The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Facebook's Social Reckoning: Whistleblowers Frances Haugen & Sarah Wynn-Williams

A trillion-dollar company. Two women who worked inside it, years apart. And the exact same warnings, ignored twice.   This episode traces Frances Haugen, the Facebook p

Unabomber Part 2: The Manifesto That Exposed Ted Kaczynski

For 17 years, the Unabomber hid behind handmade bombs, false clues and the initials F.C. Then his need to explain himself gave the FBI the break it had been waiting for.

Unabomber Part 1: The Biggest Manhunt in FBI History

In 1978, a brown-paper parcel was found between two cars at a Chicago university. It looked ordinary. The professor named as the sender had never seen it before. Then it

VAULT - Aileen Wuornos: The True Story Behind Monster

Aileen Wuornos killed seven men along Florida's highways between 1989 and 1990, but the question at the centre of her story has never been quite as simple as whether she

Lizzie Borden: What Netflix’s Monster Got Wrong

In a respectable Massachusetts household in 1892, two people were hacked to death in broad daylight, and nobody in the house heard a thing. This episode traces the Borde

Nasubi: The Real Life Truman Show

Nasubi thought he had agreed to a private television challenge. What he didn’t know was that millions of people were already watching him, alone, hungry and completely na

The Tromp Family Mystery: The Australian Family Who Fled Their Own Minds

In 2016, five members of the Tromp family fled their farm in a single car, leaving behind their passports, credit cards and mobile phones. Why they fled remains one of Au

MKUltra: The Dark History of CIA Mind Control and Frank Olson

A man falls from a New York hotel window. The CIA calls it suicide. Decades later, the story starts to look much darker. MKUltra is one of the most disturbing secret pro

[REVISIT] Lucy Letby: The Evidence, the NHS Failures, and the Question That Won’t Go Away

Lucy Letby was convicted as Britain’s most prolific child serial killer, but the case has never stopped raising questions. At the Countess of Chester Hospital, a sudden

[REVISIT] Michael Jackson: From Gary, Indiana to the Biggest Star Alive

A boy from a two-bedroom house in Gary, Indiana becomes the most famous human being alive. But the same childhood that built Michael Jackson may also be the thing that be

[REVISIT] Aileen Wuornos: The Female Serial Killer Who Said It Was Self Defense

Aileen Wuornos stood on the shoulder of a Florida highway with a pistol in her bag and a partner at home demanding rent money. Within a year, seven men were dead. She sai

[REVISIT] Fyre Festival: Billy McFarland and the Greatest Party That Never Happened

A single cheese sandwich helped bring down a multimillion dollar brand. Fyre Festival was sold as the most exclusive party on earth: supermodels, private jets, villas and

[REVISIT] Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield and the Real Horror Behind the Movies

A headless body hung in a Wisconsin barn, strung up like a deer carcass. That was what police found when the Ed Gein case broke open on the first day of hunting season in

[REVISIT] Princess Diana Part 1: The Royal Romance That Was Over Before It Began

Princess Diana thought she was marrying into a fairytale. By the honeymoon, she had to send a memo just to have lunch with her own husband. This is Princess Diana before

Genie Wiley: Dark History of the Child Hidden From the Whole World

Genie Wiley was locked away for thirteen years, but rescue was only the beginning of one of psychology’s most haunting cases. This episode follows the story of Genie Wil

Somerton Man: The Mystery Given a Name After 70 Years

A body on an Adelaide beach. A hidden scrap of paper. A mystery that seemed to end with a name, yet still refuses to feel solved. The Somerton Man case is one of Austral

Bob Lazar: The Area 51 UFO Claim That Changed Everything

Bob Lazar, Area 51, S-4 and Element 115 are concepts that all sit at the centre of one of the most famous UFO stories ever told — a claim that helped drag alien cover-up

DashCon 2014: The Failed Tumblr Convention and the Ball Pit Meme

DashCon 2014 was supposed to be Tumblr’s great real-world fandom convention. Instead, it became one of the internet’s most infamous event disasters: a chaotic weekend of

Taylor Parker: Part 2, Reagan Hancock, Braxlynn Sage, and the Lie That Collapsed

Taylor Parker had already been caught in one impossible lie: she claimed she had given birth on the side of a highway, but doctors quickly realised she had not been pregn

Taylor Parker: Part 1, Fake Pregnancy, Inheritance Lies and a Foetal Abduction Case

A woman is pulled over on a Texas highway with a newborn baby in her lap, covered in blood, claiming she has just given birth behind the wheel. But when Taylor Parker rea