Histories And Mysteries

Alexander Grant was a high-achieving sophomore at Boston College when he turned up dead in a creek during spring break under mysterious circumstances. Despite having no history of mental illness and n...

22 Apr 20181h 14min

In the early years of the Great Depression, farms are struggling, wheat prices are falling, and an invading army comes closer, pushing the farmers of West Australia to desperation. The Emu are coming,...

12 Apr 20181h 6min

At age 4, Barbara Newhall Follett was a budding literary prodigy. At age 14, she was a successful author with rave reviews and two books to her name. And at age 25, she stormed out of her house with $...

31 Mar 20181h 38min

In 1819, an Irish farmer by the name of Alexander Pearce was sentenced to seven years penal transportation to Van Dieman's Land in Australia for the theft of six pairs of shoes. After a few months at ...

24 Mar 20181h 18min

On an August night in 2013, 26-year-old Brandon Lawson got into his truck after an argument with his wife and drove off, intending to spend the night at his father's house. He never arrived. His truck...

19 Mar 20181h 37min

During the 20th century, the country of Canada suffered a peculiar scourge: two thieves as dashing as they were dangerous, men whose mothers had raised them to have manners, but not, apparently, a fir...

8 Mar 20181h 3min

Canada: a lovely country of Mounties and moose, of maple syrup and muskegs, of public healthcare and regular human sacrifices to an ancient, vengeful god known only as "Wayne Gretzky." But what evil s...

22 Feb 201848min

In 1989, Janel's home province of New Brunswick was paralyzed with fear when a convicted killer made a daring escape from a maximum security prison. The killer, Allan Legere, began a 7-month reign of ...

19 Feb 20181h 14min