A small Oregon town was taken over by a sex cult in the 1980s that set its sights on taking over the whole county. When their bid to replace the county government positions didn't work out how they wanted things got out of control. Eventually, they'd be embroiled in a scandal that included poisoning the county's residents, intimidation, immigration fraud, wiretapping, and a host of other things. Let's talk about the Rajneeshee's!

The Dyatlov Pass Incident is one the strangest and most mysterious cases I've ever heard of. Nine highly experienced hikers set out to climb a mountain in Russia only to die of...well, no one is really sure. They cut their way out of their tent and ran into the Siberian winter with no shoes, and little clothing, and would be found with severe injuries, some missing eyes, and one, a tongue! This is one episode you don't want to miss!

We live in an amazing world and it can produce some of the eeriest sounds. To begin spooky season, we’re going to countdown 8 of the creepiest noises on record and how or why they occur. The list has everything from Thomas Edison’s talking doll to an animal that sounds like a woman screaming. Every one of these could be the soundtrack to a horror movie but they’re all real sounds that either occur naturally or were unintentionally made to fuel nightmares. You may never sleep soundly again after this list. Enjoy! MMMMwwwaaahahahahahaha…..

Who's Leo Koretz? He perpetuated one of the biggest financial schemes in history becoming one of the richest men in Chicago. But because it involved people with big titles and deep pockets they almost succeeded in burying this story forever out of embarrassment that they were duped. When it all came crashing down two decades later he killed himself with...chocolate?! Listen to this insane story of the man who made Ponzi look like an amateur.

Nicholas Barclay was 13 when he went missing in Texas. He resurfaced 3 years later all the way in Spain. Or, did he? In reality, the person who came back was a man who was pretending to be the teen and took it to such extreme lengths that he moved in with the missing boy's family. Things didn't go the way he had planned, though. Something happened to Nicholas and almost everyone was sure it was sinister, including the man posing as him. This case could be the plot of a horror mystery thriller movie but it's a real-life mystery.

Mother nature is destructive all on her own but what about when you have floods of molasses? Or, beer? Or, a flowing river of whiskey...that's on fire? Those are a whole new level of disaster you can't really plan for and it adds a unique element when trying to combat them. Come along for 3 short stories of food and drink disasters that has no trouble keeping up with any other Shakespearian Tragicomedy!

A group of teens spend their free time breaking into the homes of some of the biggest names in Hollywood back in 2008 and steal millions of dollars worth of their things. They sometimes broke into the same houses over and over again. Were they discreet? No...absolutely not and they were eventually caught because of it. Come along for this wild ride!

You birthed 3 beautiful children. Their father has taken a DNA test. So has your mother. Everyone in your children's lives are biologically related to them...except you. How is that possible?! This is the story of how two women helped us discover that human chimeras are real.

This is the story of The Boyd Gang, Canada's most notorious bank robbing gang. Have you ever wondered how a wooden foot helped someone escape from prison? Well, now's your chance to find out in this comical story of how these robbers broke out of prison...TWICE!

What if someone moved into your home and you didn't know it? What if that wasn't the worst they did? What if you found out they had planned to experiment on your wife and children? This is the true story of James and Brittany Campbell who lived this exact nightmare.

I'm not a sports fan but for this one, I made an exception. If you've never heard of Rube Waddell you're missing out. This might be one of sport's most eccentric characters. He loved the game but not enough to stay put if something caught his attention during a game. Alligator wrestling during his off time? Check. Dropping his glove and chasing fire trucks? Check. Wandering off to join the circus for a few days? Changing into his uniform on the mound? Check and check. This man was as unpredictable as he was great. Meet Hall of Fame baseball player George "Rube" Waddell...I promise you won't be disappointed!

Special Veteran's Day episode with guests Chris and Jon who will be talking about their time in Baqubah, Iraq in 2007 during the US Surge. Their battalion was tasked with spearheading the push to go in and overtake Al Qaida's self-proclaimed Islamic State Capital.

Andrew Kehoe was a control freak and the monster who perpetrated the first US school massacre back in 1927. Angry over taxes the school was generating for him he decided the best thing to do was blow the school up. It resulted in the deadliest school massacre in US history. ***I do not get graphic with the details but this episode does talk about the murder of school children so please be warned***

Thanksgiving is the most traveled time of the year. In honor of that, we're going to talk about people who have lived in airports for extended periods of time for various reasons. One man lived in a French airport for nearly 2 decades! You won't believe these stories.

Have you ever wanted to own the Statue of Liberty? How about the Brooklyn Bridge? The Taj Mahal? The Eiffel Tower? If you had ever run into the cons on our list they'd have sold you any of these and so many other things they didn't actually own. They not only sold these world-recognizable monuments but they also sold them multiple times over, generating a generous amount of wealth for themselves. One of our swindlers was so brazen he bilked Al Capone out of a sizable amount of money. You definitely don't want to miss this episode!

It's getting cold outside so what better way to usher in the winter season than with a few hilarious stories about our favorite cold-weather animal friends?! Let's talk about a couple of kidnapped penguins, a drunk moose that was an Alaskan town's unofficial mascot, and a gang of polar bears that caused a lot of havoc for a military base. It's going to be a fun ride, friend! As a bonus, my dog decided to invite herself to cohost a portion of the episode, so there's that too.

Maud Stevens-Wagner was a woman ahead of her time and the first woman tattoo artist in the US. In this episode, I'll tell you about her life and the legacy she left behind for future generations of women in male-dominated fields. In the second half of the episode, I had the honor of speaking with Kelly Doty, an absolute powerhouse of female artists in the industry today and former finalist on Ink Master and host of Ink Master Angels. You'll hear her share her thoughts on women in the industry today, where tattooing is headed, and how humorous we both find elderly children. You want to make sure to catch this episode!

Just about everyone knows the board game Monopoly; it's one of the best-selling games of all time. But did you know that it played a pivotal role in helping POWs escape imprisonment during WWII? Yup, that's right...a board game helped free captured troops! And it wasn't the only game to do so either; the Bicycle brand deck of cards also got in on the action. Listen to this fascinating story of how these two games saved thousands of lives!

Have you ever wished to have the ability to do something extraordinary without having to study? Like, maybe play a musical instrument perfectly, or remember everything you've ever read, or be a human calculator...the possibilities are endless! Welcome to the world of savants; there really are people who possess these natural abilities and can do things most of us can only dream of. In this episode, I'll tell you about a blind woman who can navigate because she has her own "sonar" ability, a man who can read TWO pages at one time, and a whole host of other amazing things! It's fascinating and you don't want to miss this one

Meet Michael Malloy, a man with nine lives who unwittingly avoided murder time after time by a group of dummies that were so bad at being criminals even the police didn't believe the story when the members of the gang told them what happened. A bar owner and his cronies spent months trying to kill one of the regular patrons of this slum to collect a life insurance policy they'd taken out on him. But in what can only be described as a perpetual episode of Looney Tunes, they would lay trap after trap only to have Michael avoid it, happily unaware his "friends" were trying to off him for cash.

This is part one of a two-part story. Part two will be released tomorrow, so you won't have to wait!

Listen to the conclusion of this wild case in this second episode of The Indestructible Michael Malloy

Have you ever dreamed of doing big? Like, save the world kind of big? Meet Marcus Hutchins, a guy who actually did just that. In 2017 an insidious cyber attack was invading computers all over the world and holding them for ransom. It was infecting hospitals, railways, businesses, and regular people at lightning speed. In 24 hours, it would have made its way to every vulnerable computer in the world...that is if Marcus Hutchins hadn't figured out how to neutralize it. As if that wasn't amazing enough, he was barely out of his teens, he'd done it from the comfort of his bedroom, and he did it by accident. This is one hell of a story you don't want to miss!

Most parents can't fathom their child being kidnapped. That's a horrifying thought. And then there are other kinds of parents. In this week's episode, we'll be talking about people who make choices that most of us can't imagine making. I'm going to tell you two twisted stories of parents who planned out their own children's kidnappings.

This episode is so much fun! Even if you don't like comic book superheroes, I promise you want to stick around for this episode. I'll tell you about some of the strangest heroes that were so weird even the comic world rejected them, like a hero that wears a blindfold and delivers his evidence to the police via a brick through the chief's window. Or, the super soldier who dons a frumpy dress and cane to fight crime, a disembodies eyeball or the guy who wears a onesie and uses a dog as a horse. It's a wild ride that you don't want to miss! ***there is uncensored cursing in this episode***

Ron Stallworth was a black police detective who once went undercover and infiltrated the KKK. How did he do that?! You won't want to miss this epic story of a card-carrying black member of one of the most racist organizations. Not only did he get his membership card, but it was signed by none other than the head of the organization himself and still makes Ron laugh every time he tells the story.

Journey into the world of the Pink Panthers, a group of international jewel thieves working with hundreds of people, a lot of whom are ex-military and who've pulled off some legendary heists that would leave a Hollywood scriptwriter jealous. We'll dive into their back story, how they function, and some of their truly outrageous thefts, which have totaled over a billion dollars over the last two decades.

Normally when a sentence starts with "A man walks into a bar..." we expect to hear a joke. In the case of Brian Shaffer, it's the ominous beginning of his bizarre disappearance. In 2006 Brian was in his second year of med school, getting ready to propose to his girlfriend, and had just killed it on his finals. It was time to celebrate! He and his roommate headed to a nearby watering hole to get some drinks. Video cameras pointed at the only useable door captured him walking in but never recorded him leaving. That would be the last night anyone ever saw Brian; he seemingly vanished into thin air after he entered the bar. It's a true mystery that's never been solved.

Listen to the story about a girl who was found dead in the Seine River and how she became the face of CPR Annie.

One journalist specializing in master pranks creates a restaurant and climbed to the number one spot on TripAdvisor in London with a ridiculous menu based on people's feelings. Everyone, including people with impressive titles, was desperate to get a reservation, vendors were sending products in hopes they'd get a contract, and top chefs were dropping their applications by the dozen. There was just one little catch...the restaurant didn't actually exist. Listen to this crazy tale of how one man got to the top spot on TripAdvisor in London with a fake restaurant by sheer audacity.