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Investigating the real tales that "based on true stories" are about.
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11 episodes
since July 14, 2026
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Join us for part 4 – the final part of this series – as we explore the 79-year-long investigation into the 1947 death of 22-year-old Elisabeth Short. Learn about the LAPD’s search for the killer, the 1949 Grand Jury and its final suspect list, and the theories and accusations that …
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Today finds us at the crime scene. Learn how the police came upon the death of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, and more of the lore that made her into The Black Dahlia – including how the 2006 neo-noir film, The Black Dahlia, represented 1947 Los Angeles and the Leimert Park neighborh…
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We’re digging back into Elizabeth Short’s stay in California before her horrible death. Track her last days with us as we unravel the identities of Elizabeth Short and The Black Dahlia and compare both to their representation in the 2006 neo-noir film, The Black Dahlia.
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It may be California’s most notorious unsolved murder, but remarkably, there are only a handful of Hollywood depictions of the 1947 death of Elizabeth Short. Why? Because the filmmakers got her story so right? Hardly.
Elizabeth Short spent less than six months in California befor…
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On Feb. 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and friends released thefacebook.com to their Harvard classmates. In a week, they had nearly 5k members. By early April, they’d launched at ten more universities, and those students were just as addicted as Harvard’s. Mark was a hero Wizkid, Eduardo…
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On Oct. 21, 2010, The Social Network opened in 2,771 theaters across the U.S. It was clear that everyone wanted to know the juicy goss surrounding the meteoric rise of the social media network and the tabloid-busting drama (that movie trailer playing Radiohead’s Creep definitely di…
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Still ready to dive into the Reel Twisty story of thefacebook.com and Mr. Mark? So are we! But it seems the universe would rather voices be found and work calling us elsewhere. No worries... we have found the voice, but not in time for this week's episode. Next week will come.…
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Ready to dive into the Reel Twisty story of thefacebook.com and the Zuck? So are we! But it seems the universe would rather we take a break from the social network this week.
Catch up with Matt and Tasha and then catch up on our existing episodes. Hopefully we'll be back with…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street premiered in 1984, but for the Hmong people, the real-life terror had begun years before with the entrance of America into the Vietnam War and the CIA’s recruitment of Hmong soldiers into their “secret war.”
What began as a fight against communism is sti…
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In 2018, Netflix premiered Verónica, a film that quickly gained notoriety across social media for being the scariest film on the platform. But was the movie so uniquely frightening? Or did the scares hit a little harder because they were accompanied by the "based on a true sto…
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