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The Secret Formula
Could shrunken heads hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
Castles in the Sky
While renovating a house in San Francisco, a couple discovered a diary, hidden away for more than a century. It held a love story—and a mystery.
Stranger Than Fiction
Inside the ‘Epoch Times’: How an aspiring poet in Brooklyn became a tool in a right-wing propaganda blitz linked to Falun Gong.
The Pretender
People in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, thought Lois Riess was a nice wife and grandmother. If she had a vice, it was playing the slots. Then she committed murder.
The Free and the Brave
A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.
Do You Hear the People Sing?
Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.
The Long Walk
When a group of Black mothers in Ohio were told to wait for school integration, they started marching every day in protest. They kept going for nearly 18 months.
Long May They Reign
A butterfly named Flamingo, an epic migration, and the crusade to save one of America’s most iconic species.
The Bard
One man’s quest to save the music of the Holocaust.
Revive
A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.
Deliverance
A telekinetic teenager became a convicted killer. Can a group of strangers prove that Christina Boyer is really a victim of injustice?
The Ghost Hunter
For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.
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