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1True Crime All The TimeEmash Digital / Wondery Hosts Mike Ferguson and Mike Gibson guide you through the most interesting true crime stories.

2The Telepathy TapesKy Dickens The Telepathy Tapes is a podcast that explores the origins of consciousness and the unexplained abilities of ESP through science, verifiable experience, formal testing, and human story. In Season One, non-speaking individuals with autism reveal striking telepathic abilities that challenge everything we thought we knew about the mind. In Season Two, the lens widens to extraordinary experiences that invite us to rethink reality itself.

3#1 DadBig Money PlayersAs kids, most of us look up to our Dads.

45CAST w/ Andrew CallaghanAndrew CallaghanThis is the official audio feed of Andrew Callaghan's weekly broadcast '5CAST' featuring a wide cast of illustrious guests.

5A Place of YesBright Sighted MediaGrief is messy, complicated, and deeply personal — but you don’t have to go through it alone.

6Admissible: Shreds of EvidenceiHeart13 wrongful convictions all tied to one forensic analyst.

7After Broad and MarketThe WNET GroupIn 2003, WNET journalist Jenna Flanagan reported on the murder of 15-year-old Newark native Sakia Gunn.

8Afterlives: Marsha P. JohnsoniHeartPodcastsMarsha P.

9All the Buried WomenBeth Allison Barr and Savannah LockeHosted by Beth Allison Barr and Savannah Locke, All the Buried Women uncovers stories of women that are hidden in the Southern Baptist Convention’s archives.

10America: A HistoryLiam HeffernanThis is your deep‑dive guide to how the United States became what it is today - politically, culturally, and socially.

11American Greed PodcastCNBCCNBC's longest-running primetime original series, "American Greed" takes you inside the amazing real-life stories of how some people will do anything for money.

12American ShrapnelAlabama Media GroupThe Olympics explode on a July night in 1996.

13An Army of Normal FolksiHeartOur country’s problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits talking big words on CNN and Fox, but by An Army of Normal Folks just deciding “hey, I can help.” Hosted by Coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar-winning Undefeated, this podcast is building the Army and celebrating its extraordinary members.

14Architecture of AbuseAlyssa Grenfell and Tim KosnoffThank you for listening to Season 1.

15Are You Even a MILSPO?MarissaHosted by Marissa, this podcast is your unapologetic deep dive into what military spouses REALLY go through.

16Before We GoPodcast Nation Before We Go is a narrative podcast hosted and produced by Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider—physician, science journalist, Oscar-nominated documentary producer, host of TED Health, and founder of End Well, a nonprofit reshaping how we think about life’s final chapter.Season 1 followed Shoshana’s deeply personal journey through her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis, a path that forced her to confront her own mortality and illuminated unexpected truths about love, loss, and meaning.Now, Season 2 opens the conversation wider.

17BEING GoldenBEING Studios Audio RealityWelcome to BEING Studios Audio Reality®: reality TV for your ears.

18Big EnvelopesAudible

19Big TimeCampside Media and Piece of Work Entertainment Fake kidnappings.

20BlindspotThe HISTORY® Channel and WNYC StudiosHIV and AIDS changed the United States and the world.

21Blindspot: The Road to 9/11WNYC Studios - Ursula SommerHIV and AIDS changed the United States and the world.

22Camp ShameiHeartPodcastsCamp Shane—one of America’s longest running weight loss camps for kids—promised extraordinary results.

23Campus FilesAudacyCollege holds a mythic place in American culture, hailed as the best four years of your life and revered as a beacon of integrity and excellence.

24Cement CityCement City ProductionsAll families tell stories about themselves.

25Chameleon: The Michigan PlotThe BingeWe are living in a golden age of deception.

26Chess Piece: The Elián González StoryMy Cultura and iHeartPodcastsAt the turn of the millennium, a five-year-old boy from Cuba found off the Florida coast on Thanksgiving became the most talked about child in America.

27City of the RailsiHeartWhen journalist Danelle Morton’s daughter skips town to hop trains, she follows her into the train yard, and across America.

28Classy with Jonathan MenjivarPineapple Street Studios*** Named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, The Atlantic, Apple, Vogue, the CBC, and Lifehacker.

29ColdWondery Cold is a narrative podcast series focused on missing persons cases.

30Collateral Damage from The InterceptThe InterceptCollateral Damage is an investigative podcast series examining the half-century-long war on drugs, its enduring ripple effects, and the devastating consequences of building a massive war machine aimed at the public itself.

31Computer FreaksInc. MagazineThis is the untold history of how the internet almost didn’t happen.

32Crowded Hours: The True Story of Alice Roosevelt and America's First Political DynastyAudible

33Curse of: America’s Next Top ModeliHeartPodcasts and Glass PodcastsWhen America’s Next Top Model premiered in the early 2000s, it looked like a golden ticket: a glamorous TV show that could catapult aspiring models into fame.

34Dark ArenasaudiochuckHave you ever thought about whose job it is to track international fugitives, hunt child abductors, conduct espionage, or pull human remains from concealed mass graves?

35Dark DowneastaudiochuckDark Downeast: Maine and New England's True Crime Podcast digs into the decades-old and modern day cases that prickle the history of Vacationland and beyond – the unsolved homicides, undetermined deaths, unexplained disappearances and other dark stories of New England.

36Dark Side of the Ring: UnheardVICEThe podcast from the creators of the hit VICE TV show Dark Side of the Ring and the The Lapsed Fan is back for an all-new season.

37Day XThe New York TimesThis story began with a mysterious gun in an airport bathroom and led to a German military officer facing trial on terrorism charges.

38Death on the LotThe BingeWe’re getting into 1950s Hollywood, ground zero for a cultural transformation that would upend every aspect of Americans’ lives.

39Debt HeadsJamie Feldman & Rachel WebsterA narrative podcast turning the concept of debt upside down.

40Decoder RingSlateDecoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries.

41Devil TownImperative Fear and hysteria grip the small town of Gilmer, Texas, when the search for missing teenager Kelly Wilson takes a series of bizarre and shocking turns.

42Digital FolkloreRealmDigital Folklore is an immersive audio adventure that takes place inside a fictional universe, but explores the real-world truths behind various expressions of internet culture and how each holds up a mirror to the society from which they emerge.

43Division Street RevisitedMary Schmich Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Schmich traces the lives of seven people in Studs Terkel’s first book of oral history: A Black public school janitor; a Lithuanian tavern owner; an Appalachian mother of 15; a closeted gay actor; a Native American activist; a Black labor leader; and a prominent white woman in Chicago high society.

44Donor 9623Audible

45Donor 9623: Part Two: One man. 36 Kids, The biggest reproductive hoax in historyAudible

46DrilledCritical FrequencyDrilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay.

47Drowning CreekWavlandIn the early morning hours of November 2, 2007, Justin Gaines walked out of a popular nightclub on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia and was never seen again.

48Ear HustleEar Hustle, Radiotopia Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, where Nigel was a volunteer teaching photography.

49Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi StoryApple TV+ / AT WILL MEDIA In 1920, a broke immigrant in Boston became one of America’s richest, most infamous men—practically overnight.

50Elon's SpiesTortoise MediaElon Musk is one of the most powerful men in the world.