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- 1. 125 Acres · 17 Jul 2026
- 2. The Comfort Kit · 24 Jul 2026
- 3. She Killed Three People with Poisonous Mushrooms. Did She Mean To? · 28 Jul 2026
How a Volcanic Eruption Led to a Criminal Trial
11 Aug 2026 · 28 min
In 2019, a volcano erupted off the coast of New Zealand - killing 22 tourists who were on it at the time. Four years later, a criminal trial began - where prosecutors claimed that several individuals and companies had violated workplace safety laws, and had “u
Mr. Apology
7 Aug 2026 · 51 min
In 1980, posters appeared in subway stations and on telephone poles in New York City with a phone number to call. When you called it, you would hear a message: “This is Apology. Apology is not associated with the police or any other organization but rather is
The Premonitions Bureau
31 Jul 2026 · 48 min
On October 21, 1966, a woman named Lorna Middleton suddenly woke up from her sleep, struggling to breathe. The day before, a man named Alan Hencher was at work in London when he began to tremble all over. They both said they knew something terrible was about t
She Killed Three People with Poisonous Mushrooms. Did She Mean To?
28 Jul 2026 · 28 min
In 2023, a woman named Erin Patterson had her husband's family over for a lunch of beef Wellington. A week later, three people were dead. Phoebe interviews Guardian reporter Nino Bucci about what happened next.
The Comfort Kit
24 Jul 2026 · 40 min
A few hours after Rachel Waters’ mother died in hospice care, police showed up at Rachel’s childhood home with a search warrant. “It had my name and the word ‘homicide’ on it.”
125 Acres
17 Jul 2026 · 35 min
George Dinning was emancipated in 1865, when he was 10 years old. By the time he was in his mid-thirties, he’d bought the land on which he had been enslaved. Years later, 25 white men approached the house George had built by hand and told him to come outside.
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