ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
He said it could save lives. It didn’t. It couldn’t even find golf balls…
Jim McCormick was a cocky English salesman with an outrageous claim: a black plastic gadget that could sniff out bombs using “electromagnetic energy.” The science was pure fiction. But in the panic after 9/11, governments bought the lie - paying up to $60,000 for a device that started life as a $20 novelty golf-ball finder.
McCormick sold hope to armies and security forces across the globe. But hope turned deadly. Behind the deals were fragmented friendships, betrayals, and a truth so dangerous it would take years to drag into the light.
Alice Levine uncovers the jaw-dropping story of a con that cost countless lives - and the unlikely people who stopped at nothing to uncover the truth.
Explosive Lies is a Global Original podcast, produced by Forest Sounds in partnership with Dentsu Entertainment.
Jim McCormick was a cocky English salesman with an outrageous claim: a black plastic gadget that could sniff out bombs using “electromagnetic energy.” The science was pure fiction. But in the panic after 9/11, governments bought the lie - paying up to $60,000 for a device that started life as a $20 novelty golf-ball finder.
McCormick sold hope to armies and security forces across the globe. But hope turned deadly. Behind the deals were fragmented friendships, betrayals, and a truth so dangerous it would take years to drag into the light.
Alice Levine uncovers the jaw-dropping story of a con that cost countless lives - and the unlikely people who stopped at nothing to uncover the truth.
Explosive Lies is a Global Original podcast, produced by Forest Sounds in partnership with Dentsu Entertainment.
Update frequency:
every 13 hours
Average audio length:
31 minutes
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English
United States
24 episodes
since April 12, 2023
serial
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AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~58.10% of listeners are from Ireland.
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IE
58.10%
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GB
12.54%
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KE
11.38%
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US
8.10%
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UG
1.54%
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ES
1.54%
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IL
1.35%
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CA
1.35%
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RO
0.96%
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FR
0.77%
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IN
0.38%
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TR
0.38%
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DO
0.19%
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YE
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SE
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NL
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CO
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CZ
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AE
0.19%
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SI
0.19%
Others
0.09%
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OLDEST EPISODE 🔗
This is a story about a scam. But this isn’t any old scam. There's shamanism, a 'tree of life' in the jungle of Suriname, a bathing ritual in a dark rusty red lake, voodoo dolls, black magic and envelopes jammed full of sacrificial cash. There's even a wild capuchin monkey called Joey.
At the turn …
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Episode 1. An eccentric osteopath, Keith Bender, meets a charming, mysterious woman named Juliette D’Souza.
Keith’s life is falling apart, and Juliette seems to know just how to fix it. She wins his trust and whisks him off on a journey to meet a shamanic healer in Suriname, changing his life fore…
Episode 2. Keith starts spreading the word about Juliette D’Souza’s ‘powers’. Little by little, Juliette’s client base expands across Hampstead, as her promises of miracle cures captivate more and more of its residents.
All is not well. Under Juliette’s influence, Keith has lost control of his ow…
Episode 3. In the face of apathy and ridicule from the police, Keith Bender takes his allegations about Juliette D’Souza to the only avenue that’s left to him: the media.
A few months later, a newly formed investigative team of plucky journalists touch down in Suriname for the reporting adventure…
Episode 4. Sylvia Eaves, a retired Opera singer with a knack for making friends, who lost thousands of pounds to Juliette D’Souza finds herself back in the thrall of the healer of Hampstead.
But this time, Juliette hasn’t counted on one DIY detective who will stand in her way: An intrepid nurse a…
Episode 5. At Blackfriars Crown Court, a long-awaited trial is about to commence. It could finally bring justice to this group of Hampstead victims.
But Juliette D’Souza’s defence team are about to develop a new theory about who is really responsible for the last two decades of ‘magic’ and manipul…
Episode 6. The trial is over, this should be the end of it. But as they gather on the steps of Blackfriars Court, Keith, Maria and Sylvia hear rumours of a new scam that’s been unfolding right under their noses.
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He starts handing out money, buying cars for mates,…
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