High Times on the Mosquito Coast: The Gregor MacGregor Story
Throughout the ages, con artists have successfully convinced people to buy into fake businesses, fake social or political movements, even fake identities. But it took a truly confident trickster, a br...
23 Juni 202250min
The Truth is Really Out There: The Long Island UFO Network
Fed up with local politics, a UFO investigator and his band of misfits conspire to take down their enemies. And expose government plots to conceal alien activity. And equip a school bus with state of ...
21 Juni 20221h 1min
Treetop Flyer: The Highflying Antics of Tommy Fitz
Get drunk? Check. Steal a plane? Check. Fly it back to the bar you'd been partying in earlier? Check. Tommy "Fitz" Fitzpatrick had only a few steps in his plan to become a legend. How he executed that...
16 Juni 202240min
Swappin' Dead Presidents: The Emancipation of Abraham Lincoln's Corpse
In 1876, a small time gang plotted to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. He'd been dead eleven years, but they didn't let that stop them. They planned to trade the late leader's body for their imprisoned counter...
14 Juni 202258min
Watch the Throne: The Case of the Missing Gold Toilet
In 2016, the artist Maurizio Cattelan created a masterpiece: a solid goild toilet. After a successful exhibition in New York, the commode was shown in the UK. It was there that the loo went adieu. Who...
9 Juni 202247min
The Yeti Hand: a Film Star, a Relic, and Underpants
What do you get when you mix an obsession with cryptids, money to burn, Buddhist monks, geopolitics, relic theft, lingerie, and Jimmy Stewart? You get this ridiculous tale.See omnystudio.com/listener ...
7 Juni 202251min
Captured Coin Con Consults Convicts Craving Corrections Cover
Michael Sabo was a classic con man. He posed as a respectable doctor, he wrote phony checks, he stole coins, and he misled trusting people. And what does a classic con man do after getting caught? Tur...
2 Juni 202246min
The Taser, The Tupperware Salesman and the Stolen Stradivarius
An amateur art thief conspires with a barber/part-time “Tupperware consultant” named Universal Knowledge Allah to steal a multimillion dollar Stradivarius violin; it’s step one of the thief’s Robin Ho...
31 Maj 202258min
