Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Introducing: American Criminal
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole are two of history’s most prolific serial killers. Or they’re li...
WikiLeaks: The Hacker Who Exposed America's Darkest Secrets
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Julian Assange released classified footage of a U.S. helicopter strike that killed two journali...
Castle Bravo: America's Deadliest Nuclear Mistake
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On March 1, 1954, a Japanese fishing boat called the Lucky Dragon No. 5 was sailing near the Marshal...
A Redacted Medical Mystery: Weather Warriors/Red Menace
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted Crossover episode, MrBallen and Luke Lam...
Operation Fast & Furious: When Feds Armed Cartels
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A secretive U.S. government operation to track gun traffickers goes horribly wrong when the weapons ...
Listen Now: Lawless Planet
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous he...
Operation Underworld: The Secret WW2 Alliance between The Navy and the Mafia
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During World War II, the U.S. Navy made an unthinkable alliance—with the Mafia. Fearing enemy sabo...
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you missed our announcement... we have a brand new podcast! Flesh and Code is a 6-part mini...
Murder in Mississippi: The Medgar Evers Assassination Case
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, justice for civil rights leader Medgar Evers remained out of reach. Assassinated in his...
The Dreyfus Affair: France's Anti-Semitic Military Scandal
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French officer, was falsely accused of espionage and sentenced to ...
Deep Cover: The ATF Agent Who Became a Hell’s Angel
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the early 2000s, undercover ATF agent, Jay Dobyns, infiltrated the infamous Hells Angels motorcyc...
Listen Now: Liberty Lost
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, whe...
Cambridge Five: The Spy Scandal That Broke M16
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
They were charming, brilliant, and deeply embedded in the British establishment — but they were al...
The JFK Assassination: New Evidence Reveals The CIA's Fatal Mistake
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2025, the Trump Administration released long-classified government files about the assassination ...
Wondery Presents: How to Survive Against the Odds
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can thro...
The Secret of Churchill’s Anthrax Island
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Towards the end of WWII, Winston Churchill decided it was time for Britain to develop deadly bioweap...
The Briefcase Bomb That Could Have Ended World War II
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Towards the end of WWII, a rogue group of German conspirators realized what they had to do to protec...
The CIA Puppetmaster Part 2
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Part Two of this two-part series, CIA Director Allen Dules' plan to invade Cuba goes disastrously...
Ballen Studios Presents: A Twist of History
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The course of history never follows a straight line. These are the epic stories that have shaped the...
The CIA Puppetmaster Part 1
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Part One of this two-part series, the CIA Director and political chessmaster, Allen Dulles, has h...
America’s Secret UFO Files
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the early 1950s, the US Air Force launched a top-secret program to investigate reports of UFO sig...
Edward Snowden: Digital Whistleblower
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After the tragic events of 9/11, Edward Snowden decides to do his patriotic duty and joins the US Mi...
Snitches Get Stitches: The Frank Serpico Story
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1960s New York, cop Frank Serpico discovered a brutal truth: his fellow officers were on the take...
Listen Now: Death County, PA
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his li...
Nukes Below Zero
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
During the Cold War, the US built a secret underground city 100 feet under Greenland’s ice cap. It...
The Fake Army That Fooled Hitler
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As World War II raged on, America deployed its strangest weapon yet: a fake army. Known as the Ghost...
Introducing: Law & Crime’s LUIGI
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless ...
The Russian Sleeper Agent Next Door
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On the night of his 20th birthday, Tim Foley's world was turned upside down when the FBI stormed his...
Listen Now: Don’t Cross Kat
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life. She is rich, gorgeous and not ashamed to share it. Her posts ...
Tuskegee Tragedy: The Medical Study That Hid a Genocide
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1972, Alabama farmer Charlie Pollard discovered a horrifying truth. For 40 years, he thought he w...
The Plot to Kill George Washington
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the summer of 1776 as war with the British loomed over the American colonies, a shocking betrayal...
The Iran Contra Scandal
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Ronald Reagan faced two major problems in 1981. A Communist revolution had taken hold in N...
Listen Now: Scam Factory
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere? They could b...
America’s Human Test Subjects
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Cold War made America desperate for new weapons. The military looked beyond nuclear bombs into c...
Ballen Studios Presents: Late Nights with Nexpo
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
From Ballen Studios, welcome to Late Nights with Nexpo, the official podcast of Youtube creator, Nex...
Operation Greylord: Chicago’s Corrupt Courts
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1979, prosecutor Terry Hake made a bold choice. He agreed to go undercover for the FBI and report...
Death of Che
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1967, the CIA and Bolivian army joined forces to hunt down revolutionary leader Che Guevara throu...
Ben Franklin: Secret Spy
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Benjamin Franklin is known for his role as a Founding Father, inventor, and diplomat. But he had ano...
The D-Day Con
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the tense months leading up to D-Day, a daring plan was set in motion to mislead the Nazis about ...
The Man Who Stopped WWIII
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1983, the Cold War escalated to new heights after the Soviet Union mistakenly shot down a passeng...
The Real Argo
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Amid the chaos of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, six Americans manage to evade capture and find refuge ...
Listen Now: We Came to the Forest
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility p...
The Black Panther Plot
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On a cold night in December 1969, Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old leader of the Chicago Black Panther ...
Introducing: Encounters
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Encounters dives into one of the most famous and unsolved UFO encounters to ever take place in the U...
Enhance the Paranoia
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War, a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pen...
Code Name Blue Wren
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ana Montes was a trusted analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a rising star with access to Am...
Ames Mole Hunt
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1985, Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko revealed a chilling secret to the CIA: a high-ranking mole...
The Hunt for K-129
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1968, the Soviet submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, carrying nuclear weapons and Cold War secre...
Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 2)
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As we dive deeper down the Charles Manson rabbit hole in Part 2, we explore the shocking link betwee...
Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 1)
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When journalist Tom O’Neill set out to write a simple story on the anniversary of the Manson Famil...
634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Over decades, the U.S. government orchestrated hundreds of assassination attempts on Cuban dictator ...
Operation Tailwind: Valley of Death
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s 1998 and CNN produces a documentary blowing the lid off of one America's most secret military...
The Forgotten Meltdown
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s 1961 in Idaho Falls. The US government’s attempt to set the course for America’s nuclear ...
Operation Paperclip: America’s Secret Nazi Scientists
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s the end of WWII and the US is on the verge of defeating Germany. That’s when the military l...
Operation Ajax: The CIA’s Secret War in Iran
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1953, Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, has unlimited job prospects. Bu...
Introducing - REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Each week on Redacted, we pull back the curtain on hidden histories behind the world’s most powerf...