What I’ve Learned Stopping Suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge
Thu, 03 Jul 2025
When Kevin Briggs joined the San Francisco Highway Patrol, he didn’t expect a key part of his job ...
I Imported Rave Culture (and Ecstasy) to America
Fri, 27 Jun 2025
In 1991, Shaun Attwood arrived from the UK to find American rave culture in its infancy. Spotting an...
What Happens When Religious Leaders Take Magic Mushrooms?
Thu, 19 Jun 2025
A new study gave psilocybin to religious leaders, just to see whether their faith would be...
He Cut Off My Arms and Left Me to Die
Fri, 13 Jun 2025
Mary McGriff was 15 when she hitched a ride with a man named Lawrence Singleton. The next day, she l...
The Lovers That Burned Down 77 Houses
Fri, 06 Jun 2025
This week, we're re-running a classic. When abandoned farm houses started catching fire in rural Vir...
I Got Eaten By a Hippopotamus
Fri, 30 May 2025
In the early 90s, Paul Templer ran a business guiding clients down the Zambezi River near Victoria F...
I Led the Manhunt for a Killer Who Lived Like a Hermit
Fri, 23 May 2025
In 2005, Malcolm Naden murdered two women and vanished into the Australian bush. For seven years he ...
How Cocaine Killed the Car in 'Back to the Future'
Fri, 16 May 2025
John DeLorean was a star auto designer in the 1960s, but his own car company—the DeLorean Motor Co...
My School Was Kidnapped at Gunpoint
Fri, 09 May 2025
In 1976, 20-year-old Rob Hunter was a month into his first teaching job at a remote Australian schoo...
I Had Sex With 100 Men in One Day
Fri, 02 May 2025
Last year, 23-year-old British porn star Lily Phillips announced plans to break the world record for...
Everyone Said 'Dirty Dancing' Would Flop. I Made It Anyway
Fri, 25 Apr 2025
In the mid-80s, producer Linda Gottlieb heard a friend’s story about “dirty dancing” at summer...
I Got Pregnant to a Man Who Doesn't Exist
Fri, 18 Apr 2025
In 2024, Cass Taulaki fell pregnant to the man of her dreams—a 32-year-old engineer in the Austral...
I Lived in a Haunted Apartment That Didn't Like to Be Alone
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
In the early 2000s, musician Nathan Munn moved into a tiny, ornate apartment in Montreal. At first, ...
How a Sinking Ship Refloated our Marriage
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
In 2012, a cruise liner named the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people. Bu...
I Visited an Uncontacted Tribe in the Amazon
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
The Awá, an Indigenous group in Brazil's Amazon, had no contact with the outside world until recent...
I Slept With New York's Elite to Rob Them
Thu, 20 Mar 2025
In 2009, Kari Ferrell was outed by the media for writing bad checks and robbing trust fund babies ac...
SCAMMERLAND: How a Fake Job Offer Landed Me in Slavery
Sat, 15 Mar 2025
This is the first episode of our new What It Was Like series, SCAMMERLAND. It's based on an epi...
Wellness and Lies: My Friendship With Belle Gibson
Fri, 07 Mar 2025
In 2015, wellness influencer Belle Gibson was outed for pretending to have cancer. Now she's back in...
I Watched Tornado Chasing Go from Subculture to Saturation
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
Tornado chasing was a niche hobby when Tim Marshall started in the 1970s. But over time, he watched ...
Discovering My Grandfather's Secret Nazi Past
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Julie Lindahl always knew there was something different about her family. Her German grandparents ha...
Getting Stuck in a Washing Machine Changed My Life
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
In 2014, Laurence Hearn was drinking too much and struggling to make ends meet. Then he accidentally...
Why Did My Schoolmate Murder His Family?
Fri, 07 Feb 2025
In 1989, Melissa Fyfe was a high school student in Tasmania when her classmate killed his parents an...
The Great Australian Coffee Shop Joke War
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
In 2019, a man named Fraser Harvey nominated himself 'Customer of the Week' at a Melbourne coff...
We Hunted Down a Mystery Killer in the Outback
Thu, 23 Jan 2025
It was June 1987 and an unknown person had murdered five campers in Australia's remote northwest. In...
I'm the Lowest-Ranked Tennis Player to Ever Win a Grand Slam
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Mark Edmondson was ranked 212th when he was invited to compete at the 1976 Australian Open. He was a...
Inside the Life of the Pizza Bomber
Thu, 09 Jan 2025
In 2003, a pizza deliveryman robbed a Pennsylvania bank with a bomb locked to his neck—a heist tha...
I Dated a Celebrity as a Non-Famous Person
Thu, 02 Jan 2025
Myah Morgenstern isn't famous. But when she met actor Tony Revolori, (Spiderman, The Grand Buda...
The Woolworths Christmas Bombers (Rerun)
Fri, 27 Dec 2024
In the lead up to Christmas of 1980, three Woolworths stores were bombed around New South Wales. It'...
My Husband's Client Stalked Us for Years
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
Sandra Miller wasn't overly concerned when her therapist partner's client admitted to eavesdropping ...
How I Got Revenge for My Parking Fines
Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Julian Morgans, host of What it Was Like, gets parking fines all the time. In his own words "I ...
What I Learned After 27 Years Investigating Violence Against Women
Thu, 05 Dec 2024
Narelle Fraser spent much of her career in Victoria's Rape and Homicide squads, placing her at the c...