Chameleon: Dr. Miracle
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Chameleon: Dr. Miracle
We are living in a golden age of deception. It feels like everyone has an angle and that, everywhere you turn, someone’s trying to scam you. Chameleon is a new weekly show from veteran journalist Josh Dean (co-creator and host of The Clearing, Hooked, White Devil, and the original Chameleon season,...
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Whiteout: The Olympic Snowboarder Who Became A Cocaine Kingpin
A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder should have been a footnote—a guy who raced once, finished 24th, and faded away. But in early 2026, Ryan Wedding...
High Stakes: Life inside a Vampire Cult
As a lonely, grieving teenager in the early days of the internet, Celeste Mott is drawn into a secretive message board called "The Looking Glass": a p...
The Journalist And The Voyeur: It’s Not So Easy When You’re The One Being Watched
Gay Talese thought he’d landed a once-in-a-lifetime story every journalist dreams about: a motel owner who built a hidden viewing platform so he could...
A Master's Puppet: Jeffrey Epstein's Money Man
The unsettling story of Leslie Wexner—the Midwestern retail billionaire who built Victoria’s Secret, then gave Jeffrey Epstein extraordinary access to...
The Real Eddie: His Scamming Is Insaaaaane!
The rise and spectacular fall of Eddie Antar, the electronics mogul behind the Crazy Eddie brand. Who scammed his way from the streets of Brooklyn to...
The Mesh Mill: How Scammers Took Advantage of Women's Pain
Shortly after Christmas, Sharon gets a terrifying call. A stranger tells her the pelvic mesh inside her body has been recalled. It's a “ticking time b...
Harry And Rachel Part 2: When True Love Dies
For 563 days, Harry believed the love of his life was dying of stage-four cancer. Then Rachel’s husband called, and everything Harry thought he knew c...
Harry And Rachel Part 1: When True Love Lies
In 2001, Harry meets Rachel in Houston. And so begins a complicated and uncertain kind of love story. An on-again, off-again connection that would str...
Extra Credit: The Rise and Fall of a Frat House Ponzi Scheme
Syed Arbab looked like the next financial prodigy—a frat house day trader who turned beer-soaked bravado into a successful hedge fund. Except that was...
Master Manipulator and Commander: Trust Your Gut
She thought she'd met the real deal: a decorated Navy officer, stationed at the Pentagon, opening hospitals in war zones. But what begins as a whirlwi...
The Vampire Catfish: A Message Board And The Boy Who Believed
Michael was 16, lonely, and stuck in a small Southern town when he met someone called Dennis on a vampire-themed online message board. What began as a...
Goodfellas: The Country Bar Theme Scheme
When an Arizona reporter starts looking into a flurry of closures at country music-themed restaurants, he thinks it’s just another boring business sto...
Face Plant: The Woman With A Thousand Boyfriends
What's it like to have your image used as the bait in thousands of online romance scams? This is what happened to Janessa Brazil—whose image has been...
"The Velvet Sundown: The band that’s not quite Human, not quite machine. "
They were a hot new band and storming up the charts. But something seemed off about Velvet Sundown. Was this the work of AI? When someone behind the b...
Engineering to Deceive: The Talented Coder Who Just Keeps Getting Jobs
When one tech founder tweets a warning about a seemingly prolific engineer named Soham Parekh, it sets off an avalanche. Turns out, Soham has been hir...
Memoir Mystery: The Blockbuster True Story That Maybe Wasn't True At All
When the book The Salt Path was published, readers were moved by the story of a couple who, after losing everything, rebuilt their lives through nothi...
Introducing: 13th Juror
When Liberty German and Abigail Williams, two young girls from a small Indiana town, tragically lost their lives in February 2017, a nationwide manhun...
The Author Trap: Inside The Scheme Selling Lies to Hopeful Writers
Brent Crane is being chased through a mall in the Philippines. He's on the trail of Page Turner, the company that has been accused of stealing $44 mil...
White Lies: The Scammer Who Left Brides In The Lurch And Couldn't Stop
Michael Esposito hired 50 journalists, promised them a dream job, and disappeared without paying a dime. Years later, he resurfaced under various new...
The de Kooning Job: Teachers Turned Thieves
In 1985, a priceless painting vanished from a university museum in Arizona. The FBI had no leads. 32 years later, it turned up behind a bedroom door i...
Gay Girl in Damascus: A Viral Kidnapping And An Internet Fantasy
The story of a Syrian-American blogger whose posts during the Arab Spring captured hearts around the world—including a woman in Montreal who believed...
Fake It 'Til You Graduate: The Honor Student Who Conned a Town
In 2012, a Ukrainian man enrolled at a high school in Pennsylvania, pretending to be a teenage prodigy named Asher Potts. He made the honor roll and b...
The Spine Collector
For years, someone was tricking publishers into handing over yet-to-be-published manuscripts—from bestselling authors and total unknowns alike. There...
The Barefoot Bandit: Catch Him If You Can
Colton Harris-Moore was just a teenager when he began breaking into homes across the Pacific Northwest. But soon, he was stealing cars, boats... and t...
The Undead Tour: How The Fake Zombies Fooled America
A British band called The Zombies had a smash hit single in America with ‘Time of the Season’ in the late 60s. Shortly afterwards, four handsome Texan...
An Admission of Lies: The Man Who Fooled Princeton
A gifted, mysterious young man with a tragic past and talent for long-distance running is admitted to Princeton. He dazzles everyone from admissions o...
The Kid Who Couldn't Stop Playing Cop
In 2009, Vincent Richardson walked into a Chicago police station and reported for duty. No one noticed he wasn’t actually a cop. No one noticed he was...
The Follieri Affair: Who Conned Anne Hathaway?
He dated a Hollywood princess and claimed to be the Vatican’s man in America. But Raffaello Follieri wasn’t all he appeared to be. He convinced some o...
Introducing... Chameleon: The Weekly
Introducing Chameleon. A new weekly show about scammers, con artists, and imposters hosted by Josh Dean. Every week, a new twisty, jaw-dropping story...
Chameleon
Are you obsessed with cons, frauds, and imposters? Well, then, Chameleon is the show for you. Every week, veteran journalist Josh Dean (co-creator and...
Introducing Origin Stories
Sharing a new podcast from Campside Media called Origin Stories, about the creative process and the craft of writing and reporting. Each episode drill...
He Was Everything They Wanted. Until He Was Gone.
He told each of them a different story: billionaire’s son, crypto genius, tech founder. None of it was true.
From the outsi...
Chameleon Recommends: We Came to the Forest
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility being built in Atlanta. She decides to join a group...
"Inside the Tent" with The Michigan Plot hosts Ken Bensinger & Jessica Garrison
Campside was born to tell stories: big, surprising, original stories that can only originate from the beats of the world's best journalists. We’ve mad...
"Inside the Tent" with Dr. Miracle host Larrison Campbell
Campside was born to tell stories: big, surprising, original stories that can only originate from the beats of the world's best journalists. We’ve mad...
Dr. Miracle I 6. Final Days
Years after the verdict of Dawn’s civil trial comes through, Robert Young is still on the expo circuit selling his miracle cure. Larrison heads to one...
Dr. Miracle I 5. Alternative Facts
After years of making money selling false promises, Robert Young is finally on trial. Dawn’s condition is worsening, but she’s still loyal to Young. T...
Dr. Miracle I 4. Cutting Ties
As tensions mount on the ranch, Robert Young starts lashing out at his inner circle, and employees who push back are dropping like flies. After a few...
Dr. Miracle I 3. Selling Hope
Dawn Kali is so hopeful Dr. Young’s alkaline treatment will work that she starts ignoring signs that it isn’t. Meanwhile, some of the Miracle Ranch em...
Dr. Miracle I 2. Family Matters
After accruing thousands of dollars in bounced check fees, Dr. Young agrees to hire June Asisi to do the Miracle Ranch bookkeeping. But June quickly r...