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Have you ever talked to someone online who seemed almost too perfect, then noticed one detail that did not quite add up? A photo can feel convincing, a story can sound sincere, and trust can grow quickly—until a small inconsistency makes everything harder to believe. Catfishing Stories: Secret Lives explores deception, false identities and the hidden lives people build behind screens. Each episode follows the emotional fallout of online relationships shaped by secrecy, manipulation and carefully constructed personas. The stories focus on the clues people overlook, the reasons they keep believing and the moment doubt becomes impossible to ignore. When someone can control everything you see about them, how much of what you trusted was ever real?

  1. 9h ago

    The Sneaker That Exposed Two Families: Roy Cox's Hidden Second Life

    The Sneaker That Exposed Two Families: Roy Cox's Hidden Second Life A single size-five light-up sneaker with the name "Aiden Cox" written inside sat on a church sign-in table and quietly unraveled seventeen years of careful construction. What looked like ordinary reliability hid a man who drove 22,000-25,000 miles a year, rented a PO box halfway between two towns, and maintained two fully lived lives - so how did no one see it until his death? In this episode, we tell how the everyday routines and records of one man mapped onto two families and two communities, revealing the systems he used to keep both lived realities moving in parallel. How did commute logs, business papers, and a single child's shoe become the documents that exposed everything? Person: Roy Harold Cox Date of death: April 4, 2011 Birth year: 1958 Location of church: Calvary Lutheran Church Towns connected: Dellwood and Dellwood - A size-five light-up sneaker with "Aiden Cox" was left on the sign-in table on April 7, 2011. - Roy drove between 22,000 and 25,000 miles per year in his work van for about seventeen years. - Roy was born in 1958 in Terre Haute, Indiana, the second of three children. - He married Nancy Hartley in 1983 and had two children: Kelsey (born 1986) and Drew (born 1989). - Roy died of a cardiac event on April 4, 2011, with his work van parked nearby. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  2. 1d ago

    She Left Two Lives - Why the Keys Were Intentionally Abandoned

    She Left Two Lives - Why the Keys Were Intentionally Abandoned A deliberately placed key fob with two letters - S.H. - sat on a concrete drainage cap behind a scrub willow, looking as if it had been set there an hour earlier despite eleven days of weather. Who chose to leave those keys where another stranger would find them, and why would someone carry two separate lives for three years and four months? In this episode, we follow how a dog-led walk led Russell Zeller to turn over a photograph of an object that would become central to Deputy Tom Schaefer's questions. The episode covers the discovery, the two separate households Susan maintained, and the unexpected person who first stood at that culvert - but did not take the keys; what does that choice reveal? Person: Susan Marie Marie Age: 46 Second identity: S.M. Hanover (Sandra) Partner: Teresa Vann, age 51 Discovery date: March 12 (found at 7:55 a.m.) - The key fob had a brass oval plate engraved with the letters "S.H." - Two keys were attached: a residential deadbolt key and a flat-edged apartment key with a red rubber cap. - The fob and keys showed no rust, mud, or debris after eleven days of early-March weather. - Susan sustained two active leases for three years and four months while paying both rents on a single salary. - Teresa drove to Pinegrove Nature Path and found the fob on March 1 at roughly 7:00 a.m., then left it where it was. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  3. 2d ago

    The Accidental Discovery That Unmade Two Lives

    The Accidental Discovery That Unmade Two Lives A ten-year-old's science fair board washed up in a Tennessee creek with a Mississippi address on the back, and a single damp artifact unwound a woman’s carefully split existence - a mother in Mississippi and a renter using a different name in Tennessee. How did a laminated project mailed by a child become the hinge that revealed two lives lived in parallel? In this episode, we follow the sequence of events set off by that recovered board, tracing the overlapping schedules, hidden identities, and small clues that accumulated until someone decided to act. What exactly linked the board, the gas receipt, and the texts, and how did those clues converge to expose the truth? Person: Monica Cook / Monica Prather Person: Gordon Miller Person: Douglas Thompson Date: February 15, 2011 Location: Cutter Creek, Tillman County, Tennessee - A science fair board titled "DOES WATER TEMPERATURE AFFECT HOW FAST SUGAR DISSOLVES?" was found in Cutter Creek on February 15, 2011. - The board had a Mississippi address written on the back in black Sharpie and was legible despite water damage. - Monica Cook was 28 years old in winter 2011 and lived at 14 Sable Drive, Morden, Mississippi with her ten-year-old daughter Katie. - Monica rented a second house on Aldridge Lane in Coverton, Tennessee under the name Monica Prather and had held that lease for three years. - Gordon Miller found a gas station receipt from Hernando, Mississippi and a text saying "mom did you get the thing I sent for the science fair i put it in the mail" while reviewing Monica's belongings. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  4. 3d ago

    She Lived Two Lives: The Birthday Card That Unspooled a Secret

    She Lived Two Lives: The Birthday Card That Unspooled a Secret A single birthday card tucked into a zip-lock bag on a rake unspooled a twenty-year secret: a woman living as Sherry Roberts in Calverton and as Sharon Novak forty-one miles away in Morrow Creek, with a mortgage, a Social Security number exchange, and two families who never suspected. How did ordinary paperwork-mortgage statements, a phone directory circle, a sealed card-become the map to a double life, and who chose silence for six years? In this episode, we follow the documents, the neighbors, and the quiet choices that revealed two parallel lives. You will hear how a routine cleanup produced a mortgage statement and a postmarked card that forced questions about identity, marriage, and why no one noticed for decades. Person: Sherry Roberts / Sharon Novak Location: four Aldgate Place, Calverton; Decker Road property, Caldwell County; Morrow Creek Date: discovery January 2019; postmark April 2018; death October 2018 Case: mortgage statement for $43,000; Social Security replacement in early 1990s Investigator: Deputy Mike Sears; private investigator Bob Tatum - A birthday card postmarked April 2018 was found sealed in a zip-lock bag on a rake in January 2019. - The Decker Road mortgage statement found behind a folder labeled "Medical - Misc." showed an outstanding balance of $43,000. - The bank confirmed the account holder, Sharon R. Novak, had died in October 2018. - Sherry Roberts had lived at 4 Aldgate Place since 1991 and was described as a self-employed bookkeeper. - Sharon Novak and Frank Novak had been married for about twenty years and their daughter Megan was born in 2001. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  5. 4d ago

    The Sled, Two Daughters, and the Calendar Craig Kept Secret

    The Sled, Two Daughters, and the Calendar Craig Kept Secret A dry, child-sized red sled sat untouched in a two-inch snowfall with the single word MAYA written across the seat - a detail that reopened a two-year secret life and left a retired mail carrier’s face frozen with remembered dread. How did a plastic sled stay dry in a snowstorm, and what did the name on its seat finally force people to remember? In this episode, we follow the facts as they appear: an impossible sled, a man who maintained two households with color-coded calendars, and the paper trail that tied both lives to the same Keswick Mill Road address. What does a single misfiled mailing address reveal about Craig Vickers’s double life? Person: Craig Vickers Person: Deb Vickers Person: Amy Colt Person: Steph Paulson Event: Life insurance policy purchase, spring 2008 - $250,000 - The sled was red, plastic, child-sized and sat dry on a patch of gravel about three inches in radius while surrounding surfaces had two inches of snow. - Snow began falling at 4:00 a.m.; Carl Stroud arrived to check drains at 7:15 a.m. and found no footprints near the sled. - Craig kept color-coded calendars: green for Harkin, blue for Belridge, red for transition days. - Craig had two daughters: Maya born in Belridge and Claire born in Harkin; Maya was eleven weeks older than Claire. - In spring 2008 Craig bought a $250,000 life insurance policy and listed two beneficiaries but wrote the same Keswick Mill Road mailing address for both. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  6. 5d ago

    The Seven-Compartment Clue That Unmasked a Double Life

    The Seven-Compartment Clue That Unmasked a Double Life A birdwatcher found a seven-compartment pill organizer, all slots filled, sitting deliberately on a concrete drainage cap in frozen scrub at 7:00 AM on a November morning-no other footprints in the frost. How did a tidy organizer reveal a man living two parallel lives, and what did those two sets of medications finally expose? In this episode, we follow the discovery, the call to deputies, and the unraveling of Warren's double life through the records and people who knew him, asking how ordinary routines and a single lost object led to the truth. Person: Brenda Allen Date: third week of November 2019 Location: scrub corridor between the sewage plant and Hendricks farm on Ashfield Creek Road Person: Deputy Sean Kowalski Person: Warren Wilson - Pill organizer found at 7:00 AM on a Tuesday with seven compartments all filled and no other footprints in the frost. - Brenda Allen saw the organizer and called it in; Deputy Sean Kowalski arrived 22 minutes later and bagged it. - Warren Wilson had lived on Pembrook Lane in Hartwell Township for nine years and was 38 years old when he disappeared. - Two separate sets of medications, two doctors, two therapists, and two pharmacies were being used by the same man under different names. - Warren entered the Route 44 storage facility at 7:44 PM on a Saturday with no recorded exit timestamp; Laura Fisher last saw him that Saturday evening. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  7. 6d ago

    The Two Lives She Hid: Wife, Mother - Secret Daughter Discovered

    The Two Lives She Hid: Wife, Mother - Secret Daughter Discovered The ordinary funeral of a sixty-one-year-old billing coordinator hid a parallel family 160 miles away: a second husband, a secret daughter, and a storage unit holding a child's drawings. How did a life on Pender Street run quietly alongside a different life on Fenner Street for decades without anyone in either town knowing? In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries after Lauren Allen's death that reveal a second identity as Lauren Kowalski, the unused storage unit that contained Nora's drawings, and the conversations that reshaped two families. What choices kept the two lives separate, and who knew the truth? Person: Lauren Allen / Lauren Kowalski Date: October 2019 Location: Dunmore, Pennsylvania; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Event: Discovery of secret identity via storage unit contents and household documents Case: Uncovered after Lauren's death in August 2019 - Lauren Allen was sixty-one years old and had worked 22 years at Halverson Health Products. - Lauren had been married 34 years to Howard Allen, a plumber, and lived on Pender Street in Dunmore. - In Harrisburg, Lauren Kowalski lived on Fenner Street, was married to Patrick, and had a daughter Nora who was nine in autumn 2019. - Lauren rented Harlow Self-Storage Unit 114 in 2015 under the name Kowalski, paid annually in cash, and stopped payments in February 2019. - Carl Weston bought the unclaimed contents of Unit 114 for $240, stored the sealed box in his Scranton warehouse, and it was opened when a delivery worker split the tape in October 2019. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

  8. Oct 4

    The Cake That Exposed Her: Two Bakeries, One Hidden Life

    The Cake That Exposed Her: Two Bakeries, One Hidden Life Something as small as a wedding cake topper, found sealed in its original bakery sleeve on September 19, 2011 at a locked service lane, would unravel a twenty-six month deception - how could one woman run two Sweetgrass Bakeries under two names without anyone noticing? What exactly collapsed the carefully scheduled architecture of her double life? In this episode, we follow the timeline and people connected to the two Sweetgrass locations, the staff and vendors who interacted with both, and the single discovery that reframed the ten days before the finder’s alarm. What logistics, calendars, and mundane paperwork allowed the doubling to persist - and what finally exposed it? Person: Carol Mills / Claire Merritt Date: September 19, 2011 Location: Fenwick Fairgrounds gravel service entrance Event: Wedding cake topper found in original Sweetgrass Bakery sleeve Duration: Approximately twenty-six months of dual bakery operation - The cake topper was found sealed in its original bakery sleeve on the morning of September 19, 2011. - The service lane where the sleeve was found had been locked since the previous Wednesday, according to the groundskeeping log. - The sleeve label read "Sweetgrass Bakery, Millvane" which prompted the fairgrounds director to go pale. - Carol Mills opened Sweetgrass Bakery in Millvane in autumn 2008 at age twenty-two and became Claire Merritt in spring 2009. - Two Sweetgrass locations operated for roughly twenty-six months, with both using the same email domain and replying to the same vendor emails. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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Have you ever talked to someone online who seemed almost too perfect, then noticed one detail that did not quite add up? A photo can feel convincing, a story can sound sincere, and trust can grow quickly—until a small inconsistency makes everything harder to believe. Catfishing Stories: Secret Lives explores deception, false identities and the hidden lives people build behind screens. Each episode follows the emotional fallout of online relationships shaped by secrecy, manipulation and carefully constructed personas. The stories focus on the clues people overlook, the reasons they keep believing and the moment doubt becomes impossible to ignore. When someone can control everything you see about them, how much of what you trusted was ever real?

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