Join your host Rachel on a journey through the perplexing and sometimes deadly world of internet catfishing. Why do people catfish? How many lies can they tell before they get caught? And what happens to the victims who get snared in their tangled web?
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Signup to Generate a PitchJoin your host Rachel on a journey through the perplexing and sometimes deadly world of internet catfishing. Why do people catfish? How many lies can they tell before they get caught? And what happens to the victims who get snared in their tangled web?
Hooked is hosted by Rachel Diamond. The show has published 25 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Rachel Dolezal" (9 May 2025, 24 minutes), "Belle" (1 March 2025, 20 minutes), and "The Cottingly Fairies" (8 November 2024, 19 minutes).
Hooked publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 23 minutes across 25 episodes.
Booking probability for Hooked is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hooked requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hooked's contact route on record: verified email.
Rachel Diamond hosts Hooked, a society podcast with 25 episodes published.
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Episode #4
<p>In June of 2015, Rachel Dolezal was found to be a white woman pretending to be Black. The discovery imploded her life, a life that she is still having trouble putting back together. But lying about her race wasn't...
Episode #3
<p>Belle Gunness has a reputation as one of the first female serial killers. By placing personal ads in newspaper, protraying herself as a successful farmer, she lured men to her with promises of marriage. But as soon...
Episode #2
<p>In 1917, cousins Elsie and Frances used the excuse of fairies to get out of trouble with their mothers, and even presented photo evidence. To them, it was all a bit of fun, but when the adults around them- including...
Episode #1
<p>On September 11th, 2001, the United States experienced a terrorist attack. One of the victims was Tania Head; not only did she nearly lose her life in the collapse of the World Trade Center, but her fiance Dave died...
Episode #20
<p>Tomi Masters was excited when she found the Snapchat of rapper Mac Miller and he answered her DM, telling her she was beautiful. After a few weeks of chatting, the two arranged to meet. When Tomi found out that the...
Episode #19
<p>CW: Child abuse, suicidal ideation, sexual assault</p> <p>JT Leroy became famous almost overnight for his novel SARAH, a fictionalized version of his upbringing with his sex worker mother who later forced him into...
Episode #19
<p>After Klara Maurovna and her two sons moved in with her sister Katerina, Katerina suggested they foster a child. Anicka was 13 years old and the sisters worked hard to get her the medical attention she needed, as...
Episode #17
<p>Manti Te'o was a college football star, which makes this story of catfishing all the more embarassing for those involved. After mentioning online girlfriend Lennay in an interview, the football community kept an eye...
Episode #16
<p>TW: Sexual assault</p> <p>When Jess moved to a new town at the age of 15, she was relieved to quickly make friends with two other girls, Alice and Gemma. Gemma being two years older and out of school, Jess and Alice...
Episode #15
<p>TW: Suicide, domestic violence, stalking</p> <p>When Renae Marsden and Camilla Zeidan met at the age of 14, Renae's life took a downward turn. Camilla was a bad influence, but as the teens got older, Camilla became...
Episode #14
<p>When 17 year old Jessie reacted poorly in the chatroom when Tommy told her he was 46 years old, he said he was just joking and was 18. The two spent almost a year chatting online, talking on the phone, and having...
Episode #13
<p>Chris, a CIA agent, is sent to Mountain City, Tennessee to keep 30 year old Jenelle Potter safe from some mean girls in town who have been hacking her Facebook. As time goes on and the Potter parents worry about...
Episode #12
<p>Despite growing up lower middle-class in Bavaria, Germany, Christian Gerhartsreiter found himself living high life on both coasts of the United States in his adulthood. He managed this by lying his way through...
Episode #11
Cecilie Fjelloy met Simon Leviev on Tinder in January 2018. A month into dating Simon asked her to link her American Express to his because his business "enemies" were tracking his movements. By May 2018, he had...
Episode #10
CW: Suicide, stalking In Australia, three women- Emma, Jess, and Catherine- were being stalked and manipulated by the same man. It would take concrete threats toward the women and their families to convince the police...
Episode #9
<p>After Mark meets Rachel West in an MSN chatroom, he is devastated when she is kidnapped and murdered by another MSN chat group member. Luckily, Mark has Rachel's stepbrother John to lean on.</p> <p> </p>
Episode #8
<p>#MeTooSTEM, a Twitter movement created by Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin, was an internet gathering place for all the STEM women online to congregate and support one another. BethAnn's right-hand woman, known only by her...
Episode #7
<p>13 year old Megan Meier had just started a new school after being bullied at her previous one. Missing her friends, she created a MySpace. Megan's parents took all the right precautions: only they had the password...
Episode #6
<p>Treva Throneberry was 25 when she enrolled at Evergreen High School, saying that her name was Brianna Stewart and she was 17. Over the past few years, Treva had bounced from city to city using different names and...
Episode #5
<p>In 2015, a new singer called Lucia Cole released her debut album. She had allegedly worked with famous singers and claimed her godfather was Shaquille O'Neal. After people realized that Lucia's music was actually...
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