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Private Eyes: Our 5 Best Detective Stories
Are you a true crime obsessive like I am? Buckle up. These epic investigations make Law & Order look like child's play.
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Brendan Spiegel
Porno Power: The Next Generation
Their parents broke barriers, supporting each other through trials and tribulations during the Golden Age of Porn. Now these grown children of porn…
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Hallie Lieberman
The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The Loch Ness Monster
A humble Scotsman saw something strange in the water—and daringly set out to catch it—only to have lecherous out-of-towners steal his fame and upend his…
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Paul Brown
Narratively Founders Noah and Brendan Sat on a Park Bench and Reflected on 11 Years. You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next.
We founded our company to avoid having to write clickbaity headlines like the one above! So, in honor of our anniversary, we met up to figure out why…
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How I Learned that Treasure Hunting Isn’t Just About the Spot Marked X
After hearing about an armchair treasure hunt that had been running for decades in France, I was intrigued. Little did I know that was just the…
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The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The Loch Ness Monster
A humble Scotsman saw something strange in the water—and daringly set out to catch it—only to have lecherous out-of-towners steal his fame and upend his…
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Paul Brown
The Sisterhood of Sex and the Quest for Porno Power
Directors with gross demands. Feminists branding them as brainwashed. Five ’80s porn stars were over the not-so-sunny side of the Golden Age of Porn. So…
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Hallie Lieberman
The Curse of the Ship of Gold
How a brilliant scientist went from discovering a mother lode of treasure at the bottom of the sea to fleeing from authorities with suitcases full of…
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Dylan Taylor-Lehman
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The Day My Therapist Dared Me to Have Sex With Her
My analyst and I grew more intimately connected each week of treatment...but I never saw this indecent proposal coming.
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Michael Stahl
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I Found God at Queer Summer Camp
I left the evangelical church when I came out as a lesbian. Then I found faith again in the place I least expected.
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Jeanna Kadlec
My Lifelong Journey to Find Pee-wee Herman
My first attempt to meet him turned out to be a cover story for my parents' messy split. Thirty years later, I decided to find Pee-wee on my own terms.
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Angelina Drake
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