sisters, Marcia and Jeanine, with whom she was extremely close. One night, after planning to go out of the country to Canada with a man from work, Patti mysteriously vanished and has not been seen since. In this episode we discuss the stran...
56m Oct 03, 2024
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316: He Disappeared After Using His Homemade Time Machine: The Wild Story of Mike "Madman" Marcum
In 1995, Mike “Mad Man” Marcum was tinkering with a homemade Jacob’s Ladder at his home in King’s City, f, when he accidentally created a vortex using a modified CD laser pointed at the object. After modifying the test, stealing power generators, and constructing a larger version, Mike became famous when he appeared on Art Bell’s “Coast to Coast” to speak about his invention. But then, after t...
1hr 13m Sep 26, 2024
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315: Last Seen on CCTV Entering Her Ex's Apartment Complex & Then She Vanished: Where is Prisma Reyes?
We’ve covered many cases where someone has disappeared into thin air. Most of the time, it happens during a normal day or a night out with friends. But in the case of Prisma Reyes, who went missing on April 17th, 2019, the day was anything but normal.
1hr 1m Sep 19, 2024
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314: An Accidental Fall Down the Stairs or a Brutal Murder? The Suspicious Death of Amanda Antoni
Lee Antoni had just returned from a visit to his mother while his wife Amanda had stayed home to take care of a migraine. When Lee entered the basement, he found Amanda lying dead in what police officers described as “the bloodiest scene they’d ever seen.” With no suspects, evidence, or leads in general, investigators were left to wonder if this was the work of a motivated killer, a crime of op...
1hr 20m Sep 12, 2024
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313: TEAL SWAN: The Controversial Spiritual Influencer Who Some Call a Cult Leader But Is She?
Chances are, at least one of you watching knows about Teal Swan. You might even be subscribed to her YouTube channel; you might have read one of her books, and, god forbid, you might have even attended one of her programs.
2hr 5m Sep 05, 2024
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312: The Celebrity Megachurch That Covered Up Crimes, Protected Bad Pastors & Mishandled Millions
In the 2010s, Hillsong became one of the most well-known megachurches in the world through its popular music, flashy services, and hip pastors. However, in recent years, truths about the dangerous founders of the church were made clear, as well as dozens of accusations of sexual abuse, tax evasion, and exploitation. Is it really just a place of worship, or was Hillsong too powerful for its own ...
2hr 21m Aug 29, 2024
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311: A Tragic Boat Accident or Something More Sinister? The Haunting Case of the Lost Boys of Pickering
In the early morning hours of March 17th, 1995, six teenage boys left a house party in the suburban community of Pickering, Canada, just off the coast of Lake Ontario. Jay Boyle, Michael Cummins, Danny Higgins, Chad Smith, Robbie Rumboldt, and Jamie Lefebvre (Le-Fave) were last heard from when they called their girlfriends and told them they were going to the marina. None of them have been hear...
1hr 15m Aug 22, 2024
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310: Held Captive By Her Middle School Security Guard For 10 Years: The Tanya Kach Case
Tanya Nicole Kach had been experiencing a very turbulent few years after her parents divorced, and she had just started 8th grade at a new school. She felt like she couldn’t escape from punishment, didn’t have privacy, and couldn’t trust adults. That’s when she met 38-year-old Thomas Hose, the security guard at her middle school. Thomas groomed young Tanya and eventually convinced her to live w...
1hr 53m Aug 15, 2024
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309: He Bizarrely Vanished From a Ski Resort Without a Trace: Where is Ryan Shtuka?
Ryan Shtuka was at a place in his life where many of us are when we’re twenty—unsure of what we want to do with our future but looking for adventure and new experiences. That’s what led him to take a job living and working at the Sun Peak Ski Resort in British Columbia in December 2017. Ryan was making new friends, enjoying the culture, and spending every day on the slopes. That all changed in ...
1hr 24m Aug 08, 2024
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308: Crimes So Dumb You Won't Believe They're Real!
Sometimes, on this show, we deal with criminals whose intellect allows them to get away with some of the most surprising crimes. However, that is not the case this week. From a bank robber who believes that lemon juice can make him invisible, to a guy who siphoned gas from a police car and posted the photo on Facebook, and a real-life Weekend at Bernie's attempt at bank fraud, here are some of ...
1hr 5m Aug 01, 2024
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307: Former NFL Player Died For His Country & the Govt. Tried to Cover-up His Death: Pat Tillman Story
Football star Pat Tillman made headlines when he famously turned down a $3.6 million contract to continue playing with the Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers following 9/11. Publicly, he gave no interviews and wanted to be treated like any other soldier. Privately, he was afraid the Bush Administration would use his recruitment and deployment as propaganda and, if he were to die, parade...
1hr 51m Jul 25, 2024
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