When Axton Betz-Hamilton was 11 years old, her parents' identities were stolen. At that time, in the early 90s, consumer protection services for identity theft victims were basically non-existent. So ...Show More
Einar Stangvik is a white-hat hacker â an internet security expert with an expertise in cracking the most secure and disturbing parts of the web. He discovers a troubling phenomenon online and joins f...Show More
Mark shares his experience of joining the highly controversial Cult/Movement that was known as the 'Rajneesh' or 'The Orange People' under the famous guru 'Osho'. Mark openly talks about his life as a...Show More
Prophesied to die young and surviving near-death-experiences, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh felt discomfort with his own mortality from a young age. Over time, his spiritual studies and strong beliefs about ...Show More
Ma Anand Sheela orchestrated Rajneeshpuramâs movement from India to Oregon. As Rajneesh himself faded into the shadows, the cultâs grabs for political power led to wiretapping, poisoning, fraud and mu...Show More
In November of 2016, journalist Morgen Peck showed up at her friend Molly Webster's apartment in Brooklyn, told her to take her battery out of her phone, and began to tell her about The Ceremony, a mo...Show More
As a child growing up in Illinois in the 1940s and â50s, John Edward Robinson was obsessed with figures from the criminal underworld. When he was grown and married, he began conning his way into jobs ...Show More
By 1984, after a lifetime spent breaking the law and facing few consequences, John Edward Robinson had finally crossed the line into cold-blooded murder. Having gotten away with it before, he decided ...Show More
Ramon Van Meer has never seen a soap opera. Yet somehow, he built the most popular soap opera blog on the planet - and was raking in ~$300,000+ per month! Today's conversation is about how he got the ...Show More
The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet...Show More
The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to ...Show More
The abduction of Jacob Wetterling, which made parents more vigilant and led to the first national requirement that states track sex offenders via registries, took place before moonrise on a warm Octob...Show More
There are places in the world that we rarely see. Our busy lives never take us there, and as a result, they donât come to mind when we think of chilling tales and frightening lore. But they exist, and...Show More
We spend a month at a Jeep dealership on Long Island as they try to make their monthly sales goal: 129 cars. If they make it, they'll get a huge bonus from the manufacturer, possibly as high as $85,00...Show More
When Rose was growing up, she knew something wasn't quite right about how she heard the world. But every time she got a hearing test at the audiologist's office, she aced them. It took her years to fi...Show More
Dr. Gabor MatĂ© is a world-renowned trauma expert who can (and will) deconstruct your happy childhood in a matter of minutes. At least, thatâs what he did to our host, Stephanie. We start this episode ...Show More
LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, 2011: The Scorpionsâ song âWind of Changeâ became the soundtrack to the end of the Cold War. But decades later, New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumo...Show More
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