[+]    199: House on Loon Lake

[–]    199: House on Loon Lake

Our entire show this week is one long story, sort of a real-life Hardy Boys mystery. More than most of our shows, this one lends itself to a Hollywood-style tagline. Perhaps: "You Might Break In ... But You'll Never Forget." Or "Dead Letters Tell No Tales." 

[+]    81: Guns

[–]    81: Guns

Americans who love their guns...and the Americans who love them.

[+]    399: Contents Unknown

[–]    399: Contents Unknown

Stories of filling in the blank. A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who he is. His memory gone, he has no choice but to let other people—police, doctors, friends, family—create an identity for him. In another story, people bid blind on the contents of abandoned storage units up for auction. (One tip: If you see large bags, go low; it's someone's old clothes.)

[+]    374: Somewhere Out There

[–]    374: Somewhere Out There

Of all the 6 and a half billion people in the world, what are the odds that any two people are a real match?  Stories from people who know they’ve beat the odds, and the lengths they’ve gone to do it—including an American professor who sings Chinese opera for anyone who'll listen, to get one step closer to his mate, and two kids who travel halfway around the country to find each other and become best friends.

[+]    398: Long Shot

[–]    398: Long Shot

Stories of people betting on something with very bad odds, mostly because they have no other choice.

[+]    397: 2010

[–]    397: 2010

At the start of a new year, journalistic outfits put out lots of mealy "perhaps oil prices will rise or perhaps they won't" predictions for the coming year.  Instead of that, we asked our contributors to predict real events that will happen to them and the people they know in 2010.