Parcast Presents

The rapid growth of Spiritualism meant mediums needed to find new ways to communicate with the dead, and captivate the living. Their innovations spanned from the ingenious to the bizarre, and ultimate...

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Madame Blavatsky: Ingenious Imposter She's the most famous woman you've never heard of. By the mid-19th century, Madame Blavatsky had toured the world, communed with the dead, and created plenty of ju...

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She might not be the most famous medium to ever live, but at the height of the Spiritualist movement, she was the only one they couldn't debunk. After thirty years of successful predictions, Leonora P...

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Parcast’s newest show takes you into the minds of history’s greatest detectives during the biggest cases of their careers. Every week, follow in their footsteps as they hunt down suspects and solve “p...

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The death of the Director in 1972 put an end to a reign that spanned 48 years, and left America to live in his outsized shadow. What happened to Hoover’s secret files? How is the modern FBI still shap...

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While antiwar and Civil Rights movements charged forward, Hoover unleashed the FBI upon his enemies and adversaries. By the end of the 1960s, he was proclaiming that America’s greatest domestic threat...

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In the 1960s, the Director’s adversaries included the Kennedy brothers and leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, which he believed to be part of a larger communist conspiracy. He would do everything i...

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A new president in the White House meant a new opportunity for a power play. Unfortunately for Hoover, Truman already thought the Bureau was becoming a secret police force. So he checked their power, ...

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