The Strange Story of Tasmania’s Ninja Cult
Through the 1990s, a group of men in Australia’s southernmost state began training as ninjas. It was a kind of proto-manosphere that slowly became part cult, part domestic terrorist cell. They stole e...
10 Okt 50min
How Cults Take Over Your Mind And How to Escape (Preview)
How do ordinary, intelligent people end up in cults, and how do they get out? In this subscriber ep preview, we talk to Ingo Michehl, who spent six years in the Moonies before a single phrase from a f...
10 Okt 7min
Why Some Adoptees Become Attracted to Their Birth Parents (Preview)
This week’s story will likely be hard for many listeners to wrap their heads around, which is why we're unpacking the science behind it in this week’s subscriber episode.This is an excerpt from Julian...
2 Okt 6min
I Was Abducted at Gunpoint During Running Practice
At 15, Maggie Malloy was abducted at gunpoint during running practice near her home in Galion, Ohio. A few hours later, she was found with multiple gun shots to the head, but alive. This week, Maggie ...
25 Sep 52min
The Hurricane That Swallowed a Cargo Ship (Classic)
This week we are revisiting one of our favourite stories. In 2015, Hurricane Joaquin roared over the Bahamas and sank a cargo ship called the El Faro, drowning all 33 people onboard. It was a mystery ...
19 Sep 47min
The Strange Condition That Made Me Write Constantly
When Alice Weaver Flaherty’s twins died at birth, she developed an overwhelming compulsion to write about the experience. Soon, Alice had developed hypergraphia, a rare condition that causes sufferers...
13 Sep 38min
My Childhood Bully Killed My Friend
In 1990, 14-year-old Tyler Pelke was home alone in Altona, Canada, watching a movie with a friend. Then the local bully, Earl Giesbrecht, showed up at the door. Hours later, Tyler’s friend was dead an...
4 Sep 49min
