ShortHand: The Real Pocahontas

ShortHand: The Real Pocahontas

Long before the ‘90s cartoon version painted with all the colours of the wind, a real Native American woman named Pocahontas inspired a romantic tale that would endure for centuries… But how much of her story is fact – and how much is a convenient colonial fiction? Featuring gold-hunting colonists, grisly cannibalism and more than a splash of imperialist violence, let’s just say the true story isn’t exactly a Disney fairytale.  -- Patreon [http://patreon.com/redhanded] - Ad-free & Bonus Episodes YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dovjXDB69lhDjASbAgnwA] - Full-length Video Episodes TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@redhandedthepod] / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/redhandedthepod/]

FROM THE VAULT - Lizzie Borden: High-Society Hatchet Homicide | #384

As part of our virtual road trip around North America inspired by the 2026 World Cup, we're revisiting some of our most classic cases – with a stop in Massachusetts sparking spooky memories of our visit to the Lizzie Borden house... The brutal hatchet murders of Andrew and Abby Borden are still among the most infamous and hotly debated cases in true-crime history. Truly springing from the pages of your favourite murder mystery – with seemingly innocent housekeepers, “evil stepmothers”, and precocious ladies of luxury aplenty – there’s a lot of fact and a lot of fiction to wade through.  Join us as we discover the real story behind the infamous Lizzie Andrew Borden, and the trial that swept the English-speaking world. -- Patreon [http://patreon.com/redhanded] - Ad-free & Bonus Episodes YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dovjXDB69lhDjASbAgnwA] - Full-length Video Episodes TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@redhandedthepod] / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/redhandedthepod/]

ShortHand: What If Yellowstone Erupted?

Any moment now, we might experience an explosion that emits the power of 1,000 atomic bombs every second. An explosion so fierce that it would reduce the world’s most powerful country to an ash-covered wasteland – and, if it was feeling particularly gnarly, could lead to the extinction of the entire human race. This week we take a look at just how royally f***ed we’d be if the world’s largest above-ground supervolcano blew its top. How likely is it? When could it happen? And is there anything we can do? -- Patreon [http://patreon.com/redhanded] - Ad-free & Bonus Episodes YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dovjXDB69lhDjASbAgnwA] - Full-length Video Episodes TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@redhandedthepod] / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/redhandedthepod/]

Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton – Part 1: The Pig Farm Killer | #457

For years, women were vanishing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside… But the police refused to admit it. In the first of a two-parter on the grisly crimes of Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton, we uncover the investigation into the missing women, the community whose cries for help went unheard, and the systemic failures that kept the authorities from discovering what was really going on at the pig farm from hell… This is the disturbing story of Canada’s most notorious serial killer: the so-called ‘Butcher of Vancouver’. -- Patreon [http://patreon.com/redhanded] - Ad-free & Bonus Episodes YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dovjXDB69lhDjASbAgnwA] - Full-length Video Episodes TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@redhandedthepod] / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/redhandedthepod/]

ShortHand: Spontaneous Human Combustion

People who seem to have suddenly burst into flames – leaving just a pile of ash, a foot or skull, and a puddle of strange grease – have left biologists and police stumped for hundreds of years. And as recently as 2010, a medical examiner in the UK was forced to write ‘spontaneous combustion’ on a real death certificate. But there are some very strong scientific theories, and they are… unpleasant. Join us to find out why we think people go WHOOMP – and the very disturbing ‘human wick effect’. -- Patreon [http://patreon.com/redhanded] - Ad-free & Bonus Episodes YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7dovjXDB69lhDjASbAgnwA] - Full-length Video Episodes TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@redhandedthepod] / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/redhandedthepod/]