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The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, or so we’ve heard. It certainly didn’t pay for any of the people featured in these episodes.
On Anzac Day 1935, a shark in a Sydney aquarium vomited up a severed human arm. The police investigation that followed went to some truly strange places.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 10
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Baseball, black magic, corruption, drugs, murder and poop jokes in the Florida Keys.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 10
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In which two Irish art students commit a daring daylight museum heist with virtually no planning, and somehow get away consequence-free.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Series 7
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For years the Torso Burchianti Gang terrorized the Monongahela Valley. It turned out the gang wasn't quite as fearsome as the cops thought...
Categories: People & Places, Series 6
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How many times will folks fall for the same old tricks? You might be surprised. The story of Prince Mike, King Ben, and the Houses of Israel and David.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, Least Popular, People & Places, Series 5
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In 1929 it was a sensation, "the most notorious witchcraft trial since Salem." Today it's all but forgotten. Let's talk about the York County Hex Murder.
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, People & Places, Series 5
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The idea that color has healing power is a relatively modern (and utterly fallacious) one. We discuss its development through the 19th and 20th centuries.
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Science & Nature, Series 5
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On July 14, 1952 a mysterious man walked into the office of the American Physical Society and murdered secretary Eileen Fahey for no apparent reason.
Categories: Science & Nature, Series 5
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The amazing story of Laura Biggar, the Anna Nicole Smith of 1901, and her crazy plot to steal an inheritance that may or may not have been rightfully hers.
Categories: Biography, History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Least Popular, Series 4
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When a man fights a cactus, you should bet on the cactus.
Categories: Series 3, Wild Card, Wonders of the Natural World
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The greatest and most notorious Spiritualist swindler of all time was a woman from Kentucky who looked a bit like Lola Montez (if you squinted).
Categories: Biography, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 3
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The story of the "weeping icon" has it all - a 102-year-old flying nun, the Gulf War, armed robbery, John Gotti, religious schism, and insurance fraud. Hear the amazing truth in this week's episode, "Goodnight, Irene"!
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 2
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