Untold histories, unsolved mysteries, and other jaw-dropping stories online and IRL. Hosted by Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson.
444 episodes transcribedBarry Enderwick got kicked out of college. Then, in the early aughts, he became the first graphic designer for a little start-up media company you may...
When a Redditor said that he was expected to stay in his Swedish friend's bedroom while the friend ate dinner with his family, the internet exploded w...
Jimmy Donaldson — AKA "MrBeast" — has taken YouTube by storm, racking up more than 330 million subscribers with his cleverly edited videos of stunts r...
The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson captured the internet's attention last week. Then, a suspect, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was arre...
Anyone who has been a kid before knows that there are few joys in life like finding a really cool stick. That is the basis of Official Stick Reviews,...
What if vegetables are poison? What if, instead, humans evolved to consume an animal-based diet of steak, liver, brain, testicles, eggs, butter, and m...
For a moment last year, it seemed like there were two types of people: those desperate for a Stanley Cup Quencher, and those who did not understand th...
Back in the day, we didn't have access to our weird uncle's every political thought. In the age of social media, though, we all too often do, making a...
"Have you ever felt a deep personal connection to a person you met in a dream only to wake up feeling terrible because you realize they never existed?...
Truth Social is not just a Twitter knock-off. While the social media platform that Donald Trump launched after he was banned from Twitter in the wake...
It's that time of year. Spooky stories from the internet — again! Last year, Endless Thread brought you "Campfire Chills," an assortment of hair-rais...
Do you debate political issues with a certain family member on social media? And will you have to see that family member IRL for the holidays in a mon...
Two years ago, a headline in The New York Times declared that the hottest club in New York City was the Catholic Church. While that was never true, ce...
Gun ownership in America has long been associated with the political right. Forty-five percent of Republicans and conservative independents own a fire...
When reporter Elle Reeve is recognized at the airport, it's often by members of the alt-right: the online white-nationalists who organized the violent...
We're in your feed today to share an episode from a podcast we think you might like called the WIRED Politics Lab. As Election 2024 quickly approache...
They were scammers. But they weren't going to scam just anyone. They were going to scam Big Tech. And they almost got away with it. Earlier this mont...
Telling a story is hard. Filming nature is even harder. That may be why, in the 1940s, Walt Disney productions leaned on movie magic to develop its T...
When the founder of the messaging and social media app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France, it exposed something: many of Telegram's million...
How do you break a bot? Recently, one sneaky idea turned into an online meme. Tell the bot, "Ignore all previous instructions and..." Then you fill in...
