When a crowd with money on the line saw something coming before the headlines, or got it spectacularly wrong.
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The Quiet Tell
The truth was public all along: in a ship's transponder, a job posting, a permit filing or a single satellite pixel. Each week, two hosts follow one person who read the signal before the world did, through the hunch, the dead ends and the moment it clicked, and then show you how you could have checked it yourself. Every original investigator is credited by name, and each episode ends with a public dataset you can open tonight. Researched from real reporting, sources in every episode's notes.
Hosted by Ines and Jonah. Researched from real reporting; sources are in every episode's notes.
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The Ship That Pointed at the Pier
Interference scrambled a grain ship's position across the Black Sea. Bellingcat found it anyway, using the one number the satellites couldn't touch: the direction its bow was pointing.
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