Documentary Podcasts
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
240 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20.2K ratingsOn Buried Bones, journalist Kate Winkler Dawson and retired investigator Paul Holes dissect some of history’s most compelling true crime cases from centuries ago. Together, they explore these very ...
Ear Hustle
126 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 19.7K ratingsEar Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Host...
American Scandal
364 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17K ratingsEvery scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout and the outrage. Scandals have shaped America since its founding. From business and politics to spo...
Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked
178 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14.7K ratingsSpooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by Snap Judgment Studios, i...
True Crime All The Time
584 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratingsHosts Mike Ferguson and Mike Gibson guide you through the most interesting true crime stories. This is a true crime podcast that spares none of the details and delves into what makes these ...
Embedded
142 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11.5K ratingsNPR's original documentary podcast unearths the stories behind the headlines. Police shootings. Towns ravaged by opioids. The roots of our modern immigration crisis. We explore what's been sealed o...
Scene on Radio
133 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10.4K ratingsScene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2)...
Swindled
276 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 8.8K ratingsUtilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to explore true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi sch...
Bad Batch
70 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8.6K ratingsPatients in search of a miracle cure end up in critical condition. The race is on to find out what went wrong before more people get hurt. The trail leads back to a medical company with sli...
Confronting
43 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.6K ratingsSeason 2 - Confronting: Columbine The events of April 20th, 1999 shaped our nation and altered the American narrative. One of America’s deadliest school shootings took place in a small...
Accused
54 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 7.2K ratingsBinge all of Season 4 early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery+. Season 4: When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. T...
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
1,536 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7K ratingsThe Truth & Justice Podcast is listener driven show, devoted to the pursuit of truth and justice. Host, Bob Ruff, investigates potential wrongful conviction and cold cases using a unique crowdsourc...
Jim Harold's Campfire
207 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.5K ratingsCreepy TRUE stories of paranormal phenomena of all types. Ghost stories, UFO, cryptids and more! This feed reflects the last 90 days of content, Jim Harold's Campfire has been in production since...
Newt's World
737 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.2K ratingsJoin former House Speaker, professor, historian, and futurist Newt Gingrich as he shares his lifetime of knowledge and access to the world’s most interesting minds in a new series that covers all a...
Tides of History
305 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratingsEverywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it ...
Next Question with Katie Couric
401 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 4.2K ratingsKatie Couric is back on the mic with a new season of intimate, urgent and unexpected conversations – this time with a new twist. Along with her signature in-depth one-on-one interviews, she’ll be ...
The Paranormal Podcast
212 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsAmerica's Top Paranormal Podcaster interviews the best known names in the paranormal about UFOs, Ghosts, Bigfoot, and everything paranormal! Guests have included Josh Gates, Chip Coffey, George Noo...
Unsolved Mysteries
96 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratingsWelcome to the official Unsolved Mysteries podcast from the original creators of the iconic television series, presented by Cadence13. Join our host Steve French each week as we present all new mys...
Legends of the Old West
331 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWyatt Earp, Jesse James, and Butch and Sundance. Lakota, Comanche and Apache. Wars, gunfights and robberies. This show covers the toughest lawmen, the wildest outlaws, and the deadliest towns — all...
Sports Wars
175 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3K ratingsYou can binge all episodes of Sports Wars exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Find Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. Sports rivalries can fuel fans and athletes to fight a...
Fox Hunter
26 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratingsThe murder of 18-year-old Rhonda Sue Coleman in 1990 has been a thorn in the side of the small community of Hazlehurst, GA for over 30 years. No arrests, no answers, and no justice. The family, fri...
Canary: The Washington Post Investigates
12 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratingsAfter a sexual assault case in the District of Columbia, one woman’s public warning ricochets all the way to Birmingham, Ala., where another woman gives voice to a devastating allegation. This se...
Inside The Exorcist
90 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsIn 1973 Hell came home and invaded the body of a young girl. This is the story of a movie and its makers. It's a tale of dark and light, of loss and love. A story of faith and fury, of caus...
British Scandal
182 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal. British scandals change the course of history. They bring down governments, overthro...
Decoder Ring
93 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsDecoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it mea...
Inside Jaws
76 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsFrom the creators of Inside Psycho and Inside the Exorcist comes a new story about a classic movie and its inspirations. A tale of a modest thriller that became an ordeal and then a disaste...
SOGCast: Untold Stories of MAC V SOG
47 episodes - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsJohn Stryker Meyer, call sign--Tilt, hosts untold stories of the operations of MAC-V SOG. Vietnam. The Secret War.
In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson
11 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings"In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson" presents a surprising and original portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, told in the former first lady's own words -- from over 123 hours of her White House audio diari...
Radio Diaries
201 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsFirst-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners ...
One Year
57 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsThe people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moment...
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