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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

The Night Hag

In a one year period 117 Hmong American men died and modern medicine still has no idea what the cause was. The Hmong community knew: it was the Dab Tsog, a wicked spirit, the deadly night hag. Happy Halloween! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 26, 202148 min

The London Burkers

We follow up last week's episode with a pair of killers that put Burke and Hare to shame. But why did the home secretary actively try to stop them from giving a full confession? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 19, 202151 min

Burke & Hare

Just in time for Halloween—among the most macabre and infamous serial murders in British history… yet one of the perps was allowed to go free, and stranger still no one knows where he went or what he did after that. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 12, 202150 min

The Laurie McQuary Story Prt II

We follow up on last week's episode with a deep dive into the truth behind what really happened to Alexis Burke and take an in-depth look at the life and career of Psychic Detective Laurie McQuary. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 05, 202156 min

The Laurie McQuary Story Prt. I

When a young mother, Alexis Burke, goes missing a police detective suspects the husband but with no evidence to make an arrest the skeptical detective must forge a partnership with psychic investigator Laurie McQuary. Part of 1 of 2. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sep 28, 202140 min

The London Monster

This week on The Shocking Details: for nearly two years, a fiend terrorized the citizenry of the City of London. The London Monster was finally run to ground, but today some wonder if the police got the wrong man. Did The London Monster actually escape justice? Joe and Vincent are on the case! (plus we meet the Monkey Man of Delhi!) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Sep 21, 202140 min

"Clay" The Serial Killer

Did a notorious-a possibly uncaught-serial killer call the most popular radio show in America? Or was something even stranger going on? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sep 14, 202154 min

Lillian Alling: Mystery Woman of the North

A woman who never speaks sets off on a journey from New Jersey to an unknown destination and eventually disappears into the wilderness near the Yukon/Alaska border. All we know about her comes from brief encounters with the people she met along her epic journey. But what ever became of her? Was she eaten by bears? Did she circumnavigate The globe? Did she find love in wild Canadian North? This week we try to find: Lillian Alling. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & ...

Sep 07, 202159 min

The Pangboche Hand

After a monk discovers a mysterious cave containing a mumified yeti, a race to identify the remains takes us through history right up until this very day. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sep 01, 202147 min

Incident at SL-1: The Theories.

Part 2 of 2: An incident at a US nuclear reactor leads to the tragic death of three service men. Was it Murder? Was it an accident? Was there a cover-up? What about all those rumors the government seemed a little too happy to let fly? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 25, 202123 min

Incident at SL-1

Routine maintenance at an experimental reactor leads a meltdown and devastating explosion killing all inside. Investigation leads authorities to wonder was this a tragic accident or possible murder-suicide? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 24, 202125 min

The Giant & The Rock

This week we find ourselves, of all places, in Afghanistan not to cover current events but to explore to mysteries involving the Marine Corps. Did Special Forces take on and best a Giant in Khandahar? And what is going with a haunted hill turned Marine Outpost in Hellmand? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 17, 202155 min

The Man Who Stole The Stars

The most spectacular jewel collection on the planet was targeted by three daring thieves late one October night in NYC. How did they pull it off? The answer might surprise you… This week we discuss the theft of the Star of India. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 10, 202141 min

The Chiong Sisters

Armchair sleuths uncover evidence that the victims of a major abduction and murder case from a decade prior may just be alive and living in Canada. That prompts us to revisit the strange and twisty case of the Chiong Sisters. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aug 03, 202147 min

REUPLOADED: The Reappearing Corpse

REUPLOADED: A mysterious elderly woman disappears from a small English town. 10 years later her skeletal remains are found in her home in plainsight, where everyone had already looked. Today we examine the unsolved case of Ada Contance Kent! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 30, 202145 min

A Call From The Men In Black

Did an Air Force Captain manage to tape record a call from the mysterious and terrifying Men In Black? Did Caldoni receive a similar call. We exlpore the Subrink tapes! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 20, 202142 min

Oakville Vs Blobs

A strange rain falls on the sleepy town of Oakville Washington. Contained in it is a odd substance similar to clear gelatin. Strange right? But the substance keeps falling, people and animals in the town begin to get violently ill. This week we explain: The Oakville Blobs! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 13, 202142 min

The Erdington Murders

Two women with a striking amount in common are murdered on the same day, in the same park 157 years apart. Are Joe and Caldoni on the trail of a deathless serial killer? A time travelling desperado? A town with a dark secret? Or something even more sinister? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jul 06, 202147 min

Terror! In Ape Canyon

We explore one of the most mysterious places in the US: Ape Canyon. Volcanic eruptions! An Inexplicable disappearance! Mysterious Caves! Sasquatch attack! Joe in peril! This episode has 'em all! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 29, 20211 hr 6 min

The Death of Max Spiers

In 2016 an up and coming conspiracy theorist dies after vomitting a strange black liquid. What happened to poor Max Spiers? Poisoning by the same dark forces he'd tried to expose? An overdose? Psychic attack? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 22, 202152 min

Alferd Packer: Colorado Wendigo?

A group of prospectors are lost in the mountains of Colorado and believed dead, then their guide returns alone after months looking suspiciously well-fed. Is Alferd Packer the vile ghoul history remembers him as, or there more to it than that? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 15, 202153 min

The Lost Library of Iona

This week on The Shocking Details: A vast trove of priceless historical documents lies hidden somewhere on a rocky island off the coast of Scotland. Its discovery could change history as we know it. Or does The Lost Library of Iona really exist? And where the heck is it? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 08, 202148 min

The Red Ghost

A violent cryptid killed people along the Arizona/Mexico border, it had cloven hooves, long red hair and carried a dead-possibly demonic-rider on its back. But this is no myth, something mysterious but very real was going on. We get to the bottom of The Red Ghost of Arizona. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jun 01, 202149 min

The Desert Faux

A vital intelligence source, crucial to Gen. Erwin Rommel’s stunning successes in North Africa in WWII, is blown, and Rommel’s winning streak is over. Who spilled the beans? The answer to the mystery is still up in the air decades later. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 25, 202144 min

The Confounding Death Of Jordan Grider

In late 2018 a man entered the northern Minnesota woods, in early 2019 his campsite was found drenched in blood. Theories abound but none seem to fit perfectly. Today we delve into the fascinating life and mysterious death of Jordan Grider. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 18, 202150 min

The Sinking of The Lermantov

A Soviet Cruise liner sinks off the coast of New Zealand under comically suspicious circumstances. Was it a comedy of errors or espionage? This episode is brought to you by "CONTACTEE" https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08W8GZGXL/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 11, 202155 min

The Nimerigar

When two miners find a tiny mummy in a Wyoming cave it reignites a debate about Native peoples' widespread tales of tiny humans who once inhabited the America's. In this weeks episode we explore The Nimerigar. (reuploaded!) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

May 09, 202148 min

Hatton Garden & The Diamond Geezers prt. 2

The thrilling conclusion, in which we explore the connection between the Hatton Garden heist and The Baker street burglary! Be sure to listen to part one first. (And probably the Baker st. caper from last week too) https://shockingdetails.libsyn.com/hatton-garden-and-the-diamond-geezers-prt-1 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...

Apr 30, 202133 min

Hatton Garden and the Diamond Geezers prt. 1

London, 2015: A major break-in occurs in a secretive upscale vault facility in London's diamond district. Could there be a a connection to the Baker street heist which we discussed last week? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 27, 202141 min

The Baker Street Heist prt. 2

The exciting to sequel to Part 2. We explore the many theories about why Gavin and company broke into the Baker Street branch of Lloyd's bank. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 23, 202138 min
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