What It Was Like
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Why do Some Pilots Become Mass Murderers?
Why do Some Pilots Become Mass Murderers?
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Conversations with people who have lived through extreme events. Some stories are dark and twisted, others are light and funny. In all cases, we get an intimate portrait of 'what it was like' to be there.
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- Why do Some Pilots Become Mass Murderers? · 57 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 160The recent effort by a FlyDubai co-pilot to crash his own plane is not the first case of its kind. In 2015, Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz flew a plane into the French Alps…
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- My Manic Life as a Bipolar Art Forger · 1 ώ. 0 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 159In 1980s New York, Andy Behrman was an art dealer forging his clients’ paintings. He was also living with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, which he believes fueled his criminality…
- I Spent 20 Years Catching Art Thieves (Preview) · 12 λεπ.Robert Wittman founded the FBI’s Art Crime Team and spent 20 years going undercover to recover stolen art. In the full subscriber ep, Bob tells us how he catches art criminals…
- Years Later, I Discovered the Truth About My Abduction · 1 ώ. 4 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 158In 1983, 11-year-old Kristine Conyers was abducted at gunpoint by a serial killer. She survived, but those four hours changed her life. It’s a story about the ripple effect on…
- I've Spent Decades Helping Abused Children Heal (Preview) · 7 λεπ.This show often features people who’ve survived unimaginable horrors as kids, which begs the question: how do people move on? In this episode preview we put this question to Al…
- When the Captain Abandoned Ship, the Musicians Took Charge · 1 ώ. 8 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 157In 1991, cruise ship performers Moss and Tracy Hills found themselves on a sinking ship. As the MTS Oceanos floundered, passengers waited for the crew to take charge. Finally…
- I Got Stuck on a Cruise Ship When COVID Hit (Preview) · 6 λεπ.This week's subscriber episode takes us back to February 2020, where Kent Frasure found himself confined to his cabin on the Diamond Princess due to COVID. It was a preview of…
- The Strange Story of Tasmania’s Ninja Cult · 50 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 156Through the 1990s, a group of men in Australia’s southernmost state began training as ninjas. It was a kind of proto-manosphere that slowly became part cult, part domestic…
- How Cults Take Over Your Mind And How to Escape (Preview) · 7 λεπ.How do ordinary, intelligent people end up in cults, and how do they get out? In this subscriber ep preview, we talk to Ingo Michehl, who spent six years in the Moonies before a…
- I Fell in Love (and Had a Baby) With My Dad · 1 ώ. 11 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 155Sophia Greenwood was adopted as a baby. She had no contact with her birth parents, until she met her biological dad in her 20s. They both experienced a sense of profound…
- Why Some Adoptees Become Attracted to Their Birth Parents (Preview) · 7 λεπ.This week’s story will likely be hard for many listeners to wrap their heads around, which is why we're unpacking the science behind it in this week’s subscriber episode.This is…
- I Was Abducted at Gunpoint During Running Practice · 53 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 154At 15, Maggie Malloy was abducted at gunpoint during running practice near her home in Galion, Ohio. A few hours later, she was found with multiple gun shots to the head, but…
- The Hurricane That Swallowed a Cargo Ship (Classic) · 48 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 153This week we are revisiting one of our favourite stories. In 2015, Hurricane Joaquin roared over the Bahamas and sank a cargo ship called the El Faro, drowning all 33 people…
- The Strange Condition That Made Me Write Constantly · 38 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 152When Alice Weaver Flaherty’s twins died at birth, she developed an overwhelming compulsion to write about the experience. Soon, Alice had developed hypergraphia, a rare condition…
- My Childhood Bully Killed My Friend · 49 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 151In 1990, 14-year-old Tyler Pelke was home alone in Altona, Canada, watching a movie with a friend. Then the local bully, Earl Giesbrecht, showed up at the door. Hours later…
- He Slept on His Daughter’s Dorm Room Couch and Built a Cult · 1 ώ. 23 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 150In 2010, fraudster Larry Ray got out of prison and started sleeping on a couch in his daughter’s college dorm. Within weeks, he was mentoring her friends. A year later, he’d…
- I Joined a Cult That Demanded Human Ears · 58 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 149"Bring me their ears." That was the order from cult leader Yahweh ben Yahweh, who admitted new members of the Nation of Yahweh into his inner circle only after they'd killed…
- I Traced a Mystery Stalker Back to eBay’s Corporate Headquarters · 45 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 148In 2019, David and Ina Steiner began receiving mysterious packages at their Massachusetts home. Local police sergeant Jason Sutherland was called in to investigate, and…
- How a Bunch of Australian Teens Invented 'Urban Exploration' · 49 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 147Today, "urbex" (urban exploration) is a global phenomenon with millions of videos online. But few people know it all traces back to a group of teenagers in Melbourne. In the…
- The Day My Daughter Got Abducted (and How I Got Her Back) · 45 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 146In 2018, Brittany Todd was a mother of five living in South Carolina. Then one day she came home to find a stranger inside her house who beat her unconscious and abducted her…
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- I Somehow Survived the Darkest Years of AIDS · 1 ώ. 11 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 144AIDS devastated America's gay communities through the 1980s. In major cities, up to 50% of gay men were living with the virus, with the median survival rate after diagnosis just…
- The Discovery of the Ebola Virus · 35 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 143In 1976, a mysterious illness started killing people in Central Africa. Virus expert Joseph McCormick was flown in to work out what it was and how it spread. This is how the…
- How I Lost Everything to Leonardo DiCaprio · 56 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 142In 1995, Dale Wheatley had just written and produced Don's Plum starring his friends Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. The film was quickly snapped up for a 3-picture deal…
- I Escaped an Abusive Polygamist Cult… and Became a Millionaire · 60 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 141Pamela Jones was born into a fringe splinter group of Mormonism. By her early 30s she had nine children, while her husband had five other wives. But one day something inside her…
- A Fatal Search for a Lost City of Gold in the Amazon · 1 ώ. 4 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 140In 1981, an Israeli backpacker named Yossi Ghinsberg met a man in Bolivia who told him about a lost city of riches buried in the jungle. Four of them went into the Amazon to…
- My Terrifying (and Oddly Funny) 25 Hours Kidnapped in New York · 58 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 139On the eve of his 38th birthday in 1998, a lawyer named Stanley Alpert was plucked off the street by three armed men. For the next 25 hours he sat blindfolded in a corner of…
- I Discovered Snowtown's Bodies in Barrels (Classic) · 48 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 138In May 1999, police found eight bodies decaying in barrels in a disused bank vault in Snowtown. Four men were eventually jailed for 12 murders. Former senior constable Gordon…
- I Was an Undercover Cop With a Death Wish · 50 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 137Todd Maguire was happy-go-lucky Australian policeman until his girlfriend died by suicide and everything changed. From there, Todd became a heavy drinking undercover cop chasing…
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- Growing Up With My Cousin, Ted Bundy · 1 ώ. 11 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 130Between 1974 and 1978, Ted Bundy confessed to killing 30 women. During that time, he was especially close with his cousin, Edna Cowell Martin. In this episode, Edna shares what…
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- Mutiny on the Sex Raft · 44 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 127In 1973, a raft carrying five men and six women set off across the Atlantic to answer the age-old question: what causes human violence? The expedition’s leader, anthropologist…
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- The Millionaires Who Went Mad in Their Jungle Fortress · 51 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 125When American millionaire John Bender moved to Costa Rica with his wife Ann, they set out to build a dream life in the jungle. Instead, their relationship spiralled into madness…
- Ted Bundy Tried to Kill Me · 42 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 124In 1967, 14-year-old Connie Geldreich met a young man at a lake who called himself Ted. What began as a strange encounter escalated into something far more disturbing. In this…
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- I Was Held Captive in This House for 11 Years · 1 ώ. 3 λεπ. · Σεζόν 1 Επεισόδιο 117Lily Rose Lee was 21 when she accepted a ride from her friend’s father. She was 32 when she finally escaped his house, along with two other women. In this episode, Lily recounts…
