E490 - Cults & Cons: Balloon Boy, the Hoax That Gripped America

In 2009, a Colorado family claimed their six year-old son had floated away inside a homemade flying saucer. As helicopters tracked the balloon live on national television, the country braced for tragedy, until the story began to fall apart. In today's first Cults & Cons episode, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien revisit the Balloon Boy hoax, a crime that turned panic into spectacle and exposed the power of a well-timed lie.

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