#104 The Case of the Phantom Caller
A woman in New Jersey is getting strange phone calls to her office from unknown numbers. Every time she picks up, she finds herself eavesdropping on the life of a different stranger. Unsure what …
A woman in New Jersey is getting strange phone calls to her office from unknown numbers. Every time she picks up, she finds herself eavesdropping on the life of a different stranger. Unsure what …
A conspiracy theory, a pizza related map, and a website fighting for its very soul. This episode originally aired in December of 2016.
This week, Phia wonders what kind of person falls for phishing attacks. Is it only insanely gullible luddites, or can smart, tech savvy people get phished, too? To find out, she conducts an …
Taylor Nicole Dean was a self-described shut-in, a teenager who lived in her parent’s home, surrounded by exotic pets. And then she started making videos on YouTube.Taylor’s Youtube ChannelVote for …
Sruthi asks a question “— why does it seem like Amazon has suddenly gotten a lot sketchier?“ Alex investigates.Further Reading:Elizabeth Dwoskin on AmazonBuzzfeed’s Nicole Nguyen on Amazon Fake …
A couple months ago, Buzzfeed writer Katie Notopoulos tweeted the following question: What was “the incident” in your high school? The story so notorious that everyone still talks about it to this …
Matt’s wife died a decade ago. Now, everywhere he goes on the internet, he can’t escape advertisements for clickbait sites with her picture on it. This week, Super Tech Support tries to help …
This week, Alex Goldman takes PJ and Alex Blumberg through the internet’s most all-encompassing conspiracy theory to date. And Alex Blumberg shares a very different kind of conspiracy theory with …
Who was Wayne?
An ambitious plan to help people goes off the rails, and a man from Florida tries to fix things the only way he knows how: with prank phone calls.Further reading:Cat Ferguson’s reporting on Google …