The Shocking Details

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Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2024

Leap Year Bonus! Brutal murder--or comedy of errors? In 18th Century Edinburgh, a hapless teenage girl is marked for death by a cabal of people she thought were her friends—but our conspirators are so incompetent, it takes them nearly a year, and many failed attempts, before they finally achieve their heinous goal…

Transcribed - Published: 29 February 2024

Early one morning some s***t went down in the skies over the German City of Nuremberg. Was it aliens? Was it God? Was everyone tripping?

Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2024

Part 2 of 2! If you haven't listened to part one, you really should. A tech start-up thinks they may have located Amelia Earhart's missing aeroplane and possibly the aviatrix herself. Joe has questions. In this ep. we get run back over the basics of her daring trip around the globe, which often are left out of her story. Stay tuned for episode 2! (Coming soon.)

Transcribed - Published: 15 February 2024

A tech start-up thinks they may have located Amelia Earhart's missing aeroplane and possibly the aviatrix herself. Joe has questions. In this ep. we get run back over the basics of her daring trip around the globe, which often are left out of her story. Stay tuned for episode 2! (Coming soon.)

Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2024

You're at a murder trial. The defendant is losing badly. The evidence is overwhelming. Then the victim takes the stand.....

Transcribed - Published: 8 February 2024

Yes. I did fix it. I regret the error. I apologize. thank you for kind advisements. We are so very back! And no matter what you try you cannot- stop us from discussing inexplicable Roman trinkets! (Take that, more successful podcasts!) If you haven't listened to part 1, you really should. Because it is cool and fun and you won't understand WTF this one is even talking about unless you know a lot about dodecahedra, in which case please go listen to ep one because we need the downloads.

Transcribed - Published: 2 February 2024

Part 1 of 2! Strange 12-sided objects dating to 2nd and 3rd century Roman Empire have been discovered all across Europe, but what they were, and why they were made remains a complete mystery. And what of their South East Asian counterparts?

Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2024

The biggest heist in US history was in 1997, when thieves robbed the Dunbar Armored depot in downtown Los Angeles, making off with $18.9 million. The perps were eventually caught after a two-year hunt, but most of the money—more than $13 million—was never recovered. Where did it go? 3 attachments • Scanned by Gmail

Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2024

Part 2 of 2. Be sure to listen to part 1 first! 15-year-old boy goes missing in the forest, a massive search is called up but all they find are mysterious blue flashes and mysterious whistling deep within the forest. Was it aliens? A cult? Serial killer?

Transcribed - Published: 19 January 2024

A 15-year-old boy goes missing in the forest, a massive search is called up but all they find are mysterious blue flashes and mysterious whistling deep within the forest. Was it aliens? A cult? Serial killer?

Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2024

Code Name Hero: Oleg Penkovsky has been called The Man Who Saved the World, a Russian intelligence agent who spied for the West until he was caught and executed by the Soviets. But were things really as they seemed with him? Or was he a double agent?

Transcribed - Published: 9 January 2024

Hey all! Joe has been really sick and it's still close to New Year's, so enjoy a blast from the past!

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2024

Leeds, 2008: A young father is gunned down at his sister's house by total strangers. The case is still unsolved. But... who was Michelle?

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2023

In March 2010, 18-year-old Russell Bohling left his home in England, supposedly to attend classes at a nearby college, but it appears that he instead went to explore an abandoned underground RAF bunker on the British coast—a bunker long rumored to have been a meeting place for a Satanic cult. Russell was never seen again.

Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2023

Could one of the strangest, most terrifying, and goofiest cryptids in Australian lore be real? We may have the answer!

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2023

A rich man's boat washes up on the shore, but it's owner is long gone. Did the Bermuda triangle swallow him up? Did he fake his own death? Was he killed?

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2023

In a quaint midwestern town, an old farmhouse attempts to spontaneously combust but the family that lives there, neighbors, and a diligent fire department stop each and every fire, witnessing the flames materialize out of nowhere before being extinguished. Ultimately, over a dozen people witnessed the inexplicable phenomenon... but what could have caused the 28 fires of Odon?

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2023

Some folks are saying they couldn't hear the full version. So here it goes again in all it's glory

Transcribed - Published: 17 November 2023

For one of our most requested episodes, we take a look at what may be our closest encounter with a visitor from another solar system.

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2023

Turns out of most terrifying figures in literature was real person. We dig into the history of this of real life monster.

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2023

To celebrate Halloween we serve up a batch of super spooky all-new scary stories, one from Joe, one from Vincent, and a ton from our listeners! Which one do you think is the spookiest? Warning: There is a small amount of salty language in this ep.

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2023

Two kids meet up with a strange-looking "clown man" in the forest, and then it only gets creepier.

Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2023

Terror has a new name! And it’s written in a language you don’t understand, which makes it even scarier!! This week on The Shocking Details, we’re bringing you three spine-tingling, booty-clenching tales of horror from another continent.

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2023

2021: A screaming, bleeding woman with jet-black eyes and a deathly pallor is videotaped on the streets of Seattle. Some thought it was the start of a zombie apocalypse. Spooky October continues!

Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2023

We investigate a mysterious area around the Pecos River where people have an odd habit of going missing in oddly similar fashion.

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2023

Did a sasquatch abduct a California teenager in 1987? Nope. Here's why and what probably really happened.

Transcribed - Published: 28 September 2023

A 16-year-old girl and a 43-year-old man disappeared on a camping trip. When he is finally found he has a heck of a story for the cops. Is he a murder? Or is Theresa Bier living among the Sasquatch?

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2023

Does a mysterious bipedal ape stalk the jungles of Indonesia? Pack a bag: Joe and Caldoni are headed to Sumatra to find a cryptid!

Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2023

Four people ascend a mountain. One makes it back down. The other three all died of the exact same natural causes. The lone survivor is accused of murder. What really happened?

Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2023

Two of the Soviet Union's greatest climbers die in a mysterious "accident." But was it really just a simple gas leak?

Transcribed - Published: 5 September 2023

Does a mysterious grey-haired cryptid haunt the peaks and the highest mountains in the UK? We're on his trail!

Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2023

2013, an artist in Hong Kong discovers a mysterious mineral for sale in a market. The story that unfolds involves a daring Italian Geologist, a violent civil war, Aliens and Gods.

Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2023

There are two cities named Centralia in the United States, located on opposite sides of the country, both are the sites of horrible tragedies that may have been the result of conspiracies. Today we explore both strange tales and their horrific outcomes.

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2023

This week we're revisiting an older more obscure episode about a French nanny who's charges just kept-um-well... becoming dead.

Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2023

This is the second part of a two-parter, you haven't already listened to part one make sure you do so!

Transcribed - Published: 3 August 2023

As the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos reached a fever pitch a lonely communist doctor took her own life in San Fransisco. What do these two events have to do with one another? Well, it just so happened that the deceased woman was J Robert Oppenheimer's secret paramour. But did she really take her own life? Or was it the work of the agents following her?

Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2023

This week on the Shocking Details—20th century discoveries of ancient underground complexes and cities have left mysteries in their wake—who created these amazing structures? And how did they do it? And why? Joe and Vincent don their Indiana Jones hats and plunge into the abyss to find out!

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2023

Artist Lea Polvani was abducted right in front of her apartment. Four days later she was found murdered in a cave. Almost 40 years later the crime remains one of Italy's most baffling cold cases.

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2023

May 2003: a Boeing 727 took off on an unauthorized departure from Luanda Airport in Angola—without a pilot or crew aboard, as far as anyone knows—and hasn’t been seen since, though the CIA, FBI and other intelligence services turned over many rocks trying to find it. What happened to Plane #844AA, the Vanishing Airliner?

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2023

Due to the holiday, we are revisiting one of our original cases—a classic tale of murder with a hauntingly silly twist.

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2023

A group of trappers in Oregon are found shot, mutilated and stuffed under the ice of a remote mountain lake. Suspects abound but no one fits perfectly. Find out how these tragic murders divided a small timber town and have remained unsolved to this day.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2023

Called “The Mary Celeste of Australia”, the sailboat Kaz II was found adrift in the Pacific in April 2007, undamaged, with everything on deck and belowdecks in perfect order—but the three-man crew had vanished without a trace. This week on The Shocking Details: what happened to the men of the Kaz II? Mystery cubed!

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2023

1994: after a series of silent 911 calls from an abandoned property in Celina, Texas police arrive to find a truly macabre scene. But wait! What really happened to poor Olivia Mabel, what about her son who died in 1990? Strap in: here there be twists!

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2023

Christina Calayca vanished while jogging in a provincial park in Canada in 2007, leaving no trace—not even a hint of a scent for the search dogs. This week on TSD, Joe and Vince investigate Christina’s mysterious disappearance.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2023

Part 2 of 2! The Shocking Conclusion. 2015: Aaron Quinn reports to police an incredible story of the abduction of his girlfriend Denise, but that's the problem. His story seems anything but credible. Then twists start coming. Buckle up as we tell the story of the abduction of Denise Huskins, AKA Victim F. Be sure to listen to episode one.

Transcribed - Published: 1 June 2023

Part 1 of 2! 2015 Aaron Quinn reports to police an incredible story of the abduction of his girlfriend Denise, but that's the problem. His story seems anything but credible. Then twists start coming. Buckle up as we tell the story of the abduction of Denise Huskins, AKA Victim F.

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2023

A horrific and bloodied figure stalks the dank forests and lovers' lanes around picturesque Cannon Beach, Oregon!

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2023

In 1991 Col. James Sabow was found dead at his home on El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California. The death was ruled a suicide by local authorities and NCIS, but subsequent inquiries cast doubt upon the verdict, and dark allegations of covert flights and arms smuggling at the air base were raised. Was Col Sabow’s death really a suicide—or was it murder?

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2023

Part 3 of 3! Be sure to check out parts 1 and 2 if you haven't already! 2003: a team of archaeologists have come to Liang Bua, a remote cave. Once inside they uncover something unexpected, bones of a hominoid which would have stood under a meter and a half tall. Dubbed Homo Floresiensis the discovery rocks the world of anthropology and human evolution to its core. The world is surprised by the discovery but not the people who live on Flores at the edges of the dense jungle, they’ve known the tiny ape-men since time, for them, began, they call them Ebu Gogo, and according to these people it may still be out there.

Transcribed - Published: 11 May 2023