ShortHand: The Byford Dolphin Incident
Somehow, perhaps the worst deep-sea diving disaster in history – one that led to two men being crushed, three men boiling to death, and one man being liquified and shot out of a five-inch hole – happe...
24 Apr 29min
Anna Delvey: The Fake Heiress Who Scammed New York | #447
In the summer of 2017, 26-year-old Anna Sorokin was arrested in Manhattan with a stack of unpaid hotel bills and fraudulent loan requests in her wake. She’d been calling herself Anna Delvey: an uber-w...
23 Apr 1h 27min
ShortHand: Wolfgang Beltracchi - The Greatest Art Fraud in History?
Tens of millions of dollars flowed onto the canvas from the tip of Wolfgang Beltracchi’s brush. His talent? Unquestionable. His methods? Perfect. His ability to recreate the works of other artists? Th...
21 Apr 27min
Michael X - Part Two: The Murder of Gale Benson | #446
Mystery, mayhem, and death followed Michael X all the way back to Trinidad.Hacked to death and left in shallow graves, the bodies of Gale Benson and Joseph Skerritt were found at Michael X’s house. W...
17 Apr 48min
Shorthand: The 2014 Celebrity ‘iCloud Leaks’
Intimate and explicit images of A-list celebrities – that’s what the world woke up to on the 31st of August 2014. “The Fappening” saw thousands of leaked celebrity nudes dumped onto 4chan, Reddit, and...
17 Apr 25min
Michael X - Part One: British Black Power | #445
Malcolm X was a true revolutionary, Michael X was an imposter.This con man realised that politics was a lot easier than poetry and rose to the top of the British Civil Rights Movement. All the while v...
16 Apr 1h 11min
ShortHand: Would You Survive The Titanic?
On the night of 14th April 1912, the ‘unsinkable’ RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank into the icy depths of the Atlantic Ocean – killing almost all of its passengers. But the real question is: wou...
14 Apr 26min
Shorthand: Helios 522 - ‘The Ghost Plane’
When two fighter jets came to check on the unresponsive Helios Flight 522, they were stunned at what they saw: all 115 passengers, lying motionless in their seats. Even worse – the pilot’s seat was em...
10 Apr 27min
