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The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoniwww.spreaker.com
From the minds of Joe Swaney from the Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Caldoni: Mysteries, history, true crime, tales of the unexplained, conspiracies and mirth!


If you are of a certain age you may remember how newspapers worked: the headline told you the news and the front pages gave you the basics of the story but if you wanted the details-the real story the messy stuff, the backstory, you had to flip to the back of the section, past the fluff pieces, past the ads, and whatever else to get to it and if you were like us that was the good stuff-the details that shock.
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Episodes

Corona Chronicles Vol. 14: Breaking News from Stonehenge!

Our first ever podcast about a current news story. A major discovery was found in the area around Stonehenge. Being called "The Durrington Shafts" it changes everything we thought we knew about Stonehenge and opens up new mysteries. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 03, 202025 min

The Cadaver Synod

They got at mad at the Pope and they wanted something done about it. The only problem: he's dead. So what can you do? Dig him up and put his dead body on trial. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 30, 202040 min

The Girl In The Cupboard: Natasha Ryan & Len Fraser

A young woman, Natasha Ryan, disappears. The small town cops say she's just a run away. More women go missing. A serial killer named Len Fraser, is caught and confesses. Then everything goes truly insane. Featuring Joe from Thinking Sideways, film maker Vincent Caldoni and special guest Tess Carter. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Jun 23, 20201 hr 2 min

Corona Chronicles Vol. 13: Tara Was On TV! (It was bad)

We talk to Tara about growing up in a house so very haunted that it was even on one of those silly 1990's paranormal shows... and that's when it gets weird. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 19, 202023 min

Kill The Witch!

Three stories from recent times about hexes, witchcraft, curses and murder! May include some helpful info about how to fight off a hex as well. Featuring Joe from Thinking Sideways, film maker Vincent Caldoni. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 16, 20201 hr 2 min

Corona Chronicles Vol. 12: The Boise City Bombing

Boise City, Oklahoma, 1943: The US Air Force bombs a small town on accident but otherwise the mission was a total success. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 12, 202018 min

Gerard Schaefer: An Awful Writer

Gerard John Schaefer is the worst author you'll ever read. He really is the absolute worst. Does his crappy writing contain even more evidence of crimes than he was imprisoned for? Or is it all just terrible fiction? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 09, 202057 min

Corona Chronicles Vol. 11: The Tess Files

English ghosts & spirits were not feeling that teen spirit. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 05, 202030 min

Christiana Edmunds: The Poisoner Venus of Broadmoor

How did a well born woman from Victorian England become an indiscriminate murderer known as "The Chocolate Cream Killer." Was it love? Lust? Or just a sincere need to mess things up for everyone? Featuring Joe from Thinking Sideways, film maker Vincent Caldoni. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 02, 202037 min

Corona Chronicles Vol. 10: Donnie Nash, Moron.

There was actually a fair amount of material cut from this week's episode. So in this episode of the Corona Chronicles we delve into how bad at crime Donnie Nash really was. Plus Joe has a book recommendation! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 29, 202014 min

The CBS Murders

The Hitman. The Diamond dealer. The Crooked Accountant. The Scam. The Stolen Taxi. The botched murders. Everything goes wrong. This isn't a Cohen Brothers film. This is NYC, 1982. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 26, 20201 hr 4 min

Joe Was On TV

REUPLOADED! Joe details his experiences appearing on science channel show about the Bermuda Triangle. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 22, 202032 min

Corona Chronicles vol. 9: Lights In The Night

Listener, John, tells us two personal stories of UFOs in rural Colorado. Joe details his brush with one-of sorts. Caldoni's Grandpa saw a flying saucer, or not. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 22, 202021 min

MS Estonia: The Curse of Viking Sally

Three terrible tragedies, each worse than the last. Two vile murders, a maritime disaster and some podcasts lost to time! Is it possible Odin himself laid a curse on this vessel? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 19, 20201 hr 2 min

Corona Chronicles Vol. 8: Jimmy Stewart Bombed Vietnam

Did you know that, as a 57 year old man, mild mannered actor Jimmy Stewart-yes that Jimmy Stewart-bombed the crap out of Vietnam? How? Why? We've got the details. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 15, 202023 min

Ghost Bombers

Three shocking tales of mysterious military aircraft landing where they should not! Nothing is as it seems. A cornfield in Montana has a state of the art jet with no pilot. A field in Belgium has bomber and no crew. A river in Pennsylvania has a crew but no plane. It only gets weirder from there! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

May 12, 20201 hr

Corona Chronicles #7: Floyd Was On TV

The Saga Continues! Joe chills us with tales danger in the caves before Floyd’s time. Caldoni fills us in on the crazy influences Floyd has had since his death. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 07, 202011 min

Poor Floyd: The Floyd Collins Story

A man becomes very, very stuck in a cavern in Kentucky. He's alive but it seems impossible to get him out. A herculean effort is launched to save him and media circus as well. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 05, 20201 hr 8 min

Corona Chronicles 6: Screams in the Night

A story from Caldoni about mysterious screams and their sources, commentary from Joe. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 01, 202014 min

Joao Filho: One Heckuva Sunburn

After a day of fishing, a Brazilian man is burned horrifically in his own home with no apparent cause. And that’s when the Theories start! He claims a blinding light did it to him. An accident? Crime? UFO's? Ancient Spirits? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 28, 202052 min

Corona Chronicles #5: Grave Crimes

Listener Bonnie Hutchinson takes us to Connecticut where there were some serious shady things happening at a funeral home. Joe and Caldoni take it from there. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 24, 202020 min

MV Arctic Sea

A ship loaded with timber is hijacked, then let go, then goes missing. As if that wasn't strange enough, soon the whole Russian navy is looking for it, the Israeli prime minister is flying to Moscow and 11 years later no one really knows what actually happened. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 21, 202058 min

Corona Chronicles: Bad Wiring

Did some bad wiring during WWII fundamentally alter the course of American history? Joe has thoughts. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 17, 202027 min

Murder at Meeting Street

A lethal family feud, a segregationist senator, a cunning seductress, the electric chair, Strom Thurmond, farm animals in peril, amazing vaginal dexterity! In 1941, Meeting Street, South Carolina had it all. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 14, 202034 min

Corona Chronicles vol. 3: DYN-0-MITE!

On today's Corona Chronicle bonus ep. Joe and Caldoni discuss the true urban legend of the Exploding Whale of Oregon, plus a hilariously botched train robbery. Oregonians have issues with dynamite. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 10, 202025 min

Michelle Von Emster: Oh sure! Blame the shark...

A young woman, Michelle Von Emster, is found floating off the coast of San Diego, badly dismembered. On her body, the coroner discovers shark bites. Her tragic death is chalked up to a Great White Shark attack. But experts aren't buying it. From there things only get stranger. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 07, 202056 min

Murders Per Gallon

Over the last few decades a number of brilliant men have come up with-potentially-dodgy ways to make a liter of petrol last longer. So why do they keep getting turning up dead? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 31, 202054 min

Corona Chronicles: Zoo Stories

Did the greatest art heist in Portland history ever even happen? plus: drunks vs. lions and haunted zoo. These are some kinda informal episodes were making to help people make through "social isolation etc" let us know what you think? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 27, 202024 min

The Body and The Boiler stack

In peaceful Bellingham, Washington a body is discovered inside an industrial boiler stack. Clues are plentiful at first, but overtime the identity of the Doe only becomes murkier. Modern forensic genealogy can't solve this one. Bonus! The time city blew up. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 24, 202055 min

Gerald Bull: Project Babylon

Somebody killed Gerald Bull, one of the most maverick weapons designers the world has ever known. But who? Turns out there are a lot of people with motive and not a lot of evidence for whodunnit. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mar 17, 202049 min
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