The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Epizódok

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  Lizzie Borden: Did She Get Away With Murder? 22.09.2026 1ó 8p

  In 1892, two people were hacked to death in a respectable Massachusetts home, and the only real suspect walked free after a trial that still divides opinion. Kyle and Adam dig into the evidence, the myths, the rhyme that got the numbers wrong, and the house where you can spend the night in the room where it happened.
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  Nasubi: The Real Life Truman Show 15.09.2026 1ó 16p

  An aspiring comedian enters a sweepstakes challenge and unknowingly becomes one of Japan’s biggest television stars. Nasubi’s 15-month ordeal reveals how an unlocked door, an unseen audience and a desperate hope for fame can turn entertainment into exploitation.
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  The Tromp Family Mystery: The Australian Family Who Fled Their Own Minds 08.09.2026 1ó 5p

  In 2016, five members of the Tromp family fled their farm in a single car, leaving behind their passports, credit cards and mobile phones. Why they fled remains one of Australia's greatest modern mysteries—a mystery that not even the Tromp family can fully explain.
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  MKUltra: The Dark History of CIA Mind Control and Frank Olson 01.09.2026 1ó 32p

  MKUltra was the CIA’s secret Cold War programme built around drugs, hypnosis, interrogation, and the dream of controlling the human mind. This episode follows Frank Olson, LSD testing, Operation Midnight Climax, Donald Ewen Cameron, destroyed files, and the questions still buried under national security.
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  [REVISIT] Lucy Letby: The Evidence, the NHS Failures, and the Question That Won’t Go Away 25.08.2026 1ó 33p

  The Lucy Letby case begins inside a neonatal unit where the most vulnerable babies in the hospital were supposed to be receiving round-the-clock care. When deaths and sudden collapses rose sharply, consultants at the Countess of Chester Hospital began to notice a pattern: Lucy Letby seemed to be present again and again.
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  [REVISIT] Michael Jackson: From Gary, Indiana to the Biggest Star Alive 18.08.2026 1ó 21p

  Long before the moonwalk and the stadiums, Michael Jackson was one of ten children crammed into a small house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana. His father, Joe, a steelworker with stalled musical ambitions of his own, recognised something extraordinary in his sons and set about shaping them into a group, drilling them through relentless rehearsals enforced, by several accounts, with belts, mockery, and fear.
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  [REVISIT] Aileen Wuornos: The Female Serial Killer Who Said It Was Self Defense 11.08.2026 1ó 22p

  Aileen Wuornos is remembered as one of the most notorious female serial killers in American history, the woman Charlize Theron played in Monster and the press dubbed the Damsel of Death. The truth underneath that label is much harder to sit with. She killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, all of them clients she met while working as a sex worker on the highways, and she first insisted she had killed in self defense, beginning with a man who really did have a history of sexual violence.
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  [REVISIT] Fyre Festival: Billy McFarland and the Greatest Party That Never Happened 04.08.2026 1ó 30p

  Fyre Festival promised the most exclusive party on earth: supermodels, private jets and music on a Bahamian island. What it delivered was rain-soaked tents, no water, and a cheese sandwich that became one of the internet's most infamous images.
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  [REVISIT] Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield and the Real Horror Behind the Movies 28.07.2026 1ó 28p

  Ed Gein, the so-called Butcher of Plainfield, is remembered as one of America's most notorious killers, yet only two of his murders were ever confirmed. This is the true story of the quiet Wisconsin handyman, the mother who shaped him, and the horror that inspired Hollywood.
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  [REVISIT] Princess Diana Part 1: The Royal Romance That Was Over Before It Began 21.07.2026 1ó 45p

  Princess Diana thought she was marrying into a fairytale. By the honeymoon, she needed a memo to have lunch with her own husband. This is Princess Diana before the icon, the lonely childhood, the strange chaperoned courtship, and a royal marriage that was cracking before it ever began.
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  Genie Wiley: Dark History of the Child Hidden From the Whole World 14.07.2026 1ó 25p

  Genie Wiley was the child hidden from the world for thirteen years before her rescue became a test case for language, trauma, and the ethics of scientific research. This episode follows her abuse, rehabilitation, and the systems that failed her after the door finally opened.
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  Somerton Man: The Mystery Given a Name After 70 Years 07.07.2026 1ó 9p

  Somerton Man is one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries: an unidentified body found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide in 1948, a hidden scrap of paper reading “Tamám Shud”, and a trail of clues that only got stranger.
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  Bob Lazar: The Area 51 UFO Claim That Changed Everything 30.06.2026 1ó 26p

  Bob Lazar claimed he worked at Area 51’s hidden S-4 facility reverse-engineering alien craft powered by Element 115. This episode follows the 1989 George Knapp broadcast, Lazar’s story, the credibility questions and the UFO lore it helped send mainstream.
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  DashCon 2014: The Failed Tumblr Convention and the Ball Pit Meme 23.06.2026 1ó 26p

  DashCon 2014 was Tumblr’s infamous failed convention: a ball pit, guest cancellations, and a frantic $17,000 cash appeal that turned fandom excitement into internet legend. We trace how a dream of bringing online community into real life collapsed into one of the web’s most enduring event disasters.
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  Taylor Parker: Part 2, Reagan Hancock, Braxlynn Sage, and the Lie That Collapsed 16.06.2026 1ó 9p

  A fake pregnancy, a roadside birth lie, and years of calculated deception sit at the centre of Part 2 of the Taylor Parker case. This episode follows how Taylor’s manufactured world of forged paperwork, invented crises, and false identities led prosecutors to argue that the murder of Reagan Hancock and the death of Braxlynn Sage were not panic or confusion, but the horrifying end point of a lie that had become too dangerous to survive.
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  Taylor Parker: Part 1, Fake Pregnancy, Inheritance Lies and a Foetal Abduction Case 09.06.2026 1ó 2p

  The Taylor Parker case centres on a woman who convinced people around her that she was pregnant while also building a wider story of inheritance disputes, family sabotage and threats. In this first part of the episode, those lies escalate until Parker arrives at an Oklahoma hospital with a newborn she claims is hers, while investigators discover that the real mother, Reagan Hancock, has been murdered.
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  Marilyn Monroe: Dark History of How Hollywood Built and Broke an Icon 02.06.2026 1ó 50p

  The story of Marilyn Monroe began unassumingly, with a shy, anxious girl known simply as Norma Jean. Out of a brutal childhood, Hollywood constructed the blonde bombshell: a persona shaped by damage, fame, and public fantasy, transforming Norma Jean into Marilyn Monroe, one of the most enduring icons on earth.
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  Zodiac Killer: Murders, Ciphers and the Unsolved Hunt 26.05.2026 1ó 24p

  The Zodiac Killer terrorised Northern California with a string of murders, taunting letters and cryptic ciphers that helped turn the case into one of America’s most infamous unsolved mysteries. This episode follows the killings, the codes, the suspects and the silence that let the legend grow.
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  John Wayne Gacy: The Real Story Behind the Killer Clown 19.05.2026 1ó 33p

  John Wayne Gacy was not just the “killer clown” of popular myth - he was a respected local figure who hid years of sexual violence and murder in plain sight. This episode follows the case from Robert Piest’s disappearance to the discovery of the bodies beneath Gacy’s house.
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  Murder in Room 1046: The Strange Death of Roland T. Owen 12.05.2026 1ó 17p

  The Room 1046 mystery begins with a man calling himself Roland T. Owen, a hotel room in Kansas City, and a death that never properly made sense. When the victim was later identified as Artemis Ogletree, the case only grew stranger, adding false names, cryptic messages, and unanswered questions that still haunt it today.