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Chameleon

Podcast Series Chameleon

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, Hollywood Con Queen) that takes you inside an incredible, stranger-than-fiction story about someone—or some people—pretending to be something they aren’t. Are you obsessed with cons, frauds, and impostors? Then this is the podcast for you. Get your new weekly true crime obsession every Thursday from Campside Media and Audiochuck.

Series Episodes

REVISITED: The Undead Tour: How The Fake Zombies Fooled America Playing

REVISITED: 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 Texans hit the road pretending to be the Zombies. This is the unbelievable true story of rock’s most brazen imposters… two of whom went on to form ZZ Top.

33 mins

10 September Finished

A View To Deceive: An Artist Goes Undercover To Expose The Uber Rich Playing

A View To Deceive: An Artist Goes Undercover To Expose The Uber Rich

The views from New York's luxury high-rise apartments can be spectacular. And the higher up you go, the more exclusive, and expensive the properties become. An artist became obsessed with those views, and the hidden world hiding behind them. She just needed to find a way in. Discover more about the Andi Schmied and her book Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan

37 mins

3 September Finished

The Artist of Cons: The Unbelievable but Totally Real Life of Milwaukee’s Most Interesting Man Playing

The Artist of Cons: The Unbelievable but Totally Real Life of Milwaukee’s Most Interesting Man

explicit

As a teenager in Milwaukee, Art Rapkin became a hustler, karate champion and a fake Bob Dylan. Then he started smuggling cocaine, before ending up in a Mexican prison, where he was tortured, before working with he FBI and DEA.

50 mins

27 August Finished

Lie in The Sky: Is Frank Abagnale Jr's story too good to be true? Playing

Lie in The Sky: Is Frank Abagnale Jr's story too good to be true?

Frank Abagnale Jr. became America's most famous con artist. He said he stole millions of dollars, posed as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, before working for the FBI. His story became a bestselling book, a Hollywood blockbuster and a Broadway musical. But what if the greatest con Frank Abagnale pulled was convincing the world that any of it was true? Listen to Javier Leiva’s podcast The Real Frank Abagnale

34 mins

20 August Finished

Cultivated: The Self-Proclaimed Prophet Hiding In Plain Sight Playing

Cultivated: The Self-Proclaimed Prophet Hiding In Plain Sight

"In the summer of 1991, a young woman walks into a police station in Ogden, Utah. She claims that just blocks away, amongst the manicured suburban sprawl, a self-proclaimed prophet has spent years building a secret religious empire — fuelled by fear, manipulation, and systematic abuse. Listen to Mike King’s podcast Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult"

35 mins

13 August Finished

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