Bittersweet Infamy
Episodes
#36 - The Jerusalem Syndrome
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the mysterious affliction that makes travellers to the Holy Land think they're the Messiah. Plus: chilling true crime from ic...
#35 - Bindy Johal
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about Vancouver's most infamous celebrity gangster. Plus: Chindōgu, the Japanese philosophy of inventing exquisitely useless thing...
#34 - Quetzalcoatl is Coming to Town
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Holiday special! Josie tells Taylor about Mexican president Pascual Ortiz Rubio and his attempt to replace Santa Claus with a Mesoamerican deity. Plus...
#33 - Krampus and His Kin
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Holiday special! Taylor tells Josie about Krampus, St. Nicholas, Frau Perchta, and the other big names in dark Alpine holiday folklore. Plus: the stor...
#32 - The Darién Gap
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the many failed attempts to tame a remote part of Panama. Plus: the morbid story behind the CPR doll, Resusci Annie.
#31 - Miss Cleo
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Season premiere! Taylor tells Josie about the billion dollar scam behind the top TV psychic of the '90s. Plus: cross-pollination drama from the world ...
#30 - The Momo Challenge
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Halloween special + season finale! Taylor tells Josie about the terrifying online suicide hoax that had parents and kids petrified. Plus: class is in ...
#29 - Come With Me and Be Immortal
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Halloween special! Guest host Nadine Bachan tells Josie and Taylor about the murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy; Chicago's Cabrini–Green public housing proj...
#28 - Slenderman
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Halloween special! Josie tells Taylor about the creepypasta that inspired an attempted murder. Plus: the killer clown outbreak of 2016.
#27 - Dethroned
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the first Black Miss America, Vanessa Williams, and the turbulent history of the Miss America pageant. Plus: the infamous pol...
#26 - FAKE!
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about American writer and con artist Clifford Irving, and the web of lies behind a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howa...
#25 - Mount Vesuvius
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the volcanic eruption that destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79. Plus: letters home from a COVID-er...
#24 - Girl, Interrupted
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the mysterious death of actor Brittany Murphy. Plus: gender reveals gone awry.
#23 - Man in a Bubble
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about Nigerian shipwreck survivor Harrison Okene, who spent three days underwater in the sunken tugboat Jascon 4. Plus: a deep div...
#22 - Elena Mukhina
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina and her career-ending injury. Plus: the 2021 West Coast heat wave, and a look back at infamous f...
#21 - The Galápagos Affair
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the saga of sex, murder and mayhem that unfolded on remote Floreana. Plus: we get to the bottom of the infamous Puebla sinkho...
#20 - OneTaste
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the sex cult that took Silicon Valley by storm. Plus: hear how jazz musician John Coltrane kicked his heroin habit.
#19 - Night Trap
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the video game that had the U.S. Senate in an uproar. Plus: a plague of zombie cicadas grips America's Eastern Seaboard.
#18 - Fatal Insomnia
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest host Francine Cunningham tells Josie and Taylor about the people who only sleep when they're dead. Plus: COVID shots in Dracula's castle, and a ...
#17 - Dolphin House
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the world's dumbest dolphin research facility. Plus: the true story Barbra Streisand doesn't want you to hear—the Streisand...
#16 - And When the Sky Was Opened
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest host Mitchell Collins tells Josie and Taylor about the helicopter crash that killed three actors on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Plus: t...
#15 - Run, Bambi, Run
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the controversial murder conviction and daring prison escape of police whistleblower Laurie Bembenek. Plus: the dark origin...
#14 - Georgia Tann
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the woman who built an adoption empire by stealing children. Plus: the crazy coloured ketchup trend of the early 2000s.
#13 - Flowers in Hell
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about June and Jennifer Gibbons, the infamous "silent twins." Plus: why the number 13 is so unlucky.
#12 - The Well to Hell
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the world's deepest manmade hole and the hellish hoax surrounding it. Plus: Pennsylvania's (alleged) deepfake cheerleader mom...
#11 - Jeanne Weber
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the French serial killer known as "The Ogress." Plus: an update on Ashley Judd's bonobo-watching injury.
#10 - The Tickle King
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the reclusive millionaire who used a fetish empire to ruin lives. Plus: the 2021 Texas ice storm.
#9 - Living On Light
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about Breatharians: people who claim they can live without food or water. Plus: white lady mahjong.
#8 - Bayou of Pigs
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the time white supremacists tried to overthrow the government of Dominica. Plus: the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the...
#7 - JT LeRoy
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the literary 'it' boy who never really existed. Plus: a journalist falls in love with her infamous subject.
#6 - Betty and Dan Broderick
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about San Diego's gnarliest divorce. Plus: Hilaria Baldwin's disappearing, reappearing accent.
#5 - The Fabulous Moolah
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the most controversial figure in the history of women's professional wrestling.
#4 - Lapland New Forest
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Holiday special! Taylor tells Josie about the world's worst Christmas village.
#3 - The Witches Who Hexed the Moon
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the celestial shenanigans that vexed Witch Twitter in the summer of 2020.
#2 - Electric Soldier Porygon
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor tells Josie about the banned Pokémon episode that caused mass seizures and hospitalizations.
#1 - Barbra Streisand's Cloned Dogs
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Josie tells Taylor about the late great Samantha Streisand-Brolin (2003-2017), her clones, and the commercial pet cloning industry.