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  • 43. The Spy in the Bag Part II

    43. The Spy in the Bag Part II
    Sep 15 2025

    On a hot August day, police are called to the residence of a man who has been absent from work for the past week. They find his flat empty, except for a large red holdall which has been padlocked from the outside. When they open the bag, a horrifying sight confronts them: the body of the missing man. The man’s death is later declared accidental. But just how could anyone padlock themselves inside a holdall? Furthermore, was the man’s job as a British government codebreaker key to his demise?

    Watch a video of journalist locking herself inside an identical bag here.

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    46 min
  • 42. The Spy in the Bag Part I

    42. The Spy in the Bag Part I
    Sep 15 2025

    On a hot August day, police are called to the residence of a man who has been absent from work for the past week. They find his flat empty, except for a large red holdall which has been padlocked from the outside. When they open the bag, a horrifying sight confronts them: the body of the missing man. The man’s death is later declared accidental. But just how could anyone padlock themselves inside a holdall? Furthermore, was the man’s job as a British government codebreaker key to his demise?

    Take the unofficial test to see if you could join MI6 here. Try and cheat like Barry did in the official MI5 test here. Are you a good fit for GCHQ? Are there other spelling errors on their site? Check here. We briefly discuss Jorge Torres, who was zipped inside a suitcase.

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    53 min
  • 41. How to Win at Roulette

    41. How to Win at Roulette
    Sep 1 2025

    In the summer of 1891, an unassuming gentleman walks into the Monte Carlo Casino. He sits down at a roulette table and begins an impossible winning streak, ‘breaking the bank’ ten times over and walking away with a fortune. The world celebrates him as a hero who beat the system. But was this legendary feat a miracle, luck, or was the famous 'Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo' pulling off his greatest con of all? In this episode, Lora and Barry investigate the incredible story of Charles Wells.

    See a photograph of Charles Wells here.

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    1 h et 26 min
  • 40. The Stonehenge Joker

    40. The Stonehenge Joker
    Aug 18 2025

    During the midsummer solstice of 2025, a strange grinning face suddenly appears in a field next to the historic monument of Stonehenge. This pattern forms the bizarre likeness of a playing card joker. But it is just the latest in a long line of so-called ‘crop circles’ to have materialised in this ancient landscape, some of which have apparently formed in broad daylight in the space of just forty-five minutes. The question is what in the world – or universe – could have caused them?

    See an image of the Stonehenge Joker here.

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    1 h et 23 min
  • 39. The Liverpool Locked Room Murder Part II

    39. The Liverpool Locked Room Murder Part II
    Aug 4 2025
    On a damp, dark January day in 1931, a businessman is telephoned by a potential new client, who requests that they meet the following evening. But when the man goes in search of the address he’s been given, he discovers that it doesn’t exist. Furthermore, when he arrives home that night, a truly horrifying scene is awaiting him. His wife has been brutally murdered. And, not only that, but the house has been locked… from the inside. In this episode, Lora and Barry investigate the unsolved muder of Julia Wallace.

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    1 h et 11 min
  • 38. The Liverpool Locked Room Murder Part I

    38. The Liverpool Locked Room Murder Part I
    Aug 4 2025
    On a damp, dark January day in 1931, a businessman is telephoned by a potential new client, who requests that they meet the following evening. But when the man goes in search of the address he’s been given, he discovers that it doesn’t exist. Furthermore, when he arrives home that night, a truly horrifying scene is awaiting him. His wife has been brutally murdered. And, not only that, but the house has been locked… from the inside. In this episode, Lora and Barry investigate the unsolved muder of Julia Wallace.

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    1 h et 9 min
  • 37. The Cloak of Invisibility

    37. The Cloak of Invisibility
    Jul 21 2025
    In the early 18th century, a Scottish Earl languishes in an English cell, in one of the most formidable prisons in the country. The man has been condemned to die a traitor’s death, and his wife travels south to see her husband in prison one last time. However, the following morning and the Earl is gone, vanished, even though the women who entered his cell were also seen exiting it, and were carrying nothing with them. But could the answer to the Earl’s disappearance lie in one of the cloaks the women were wearing? Might it not have been an ordinary cloak at all but a cloak… of invisibility? Join Barry and Lora as they unravel the story of the infamous Nithsdale Cloak.

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    1 h et 10 min
  • 36. Lightning Made me Psychic

    36. Lightning Made me Psychic
    Jul 7 2025
    In a raging South Carolina storm, a man makes a telephone call with disastrous consequences. An intense bolt of lightning hits his phone line, travelling down the man’s body and blowing him across the room. The man is subsequently declared dead. But, against all the odds, this same man regains consciousness, having had a life-altering near death experience. Furthermore, the man now appears to possess an array of truly extraordinary psychic abilities. But just how could this have happened? In this episode, Lora and Barry investigate the claims of Dannion Brinkley.

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    1 h et 16 min