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5 min readEverything is Not What it Seems
A former college student named Summer believed she had formed a genuine friendship with a classmate, Alison. Over the course of their relationship, Alison claimed to have been raped, became pregnant, and then said her baby had died. Summer's family added Alison to their prayer list. She cried for her. She rearranged her schedule to accommodate Alison's emergencies. It was all a lie — a pattern that, as Summer and her collaborators would later discover, Alison had been repeating for years, targeting professors, roommates, and friends with fabricated pregnancies, stalking allegations, and elaborate victim narratives that left everyone around her questioning what was real.
The Stalking Case That Broke Everything Open
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:14) **Last Time on Something Was Wrong** - Recap of Alison’s lies, the confrontation, and her arrest for violating a protective order against Professor Locke.
- 2 (06:33) **The Stalking Escalates** - Details emerge about Alison’s stalking of Professor Locke, including taking photos of her and her children at a baseball game and church.
- 3 (09:17) **Reaching Out to Nivea** - Summer contacts Alison’s former best friend, Nivea, to learn more about their falling out and Alison’s pattern of behavior.
- 4 (17:11) **Nivea’s Texts and a New Fake Pregnancy** - Nivea shares her text conversation with Alison, revealing Alison is now claiming another fake pregnancy.
- 5 (23:35) **The Spiral Continues** - The team reacts to the new fake pregnancy, speculating on Alison’s motives and patterns.
- 6 (27:36) **Phone Call Analysis** - Summer, Daniel, and Tiffany discuss the confusing web of Alison’s lies, including new details about an alleged ex-husband and a miscarriage.
- 7 (34:08) **The Moving Sale Recon Mission** - Summer sends friends Isabel and Emily to Alison’s moving sale to visually confirm if she is actually pregnant.
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Show Notes
*Content Warning: friendship betrayal, stalking, fraud, mental illness, factitious disorder, staged pregnancy, pregnancy loss, miscarriage, mature themes, false reporting, sexual assault, rape, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.
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