Five Sodder children supposedly died in a fire on Christmas Eve 1945. But if they did, where were the burned bodies? And who made the strange phone call that night? And who took the ladder that could save them? And who were those kids seen with strangers the next morning?
Episode 80 - Those Daring Young Men in Their Lead Masks
Two men found dead on a hill in Rio in 1966. Nice suits? Check. Raincoats? Check. A bunch of money? Check. Cryptic instructions in a notebook? Check. Homemade lead masks on their faces? Check and check.
Episode 79 - The Chicago Tylenol Murders
Who put cyanide in Tylenol in 1982 and randomly murdered seven people in Chicago? We still don't know, but we think it wasn't the angry guy who tried to frame his wife's ex-boss. Or was it?
Episode 78 - The Redunkulous Homunculus
The greatest medical mind of the middle ages said you could make real live little humans from semen, a cow, blood, and a dark room. Let's give it a shot.
Episode 77 - The Voynich Manuscript
This book is written in indecipherable letters, has pictures of unknown plants and animals and naked women, and no one knows who wrote it. Yet it's still better than Fifty Shades of Gray. Let's investigate the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Episode 76 - The Kelly-Hopkinsville Horror
Was it an alien attack that caused a houseful of Kentuckians to flee in terror from their home in the middle of the night? Or was it something even worse? (Spoiler: it wasn't something worse, but that sounded really scary.)
Episode 75 - The Shadow People are Here
They flicker at the edge of our vision, dark, ominous and... shadowy? Most of the time they just aren't that into us, but sometimes they mean us harm. You'd better listen to this podcast for your own safety.
Episode 74 - The Other Murder of a JFK Mistress
Mary Pinchot Meyer tried to get her lover John F. Kennedy to smoke pot and drop acid in the name of peace. Then she was murdered... Cue ominous, suggestive music.
Episode 73 - A Military Quickie: The British-Zanzibar War
Someone said all's fair in love and war. But not this. This war was not cool - but at least it only lasted 38 minutes, the shortest war ever.
Episode 72 - The Sherri Papini "Kidnapping"
She was a young, pretty mother of two, so when Sherri Papini disappeared while out jogging, naturally it was big news. But was she really kidnapped? Or is there more to this mystery than who stole Sherri Papini for three weeks?
Weird Bit 18 - The Greatest Foreign Language Translation Book Ever
Please to be listening to our podcast upon this book of translation greatness. English as she is spoke! Wherein Pedro Cavolino doesn't let the fact that he knew no English stop him from writing the greatest foreign language translation book of all time.
Episode 71 - The Lizard People of Los Angeles
No, we don't mean Harvey Weinstein and his ilk. We mean an actual civilization of Lizard People that built a maze of tunnels beneath L.A., the gold they hid there, and the geophysicist genius who found them.
Episode 70 - Stalin's Ape-Man Army
Joseph Stalin, a mad scientist, and hybrid ape-men super soldiers. This plan went bad fast.
Episode 69 - The Ex-King and the Murdered Billionaire
Harry Oakes was one of the richest men in the world. When he was found beaten and burned in his home in the Bahamas, did the ex-King of England cover up the crime? Spoiler - yeah, he probably did.
Episode 68 - Bermuda Triangulation: The Disappearance of Flight 19
When five fighter jets mysteriously disappeared in 1945, the Bermuda Triangle wasn't even an idea yet. When it became one, this was why. But is the real mystery why this was ever a mystery in the first place?
Episode 67 - William Calcraft: Hangman Extraordinaire
He didn't mind if his victims suffered a little before they died. Or a lot. He also got drunk before executions, sold pieces of the hanging rope, and went for swings on the legs of the hanging. Meet William Calcraft, world's worst hangman.
Episode 66 - The Circleville Letters
When someone started writing nasty letters that revealed dark secrets in Circleville, people started dying. Well, one guy died. Still, things got pretty ugly. Let's try to solve the mystery of the Circleville Letters.
Episode 65 - A Killer Gone Quiet: Capturing the Golden State Killer
There was a horrific string of home invasion assaults and murders that terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s - then nothing... Until a smart and hunky detective figured out a clever way to catch a retired serial killer.
Episode 64 - The Swiss Miss Vs. Satan
When you're the only one standing between the Prince of Darkness and world domination, you might do anything to win. Anything. 19th Century Swiss savant, Margaretta Peter did terrible things to save the world, and apparently she won. Didn't she?
Episode 63 - Close Encounters of the Incompetent Kind: The Valentich UFO Incident
Fred Valentich wanted to be a pilot. He also wanted to battle the aliens about to invade Earth. Did he? And did it cost him his life?