Strangely

Jack Watkin is young and very rich, he’s nicknamed the Cheshire Kardashian and appears on Channel 4’s Rich Kids of Instagram. He also has a business idea, he has access to the kind of high-end Hermes bags which are out of reach to most people. He just needs backers to fund these investments. But all is not what it seems, and a Cheshire shop owner turned detective to find the truth.  Plus Poppy explores the woman who wrote a moving book about her husband’s death, before the police came knocking at her door. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2026 police visited a home in Gloucestershire to conduct a welfare check, what they walked into was a harrowing story of enslavement stretching back over two decades. Plus Poppy explores three mysterious deaths at a Florida school. New episodes every Tuesday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neil Hopper was a talented vascular surgeon who had performed hundreds of amputations. Then, on a family camping trip, he became a patient himself, losing both legs below the knee. But as Luke explains, the real story was only just beginning Plus Poppy finds out a house in her neighborhood has a dark history. New episodes every Tuesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Poppy uncovers the true crime genre's strangest new frontier: murders investigated via YouTube: complete with viral social content, leaked voicemails, and unlocatable shallow graves. Who is Richard Engelbert, and why does everyone online think they know what happened to him? Plus Luke meets the magician who tried to combine body modification with magic… New episodes every Tuesday.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke shares the story of a rogue element at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Wales. Is the man with the elaborate Navy uniform all he says he is? Plus Poppy meets the man who turned detective when his car was stolen, with surprising consequences.  New episodes every Tuesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Poppy brings Luke the story of a modern day grave robber…. Mausoleums in a historic Philadelphia cemetery are being disturbed, at first it’s dismissed as animals, or teen vandals. But the trail leads police back to a local man with a secret...  Plus Luke shares a pension fraud story that unravelled to reveal a decomposing body in an Italian home.  New episodes every Tuesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Explore the overlooked oddities that deserve a deep dive and the downright bizarre gems buried in the notebooks of journalists and friends Poppy Damon and Luke Jones. From each side of the Atlantic, Poppy in New York and Luke in London, they uncover the world’s strangest stories, from true crime to conspiracy theories and all the wonderfully weird in between. Every Tuesday, they take strange seriously.  For more true crime podcasts, from weekly releases to series to binge, go to AlwaysTrueCrime.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.