520 - Mother of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley didn't just create Frankenstein - she helped invent modern science fiction while forever changing the landscape of horror. This episode, we explore her remarkable life: her radical parent...
17 Aug 2h 32min
Short Suck 63: The Children's Crusade: Faith, Folly, and 30,000 Kids
In 1212, thousands of children set out across Europe believing God would part the Mediterranean and lead them peacefully to Jerusalem. (Spoiler alert: God didn't.) Their impossible journey became one ...
14 Aug 59min
519 - Death Before Divorce: The Kouri Richins Case
When Utah realtor and children's author Kouri Richins reported her husband dead after what appeared to be a tragic medical emergency, investigators eventually uncovered allegations of a massive amount...
10 Aug 2h 14min
518 - San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre
From the troubled life of James Huberty to the horrifying events inside a San Ysidro McDonald's on July 18th, 1984, we explore how one of America's first modern mass shootings - still the deadliest ma...
3 Aug 2h 37min
517 - The Buffalo River Cult: Murder, Prophecy, and... a Ghost Girl??
In 1978, a fanatical doomsday cult disappeared into the Arkansas Ozarks believing the end of the world was arriving fast... which it did (for them), after they were arrested for the brutal murder of a...
27 Jul 2h 49min
Short Suck 62: From Mom-and-Pop to Mega-Corporations: The Transformation of America’s Food Industry
How did a nation built on local farms and family businesses become dependent on a handful of massive corporations for most of its (now mostly processed) food? In this week's Short Suck, we investigate...
24 Jul 1h 7min
516 - Murder at 100 MPH: The Mackenzie Shirilla Case
A quiet Ohio suburb is shattered when a 17-year-old girl, Mackenzie Shirilla, drives nearly 100 miles per hour into a brick wall, killing her boyfriend and a close friend while somehow surviving herse...
20 Jul 2h 21min
515 - Fort Hood: Murders, Mysteries, and Silence
For years, Fort Hood has been plagued by an unsettling string of murders, disappearances, suspicious deaths, and allegations of institutional failure that have left grieving families searching for ans...
13 Jul 2h 31min
