Mar 6

Excited Delirium

When Angelo Quinto died, his family said police were responsible for his death. But a lawyer told them his official cause of death would likely be something called “excited delirium.” You can read more of Renu Rayasam's reporting on "excited delirium" at KFF Health News. Arjun By ... Show More

59m 30s

Feb 27

The Mug Book

After a gang leader was murdered in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the only witnesses who would talk with the police were tourists. They looked through so-called “mug books” filled with photographs of Asian men - and pointed out a man named Chol Soo Lee. Years later, a journalist dec ... Show More

47m 38s

Feb 20

The Plot

In 1864, a 41-year-old woman named Mary Surratt was running a boarding house in Washington, D.C. One of the most famous actors in the country began visiting her – which led to her becoming known as the woman who “kept the nest that hatched the egg." Kate Clifford Larson’s book is ... Show More

42m 37s

Nov 2020

Episode 28: The Clearwater Monster

Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something strange at the beach. Residents woke up that morning to find an odd set of footprints in the sand, and a rumor began circulating that Cle ... Show More

29m 50s

Feb 2024

Mel's Hole

A man identifying himself as Mel Waters called into the nationally syndicated talk show, Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, claiming a hole on his property was unfathomably deep and had supernatural attributes. To this day, neither the hole nor the real “Mel Waters” have ever been ... Show More

39m 38s

Sep 2023

The Body In Wyken Basin / Linda Edwards / Noel John Dooley

On the morning of May 15th, 1979, three boys were playing by the Wyken Basin when they noticed something floating in the water. Curious, they went to take a closer look. They approached the reeds on the water's edge, and the object came into focus. It dawned on them ... Show More

50m 30s

Nov 2023

The Real Moby Dick

The ill-fated whale-ship The Essex, was rammed by an 85-foot sperm whale on 20th November, 1820. The incident inspired Herman Melville’s sea-faring novel, Moby Dick. Left to fend for themselves in tiny whaling boats, the young crew had to make terrible choices in order to preserv ... Show More

12m 11s

Aug 2023

FWD: The Land Whale Murders

The Land Whale Murders is an alternate history satire about birders, murders, and confectionery capers. You can find and listen to The Land Whale Murders at www.landwhalepod.com or anywhere you listen to podcasts! A lot has changed in the lives of our heroes. Anjus Troop and Euge ... Show More

29m 26s

Feb 2024

The Suffolk Strangler / Steve Wright - Part 2

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 8 - EPISODE 44’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. The bodies of five vulnerable women who went missing from the streets of Ipswich were found over a ten-day period. Suffolk Police launched the most extensive investigation in the ... Show More

1 h

Jun 2023

More Than You Ever Really Wanted to Know About Sewers (Encore)

Sometimes the most important things are things we don’t even want to think about let alone talk about. The issue of handling and removing human waste and dirty water is one such problem that has confronted humans since the dawn of time. The elimination of waste and excess water ... Show More

11m 15s

Oct 2023

Is The Chupacabra Real? Probably Not, But it's A Great Story

They’ve been seen all throughout Puerto Rico, Latin America and the Southwestern United States. It’s a well known beast that many of us have heard stories about and even seen pictures of an yet it remains an elusive mystery…and it’s called the Chupacabra. 💥 Watch On Youtube: htt ... Show More

24m 31s

Feb 2024

SERIAL KILLER: The Alphabet Murders Part 2

Dozens of commuters see a young girl fleeing a car on the side of the expressway in Rochester, NY, but no one pulls over to help. The community is devastated when her body is discovered just days later, but it’s assumed to be a tragic but isolated incident. But when more young ... Show More

49m 11s