Hoaxed: Secrets and Lies

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts.

Introducing... Hoaxed, the new series from Alexi Mostrous and Tortoise, who brought you Sweet Bobby.

In 2014, two children told police a shocking story: that they were being abused by a Satanic cult; a cult headed by their father and by parents and teachers at their school in the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead. The story was a lie. But on the internet, that didn't matter.

Hoaxed is an investigation into one of Britain's most serious-ever conspiracy theories. A story about a modern-day Satanic panic; about the victims whose lives were destroyed and about the conspiracists who spread the lie around the world. Oh, and it's about our hunt for the perpetrators - the people who forced the kids to lie - the ones who started it all.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:26.0	Just a quick note before we start. The following episode contains descriptions of sexual and physical abuse of children as well as strong language and
0:35.2	graphic violence.
0:36.3	Hi, before we start, I'd just like to tell you everyone who's here and tell you where we are.
0:47.0	Is that all right?
0:48.0	My name's Steve, and I'm a policeman, and I work here at this police station.
0:52.0	The other lady sitting there, her name's
0:55.6	Cleo, and she's a police lady. She works to this police station. Whatever you
1:00.7	tell us in here you're not in trouble, okay? So as long as you tell us the truth, then there won't be any problems, okay?
1:10.0	As a reporter, I spend my life trying to break stories, trying to uncover the truth and bring it into the light.
1:20.0	I know that sounds a bit high and mighty, but it's not meant to be, and it's not like I'm always successful, not even close.
1:29.0	Powerful people or big corporations with expensive lawyers can bring a story to a shuddering halt.
1:37.4	But success or not, the basic dynamic is always the same.
1:42.0	I'm the guy trying to find a way around the obstacles, trying to get
1:47.0	the story out. But this story, this story is different. If it was up to me, this story would never have been made public.
1:59.0	In my classroom they got this little door at the back, right at the back of the classroom.
2:05.6	They've got a little door and it's just a little tiny little room.
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