Fatal Insomnia & The Mystery of Prion Diseases Pt. 1
Generations of a Venetian family succumbed to a mysterious illness that stopped them from entering a state of deep rest. Without sleep, they died. Faced with an early and terrible death, members of th...
31 Touko 202235min
The Beast of Gévaudan Pt. 2
War veterans, celebrated wolf hunters, even the king’s own gunbearer all tried to slay the blood-thirsty Beast of Gévaudan. It was finally brought down in 1767, three years and dozens of deaths after ...
26 Touko 202231min
The Beast of Gévaudan Pt. 1
Villagers in 18th-century France suffered through a years-long spree of grisly attacks from an unstoppable predator they couldn’t identify. The carnage was so bad, one bishop claimed the beast was a p...
24 Touko 202232min
The Death of God’s Banker Pt. 2
After Roberto Calvi’s mysterious death in 1983, his wife Clara immediately rejected the idea that he had killed himself. She argued instead that he was murdered for threatening to expose a powerful or...
19 Touko 202231min
The Death of God’s Banker Pt. 1
Roberto Calvi was a notorious banking bigwig whose criminal co-conspirators included a Vatican archbishop, a man known as “The Shark,” and the Mafia. By the time his body was found underneath a bridge...
17 Touko 202234min
The Legendary Chupacabra Pt. 2
As eyewitness accounts start cropping up in the mainland, the chupacabra becomes less like a spiny alien-reptile, and more like a mangy coyote. But chupa-believers hold firm, and theories abound. Mayb...
12 Touko 202234min
The Legendary Chupacabra Pt. 1
Vicious fangs, leathery wings, and the lingering scent of sulfur... These are the terrifying encounters and conspiracy theories that have breathed life into the legend of Puerto Rico’s blood-sucking c...
10 Touko 202237min
The Beale Ciphers Pt. 2
The origins of this treasure hunt are as complex as the ciphers themselves. Who really was the man behind the codes? And why are they seemingly still eluding the most advanced cryptographers in the wo...
5 Touko 202237min
