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Publications

Truly*Adventurous

History

The House of Lost Souls

When a down-and-out doctor finds his rundown mansion is haunted, he pulls the quintessentially American move: opening the house to the public for a fee. Everything goes wrong from there.

Patrick Glendon McCullough Truly*Adventurous Oct 2019 35min Permalink

History Sports

The Cowboy and the King

Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?

Alvin Townley Truly*Adventurous Sep 2021 10min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

Knives Outback

A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.

Mitch Moxley Truly*Adventurous Aug 2021 40min Permalink

Crime History

Murder in Whip City

A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A quaint New England town shaken to its core. One all-consuming obsession in Whip City.

Deborah Halber Truly*Adventurous Jul 2021 25min Permalink

History Religion

The Clairvoyant

When word spreads about a 17-year-old in rural Tuscany reputed to have clairvoyant powers, she must withstand followers seeking her wisdom and officials hellbent on tearing her down.

Gabriella Gage Truly*Adventurous Jul 2021 25min Permalink

Business Crime

Death of a (Really Good) Salesman

He was a powerful executive at some of the best-known companies in the world. Then he started robbing banks. The meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Steve Carroll, the high-flying corporate executive who wanted it all.

Jeff Gottlieb Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Poet

She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The identity of her tormentor is too chilling to believe.

Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 40min Permalink

History

The Richest Black Girl in America

When an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America discovers a seemingly worthless plot of land she has inherited is worth millions, everything in her life changes—and the walls begin to close in.

Lauren N. Henley Truly*Adventurous Feb 2021 20min Permalink

Crime

The Blood House at Fountain Drive

When human blood overtakes a house amid racial turmoil in 1987 Atlanta, terrifying the family inside, a mystery opens up that persists to this day.

Danny Cherry Jr. Truly*Adventurous Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Crime

The Stowaway

His hotel heists had detectives convinced they were on the trail of one of the world’s most skilled con-men.

Matthew Bremner Truly*Adventurous Aug 2020 Permalink

Crime World

The Occultists: El Padrino

When a spring breaker goes missing, a seasoned investigator uncovers devil worship and a sinister cult at the heart of the drug trade.

Corey Mead Truly*Adventurous Jun 2020 Permalink

Sports

The Bout

How one Texas boxing match changed history.

Cary Clack Truly*Adventurous Feb 2020 30min Permalink

Crime

Family Business

A young man returns home from the army and gets a surprising offer from his emotionally distant father: Join the family business and help mom & pop pull off a string of daring cross-country heists. No one expects the betrayals coming.

Alexander Huls Truly*Adventurous Jan 2020 35min Permalink

Crime History

The Dognapping of the Century

When a ring of thieves steals a poet’s beloved dog, one of the world’s most famous women must break her long domestic oppression and discover herself in the process.

Olivia Rutigliano Truly*Adventurous Jan 2020 30min Permalink

Life Therapy

Veteran Andy Chavez’s miraculous journey from coma to Wheelchair Games.

Nick Davidson Truly*Adventurous Nov 2019 20min Permalink

History Travel

Driven

How a 22-year-old mother became the first woman to drive cross-country.

Gabriella Gage Truly*Adventurous Jun 2019 35min Permalink

Every Living Creature

A modern-day Noah’s Ark operation on a Caribbean island devastated by a volcano.

Sarah Schweitzer Truly*Adventurous Mar 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

Secrets & Wives

A single working mom begins a whirlwind romance with a man named Martin Lewis, then discovers that Martin Lewis doesn’t exist. A story that picks up where GoodFellas left off.

Matthew Pearl, Greg Nichols Truly*Adventurous Jan 2019 40min Permalink