Loving the Monster
Some nights the well runs dry, and I do what everybody does — I sink into the couch and let Netflix babysit me for a while. That's how I ended up watching The Worst Ex Ever, and that's how I ended up ...
10 Juli 1h 1min
The Rise and Ruin of the FLDS Church
He was the mouthpiece of God to ten thousand followers. To the FBI, he was a face on the Ten Most Wanted list. And to a Nevada state trooper working a dark stretch of Interstate Fifteen, he was just a...
8 Juli 1h 7min
Children Sent Through the Mail
In the winter of nineteen fourteen, a five-year-old girl named May Pierstorff stood on a train platform in Grangeville, Idaho, with fifty-three cents in postage stamps pinned to her coat. Her parents ...
5 Juli 1h 1min
The Poison Bottles America Trusted
Before the Food and Drug Administration, before warning labels, before anyone had to prove a medicine was safe or even admit what was inside it, America ran on the bottle.This episode opens the cabine...
3 Juli 59min
Nazi Propaganda & The American Mirror
The word propaganda began as something holy. In sixteen twenty-two a committee of cardinals in Rome coined it to mean the spreading of the faith, and in this episode I follow that single word as it cu...
1 Juli 1h 4min
The Villisca Axe Murders
On the night of June 9, 1912, in the small railroad town of Villisca, Iowa, someone walked into the home of Josiah and Sarah Moore and killed all eight people sleeping inside. The parents. Their four ...
28 Juni 55min
The Lovelock Giant Legend
In the high desert of Nevada, about twenty miles south of the town of Lovelock, a dry limestone cave holds one of the richest archaeological records in the American West — and one of the most stubborn...
26 Juni 1h 4min
Clinton, Area 51, and the Search for UFO Secrets
What happens when the most powerful man in the world asks his own government a direct question and still can't get a straight answer? When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he wanted to know two thing...
24 Juni 1h 3min
