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In the late 1990s, Mexican Channel 5 would cut into cartoons and late night shows,  with a solemn voice and grainy black and white photos of missing people who had vanished without a trace.  One of these missing women was Selene Delgado, Lopez.  But decades later, nobody can agree on whether she ever existed.  Was Selene a real 18 year old who disappeared in Mexico City and whose case slipped through th...

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Welcome back, Foil Heads!  This week we are wrapping up our holiday break with a re-release of one of our most popular episodes of season 3. We’re revisiting the mysterious story of Rafael Pacheco Pérez, the pilot who claims to have encountered alien beings while on a solo training flight.  In this episode, we retrace the flight, the reported communications, and the puzzling details that led some to bel...

We’re officially two years in, and this week we're celebrating!  After the cake and toasts, we dive into updates we had to talk about: Kait's thoughts on Stranger Things, Megan's reactions to the new Puff Daddy documentary produced by 50 Cent, new developments and unanswered questions surrounding the infamous Louvre Heist, Mangione legal updates, and the ongoing search for MH370.  It’s a birthday episode with big upd...

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To mark the release of 50 Cent’s new Netflix documentary on Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, we’re dropping a special super-episode stitched together from five of our most talked-about segments from the past two seasons.  In this extended deep dive, we revisit the rumors and allegations that have followed Puff Daddy for decades.  We explore everything from the early industry whispers that shaped his rise, to t...

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This week we are re-releasing a listener favorite from season 1, in which we did a deep dive into one of the strangest viral moments of the late 2000s.  On August 4, 2009, cameras caught a young woman named Gabriela Rico Jiménez outside a luxury hotel in Mexico, accusing high-profile figures of kidnapping, murder, and even cannibalism.  Police led her away on live television, and then she vanished from ...

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In honor of Stranger Things Season 5, we’re cracking open the vault and re-releasing one of our earliest episodes.  Back in Episode 3, we dove into the conspiracy theory that inspired the Duffer Brothers’ hit series.  Be warned, listening to this episode might be a slippery slope.  This week you're listening to us discuss the secret portals under Montauk and time traveling chair experimen...

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Today we’re slipping on our coziest sweaters, filling our mugs with something seasonally spiced, and diving head-first into the great American holiday of… misconceptions. Thanksgiving is stuffed with myths, misnomers, and stories that have been reheated so many times they’ve basically turned into folklore.  So in this episode, we’re going to carve into some of the most persistent ones.  What is the true...

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Last month, the Louvre museum’s Galerie d'Apollon was the target of a brazen heist, with four men fleeing with eight pieces of French Crown Jewels valued at over $100 million USD or €88 million.  Disguised as construction workers and using a truck-mounted lift, two of the suspects accessed a first-floor window, cut into display cases, and fled via motorbikes with their loot.  The heist immediately ...

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On October 9, 2013, 14 year old Abigail Hernandez disappeared while walking home from school in North Conway, NH – a small town with a population of about 2000.  The school librarian reported seeing her walking in the direction of her home at 2:30 PM, and she was not seen again for nine months.  While she was missing, her mom never gave up the search for her – convinced that she was alive and being held ag...

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The Life and Death Brigade on Gilmore Girls, Chuck Bass being kidnapped by a secret society during a college visit to Yale, Joshua Jackson and Paul Walker joining a dangerous secret society in the 2000 movie The Skulls... These are all pop culture references to one of the most famous secret societies on one of the most elite college campuses in the US.  This society, which selects 15 members annually fr...

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In today's episode, we are diving into the viral conspiracy culture - specifically the theory that Garth Brooks is a serial killer.  Are his friends in low places.... really in low places?  When Garth was in college in Oklahoma, a young girl was murdered.  Then, he moved to Nashville in 1987 and worked at the Boot Barn, and again - during the period he was there, multiple women went missing.  If yo...

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In the fall of 1888, London was a booming metropolis under economic strain due to the massive influx up immigrants and refugees.  Whitechapel, an area in the East End, was an overcrowded neighborhood with poor employment and dire economic conditions.  As a result, many women were forced into casual prostitution to survive - and it was many of these women who fell victim to an unknown serial killer lurki...

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Lord Lucan, the 7th Earl of Lucan, vanished in 1974 under circumstances so strange they have fueled decades of conspiracy theories. On November 7, his family’s nanny, Sandra Rivett, was brutally murdered, and his estranged wife, Veronica, survived a violent attack. While police named Lucan as the prime suspect, he disappeared without a trace that night, leaving behind a cryptic note to his mother and hi...

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On Christmas Eve, 1945, tragedy struck the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia.  A fire destroyed the house — but five of the children were never found.  Authorities ruled the blaze accidental, yet no bones, remains, or evidence of the children were ever recovered.

For decades, George and Jennie Sodder believed their kids hadn’t perished in the flames at all.  Were the Sodder children kidna...

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The Boston Marathon bombing occurred on April 15, 2013, during the city’s 117th annual marathon. This is a world famous race, attracting participants from across the globe, and thousands of people had gathered near the finish line on Boylston Street near Copley Square.  Suddenly,  two homemade pressure cooker bombs exploded within 4 seconds of each other, just 210 yards apart.  Tragically, three people ...

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Today, we’re going to discuss the legend of the Loch Ness Monster... For nearly a century, stories of a massive, elusive creature lurking in the deep, dark waters of Scotland’s Loch Ness have fascinated believers, skeptics, and adventurers alike. From grainy photographs to sonar scans, the monster—affectionately known as “Nessie”—has become a cultural icon.  Is it possible that Nessie could be a living ...

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Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to a prominent family.  While the family was well off, much of their wealth was lost during the Civil War, and they lived rather modestly.   At 19 months, Helen became ill with a high fever due to what many presume to be Scarlet Fever, resulting in loss of eyesight and hearing.  As she grew up, she was frustrated and unruly, prompting her parent...

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On June 21, 1976, Rafael Pacheco Pérez, a student pilot at the Escuela de Aviación México, embarked on a solo training flight from Mexico City to Chimalhuacán.  Shortly after takeoff, he vanished from radar, and an hour later, reappeared over Acapulco—approximately three hours in the opposite direction of his intended destination.  The aircraft, designed for short flights, was low on fuel and not equipp...