When a Community Turns on You; When the Cult you Escaped Takes Over the Government; "Survivor" #MeToo and Legal Recourse; Fat Naked Man; My Sense of Security Was Ruined by a Man!; and Lost Necklace Glitch in the Matrix?

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A man brought a gun to a pizza restaurant hoping to save kids and found… nothing. Instead, the conspiracy theory that drove him there morphed into something larger, more outrageous, and somehow, even more difficult to debunk. Then came another batch of emails. This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 4.

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Oh Brother…; I Had a Premonition of my Husband's Funeral; That One Patient; My Two-Year-Old Communes with the Dead; Bright Lights in the Middle of Nowhere; and A Ghost Told Us Bigfoot was Created in Charlotte NC.

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Travel back with us to a simpler time. Pull up a seat and grab a sack. This week, we're rifling through some of our classic bits. It's Best of Mixed Bag

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My Dad Was a Monster; I Didn’t Know I Was a Victim; In Response to The Jesse Test; A Two-fer!; The Ghost Got Me in Trouble & Then Had Its Revenge; and Visits at the End.

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A mess of emails. A community hungry for a new fight. And one round food item that suddenly gained a sinister reputation. It all came together online and changed the course of history forever. This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 3.

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Temu Jeffrey Epstein; Not Just Anime; Bookstore Bastard; The Black Cat Serial Killer or Deathly Omen?; I Hate My Racist School; and Freaky Friday #208 - US History Teacher Chiming In.

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Today we're talking with Jen Miller, journalist, author of five books, and the reporter and co-producer behind Blood Will Tell, a new limited series podcast from Wondery and Campside Media.
Jen's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other esteemed publications. She holds both an MFA in fiction and a master's in journalism from Columbia. She's also spent the last decade running the Senior Media Fellows Program at the American Immigration Council, helping over a thousand people tell their own immigration stories in their own words.

The story that brought her to us today started with a Washington Post assignment about Shakespeare being used as therapy in prisons and ended with her down a rabbit hole that led to the creation of Blood Will Tell. The podcast overs the true story of 18-year-old Anh and Trung, Vietnamese-American identical twin brothers in San Jose, California and a birthday party that turned fatal.

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In the 1970s, a French journalist claimed he was contacted by extraterrestrial beings who revealed that humanity was scientifically created by an advanced alien race. From that encounter, the Raëlian Movement was born, blending UFO belief, sensual freedom, and a futuristic vision of human destiny. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, Vanessa Richardson examines the rise of founder Claude Vorilhon, known as Raël, and the group’s teachings about the Elohim, cloning, and eternal life through science. As the movement spread internationally and made headlines with controversial claims of human cloning, critics challenged its credibility and internal practices. This episode explores how a message of cosmic origins and technological salvation evolved into one of the most unusual and debated new religious movements of the modern era.

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A frog with his pants pulled down. A suspiciously powerful Reddit account. And one of the craziest news days in American history. Who knew the internet could be so powerful in the real world? This week's episode is 4chan, WikiLeaks, and Pizzagate: Part 2.

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Jim's Girls; It Could Be Happening to You or Your Child and You Wouldn’t Even Fuckin Know It; The Most Horrifying Thing My Child Has Ever Said; Childhood Friend’s Mean Dad Ended Up Killing Someone; I Think I Stopped a Murder by Being a Crime Nerd; and DV Encounter

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