Bent Planet: True Stories From The Edge Of Normal
A digital media project and interview podcast documenting true, bizarre stories of real people facing abnormal predicaments and mind-twisting life events.
How to Get Kidnapped in Syria
A photojournalist walks into a war zone chasing one more frame and walks out of it as somebody else's asset. A first-person account of the worst decision of his career, told without a narrator deciding what it meant.
- Format
- Interview
- Status
- Unresolved
The Archive Highlights
- 01
Two bands, one crowd, and a thread of coincidence that runs straight through a death nobody involved has been able to put down since.
- 02
An island the tourist maps skip, where practitioners still do work the neighbouring villages refuse to name out loud.
- 03
He thought the cash was unattended. It wasn't unattended. It was being watched by exactly the person you don't want watching.
- 04
A survival story that stopped making medical sense somewhere between the call-out and the emergency room doors.
- 05
A long-form interview with Dr Lawrence Blair on decades spent in places where the rules of contact were written by someone else entirely.
- 06
What a man does after the system has finished with his family, condensed into the shortest case file in the archive.
Ordinary people.
Impossible weeks.
Bent Planet sits down with people whose lives briefly stopped obeying the rules, and lets them tell it in their own words, at their own pace, without a laugh track or a narrator deciding what it meant.
No reenactments. No spooky voice-over. Just long-form interviews, primary accounts, and whatever documentation still exists. Some cases have explanations. Most don't.
Did something happen to you that shouldn't have?
If you lived through something you still can't explain, we'll listen first and ask questions later. Every account is read.
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