Our lives are a journey, a journey that often takes us down paths to unexpected places. Most of the time, those places are safe and secure… but every so often that path leads us… Somewhere Sinister….
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Signup to Generate a PitchOur lives are a journey, a journey that often takes us down paths to unexpected places. Most of the time, those places are safe and secure… but every so often that path leads us… Somewhere Sinister….
Sinister is hosted by Kompound. The show has published 113 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Hammer" (10 October 2025, 14 minutes), "Thomas Edison" (8 October 2025, 10 minutes), and "The Wonder Drug: The Devastating Effects of the Thalidomide Scandal" (6 October 2025, 29 minutes).
Sinister publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across 113 episodes.
Booking probability for Sinister is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Sinister requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Sinister's contact route on record: verified email.
Kompound hosts Sinister, a history show with 113 episodes published.
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SOMETHING SINISTER <br /><br />Hammers have been used as weapons of war during medieval times, but eventually fell out of favor. After that, hammers were used as a tool for construction, but they never stopped being...
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SOMEONE SINISTER <br /><br />Thomas Edison is known as a great inventor, but his energy was not always being put into creating. There was a time where a bitter rivalry caused him torture and kill animals as a means of...
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SOMEWHERE SINISTER <br /><br />When a West German pharmaceutical company developed a new drug, they promoted it as having no side effects despite not having tested it properly. The results ended up being disastrous.<br...
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SOMEWHERE SINISTER <br /><br />Clark Wiley didn't want children, but for some reason he kept having them. When he thought his four child disabled, he locked her in a room and din't let her out for 13 years.<br /><br...
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SOMETHING SINISTER <br /><br />Most breakthroughs in aviation technology have come from a desire to have air superiority during wartimes. From balloons to jet engines, the skies have always been a popular vantage in...
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SOMEONE SINISTER <br /><br />Manfred Von Richthofen was better known as The Red Baron. He was a pilot for the German Imperial Army and became known as one of the most feared pilots in World War I.<br /><br />Check us...
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SOMEWHERE SINISTER <br /><br />Tom and Eileen Lonergan were an adventurous couple who loved diving. In 1998, they dove at the Great Barrier Reef, but were left behind by the tour boat and never seen again.<br /><br...
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SOMETHING SINISTER <br /><br />A nail gun is an important tool in the building industry helping create new structures and remodel old ones efficiently. Just because a tool is designed to create, doesn't mean it can't be...
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SOMEWHERE SINISTER <br /><br />In the middle of the 20th century, a small city in the Florida panhandle became the center of a huge insurance scandal. It seemed that the probelm arose after an economic decline caused...
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SOMETHING SINISTER <br /><br />The electric chair was created because the United States wanted a more humane way to carry out executions as the had been complications with hangings. Unfortunately, the electric chair...
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SOMEONE SINISTER <br /><br />Caligula was on 24 when he became the emperor of Rome. He was well liked at first, but when he started ruling with an iron fist, his reign was prematurely ended.<br /><br />Check us out on...
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SOMEWHERE SINISTER <br /><br />When Union Carbide decided to start manufacturing pestacides at a factory in India, the did everything they could to cut costs. What they saved in money, they lost in lives.<br /><br...
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SOMETHING SINISTER <br /><br />The guillotine was created as an means of equal execution for all. Supposedly causing death in a "humane manner." It became an instrument of terror during the French Revolution and the...
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SOMEONE SINISTER <br /><br />Maximilien Robespierre was a major influence on the French Revolution, resulting in thousands of executions by guillotine. In the end, the republic would turn on him and he would be the one...
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SOMEWHERE SINISTER <br /><br />The French Revolution started to give the people of France more say in the laws that governed them. Instead, it created the Reign of Terror, where rights were stripped and thousands were...
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SOMETHING SINISTER <br /><br />Guitar strings are normally used to make music. From classical and mariachi to grunge and heavy metal, sound is the primary use of the strings. That is, until someone uses one as a device...
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SOMEONE SINISTER <br /><br />Vlad the Impaler was so evil and so brutal in his punishments of anyone who went against him that he was the inspiration of one of the most well known monsters in literary history.<br /><br...
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SOMEWHERE SINISTER <br /><br />When Neil Stonechild's body turned up frozen in a field far from where he lived, the authorities shrugged it off. But his family knew something was off and it took a decade before the...
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SOMETHING SINISTER <br /><br />Airplanes are useful in our society because they not only transport people and cargo, but they are used from research, rescue, and entertainment. Still, sinister people find ways to use...
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SOMEONE SINISTER <br /><br />Rasputin was a mystical figure who influences the last Russian Tsar a great deal before being murdered by aristocrats.<br /><br />Check us out on YouTube at...
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