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
Short Suck 61: Why Are Nordic People So.... Happy?
For over a decade, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden have consistently ranked among the happiest nations on Earth—but why? We dig into the research behind the World Happiness Report, separ...
10 Jul 1h 5min
514 - Carl Tanzler: Romantic... Necrophiliac?
In Key West, Florida during the Great Depression, an obsessed German radiology technician, Carl Tanzler, became convinced that a dying young woman named Elena de Hoyos was his supernatural soulmate. A...
6 Jul 2h 58min
513 - The Dark Strangler: Serial Killer Earle Nelson
For at least sixteen months in the 1920s, Earle Nelson terrorized North America, murdering at least twenty-two women while drifting from city to city under false identities. Known as the Gorilla Man a...
29 Jun 2h 26min
Short Suck 60: The Mystery of the Yuba County Five
In February of 1978, five friends left a college basketball game in Northern California and seemingly vanished into thin air. Months later, four of them were found dead deep in the wilderness, miles f...
24 Jun 1h
