A Deadly Sex Scam | 7NEWS Spectrum
When 17-year-old Mac Holdsworth shares an intimate image of himself with someone he believes to be an 18-year-old girl online, he quickly be...
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14 episodes
Measles And A Deadly Diagnosis | 7NEWS Spectrum
When two mothers' babies - too young for vaccination - caught measles in the early 1980s, they never imagined it would lead, years later, to...
Vision impaired at 16: Blindness, guide dogs & how the world excludes people like me | 7NEWS Spectrum
When Dan lost most of his vision at 16 due to a rare genetic condition, his world changed overnight. In this powerful and personal story, Da...
'I thought he was dead': The dark side of train surfing | 7NEWS Spectrum
When Aiyden O'Donoghue falls from a moving train, he's left lying on the track with the next one due in 15 minutes. He's 15 years old, and s...
'I thought he was dead': The dark side of train surfing | 7NEWS Spectrum
When Aiyden O'Donoghue falls from a moving train, he's left lying next to the track with another one due in 15 minutes. He's 15 years old, a...
Social Media's Toxic Influence on Eating Disorders | 7NEWS Spectrum
WARNING: This episode contains conversations about eating disorders and suicide that may be triggering to some listeners. When Katya Jaski w...
Social Media's Toxic Influence on Eating Disorders | 7NEWS Spectrum
When Katya Jaski was first diagnosed with atypical anorexia nervosa at the age of 13 in 2020 she didn't think she was sick enough. A year la...
Queer and looking for love: The forgotten victims of dating app violence | 7NEWS Spectrum
When Sarah matched with a woman on the American-founded dating app Hinge in May 2022, things turned bad quickly. For the next 4-months, she...
Heroes and Heartbreak: Australia's Deadly Green Wattle Creek Bushfire | 7NEWS Spectrum
When an unstable tree strikes a NSW RFS fire truck with five volunteers, only three escape.
The Dark Side of Australia's Migration System | 7NEWS Spectrum
When Irish backpacker Laura left her farmwork after a month of sexual harassment in 2018, she believed it was the end of her nightmare. Howe...
Leaving Australia's Nameless Sect | 7NEWS Spectrum
At 16, in 1990, Elizabeth Coleman learned the sect she was born into didn't date back to Jesus as claimed. The discovery shook her, and she...
Taken For Ransom in Somalia | 7NEWS Spectrum
In 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped in Somalia by an Islamist insurgent...
A Phantom Hitchhiker on Australia's Coast | 7NEWS Spectrum
Content warning: this episode discusses material related to sexual assault. What if it's not the past haunting us, but the present? For deca...
The search for Australia's bigfoot | 7NEWS Spectrum
Since the early days of European arrival, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people have claimed to have seen a two-metre tall, hairy, ape-like...