The Shocking Details
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...
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The Murder of Ailie Hall

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…
The Nuremberg Celestial Event

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?
Amelia Earhart: Found? Part 2

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.)
Amelia Earhart: Found? Part I

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.)
Re-reruns: The Arkansas Ghost Trial

You're at a murder trial. The defendant is losing badly. The evidence is overwhelming. Then the victim takes the stand.....
Dodecahedrons! Part 2!

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.
Dodecahedrons!

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?
The Dunbar Heist

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?
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Marco Aurelio Simon prt II

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?
Marco Aurelio Simon part I

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?
Did Oleg Penkovsky Actually Save The World?

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?
ReBroadcast: The Ivan Vassily

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

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?
Missing! Russell Bohling.

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.
The Bunyip

Could one of the strangest, most terrifying, and goofiest cryptids in Australian lore be real? We may have the answer!
Did the Bermuda Triangle Take Guma Aguiar?

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?
The 28 Fires of Odon

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?
Re-upload of "Oumuamua"

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

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.
Who Was Judge Holden?

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

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.
The Sandown Clown

Two kids meet up with a strange-looking "clown man" in the forest, and then it only gets creepier.
Last Bus to Fragrant Hills and Other Tales

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.
The Seattle Zombie

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!
The Pecos Triangle

We investigate a mysterious area around the Pecos River where people have an odd habit of going missing in oddly similar fashion.
Sasquatch Didn't Abduct Theresa Bier Prt 2 of 2

Did a sasquatch abduct a California teenager in 1987? Nope. Here's why and what probably really happened.
Did Sasquatch Kidnap Theresa Bier? Prt 1 of 2

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?
The Search for Orang Pendek

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

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?
The Murdered Mountaineers!

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

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

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.
The Centralia Conspiracies

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.
Jean Weber: The Ogress!

This week we're revisiting an older more obscure episode about a French nanny who's charges just kept-um-well... becoming dead.
The Mysterious Death of Jean Tatlock part 2

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

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?
Underworld(s)

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!
The Unsolved Murder of Lea Polvani

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.
The Vanishing Airliner

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?