Bizarrely: Side Quests Into True Crime

In August 1966, two electronics technicians climbed a hill overlooking Rio de Janeiro carrying raincoats, a bottle of water, a cryptic note, and homemade lead masks.Days later, they were found dead.There were no signs of violence. No clear cause of death. And more than half a century later, no one knows exactly what happened on Vintém Hill.Were Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz victims of a failed spiritual experiment? A robbery gone wrong? An elaborate hoax? Or something even stranger?In this episode of Bizarrely: Side Quests into True Crime, we explore one of Brazil's most baffling mysteries, a case filled with missing money, mysterious capsules, strange lights in the sky, and the question that still haunts investigators today:Why were two healthy men found dead wearing homemade lead masks?

On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children were believed to have died in the blaze. But no bodies were ever found. Strange phone calls, cut phone lines, a missing ladder, witness sightings, and a mysterious photograph would lead the family on a decades-long search for answers. In this episode of Bizarrely, we explore one of America's most enduring mysteries and ask a simple question: what happened to the Sodder children?

What would you do if an anonymous letter arrived in your mailbox exposing one of your deepest secrets? In the late 1970s, residents of Circleville, Ohio, began receiving letters from a mysterious writer who seemed to know things they shouldn't. As the letters spread, so did fear, paranoia, and suspicion. In this episode of Bizarrely: Side Quests Into True Crime, we explore the baffling mystery of the Circleville Letters—an unsolved case involving anonymous threats, a suspicious death, an attempted murder, and questions that remain unanswered nearly fifty years later.

When strange noises began echoing through the Bowen family home, two grieving sisters believed their deceased mother was trying to contact them. The truth was far more terrifying. In this first episode of Bizarrely: Side Quests Into True Crime, we explore the disturbing case of Daniel LaPlante, the teenager who secretly lived inside another family's walls, and the tragic crimes that followed.