In psychology, Folie à deux  is a rare psychiatric phenomenon where delusional beliefs are shared between two people, usually related. It’s French for “a madness shared by two.” This week we’re looking at the case of Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, two Swedish twins who are believed to be a perfect example of the frightening illness. The had no history of delinquency or mental illness, so why then, did they embark on a suicide mission by running down the M6 Motorway into oncoming traffic? These twins went on this one day bender in 2008 and have not been seen or heard from since. 

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A 28-year-old man from northern Germany, Lars Mittank, is now being described as the "most famous missing person on YouTube" after he disappeared over 5 years ago in Bulgaria on July 8, 2014. In the Varna airport CCTV footage, we watch a calm Lars enter for a flight home, just to flee back out at full speed, over a barbed wire fence, and into the forest, where he is never seen again. Listen this week to hear the bizarre story of Lars Mittank and everything leading up to his disappearance.

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This week, we're digging deeper into the mystery of missing Brandon Lawson. Now that you know the whole story, we're are going to look specifically at his 911 call and try to figure out what in the world happened between 12:54 and 1:18, when everything spiraled out of control.

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Back in 2012, many words could describe Brandon... Blue collared, family man, loyal husband, overcomer. Now the only word we have is "Missing." This week, we cover the basics of Brandon Lawson's disappearance. Who was Brandon and how did he vanish without leaving a single trace?

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An unknown writer terrorized this Westfield, NJ family for years, eventually pushing them to give up their $1.3M new home. What would it take for you to be driven out of your dream home? Find out their last straw on this week’s episode.

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Throughout the 1990’s, Phil Kennedy was at the forefront of neuroscience. Breakthrough after breakthrough, the next thing he knew, he was looking at his shaved head in the mirror, in a 13 room hospital in Belize. He needed to tap into a healthy human brain even if it meant that he would have to use his own.

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In 2014, Kenny Veach went missing after finding a strange cave out in the Mojave Desert, which seemed to have supernatural properties. Did he stumble upon something he was never meant to find? More importantly...  where is the M Cave and where is Kenny?

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Georgia Tann is a name somehow lost in history. But, for 26 years, Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children’s Home Society stole and sold an estimated 5,000 children through black market adoption. Through trickery, deceit and outright fraud, she stole children from parents through a variety of sources such as baby scouts, corrupt Judges and even more corrupt politicians. This week, we're diving into a story full of intrigue, fascination, horror, and disbelief as we learn about the things Georgia did and how it has shaped modern de-stigmatized adoption. 

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This week we’re talking about Dr. John Calhoun, who spent the 1960s and 1970s playing god to thousands of rodents. He dedicated his time to building better and better mouse paradises with beautiful buildings and limitless food. Life was theoretically issue free. Each experiment, he introduced a few mice and let them live and reproduce in paradise. But, shortly after, the mice had created their own apocalypse… each and every time. It seems that evolution has given animals an innate and irreversible self-destruct button to prevent a species from overpopulating its habitat, will this apply to humans too?

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Back in 1976, residents of Circleville, Ohio began receiving threatening letters exposing their personal information. The letters continued for 25 years, to the tune of over 1000 letters. All the while resulting in a suspicious death, an attempted murder, and a possible wrongful conviction. After all, our suspect was in jail for a decade, and the letters never stopped. So… who REALLY wrote the infamous Circleville letters?

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