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Somerton Man is one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries: an unidentified body found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide in 1948, a hidden scrap of paper reading “Tamám Shud”, and a trail of clues th...

Bob Lazar claimed he worked at Area 51’s hidden S-4 facility reverse-engineering alien craft powered by Element 115. This episode follows the 1989 George Knapp broadcast, Lazar’s story, the credi...

DashCon 2014 was Tumblr’s infamous failed convention: a ball pit, guest cancellations, and a frantic $17,000 cash appeal that turned fandom excitement into internet legend. We trace how a dream o...

A fake pregnancy, a roadside birth lie, and years of calculated deception sit at the centre of Part 2 of the Taylor Parker case. This episode follows how Taylor’s manufactured world of forged pap...

The Taylor Parker case centres on a woman who convinced people around her that she was pregnant while also building a wider story of inheritance disputes, family sabotage and threats. In this fir...

The story of Marilyn Monroe began unassumingly, with a shy, anxious girl known simply as Norma Jean. Out of a brutal childhood, Hollywood constructed the blonde bombshell: a persona shaped by dam...

The Zodiac Killer terrorised Northern California with a string of murders, taunting letters and cryptic ciphers that helped turn the case into one of America’s most infamous unsolved mysteries. T...

John Wayne Gacy was not just the “killer clown” of popular myth - he was a respected local figure who hid years of sexual violence and murder in plain sight. This episode follows the case from Ro...

The Room 1046 mystery begins with a man calling himself Roland T. Owen, a hotel room in Kansas City, and a death that never properly made sense. When the victim was later identified as Artemis Og...

The Nepal Royal Massacre began with a prophecy, a forbidden royal romance, and a family dinner that ended in gunfire. This episode traces Crown Prince Dipendra, Devyani Rana, and the palace killi...

Michael Jackson allegations sit at the centre of his legacy. We all know what we are talking about. In this episode, we examine the Chandler case that first ignited the scrutiny which would come ...

Michael Jackson became the most famous performer on earth, but how was the King of Pop actually made? Today, we trace his journey from family pressure and child stardom to Motown polish and a rel...

In the 1960s, NASA-funded experiments led by neuroscientist John C. Lilly saw researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt live with a bottlenose dolphin named Peter in a flooded house to try to teach him hum...

Julia Child goes from OSS odd-jobs (including shark repellent) to a late-blooming Paris obsession that turns into Le Cordon Bleu, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and TV immortality on The Fr...

The life and crimes of H. H. Holmes, the man who engineered a building into a vessel of murder behind the scenes of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. From fraud to murder, and the myth versus realit...

Biosphere 2 was meant to be a closed ecosystem proving humans could survive under glass, until an oxygen crisis forced secret fixes and triggered a spectacular public meltdown over trust, control...

Morgan Metzer’s story begins as a terrifying home invasion and unfolds into something even darker: a case of coercive control, gaslighting, and an ex-husband trying to cast himself as both monste...

A young reporter weaponises performance to reveal what happens when society locks people away and calls it care. Then she flips the whole enterprise into a global spectacle, racing the world itse...

The eBay stalking scandal follows how criticism of EcommerceBytes escalated into cyberstalking, harassment, and a bizarre “Threat Matrix” operation that ended with an FBI investigation and federa...

The West Memphis Three case is a brutal lesson in how Satanic Panic logic, pressure, and a false confession can steamroll evidence. Even after release via an Alford plea, the fight for full exone...