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True Crime, horror, and exceptional new podcast recommendations!
From the haunting depths of forgotten asylum graves and the terror of being held hostage in Haiti, to two cyber stalkers who finally got their comeuppance, we're spotlighting the most compelling podcasts of 2025…at least so far.
The digital audio universe expands daily, with thousands of new voices competing for your precious listening time. Navigating this landscape can feel overwhelming—which is exactly why host Jeryl Spear has done the heavy lifting for you in this captivating episode of One Good Thing Media.
• "Stalked," BBC's riveting documentary following Hannah Mossman Moore as she partners with an investigative journalist to unmask the anonymous cyberstalker who transformed her phone into a weapon of terror..
• “Paralyzed” Season 5 the ongoing story of sleep paralysis and monsters that go bump in the night has dropped after a two-year hiatus
• "Under Yazoo Clay," an investigative podcast about how 7,000 graves at Mississippi's former “lunatic asylum” could simply vanish from public memory.
• “Alligator Candy” revisited, a true story about a boy who watched his big brother bike into the woods and never return home.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome to One Good Thing Media, your official
podcast review channel.
We search the vast digitallandscape on a daily basis to
discover the best shows thatpodcasters have to offer.
Are you ready to discover newfavorites to add to your
playbook?
Stay tuned and listen to hostGerald Spears' latest podcast
reviews.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hello, lovelies, welcome to Season 3, Episode 5
of One Good Thing Media, the oneand only podcast that focuses
on reviewing and recommendingnew and established podcasts
that are definitely raising thebroadcast bar.
This week, we're celebratingsome of the best new podcasts to
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enter the digital landscape in2025.
We're also covering podcastsabout cyberstalkers who get
their Comeuppance and One GreatHorror Podcast that is now
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Okay, loves, it is time to rockand roll, starting with our news
and quickie segment that's allabout new and promising podcasts
and quick clips to whet yourlistening appetite.
First on, this week's segmentis Stalked by BBC Sounds and
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Radio 5 Live.
It is a true story about a25-year-old woman named Hannah
Mossman Moore, who went fromleading a fun, exciting life to
one filled with sheer terror.
Hannah's story begins with ananonymous stalker who turns her
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phone into a weapon.
Emboldened by her inability toretaliate, the situation quickly
escalates into threatening herand even pretending to be her to
her friends.
Through it all, hannah'sdetermination to identify and
confront her abuser led her toenlist the aid of a lifelong
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family friend and real-lifeinvestigative journalist.
Together, these two determinedwomen finally get their man.
Stock dropped its first episodein February 2025, and, as of
this recording, the story isstill unfolding.
Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
A digital intruder has been watching.
Hannah, you look good in blondehair, threatening her.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Still, the EU has its benefits.
We will show the world who youreally are Even impersonating
her.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Someone else is in my account and has changed my
password.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
This anonymous person has invaded Hannah's life.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I no longer know who I can trust.
I'm scared to leave the house,scared to open my phone, afraid
of what I'll see.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
And longevity, and the scope of this is unusual.
Until now, I'm Carol Cadwalader, an investigative journalist.
Officially, hannah is myex-stepdaughter.
That sounds like you've beenremoved from your life.
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I went out with her dad, dave,a million years ago, so I've
known her since she was seven.
When all this was happening toHannah, I was busy working on
the most all-consuming storyI've ever done the Cambridge
Analytica.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Facebook story.
She has been working non-stop.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It's been four years since Hannah first opened up to
me and since then we've beentrying to unravel this story and
what actually went on.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
My phone pretty much became my enemy.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Hannah's digital intruder does know about
technology.
It's how they stay in theshadows.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
At the end of the day , anyone determined enough to do
harm can find a way to do harm.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
What starts as a quest to unmask hannah's
tormentor what it's called inthe literature is identity
leakage leads us on a trail ofdeception spanning miami, hong
kong and london.
You can't just pay for a ticketfor london fashion week.
You've got to be the rightperson to get access you're
either on the inside or you'reon the outside.
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Where are we?
Whoever's behind this campaignknows a lot about Hannah, and
they may even be listening tothis podcast.
Do you really want to?
open your mouth it sounds like aPandora's box, and now we want
answers from them.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Next up is the Tamsin Show by Authentic Waves Media,
a new podcast hosted by TamsenFadal, who's also the show's
co-producer, as well as theexecutive producer of the
documentary the M FactorShredding the Silence on
Menopause, and author of thebook how to Menopause Reclaim
your Health, take Charge of yourLife and Feel Even Better Than
(07:13):
Before.
At the time of this recording,only one episode is dropped an
interview with Halle Berry, whotalks about her own struggles
with menopause and the lack ofproactive medical advice to
prepare all women for thisinevitable change in their life.
Shocking as it may seem, whenHallie first went to her doctor
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complaining of symptoms thatshould have informed her
physician, her perimenopausalcondition was first diagnosed as
a sexually transmitted disease.
Hallie's experience impactedher so deeply that she, too, has
become an advocate formenopause research, education
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and improved medical andpersonal care.
If this topic piques yourinterest, make sure to check out
the Tamsin Show wherever youlisten to podcasts.
If you're a fan of theParalyzed podcast by Seven Lamb
Productions, or you're just adiehard fan of horror, I've got
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some great news for you.
Some great news for you.
After more than two years,season five of Paralyzed is
finally underway, with two fullepisodes already dropped and
more to come.
Going back to the very beginning, to get everyone refreshed on
the plot line Paralyzed is ahorror show that initially
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focuses on David Summers, achronic sufferer of sleep
paralysis, and his annualcamping trip with friends.
But when he and his collegechums arrive at their
destination, something seems off, real off, and even that is an
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understatement.
In fact, in short order, allhell breaks loose.
There are strange sightingsthat seem to be tied to the
murder of several nearby campers.
Who, or what did these gruesomethings?
They weren't human.
They weren't any animal onearth that anyone knew about.
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They were maybe aliens,supernatural entities or maybe,
just maybe, figments of David'snightmares.
Paralyzed resonates with horrorand sci-fi fans.
It's a well-done podcastwritten by Robert Lamb, the
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genius behind Seven LambProductions, a tiny production
company located in Florida.
That would be great forlisteners, except Robert can't
abide by producing just onepodcast at a time.
In fact, his need for varietyis legendary and it's both a
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blessing and a curse.
Juggling multiple shows.
It's not unusual to wait up toa year for another episode to
drop.
With that said, robert and histalented cast have resurrected
Paralyzed and are currentlydropping season five episodes
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once a month.
I don't recommend jumping intothe latest episodes before
listening from the beginning ofthe show, and if you haven't
listened to Paralyzed yet, Iwant you to know that I'm
jealous.
The plot is quite involved, soif you're more of a savor the
moment kind of listener, youhave weeks of listening ahead of
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you.
The last new show that I amgoing to be talking about today
is called Under Yazoo Clay,which dropped in March 2025.
Now the tempo of this podcastdoesn't really pick up until
episode three, so hang in thereand just enjoy the ride.
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I think the best way to clueyou in on the plot of this
podcast, as well as the flavorof the show, is to listen to the
trailer.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Dig below the surface in central Mississippi and odds
are good you'll find a burntorange color looking back up at
you.
It's called Yazoo clay, andthere's one thing it's known for
wreaking havoc on anythingburied in it.
It is the strangest, mostdestructive soil I've ever dug
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in before.
You never get what you expect.
No, over the years, yazoo clayhas held and destroyed a lot of
mississippi secrets, but in 2012, a construction crew uncovered
a big one graves thousands ofthem on the site of the old
state asylum they may havethought they only found a
thousand.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
And then once I realized, okay, wait a minute,
2,000.
Wait a minute, 7,000.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
And all this begs the question just how do you lose
track of 7,000 graves?
The Mississippi State LunaticAsylum closed its doors back in
1935.
It didn't take long for theasylum cemetery to fade from
memory.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
And all of a sudden I looked down and there was a
headstone.
And all of a sudden I walked alittle bit further and I started
looking all around and therewere scores of headstones.
I said this is a big cemetery.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Today the cemetery it's just a sprawling green
island in the middle of what'snow the biggest medical center
in the state, but the gravesmight not be there much longer.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
When I hear them say you know, we've done all we can
do for the dead.
It's time to do something forthe living.
We need that land.
We just forgot they were buriedout there.
They didn't just forget.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
These graves hold real people, and their
descendants are looking for thereal story.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
It's not just about me, it's my family.
This was my family's mystery.
You know what I'm saying.
What happened to?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Grandma Zinni, this is a story about family.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
They put him in an insane asylum.
Her mom said he wasn't crazy,he was just starving.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
It's a story about family.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
It's a story about secrets.
It gets buried down so deepthat any kind of scratch of the
surface has to be tamped downquick In a place where even the
ground wants you to forget.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
This soil technically shouldn't exist.
It has character.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
It does A mind of its own, it seems, but this is also
a story about how we reckonwith the past.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
We don't see the shame, but we see the effects of
the shame.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
If you have any standing in the state of
Mississippi, part of your workis righting wrongs.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
In Mississippi, keeping secrets is as old as the
soil itself, so can the truthever really be uncovered?
The story is much morecomplicated and nuanced than
that, I'm Larison Campbell, andthis is Under Yazoo Clay.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Just as an aside, in the episode, like they're
Reaching Out to Me, it told thestory of a dowser.
Now, I always thought thatthere was just water dowsers.
Of a dowser, Now, I alwaysthought that there was just
water dowsers.
My father, who came fromKentucky and not only Kentucky,
but the hills of Kentucky was awater dowser, and if water was
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in the ground he would find it.
But I never knew that therewere different types of dowsers,
including body dowsers.
And in the episode, likethey're Reaching Out to Me,
there is a dowser that canlocate bodies within this
cemetery or anywhere.
He can not only do that, but hecan tell you where the head is,
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where the feet are and how deepthey're buried, just by dowsing
.
And now it's time to share ourepic episode of the week a
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perfect choice for those wholove one-and-done shows.
Today I'm focusing on RealSurvivor Stories by Noiser, a
podcast that specializes inharrowing stories of survival.
I've listened to severalepisodes of this show, but I've
had an hour or less to mentallyescape from work.
(16:17):
And this week I'm sharing oneabout the poorest and most
violent island in the Caribbeanand kidnapping of an American
aid worker.
The episode is entitled AidWorker Kidnapped, held Hostage
in Haiti Part 1 and 2, whichfirst aired on January 29, 2025.
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It's told by former hostage,jeff Frazier, who volunteered as
a food aid worker in an arearuled by violent gangs in order
to help impoverished Haitianswho were suffering from
malnutrition and disease.
Jeff's true story involves beingkidnapped for ransom and
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physically and emotionallytortured by ruthless gang
members in this nasty, shabbycompound surrounded by dense
vegetation.
Could he pay the ransom?
And even if he could, wouldthey kill him anyway?
And that uncertainty led him toconsider an even riskier option
breaking out of his makeshiftprison and making a mad dash for
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freedom.
Listen to real survival storiesAid Worker Kidnapped, held
Hostage in Haiti Episodes 1 and2, to find out how Jeff Frazier
lived to tell his story.
John Hopkins narrates thisparticular show and I have to be
perfectly honest here I amabsolutely in love with his
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voice.
Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
It's April 2023.
On the outskirts ofPort-au-Prince, haiti, a white
SUV speeds through a maze ofnarrow, twisting streets.
It bumps over potholes andscreeches around hairpins.
Black smoke sputtering from theexhaust, tires splashing
through brown puddles, straydogs scamper out of the road as
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the SUV plunges deeper anddeeper into this dense
shantytown.
On the back seat, jeff fraziercannot see.
The brim of his cap is beingpushed down over his eyes by an
aggressive hand.
He tries to peek out frombeneath this makeshift blindfold
.
Down to his right, he can makeout a pair of skinny legs in
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scruffy ripped jeans and the jetblack muzzle of an assault
rifle laid across them.
The masked men who havehijacked this vehicle are taking
Jeff and his two securityguards to an unknown location.
Jeff counts the left and rightturns, trying to commit the
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route to memory.
He attempts to stay calm, buthis heart is pounding as the car
starts to motor up an incline.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
As you go higher up the hill in this area, you're
going deeper into King territory, and so when we're headed up
that hill, I know that we'rebeing kidnapped he soon loses
count of the endless zigzagturns wherever they're going.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
It's deep inside a part of the city that
humanitarian aid workers likejeff normally avoid, a place
governed by gangs who trade inhuman lives.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
It is so frightening, it's a strange realization to
go from free to captive, and tonot only be captive but to think
that your life is in jeopardy.
You know I've been throughscary situations in the past,
but none of that compares tothis situation.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
Ever wondered what you would do when disaster
strikes?
If your life depended on yournext decision?
Could you make the right choice?
Welcome to Real SurvivalStories.
These are the astonishing talesof ordinary people thrown into
extraordinary situations, Peoplesuddenly forced to fight for
their lives.
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Welcome to Real SurvivalStories.
These are the astonishing talesof ordinary people thrown into
extraordinary situations, Peoplesuddenly forced to fight for
their lives.
In this episode, we meet45-year-old Jeff Frazier.
Jeff is an aid worker who runsfood distribution in Haiti, a
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beautiful, culturally richCaribbean nation which has, in
recent years, struggleddesperately with extreme poverty
and crime.
In April 2023, Jeff is in Haitito facilitate a relief program
when he is taken hostage by oneof the gangs who have taken over
swathes of the country.
Trapped in a fortified compound, Jeff must negotiate with his
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captors and forge bonds with hisfellow hostages, praying every
day that he will eventually makeit home to his family.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
About 20% of kidnapping victims are killed in
the process.
You hope that the calculusplays out in your favor so that
they see you as more valuablealive than dead.
But how certain are you thatthey're going to do that math?
Speaker 10 (21:43):
I'm John Hopkins from the Noiser Network.
This is Real Survival Stories.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Gerald, oh, no, not you again.
What are you listening to?
Are you spying on me?
Oh, ais, you can't trust them.
But yes, welcome to.
What Are you Listening To?
A segment where I share whatI've binged this week, and it's
a good one.
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They drop into your email, yourtexts, groups that you frequent
and on your social media pages.
They know your day-to-daymovements, who your friends are
and who you're dating.
What do they want from you?
Unlike nefarious criminalswhose only intentions are to
steal your money or yourproperty, stalkers want to own
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you, to make you their play toythat they can bat around like a
cat with a feather.
Their biggest reward is to robyou of your happiness, your
safety and your relationships.
They consume your fear and findtrue joy in your misery.
This week I binged Can I Tellyou a Secret?
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An investigative podcast by theGuardian about one twisted
individual's obsession to causefear and destruction in other
people's lives.
And, as this true story reveals, the twisted creep behind this
years-long stalking case wasn'ta random weirdo living in some
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far-off place.
He lived among them.
The cyber stalker in questionwas Matthew Hardy, something
that is revealed very early onin the show.
But who was he really?
Why did he find so much joy incausing other people pain?
Was he ostracized in life orjust in his own mind?
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And, most importantly, whatwere the consequences for this
cyber stalker and the humanwreckage he left behind?
Here's a clip from Can I Tellyou a Secret?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Are you doing a podcast?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
We're making a podcast about this guy called
Matthew Hardyew hardy.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Oh yeah, I've heard of him one of my family members
has been a victim of his.
That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I know it's been going on for so long my name is
shirin kala and I'm a journalistfor the guardian and you're
listening to.
Can I tell you Episode one, thebeginning?
The reason I'm getting stoppedon the streets of Northwich is
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because Matthew Hardy hasterrified people in this town
for over a decade.
These victims feel that theirlives have been taken over by a
force beyond their control, butwhile everyone knows who this
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cyberstalker is, no oneunderstands how to make him stop
.
This isn't a whodunit, it'sMatthew.
It's always been Matthew.
This is about trying tounderstand who Matthew is and
why he does it and how he getsaway with it.
Through speaking to his victimsand the people closest to him.
The answer to those questionstakes us deep into a story about
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obsession, fear and how we liveour lives online, about when
loneliness and longing hardensinto rage and that rage is
directed outwards, at people wedon't even know, at people we
don't even know.
That story it starts here inNorthwich, but all the way back
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in 2008.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Going back to 2008,.
Myspace was all the rage, butFacebook was quickly gaining
ground and, by 2010, hundreds ofmillions of young people were
avid users.
But what they didn't knowduring that naive time was that
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it was also a playground for thecreeps of the world, who only
had bad intentions.
And now it's time for our mainevent.
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But before getting into today'smain podcast coverage, I have a
confession to make.
I am a person who loves to makelists, but five out of ten
times, once I've written it down, whatever it was that was so
important to me, I forget aboutit.
Does anyone else do this, or amI alone?
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Finally, acknowledging myshortcoming, thank goodness I
started naming documents withthe same beginning.
In the case of podcasts, forinstance, my lists read list of
podcasts to recommend, followedby the genre.
I then make a date with myselfonce a month and I put it on the
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calendar with a reminder dingtime to review your lists.
I don't know it works for me.
I queued up one of my list ofpodcasts to recommend the other
day.
There was one that I coveredway back in 2022, when our
podcast was minuscule, that Iwanted to share with you again.
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It's called Alligator Candy.
I want to caution you thatAlligator Candy is about an
unimaginable tragedy, namely thebrutal murder of an 11-year-old
child named Jonathan, or Johnas his brothers still call him.
But woven into this dark storyare also the strengths of family
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ties, the rippling effect thatJohn's death had on the
community and the determinationof two brothers to not only keep
the memory of their youngerbrother alive, but also how they
worked together to ensure thatlasting justice prevailed.
And along the way, they learnedthat, no matter how many years
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go by, grief never disappears.
It just evolves.
Alligator Candy is also a storyabout the 1970s, a time when
children had the freedom toexplore their neighborhood and
city without adult supervision.
Host and executive producerDavid Kushner describes the
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urban forest of towering cypressand palm trees at the end of
their cul-de-sac and how it wasa rite of passage when kids were
finally old enough to playthere, building forts, riding
bikes on the bumpy trails andusing it as a shortcut to a
nearby convenience store whereone day the day that changed
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everything his four-year-oldself asked John to go to the
store and buy him some snappygator gum.
John, who was flush with hislawn mowing earnings, obliged by
hopping on his bike and settingoff for the woods.
It was the last time that Davidever saw his brother.
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Alligator Candy is a grippingand touching story.
Once I started listening toAlligator Candy, I couldn't help
myself.
I binged the entire podcast inone day.
David, by the way, also wrote abook by the same name.
It's available on Amazon.
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Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
I'm David Kushner and this is my brother, john.
Growing up in Florida in theearly 70s, kids were free to run
around for hours outside, noplans, no cell phones, just a
promise to be home before dark.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Love.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Rosalia, I love you.
When John was 11 and I was 4,he biked away from our house
through the woods to a storenearby.
He was going to buy me myfavorite candy, a little plastic
alligator head filled withchewing gum.
He peddled off into the woodsbut he never came back.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Maybe have a word with you, my dear dog.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
I've been a journalist for decades, but the
story I've chased the longest isabout my brother John, the
story of what happened to him.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I think the worst thing of the worst is that you
never would find the person.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
On one hand, I desperately wanted to find
something and, on the other hand, I was absolutely terrified of
finding something.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
And the story of what happened to our family and our
town after he disappeared.
A little boy simply goes fromhis house through some woods to
go to get some candy at the7-Eleven and never comes back.
That is every parent'sessential nightmare.
When you realize that anythingcan happen anytime, anywhere,
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how do you go on?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I just wanted to talk with other people who've gone
through it.
I felt isolated and on.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Mars.
I believe now, looking back, itwas absolutely to try to find
some answers, and here I amsearching for some kind of
answer.
And how the hell do youcontinue?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And that's it for this week, folks.
We will be back next week witha new show, but in the meantime,
please give us a follow and, ifyour heart so desires, a
five-star rating.
It's easy to do and it meansthe world to us.
You know we love you.
See you next week.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
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Hello, lovelies, welcome to Season 3, Episode 5
of One Good Thing Media, the oneand only podcast that focuses
on reviewing and recommendingnew and established podcasts
that are definitely raising thebroadcast bar.
This week, we're celebratingsome of the best new podcasts to
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enter the digital landscape in2025.
We're also covering podcastsabout cyberstalkers who get
their Comeuppance and One GreatHorror Podcast that is now
dropping episodes after atwo-year hiatus.
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Developed countries to leadmore sanitary, disease-free
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lives.
You can become part of our WGACfamily by clicking the link in
our show notes, which is rightbelow the title of this episode.
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Okay, loves, it is time to rockand roll, starting with our news
and quickie segment that's allabout new and promising podcasts
and quick clips to whet yourlistening appetite.
First on, this week's segmentis Stalked by BBC Sounds and
(03:19):
Radio 5 Live.
It is a true story about a25-year-old woman named Hannah
Mossman Moore, who went fromleading a fun, exciting life to
one filled with sheer terror.
Hannah's story begins with ananonymous stalker who turns her
(03:39):
phone into a weapon.
Emboldened by her inability toretaliate, the situation quickly
escalates into threatening herand even pretending to be her to
her friends.
Through it all, hannah'sdetermination to identify and
confront her abuser led her toenlist the aid of a lifelong
(04:04):
family friend and real-lifeinvestigative journalist.
Together, these two determinedwomen finally get their man.
Stock dropped its first episodein February 2025, and, as of
this recording, the story isstill unfolding.
Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
A digital intruder has been watching.
Hannah, you look good in blondehair, threatening her.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Still, the EU has its benefits.
We will show the world who youreally are Even impersonating
her.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Someone else is in my account and has changed my
password.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
This anonymous person has invaded Hannah's life.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I no longer know who I can trust.
I'm scared to leave the house,scared to open my phone, afraid
of what I'll see.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
And longevity, and the scope of this is unusual.
Until now, I'm Carol Cadwalader, an investigative journalist.
Officially, hannah is myex-stepdaughter.
That sounds like you've beenremoved from your life.
(05:20):
I went out with her dad, dave,a million years ago, so I've
known her since she was seven.
When all this was happening toHannah, I was busy working on
the most all-consuming storyI've ever done the Cambridge
Analytica.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Facebook story.
She has been working non-stop.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It's been four years since Hannah first opened up to
me and since then we've beentrying to unravel this story and
what actually went on.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
My phone pretty much became my enemy.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Hannah's digital intruder does know about
technology.
It's how they stay in theshadows.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
At the end of the day , anyone determined enough to do
harm can find a way to do harm.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
What starts as a quest to unmask hannah's
tormentor what it's called inthe literature is identity
leakage leads us on a trail ofdeception spanning miami, hong
kong and london.
You can't just pay for a ticketfor london fashion week.
You've got to be the rightperson to get access you're
either on the inside or you'reon the outside.
(06:25):
Where are we?
Whoever's behind this campaignknows a lot about Hannah, and
they may even be listening tothis podcast.
Do you really want to?
open your mouth it sounds like aPandora's box, and now we want
answers from them.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Next up is the Tamsin Show by Authentic Waves Media,
a new podcast hosted by TamsenFadal, who's also the show's
co-producer, as well as theexecutive producer of the
documentary the M FactorShredding the Silence on
Menopause, and author of thebook how to Menopause Reclaim
your Health, take Charge of yourLife and Feel Even Better Than
(07:13):
Before.
At the time of this recording,only one episode is dropped an
interview with Halle Berry, whotalks about her own struggles
with menopause and the lack ofproactive medical advice to
prepare all women for thisinevitable change in their life.
Shocking as it may seem, whenHallie first went to her doctor
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complaining of symptoms thatshould have informed her
physician, her perimenopausalcondition was first diagnosed as
a sexually transmitted disease.
Hallie's experience impactedher so deeply that she, too, has
become an advocate formenopause research, education
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and improved medical andpersonal care.
If this topic piques yourinterest, make sure to check out
the Tamsin Show wherever youlisten to podcasts.
If you're a fan of theParalyzed podcast by Seven Lamb
Productions, or you're just adiehard fan of horror, I've got
(08:20):
some great news for you.
Some great news for you.
After more than two years,season five of Paralyzed is
finally underway, with two fullepisodes already dropped and
more to come.
Going back to the very beginning, to get everyone refreshed on
the plot line Paralyzed is ahorror show that initially
(08:42):
focuses on David Summers, achronic sufferer of sleep
paralysis, and his annualcamping trip with friends.
But when he and his collegechums arrive at their
destination, something seems off, real off, and even that is an
(09:03):
understatement.
In fact, in short order, allhell breaks loose.
There are strange sightingsthat seem to be tied to the
murder of several nearby campers.
Who, or what did these gruesomethings?
They weren't human.
They weren't any animal onearth that anyone knew about.
(09:25):
They were maybe aliens,supernatural entities or maybe,
just maybe, figments of David'snightmares.
Paralyzed resonates with horrorand sci-fi fans.
It's a well-done podcastwritten by Robert Lamb, the
(09:46):
genius behind Seven LambProductions, a tiny production
company located in Florida.
That would be great forlisteners, except Robert can't
abide by producing just onepodcast at a time.
In fact, his need for varietyis legendary and it's both a
(10:07):
blessing and a curse.
Juggling multiple shows.
It's not unusual to wait up toa year for another episode to
drop.
With that said, robert and histalented cast have resurrected
Paralyzed and are currentlydropping season five episodes
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once a month.
I don't recommend jumping intothe latest episodes before
listening from the beginning ofthe show, and if you haven't
listened to Paralyzed yet, Iwant you to know that I'm
jealous.
The plot is quite involved, soif you're more of a savor the
moment kind of listener, youhave weeks of listening ahead of
(10:50):
you.
The last new show that I amgoing to be talking about today
is called Under Yazoo Clay,which dropped in March 2025.
Now the tempo of this podcastdoesn't really pick up until
episode three, so hang in thereand just enjoy the ride.
(11:12):
I think the best way to clueyou in on the plot of this
podcast, as well as the flavorof the show, is to listen to the
trailer.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Dig below the surface in central Mississippi and odds
are good you'll find a burntorange color looking back up at
you.
It's called Yazoo clay, andthere's one thing it's known for
wreaking havoc on anythingburied in it.
It is the strangest, mostdestructive soil I've ever dug
(11:53):
in before.
You never get what you expect.
No, over the years, yazoo clayhas held and destroyed a lot of
mississippi secrets, but in 2012, a construction crew uncovered
a big one graves thousands ofthem on the site of the old
state asylum they may havethought they only found a
thousand.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
And then once I realized, okay, wait a minute,
2,000.
Wait a minute, 7,000.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
And all this begs the question just how do you lose
track of 7,000 graves?
The Mississippi State LunaticAsylum closed its doors back in
1935.
It didn't take long for theasylum cemetery to fade from
memory.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
And all of a sudden I looked down and there was a
headstone.
And all of a sudden I walked alittle bit further and I started
looking all around and therewere scores of headstones.
I said this is a big cemetery.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Today the cemetery it's just a sprawling green
island in the middle of what'snow the biggest medical center
in the state, but the gravesmight not be there much longer.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
When I hear them say you know, we've done all we can
do for the dead.
It's time to do something forthe living.
We need that land.
We just forgot they were buriedout there.
They didn't just forget.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
These graves hold real people, and their
descendants are looking for thereal story.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
It's not just about me, it's my family.
This was my family's mystery.
You know what I'm saying.
What happened to?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Grandma Zinni, this is a story about family.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
They put him in an insane asylum.
Her mom said he wasn't crazy,he was just starving.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
It's a story about family.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
It's a story about secrets.
It gets buried down so deepthat any kind of scratch of the
surface has to be tamped downquick In a place where even the
ground wants you to forget.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
This soil technically shouldn't exist.
It has character.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
It does A mind of its own, it seems, but this is also
a story about how we reckonwith the past.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
We don't see the shame, but we see the effects of
the shame.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
If you have any standing in the state of
Mississippi, part of your workis righting wrongs.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
In Mississippi, keeping secrets is as old as the
soil itself, so can the truthever really be uncovered?
The story is much morecomplicated and nuanced than
that, I'm Larison Campbell, andthis is Under Yazoo Clay.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Just as an aside, in the episode, like they're
Reaching Out to Me, it told thestory of a dowser.
Now, I always thought thatthere was just water dowsers.
Of a dowser, Now, I alwaysthought that there was just
water dowsers.
My father, who came fromKentucky and not only Kentucky,
but the hills of Kentucky was awater dowser, and if water was
(15:05):
in the ground he would find it.
But I never knew that therewere different types of dowsers,
including body dowsers.
And in the episode, likethey're Reaching Out to Me,
there is a dowser that canlocate bodies within this
cemetery or anywhere.
He can not only do that, but hecan tell you where the head is,
(15:27):
where the feet are and how deepthey're buried, just by dowsing
.
And now it's time to share ourepic episode of the week a
(15:57):
perfect choice for those wholove one-and-done shows.
Today I'm focusing on RealSurvivor Stories by Noiser, a
podcast that specializes inharrowing stories of survival.
I've listened to severalepisodes of this show, but I've
had an hour or less to mentallyescape from work.
(16:17):
And this week I'm sharing oneabout the poorest and most
violent island in the Caribbeanand kidnapping of an American
aid worker.
The episode is entitled AidWorker Kidnapped, held Hostage
in Haiti Part 1 and 2, whichfirst aired on January 29, 2025.
(16:39):
It's told by former hostage,jeff Frazier, who volunteered as
a food aid worker in an arearuled by violent gangs in order
to help impoverished Haitianswho were suffering from
malnutrition and disease.
Jeff's true story involves beingkidnapped for ransom and
(17:01):
physically and emotionallytortured by ruthless gang
members in this nasty, shabbycompound surrounded by dense
vegetation.
Could he pay the ransom?
And even if he could, wouldthey kill him anyway?
And that uncertainty led him toconsider an even riskier option
breaking out of his makeshiftprison and making a mad dash for
(17:26):
freedom.
Listen to real survival storiesAid Worker Kidnapped, held
Hostage in Haiti Episodes 1 and2, to find out how Jeff Frazier
lived to tell his story.
John Hopkins narrates thisparticular show and I have to be
perfectly honest here I amabsolutely in love with his
(17:49):
voice.
Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
It's April 2023.
On the outskirts ofPort-au-Prince, haiti, a white
SUV speeds through a maze ofnarrow, twisting streets.
It bumps over potholes andscreeches around hairpins.
Black smoke sputtering from theexhaust, tires splashing
through brown puddles, straydogs scamper out of the road as
(18:16):
the SUV plunges deeper anddeeper into this dense
shantytown.
On the back seat, jeff fraziercannot see.
The brim of his cap is beingpushed down over his eyes by an
aggressive hand.
He tries to peek out frombeneath this makeshift blindfold
.
Down to his right, he can makeout a pair of skinny legs in
(18:40):
scruffy ripped jeans and the jetblack muzzle of an assault
rifle laid across them.
The masked men who havehijacked this vehicle are taking
Jeff and his two securityguards to an unknown location.
Jeff counts the left and rightturns, trying to commit the
(19:01):
route to memory.
He attempts to stay calm, buthis heart is pounding as the car
starts to motor up an incline.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
As you go higher up the hill in this area, you're
going deeper into King territory, and so when we're headed up
that hill, I know that we'rebeing kidnapped he soon loses
count of the endless zigzagturns wherever they're going.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
It's deep inside a part of the city that
humanitarian aid workers likejeff normally avoid, a place
governed by gangs who trade inhuman lives.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
It is so frightening, it's a strange realization to
go from free to captive, and tonot only be captive but to think
that your life is in jeopardy.
You know I've been throughscary situations in the past,
but none of that compares tothis situation.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
Ever wondered what you would do when disaster
strikes?
If your life depended on yournext decision?
Could you make the right choice?
Welcome to Real SurvivalStories.
These are the astonishing talesof ordinary people thrown into
extraordinary situations, Peoplesuddenly forced to fight for
their lives.
(20:29):
Welcome to Real SurvivalStories.
These are the astonishing talesof ordinary people thrown into
extraordinary situations, Peoplesuddenly forced to fight for
their lives.
In this episode, we meet45-year-old Jeff Frazier.
Jeff is an aid worker who runsfood distribution in Haiti, a
(20:53):
beautiful, culturally richCaribbean nation which has, in
recent years, struggleddesperately with extreme poverty
and crime.
In April 2023, Jeff is in Haitito facilitate a relief program
when he is taken hostage by oneof the gangs who have taken over
swathes of the country.
Trapped in a fortified compound, Jeff must negotiate with his
(21:18):
captors and forge bonds with hisfellow hostages, praying every
day that he will eventually makeit home to his family.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
About 20% of kidnapping victims are killed in
the process.
You hope that the calculusplays out in your favor so that
they see you as more valuablealive than dead.
But how certain are you thatthey're going to do that math?
Speaker 10 (21:43):
I'm John Hopkins from the Noiser Network.
This is Real Survival Stories.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Gerald, oh, no, not you again.
What are you listening to?
Are you spying on me?
Oh, ais, you can't trust them.
But yes, welcome to.
What Are you Listening To?
A segment where I share whatI've binged this week, and it's
a good one.
(22:31):
They drop into your email, yourtexts, groups that you frequent
and on your social media pages.
They know your day-to-daymovements, who your friends are
and who you're dating.
What do they want from you?
Unlike nefarious criminalswhose only intentions are to
steal your money or yourproperty, stalkers want to own
(22:55):
you, to make you their play toythat they can bat around like a
cat with a feather.
Their biggest reward is to robyou of your happiness, your
safety and your relationships.
They consume your fear and findtrue joy in your misery.
This week I binged Can I Tellyou a Secret?
(23:17):
An investigative podcast by theGuardian about one twisted
individual's obsession to causefear and destruction in other
people's lives.
And, as this true story reveals, the twisted creep behind this
years-long stalking case wasn'ta random weirdo living in some
(23:38):
far-off place.
He lived among them.
The cyber stalker in questionwas Matthew Hardy, something
that is revealed very early onin the show.
But who was he really?
Why did he find so much joy incausing other people pain?
Was he ostracized in life orjust in his own mind?
(23:59):
And, most importantly, whatwere the consequences for this
cyber stalker and the humanwreckage he left behind?
Here's a clip from Can I Tellyou a Secret?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Are you doing a podcast?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
We're making a podcast about this guy called
Matthew Hardyew hardy.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Oh yeah, I've heard of him one of my family members
has been a victim of his.
That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I know it's been going on for so long my name is
shirin kala and I'm a journalistfor the guardian and you're
listening to.
Can I tell you Episode one, thebeginning?
The reason I'm getting stoppedon the streets of Northwich is
(24:53):
because Matthew Hardy hasterrified people in this town
for over a decade.
These victims feel that theirlives have been taken over by a
force beyond their control, butwhile everyone knows who this
(25:15):
cyberstalker is, no oneunderstands how to make him stop
.
This isn't a whodunit, it'sMatthew.
It's always been Matthew.
This is about trying tounderstand who Matthew is and
why he does it and how he getsaway with it.
Through speaking to his victimsand the people closest to him.
The answer to those questionstakes us deep into a story about
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obsession, fear and how we liveour lives online, about when
loneliness and longing hardensinto rage and that rage is
directed outwards, at people wedon't even know, at people we
don't even know.
That story it starts here inNorthwich, but all the way back
(26:03):
in 2008.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Going back to 2008,.
Myspace was all the rage, butFacebook was quickly gaining
ground and, by 2010, hundreds ofmillions of young people were
avid users.
But what they didn't knowduring that naive time was that
(26:27):
it was also a playground for thecreeps of the world, who only
had bad intentions.
And now it's time for our mainevent.
(26:53):
But before getting into today'smain podcast coverage, I have a
confession to make.
I am a person who loves to makelists, but five out of ten
times, once I've written it down, whatever it was that was so
important to me, I forget aboutit.
Does anyone else do this, or amI alone?
(27:15):
Finally, acknowledging myshortcoming, thank goodness I
started naming documents withthe same beginning.
In the case of podcasts, forinstance, my lists read list of
podcasts to recommend, followedby the genre.
I then make a date with myselfonce a month and I put it on the
(27:35):
calendar with a reminder dingtime to review your lists.
I don't know it works for me.
I queued up one of my list ofpodcasts to recommend the other
day.
There was one that I coveredway back in 2022, when our
podcast was minuscule, that Iwanted to share with you again.
(27:58):
It's called Alligator Candy.
I want to caution you thatAlligator Candy is about an
unimaginable tragedy, namely thebrutal murder of an 11-year-old
child named Jonathan, or Johnas his brothers still call him.
But woven into this dark storyare also the strengths of family
(28:22):
ties, the rippling effect thatJohn's death had on the
community and the determinationof two brothers to not only keep
the memory of their youngerbrother alive, but also how they
worked together to ensure thatlasting justice prevailed.
And along the way, they learnedthat, no matter how many years
(28:44):
go by, grief never disappears.
It just evolves.
Alligator Candy is also a storyabout the 1970s, a time when
children had the freedom toexplore their neighborhood and
city without adult supervision.
Host and executive producerDavid Kushner describes the
(29:07):
urban forest of towering cypressand palm trees at the end of
their cul-de-sac and how it wasa rite of passage when kids were
finally old enough to playthere, building forts, riding
bikes on the bumpy trails andusing it as a shortcut to a
nearby convenience store whereone day the day that changed
(29:31):
everything his four-year-oldself asked John to go to the
store and buy him some snappygator gum.
John, who was flush with hislawn mowing earnings, obliged by
hopping on his bike and settingoff for the woods.
It was the last time that Davidever saw his brother.
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Alligator Candy is a grippingand touching story.
Once I started listening toAlligator Candy, I couldn't help
myself.
I binged the entire podcast inone day.
David, by the way, also wrote abook by the same name.
It's available on Amazon.
(30:12):
Here's a clip from the show.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
I'm David Kushner and this is my brother, john.
Growing up in Florida in theearly 70s, kids were free to run
around for hours outside, noplans, no cell phones, just a
promise to be home before dark.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Love.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Rosalia, I love you.
When John was 11 and I was 4,he biked away from our house
through the woods to a storenearby.
He was going to buy me myfavorite candy, a little plastic
alligator head filled withchewing gum.
He peddled off into the woodsbut he never came back.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Maybe have a word with you, my dear dog.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
I've been a journalist for decades, but the
story I've chased the longest isabout my brother John, the
story of what happened to him.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I think the worst thing of the worst is that you
never would find the person.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
On one hand, I desperately wanted to find
something and, on the other hand, I was absolutely terrified of
finding something.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
And the story of what happened to our family and our
town after he disappeared.
A little boy simply goes fromhis house through some woods to
go to get some candy at the7-Eleven and never comes back.
That is every parent'sessential nightmare.
When you realize that anythingcan happen anytime, anywhere,
(31:56):
how do you go on?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I just wanted to talk with other people who've gone
through it.
I felt isolated and on.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Mars.
I believe now, looking back, itwas absolutely to try to find
some answers, and here I amsearching for some kind of
answer.
And how the hell do youcontinue?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
And that's it for this week, folks.
We will be back next week witha new show, but in the meantime,
please give us a follow and, ifyour heart so desires, a
five-star rating.
It's easy to do and it meansthe world to us.
You know we love you.
See you next week.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
One Good Thing Media is brought to you by our host
and creator, gerald Spear.
All things technical are byDavid Doddd and our announcer is
Robert Spear.
Our theme song is Force by HGST.
Thank, you.
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