Her Strange Hour

Police searched the building where 18-year-old Ruth Cruger had last been seen. They found nothing—yet Ruth was hidden beneath the cellar floor. In 1917, Ruth left her New York City home to have her ice skates sharpened...

For 46 years, the young woman found murdered near Mulholland Drive in 1969 was known only as Jane Doe #59. Her case became surrounded by theories about Charles Manson and the violence gripping Los Angeles at the...

Linda Hazzard had no medical degree, yet Washington legally licensed her to practice medicine. Her treatment was extreme fasting — tiny amounts of broth and juice, harsh massages, hot baths, and daily enemas that could...

Everyone remembers Marshall Applewhite. But Heaven’s Gate began with two leaders. Meet Bonnie Nettles — the nurse, mother, and spiritual teacher Applewhite believed outranked him. We’re uncovering how she helped build...

Police searched the building where 18-year-old Ruth Cruger had last been seen. They found nothing. Four months later, another search uncovered what they had missed — Ruth was buried beneath the basement floor. But that...

Linda Hazzard had no medical degree, yet she was legally allowed to practice medicine — and somehow convinced people that extreme fasting could cure almost anything. Her patients survived on tiny amounts of broth and...

Several of Tillie Klimek’s husbands became sick and died. Then one survived. When doctors found arsenic in Joseph Klimek’s body, investigators began looking into Tillie’s past. They reopened old graves, questioned her...

One woman was confined after publicly accusing a clergyman of refusing to pay her. Another spent fourteen years trying to prove her real identity. A third secretly wrote appeals for freedom with a pencil barely an inch...

On New Year’s Eve in 1812, Theodosia Burr Alston boarded a ship bound for New York. She never arrived. In this episode of Her Strange Hour , we explore the storm, the rumors, the pirate stories, and the haunting mystery...

Dorothy Forstein vanished from her Philadelphia home in 1949, and the strangest detail came from her 9-year-old daughter. According to Marcy, she woke up in the middle of the night and saw a stranger inside the house...

In Part 3 of The Family cult story, one girl’s escape helps expose Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s hidden world. The raid begins, the truth comes out, and the cult Anne built finally starts to collapse.

In Part 2 of our series on lThe Family , we look at the children trapped inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s secretive cult world — a world of control, obedience, and stolen lives. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 , go back...

<p>Anne Hamilton-Byrne was a glamorous yoga teacher with a growing circle of loyal followers. But behind the peaceful image was something far darker: a secretive group known as The Family, children taken into her world...

<p>In 1974, a woman was found in the dunes near Provincetown, Massachusetts. For nearly 50 years, no one knew who she was. She became known only as the Lady of the Dunes.</p><p>Then DNA finally gave her back her name...

<p>Three real mysteries where ships and planes were found, but the answers never fully made sense. In this episode, we explore the Mary Celeste, the Star Dust disappearance, and the Joyita ghost ship — three strange...