Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Mon, 28 Apr 2025

You've undoubtably heard of Dr. Seuss. The author of The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christ...

Fri, 25 Apr 2025

Would you choose to have an identical twin? Someone who looked so much like you, that even your own ...

Mon, 21 Apr 2025

Today we talk about moral panics. Specifically, the "Video Nasty" moral panic that happened in the U...

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

Pee Wee Gaskin's diminutive size of 5'2" tall and 130 pounds soaking wet didn't stop him from brutal...

Fri, 11 Apr 2025

Today we're we’re gonna tackle a bunch of questions you never knew you needed answering, questions...

Mon, 7 Apr 2025

How much of what you read online has been planted there by Russian propagandists? How many times hav...

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

On the afternoon of February 13th, 2017, in the sleepy little 3000(ish) person town of Delphi, India...

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Today we take a peek at the interesting life of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who invented ...

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

Have you ever been to one of those Shen Yun traveling traditional Chinese dance performances? Have y...

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

Today we examine the beloved host of the long-running children's television show, Mr Rogers' Neighbo...

Fri, 14 Mar 2025

Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was a ruthless, sadistic Colombian rapist and serial killer who becam...

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

On July 22nd, 2011, Norwegian alt-right gamer Anders Behring Breivik carried out the deadliest attac...

Mon, 3 Mar 2025

How much do you know about Nelson Mandela and South Africa's brutal, racially oppressive system of a...

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

Ching Shih, born as Shi Yang, was quite possibly the most powerful pirate of all time. While famous ...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

On November 20th, 1993, the sexually violated and mutilated corpse of a young woman is found on Long...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

Ganas is an intentional community founded in 1979 in Tompkinsville, Staten Island that is still acti...

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

Happy Valentine's Day! Let's talk about love. Kind of. But not really. Not all actually. Let's inste...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

Have you heard of Hiroo Onoda? The Japanese 2nd Lieutenant was sent to the island of Lubang in The P...

Mon, 3 Feb 2025

On the night of May 3rd, 2007,  three year-old British girl Madeleine vanished from her bed in her ...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

Comedian, actor, author, and producer Bill Cosby... affectionately nicknamed as "America's Dad" for ...

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

Can you imagine being stranded for years on a remote uninhabited island with almost nothing but a fe...

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

Was aspiring investigative journalist Danny Casolaro murdered in his Sheraton hotel room in Martinsb...

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

Peter Sutcliffe, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper in the press, attacked woman after woman with a hammer ...

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

A look at how we humans have chosen to incarcerate those who break the rules and how certain rule br...

Mon, 6 Jan 2025

Do you ever think about where your poo goes once you flush it down the toilet? Or about how not havi...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

Time for some year end inspiration from the incomparable Dolly Parton! A true living legend. If all ...

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

On September 13th, 1848, a dynamite blast rocketed a 43-inch long, 13-pound iron bar completely thro...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Have you heard about the recent case of Shelby Hewitt? The 32 year-old Massachusetts Social Worker e...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

On June 22nd, 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared after attending a music lesson in Rome....

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

What a tale I have for you today! In 1518, a very peculiar form of madness fell over the people of t...

Mon, 9 Dec 2024

Have you ever heard of serial killer Gerald Stano? For years, he sat on death row in Florida, just a...

Mon, 2 Dec 2024

We take a look at the recent, tragic final act of a doomsday cult in Kenya that left 448 dead and an...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

Does not having a penis make you feel inferior due to a bad case of penis envy? Do you or have you e...

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

Today I'm sharing a wild story that I'm surprised isn't much more known - that one time Germany inte...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

The true story behind the incredible 2003 film, Monster, about sex worker and serial killer, Aileen ...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

Happy Veteran's Day! On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, over 150,000 Allied troops stormed Nazi-defended beac...

Fri, 8 Nov 2024

Today I'm sharing the little known Servant Girl Annihilator murders. A series of crimes just as shoc...

Mon, 4 Nov 2024

Back in the 1950s, America was very afraid of Soviet spies and communist sympathizers infiltrating t...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

In the early 1980s, Suzan and Michael Carson were very worried about witches. They thought there wit...

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Today I’ll be sharing the strange and spooky story of Olivia Mabel. It's a story presented as a tr...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

In 1975, two young boys in Tuam were exploring the grounds of one of Ireland's abandoned Mother and ...

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

I highly doubt you have ever been conned by anyone to the degree Robert Hendy-Freegard conned his vi...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Magdalena Solís was a Mexican cult leader and the extremely rare sexually motivated female serial k...

Mon, 7 Oct 2024

Carl Panzram is one of the most interesting serial killers we've ever covered. He was incredibly sel...

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

In an episode about the most infamous series of murders in the history of the state of South Austral...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

On the evening of October 30th, 1938, the CBS Radio Network broadcasted Orson Welles's live adaptati...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Who are the Yakuza? How similar are they to the Mafia? What's up with all the tattoos they have? And...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

In honor of the 420 episode, I decided to smoke a nice strong joint for this one while recording. An...

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

On March 31st, 1922, on a cold, snowy, and quiet night in Germany, at a small unassuming farm roughl...

Mon, 9 Sep 2024

Do you remember when seventeen-year-old Amy Fisher shot the wife of her thirty-five-year-old lover, ...

Mon, 2 Sep 2024

When did we meatsacks start torturing one another? How did we do it? How have torture methods change...

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

This one is a doozy! John Edward Robinson may be the most intelligent serial killer I've ever come a...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Have you ever heard of "clinical vampirism," more commonly known today as Renfield's Syndrome? One r...

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

An in-depth look at the Founding Father behind the hit musical Hamilton. How did Alexander contribut...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

Back in 2011, Wales would be shocked to learn that for the previous 14 years, an actual cause for Sa...

Fri, 9 Aug 2024

On August 30th, 2023, Ruby Franke, a recently very popular Youtuber and "momfluencer" was arrested, ...

Mon, 5 Aug 2024

Did you know that in that in 1850, Hong Xiuquan, a man who interpreted literal fever demons as relig...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

Danny Rolling brought terror to the college town of Gainesville, Florida, when he brutally murdered ...

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

Ever heard of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins? The Big Fellow? His heroic contributions to the f...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Taking a look into the life of the former dictator of Iraq today, which will of course lead us into ...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

Between 1968 and 1985, eight couples having sex in either parked vehicles or a tent in remote areas ...

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

The Tsuyama Massacre. The strange tale of one sexually frustrated man, Mutsuo Toi, who cut the power...

Mon, 8 Jul 2024

The Love Has Won Cult was led by Amy Carlson, who died from alcohol abuse, anorexia, and colloidal s...

Mon, 1 Jul 2024

What do you know about the King, baby? Did you know how poor he was growing up? How quickly he becam...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

Do you know why Pornhub removed over 80% of its content at the end of 2020? The site was littered wi...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

How was Dr. Larry Nasser able to sexually abuse over 500 victims, almost all of them young female gy...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

I don't know if anyone has ever loved exposing themselves to strangers as much as Randy Woodfield. T...

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

What really happened to a group of seven hikers in the Khamar-Daban mountain range in Siberia on Aug...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

On March 17th, 2024, the first episode of a five-part docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kid...

Mon, 3 Jun 2024

Today we learn about who the real Peaky Blinders were? How much of the hit BBC/Netflix series is his...

Tue, 28 May 2024

Today we conclude yesterday's wild exploration of the cult Sun Myung Moon founded in Seoul, South Ko...

Mon, 27 May 2024

In Seoul, South Korea, in 1954, Sun Myung Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unificati...

Fri, 24 May 2024

On June 20th, 2001, former high school valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and registered nurse...

Mon, 20 May 2024

Are wealthy elites like Bill Gates and George Soros using their money and power to sterilize and/or ...

Mon, 13 May 2024

Kenneth McDuff killed three high school students the night of August 6th, 1966, repeatedly raping an...

Fri, 10 May 2024

What happens to your body when it is donated to science? Does it actually end up in front of some do...

Mon, 6 May 2024

Michael Jackson is the most successful solo act in the history of recorded music. Only the Beatles h...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

The Osage Reign of Terror - dramatized recently in the 2023 award winning Martin Scorsese film, Kill...

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

On Saturday night, April 11th, 1981, a young mother, her teenage son, and her son's teenage friend, ...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

Did you know that in 1902, August Engelhardt travelled from Germany to a small island in the South P...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Jim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their P...

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

Do you have a plan in mind for what you would do in a doomsday event like nuclear war, alien invasio...

Mon, 8 Apr 2024

From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin went on a multi-state murder and mayhem spree, bombing a syn...

Wed, 3 Apr 2024

Ervil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and...

Mon, 1 Apr 2024

Have you ever heard of disturbing serial killer Richard Byrd? He raped and strangled eight young wom...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

Today we explore what life was really like for ancient Greece's feared warriors, the Spartans. How c...

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

On July 2nd, 2021, 22 year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé, 23 year old Brian Laundrie, left the qu...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Very informative episode today! I learned so much and hope you do too. We explore the history of hum...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

Did you ever think that overeating, specifically, could send your soul to Hell? Or that not losing e...

Fri, 8 Mar 2024

Jim Miller. Killin' Jim. Right before stepping off a wooden crate with a noose around his neck, in f...

Mon, 4 Mar 2024

On the night of November 25th, 1996, Rick Wendorf, 49, and his partner Ruth Queen, 54, were beaten t...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Exploring some super interesting and strange territory today. I might not be able to record any more...

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

Today's Short Suck is all about John List.  With a bankruptcy looming, worried about the shame he'd...

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

Today I share the real practice and history of the classic Catholic exorcism that so many of us have...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

The Sunday Morning Slasher, Carl Watts, is thought to have killed over 100 women between Michigan an...

Fri, 9 Feb 2024

 Today's Short Suck is all about the weird, wild world of penis enlargement! What options are out t...

Mon, 5 Feb 2024

Between 1998 and 2006, at least 48 elderly women were strangled to death in Mexico City. These murde...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

I've wanted to dig into this story for a couple of years now. Aaron seemed to have EVERYTHING going ...

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Today's Short Suck is all about the life of Hugh Glass - the man whose insane story of surviving a G...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

In the Spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. And immedi...

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

The story behind the new Iron Claw movie starring Zac Effron and Jeremy Allen White. Was the Von Eri...

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

The first in what will hopefully be many Short Sucks! 45-60 minute stories delivered in a more tradi...

Mon, 8 Jan 2024

Sharing the life and crimes today of William Lester Suff aka the Riverside Killer. Convicted of kill...

Mon, 1 Jan 2024

Whether or not you've seen the recent Amazon and/or Netflix docuseries on Twin Flames Universe, I th...

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

For this year's annual, inspirational episode and wrap-up, I share the surprisingly inspiring and en...

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Did you know the term "incel" no longer generally refers to someone who is just lonely and horny? No...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

I know - this episode is a long one! I tried to cut as much as I could that didn't feel relevant to ...

Mon, 4 Dec 2023

I finally look into what all the hype about the Murdaugh family murders is about. And the hype... is...

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

Want to know where a lot of the core ideas from the many conspiracies that revolve around the idea t...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

On the evening of May 6th, 2013, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, three enduring myst...

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

You probably are pretty familiar with the Duggar family, from TLC's hit show 19 and Counting. But do...

Mon, 6 Nov 2023

Who decided to add cyanide to a bunch of bottles of Tylenol in the Chicago area in 1982? A couple of...

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Headed to 15th century to explore the life of a man who may have been the wealthiest noble in all of...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

This week we dig into both LDS and FLDS teachings, and learn about The School of the Prophets, a gro...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, he deposed a dictator. And then the man who promised democ...

Mon, 9 Oct 2023

Is Larry Hall, currently incarcerated in federal prison on a charge of kidnapping for the purposes o...

Mon, 2 Oct 2023

How much do you know about "The Forgotten War" as the Korean War - technically a UN Police Action - ...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Have you heard of the Briley Brothers? Three young brothers, and a teenage neighbor, went on a vicio...

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

My favorite episode in months. One that I'm hoping the most curious of the cult of the curious will ...

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

Between August of 1979, and May of 1981, convicted serial rapist David Carpenter escalated to murder...

Mon, 4 Sep 2023

Did the fall and/or destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria really set human progress a thous...

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

In the early '70s, a man presenting himself as Eugenio Mario Perente-Ramos creates the Eastern Farmw...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

On August 9th, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of America, whil...

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

In addition to being a serial killer who very likely killed at least 15 young men and boys around L...

Mon, 7 Aug 2023

Early on the morning of August 28th, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped from his great-uncl...

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

What do we known about William Shakespeare the man? And why are his works still popular today? Who w...

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

On March 8th, 2014, 227 passengers boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, taking off from Kuala Lumpu...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

Today we take a fascinating look into how Whitey Bulger rose to power in Boston's underworld in the ...

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

We got a weird one today! Wow. Jerry Brudos was a serial killer who became completely consumed with ...

Mon, 3 Jul 2023

Today we do a deep dive on the history of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? How does it differ from or...

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fiftee...

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

From 1095 to 1291 CE, thousands and thousands of knights, peasants, nobles, soldiers, and more left ...

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

Did R. Kelly truly have a sex cult?  For around a quarter-of-a-century Robert Sylvester Kelly wrote...

Mon, 5 Jun 2023

On August 28, 2003, a 46 year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank nea...

Mon, 29 May 2023

Between October 1977 and February 1978, with a nickname originating from the fact that many of the v...

Mon, 22 May 2023

Did you know that American banana corporations turned almost all of Central America into US satellit...

Mon, 15 May 2023

We've covered a lot Los Angeles area cults from the 1960s and 70s, but as it turns out, there were c...

Mon, 8 May 2023

In the late 1940s, troubled lovers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, ran a scam using dating servic...

Mon, 1 May 2023

On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 AM local time, a major explosive eruption took place at a volcano in southw...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

Terry Blair. The Prospect Killer. Before he became a serial killer in the Prospect Avenue neighborho...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

Today we look into a series of murders, mostly occurring in the mid-1980s, in the southeastern US. T...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

Today we dig into the origins and the history of America's Irish Mob.  We begin centuries ago in Ir...

Mon, 3 Apr 2023

The conclusion of the the craziest cult story I had never heard of.  This week, things, incredibly,...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

The craziest cult story I had never heard of. Jeffrey Lundgren was a cult leader and a mass leader b...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

Skull and Bones has been shrouded in mystery ever since it was founded nearly two centuries ago now,...

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

The Zebra Murders were a series of racially motivated attacks and murders committed in San Francisco...

Mon, 6 Mar 2023

Early in the morning of March 28th, 1979, equipment failures and a stuck open relief valve prevented...

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

On March 18th, 1990 two men disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner...

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

On October 8th, 1941, with Stalingrad surrounded, Leningrad besieged, and the Nazis making new gains...

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

What is the the Perfect Murder?  It's what two affluent and academically brilliant young Chicagoans...

Mon, 6 Feb 2023

The Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China in 1989  is one of the most important, noteworthy t...

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

In the 1960s, a strange new cult emerged in Manhattan's Upper West Side out of the Sullivan Institut...

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

This week we investigate the life and crimes of one of the Freeway Killers. Patrick Kearney, the Tra...

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

Today we dig into the life of Julius Caesar and the final days of the Roman Republic. How was Caesar...

Mon, 9 Jan 2023

What do you think you know about Amanda Knox? Do you think she was a sex-crazed party girl who got a...

Mon, 2 Jan 2023

Today we dig into the history of Dungeons and Dragons and look at what influences Gary Gygax and oth...

Mon, 26 Dec 2022

We take a look this week at the incredibly inspirational life of Helen Keller. She accomplished SO m...

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

Josef Mengele was a great guy! Just very misunderstood. Wait, no. I'm thinking of someone else. Jose...

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

Herb Baumeister was VERY likely the I-70 Strangler, killing a suspected nine boys and men between 19...

Mon, 5 Dec 2022

Evangelical End Times pastor Mike Bickle founded the International House of Prayer in 1999, later re...

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

Strange and thought provoking episode today! In the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, animal behavior resea...

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

The Pacific War may have been even more brutal than the War in Europe. Imperial Japan had a ferociou...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

Another whopper of a topic that could not be more action packed. WW2. Going over the war in Europe t...

Mon, 7 Nov 2022

So much to go over in under three hours! Why are indigenous women on reservations in the US being ki...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

On October 25, 2012, NYPD Office Gilberto Valle was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit k...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

How much do you know about America's first documented serial killers, The Bloody Harpes? Micajah and...

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

Today we cover the formation of the infamous Bloods and Crips gang rivalry. How did it get started? ...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

For four months in 1974, 28 year old Paul John Knowles went on a reckless murder spree across the Un...

Mon, 3 Oct 2022

Is Bayer AG really EVIL? Or have they, like a lot of companies done both really good things - like m...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

The name The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God might not sound familiar, b...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

Get ready to meet one of my comedy heroes, but only if you can handle a LOT of profanity. George Car...

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

Ronald Dominique confessed to raping and murdering 23 boys and men between the ages of 16 and 46 bet...

Mon, 5 Sep 2022

Emotional episode today! At least for me.  We examine the Catholic Church's long history of sex sca...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

In June of 2015, 48-year-old Dee Dee Blanchard was murdered in cold blood. Her murderer snuck into h...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Long before German con artist Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey captured America's attention thanks to th...

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

Randy Kraft might just be the most brutal and prolific serial killer you've never heard of.  Convic...

Mon, 8 Aug 2022

The story of this little known cult is WILD. Was the cult leader, Terri Hoffman, capable of some kin...

Mon, 1 Aug 2022

Steve Irwin, better known as the Crocodile Hunter, was a wildlife enthusiast and conservationist, ow...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

As a couple, Gerald and Charlene Gallego turned their dark sexual desires  into a murderous rampage...

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

Off and on from 2006 to 2012, Snowden had worked as a CIA analyst, a subcontractor for the NSA, and ...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

Rare interview on the Suck today! Chris Hansen from To Catch a Predator, and his new podcast Predato...

Mon, 4 Jul 2022

So many of us have thought about disappearing and starting a new life somewhere else. It's a common ...

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

In 1972, the 45 passengers and crew of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 faced extreme weather, avalanc...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

In October of 2002, the DC Snipers terrorized residents of Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland for...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

LSD is a powerful, mind-bending drug. Only a crazy person would try and tell a coherent and compelli...

Mon, 6 Jun 2022

Brace yourself for this one. If you can't handle graphic depictions of sexual abuse directed in the ...

Mon, 30 May 2022

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Such a good example of that with this week's episode. ...

Mon, 23 May 2022

Apologies for my weak voice today! Remnant of a second bout with Covid. Had to drink several cups of...

Mon, 16 May 2022

As early as 1933, Hitler and the Nazis - the National Socialist German Worker’s Party - began pass...

Mon, 9 May 2022

Rodney Alcala - the Dating Game Killer.  Not as well known, but just as vicious as any other killer...

Mon, 2 May 2022

Vladimir Putin. Who is the former KGB officer who has led Russia since 2000? Is he a friend of a foe...

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

After laying out so much of what we know about Epstein last week, this week we get more speculative ...

Mon, 18 Apr 2022

We know that Jeffrey Epstein was born on January 20th, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City. We also know...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

Fascinating stuff today!  I knew almost nothing about Air America - the CIA's secret airline - befo...

Mon, 4 Apr 2022

Long before he brutally murdered his wife Katie - crushing her head and disemboweling her on March 1...

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

Robert Lee Yates often described himself as a "family man." And he was a family man. He was a marrie...

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

Death! How comfortable are you thinking about it? Talking about? What rights should be afforded to y...

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

Did you know that Jesus was half-alien? And so was Buddha? And Muhammed, Joseph Smith, Moses, Abraha...

Mon, 7 Mar 2022

On December 31st, 2021, Hollywood legend and literally the most well-liked living person in America ...

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

On the night of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd attending the final night of...

Mon, 21 Feb 2022

A lot to unpack today! Who are the Amish? Why do they dress and live like it's still the 17th centur...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

At 1:40AM on February 2nd, 1980, a group of inmates at the New Mexico State Penitentiary attacked th...

Mon, 7 Feb 2022

Attila the Hun! Does his name conjure up images of savagery in your mind? Of a bloodthirsty warrior-...

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Arthur Shawcross was born on June 6th, 1945 in Kittery, Maine and he would grow up to terrorize the ...

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

Did Scott Peterson REALLY kill Laci Peterson? Did you know that zero direct evidence tied him to the...

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

Get ready for a brain buster. Or at least prepare to witness my brain being busted. Celtic mythology...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

Did you know that if lots of people  have lots of unprotected sex and the men never ejaculate you c...

Mon, 3 Jan 2022

What, EXACTLY, is “prostitution”? How is it defined? Are prostitute and sex worker interchangeab...

Mon, 27 Dec 2021

Robert Smalls! He was born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina  in 1839. Then he'd pull off a darin...

Mon, 20 Dec 2021

The Flatwoods Monster. The Whirling Whimpus. Devil Dogs and Sheepsquatch. The Virginia Moonshine Man...

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

In early 1992, young married couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka seemed to have a lot going for t...

Mon, 6 Dec 2021

Did you know that Hunter S Thompson of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fame was one of the first peop...

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

Covering a lot of ground today! Going over the history of human opioid usage - the opium poppy is on...

Mon, 22 Nov 2021

I had a lot of fun on this one taking a nostalgic look at US culture in 1989 and 1993. Also found th...

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

Levi Boone Helm. The Kentucky Cannibal. Born in 1828 in Kentucky, and hanged in Montana Territory in...

Mon, 8 Nov 2021

Aum Shinrikyo was a Japanese doomsday cult led by psychotic madman Shoko Asahara, a man who claimed...

Mon, 1 Nov 2021

Who put the rock-a-bye-baby up in the tree branch, and why? Seems irresponsible. When it was raining...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Happy Halloween! This episode feels appropriately dark enough for Halloween week. French serial kill...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

The Oregon Trail was 2,100 plus mile journey from Independence, Missouri all the way to Oregon City,...

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

Oh boy. This is an especially weird one. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. In the sum...

Mon, 4 Oct 2021

Today we head to The Rock, America's Devil Island - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. So much prison-re...

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

William Bonin is a little known serial killer who died via lethal injection in 1996 in San Quentin, ...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

I'm guessing you know of the Jehovah's Witnesses. You've heard of them. Maybe you've noticed their "...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was but one of the numerous prolific serial killers preying on sex workers...

Mon, 6 Sep 2021

Robin Williams knew how to make people feel deeply. He could give you a belly laugh - or a cathartic...

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

Let's get royal, Meatsacks! Born a minor aristocrat, Diana Spencer grew up to become one of the most...

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

Oh boy. Did you know that some people think that Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Eminem, so...

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

Mark Twitchell really wanted to become a serial killer. In 2008, after discovering the Showtime seri...

Mon, 9 Aug 2021

A very recent Christian militant cult, the Aggressive Christianity Mission Training Corps was founde...

Mon, 2 Aug 2021

Lot to unpack in this one! Today we are blending history, aliens, and conspiracy. We'll be talking a...

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

Remember Jodi Arias? Remember why her trial back in 2013 captivated so many and made so many headlin...

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

This guy. Killing mainly in 1929 when he was 46, the final year of his freedom, Peter Kürten would ...

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

So much WTF!?! coming at you today. Wow. Dwight York is a maniac. And a terrible writer. And only a ...

Mon, 5 Jul 2021

Operation Greenup was a covert OSS operation carried out by a special group of men many have called ...

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

My God. This story is so over-the-top, it's hard to accept as true. But sadly, it did happen. For ro...

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

Hope you have as fun listening to this one as I had making it! I had no idea prior to digging into t...

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

Big episode for a big, complex topic today. PT Barnum has been called the The Greatest Showman on Ea...

Mon, 7 Jun 2021

The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Colossus of Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Ale...

Mon, 31 May 2021

When the 1830s began, nearly 125,000 various tribal members lived on millions of acres of land in Ge...

Mon, 24 May 2021

Heard of this guy before? If you haven't, I'm with you. I hadn't either. And then once I got into th...

Mon, 17 May 2021

Today we take a fun and sometimes concerning tour around the United States looking at laws that are ...

Mon, 10 May 2021

Cult! Cult! Cult! We're back to sucking on a cult - a small and relatively unknown one which is surp...

Mon, 3 May 2021

Whiskey! Today’s suck is SOAKED in whiskey. Mostly, in Jameson - some Irish whiskey.John Jameson -...

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

QAnon is the conspiracy cult involving so, so many things. It MOSTLY centers around belief in an eli...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

“We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” Anonymous - the hacking colle...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

What a wild one we have today. I set out, fascinated by his two escapes from prison, to only explore...

Mon, 5 Apr 2021

Mao Zedong's name is associated with one of the heinous totalitarian regimes of the 20th century - i...

Mon, 29 Mar 2021

Robert Pickton was born in 1949 just outside of Vancouver, CA, in Port Coquitlam, on a pig farm. His...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

We got a wild one today. Today's Suck is really three Sucks in one. There is the abduction of Steven...

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

Today we take a huge deviation for the type of topic we typically cover here on Timesuck. The Space ...

Mon, 8 Mar 2021

Founded in 1974 by a man named Joe Ricci, the Elan School was supposed to be someplace where you cou...

Mon, 1 Mar 2021

Blackwater. Now known as Academi. Once known as Xe Services. A private military company. One of many...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021

The Great Emu War! Such a weird and fun tale to tell. What an odd historical period. As World War I ...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

Dante's Inferno! One of the most influential literary works ever written. Put to parchment in the ea...

Mon, 8 Feb 2021

This might be the first episode to get me death threats. The Turkish government does NOT like being ...

Mon, 1 Feb 2021

The Denver Airport was built by the New World Order. The Denver Airport contains the international h...

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

Possibly the most meticulous Serial Killer the world has ever known, Israel Keyes spent years planni...

Mon, 18 Jan 2021

In the final days of World War II and in the next few years after the war was over, the U.S. governm...

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

Shaka Zulu! I'm guessing you've heard the name. Also guessing you know very little about his story. ...

Mon, 4 Jan 2021

Can you imagine fighting a war for a country that had removed you from the land your ancestors lived...

Mon, 28 Dec 2020

Viktor Frankl and his logotherapy. This is the topic we examine this week to carry on the Timesuck t...

Sun, 20 Dec 2020

Phillip Markoff. AKA, the Craigslist Killer. On the surface, Markoff seemed like a normal guy. A guy...

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

General Butt Naked aka Joshua Blahyi is a complicated figure. He is now a Liberian Christian mission...

Mon, 7 Dec 2020

The Dark Ages. We attempt to suck a MASSIVE topic today. A thousand year's worth of European history...

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

Robert Ben Rhoades, born in 1945, started driving big rigs across America’s interstates and major ...

Mon, 23 Nov 2020

At the height of her career, sharpshootin' Annie Oakley the talented sharpshooter was the most famou...

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

Life was NOT easy on the American frontier for European and American settlers in the 19th century. Y...

Mon, 9 Nov 2020

Breaking an unbreakable code to save, at the very least, millions and millions of lives. To possibly...

Mon, 2 Nov 2020

Knock, knock, Meatsacks. Who's there? John Haigh. The Acid Bath Murderer. Between 1944 and 1949, Jo...

Mon, 26 Oct 2020

Cult! Cult! Cult! The NXIVM Sex Cult! Founded by Keith Raniere in 1998 - at its height, NXIVM counte...

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

For roughly fifteen years, an unassuming Russian woman named Tamara Samsonova may have secretly murd...

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

I bet you’ve heard of Flat Earthers. But have you heard of… Hollow Earthers?? Variations of Holl...

Mon, 5 Oct 2020

The Boston Strangler! The residents of Boston, in late 1962 through the summer of 1964, were terrifi...

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

The Immanuel David Cult! Not much has been written about Immanuel David compared to more notable cul...

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

Alexander III, king of the ancient state of Macedon aka Macedonia - one of history’s greatest mili...

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

LAPD and California Highway Patrol officers chased, arrested, and beat Rodney King, a twenty-five-ye...

Mon, 7 Sep 2020

The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15th, 1912. The luxury cruise liner that some thought o...

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

Wow. This is a really, really crazy tale. Sacramento's Richard chase was very mentally ill. He was a...

Mon, 24 Aug 2020

Who joins the gang that kidnapped them and held them for ransom and helps them rob banks long after ...

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

What the Hell is going on in Northeastern Utah? If you just drove by, you might think that Skinwalke...

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

Walt Disney! How much do you know about the mind and the man that built one of the ten biggest media...

Mon, 3 Aug 2020

Investigating the investigators today! Talking about the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. Looking into...

Mon, 27 Jul 2020

Susan Alamo was a cult leader and televangelist who founded the Alamo Christian Foundation with her ...

Mon, 20 Jul 2020

My brain is back! Today we take a sober look at the Columbine massacre, when on April 20th, 1999, tw...

Mon, 13 Jul 2020

Today's episode is.... interesting. Honoring a tradition started with the 100th Drunk as F*#k episod...

Mon, 6 Jul 2020

Today we dig into the life of a true citizen of the world, Lee Jun-fan; known professionally as Bruc...

Mon, 29 Jun 2020

Osiris - god of the dead, resurrection into eternal life, and judge of the deceased. Ra - god of the...

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

Wow. THIS guy! Joachim Kroll is one of the most disturbing serial killers we've covered so far. And ...

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

The Wendigo. Tales of a perpetually starving monster roaming the woods of Eastern North America. The...

Mon, 8 Jun 2020

Genghis Kahn. Damn. I knew the dude was a renowned conqueror. Did NOT know he conquered like no othe...

Mon, 1 Jun 2020

Why do some kids kill? Digging into that difficult and dark question today. Is it due to how they're...

Mon, 25 May 2020

Ivan the Terrible. First true Tsar of Russia. And a dude who more than lived up to his "terrible" ni...

Mon, 18 May 2020

Alexander Solonik, aka Alexander the Great aka Sasha the Macedonian aka The Superkiller was a legend...

Mon, 11 May 2020

Haven't heard of these two? By the end of today's tale, you'll be shocked that they're not much more...

Mon, 4 May 2020

Are there other yous living in other, parallel dimensions? Are there an infinite number of other you...

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

Get ready for one helluva tale. Today's story is so crazy. The promising beginning, insane planning,...

Mon, 20 Apr 2020

The US Civil War. Fought over 150 years ago and still the bloodiest war the US has ever been involve...

Mon, 13 Apr 2020

Robert Berdella. The Kansas City Butcher. The Collector. An insanely depraved cook and former art sc...

Mon, 6 Apr 2020

Let's talk about sex! What is "normal" based on data? Who’s having sex? What kinds of sex are they...

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

What the Hell is going on right now? Why is the world in lockdown? Today I try and answer some biolo...

Mon, 23 Mar 2020

John Dillinger. J Edgar Hoover named him America's public enemy #1 for a reason. Dude LOVED to rob a...

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

Baba Yaga - OG witch and one of the many characters of ancient Slavic folklore. Today we explore Sla...

Mon, 9 Mar 2020

At the height of its power in the late 1980s, the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh cult had satellite te...

Mon, 2 Mar 2020

On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 AM, a Ryder moving truck parked at a drop-off zone situated under the Alf...

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

Harold Frederick Shipman AKA Dr. Death. Quite possibly the world's most prolific serial killer. From...

Mon, 17 Feb 2020

The 1992 Ruby Ridge armed standoff between the Weaver family and the federal government. Three peopl...

Mon, 10 Feb 2020

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Genocide. An insane, Cambodian tragedy that was oh, so avoidable. Saloth...

Mon, 3 Feb 2020

The Brothers Grimm! German folklorists Jacob and Wilhem Grimm collected a lot of strange, old, prima...

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

Joseph Duncan. What a terrible, terrible dude. This was one of the hardest episodes we've done yet. ...

Mon, 20 Jan 2020

Operation Iceworm. Operation Gladio. Operation Paperclip, Sea Spray, Acoustic Kitty, and more. What ...

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

Boanthropy. Capgras Delusion. Alien Hand Syndrome. Clinical Lycanthropy. We go over a variety of rar...

Mon, 6 Jan 2020

On the morning of June 13th, 1977, at Camp Scott, in Mayes County, Oklahoma, the dead bodies of thre...

Mon, 30 Dec 2019

Happy New Year! 2020 is almost here and we do a little a summary of what went on with Timesuck in 20...

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

Ummm.... more Nazis this week. Not EXACTLY a normal holiday choice, but what's normal on Timesuck? T...

Mon, 16 Dec 2019

The Nazi’s Search for the Holy Grail. We look at this today and also into so, so many other strang...

Mon, 9 Dec 2019

Stan Lee! The man, the myth, the legend! The man who co-created 200 different comic book characters....

Mon, 2 Dec 2019

Killdozer. The story of one man, Marvin Heemeyer, who modified a Komatsu D355A bulldozer into a demo...

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

David Berkowitz. The Son of Sam. One of America's most infamous serial killers. The man who terroriz...

Mon, 18 Nov 2019

The Happy Face Killer. Wow. What a dirtbag! What an especially hate-able dude, even for a serial kil...

Mon, 11 Nov 2019

Happy Veteran's Day to all our American men and women armed forces members. Much respect to armed fo...

Mon, 4 Nov 2019

The Manhattan Project! The United States gathered all the best minds it could find to develop atomic...

Mon, 28 Oct 2019

The Church of Satan! How many babies do they sacrifice? Do the babies have to be Christian? How many...

Mon, 21 Oct 2019

The Greek Gods! Didn't expect this to be the craziest suck we've ever done going in, but maybe it wa...

Mon, 14 Oct 2019

In the late 1960s, James Baker transitioned from the spiritually-minded owner of a vegetarian restau...

Mon, 7 Oct 2019

Time travel! Today on Timesuck we suck time itself! Will we ever be able to go back and kill Hitler?...

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

Josephine Baker. What a meatsack!! Such an incredible person. The modern world's first international...

Mon, 23 Sep 2019

JonBenet Ramsey. It's been over twenty years since the six-year-old was found murdered in her Boulde...

Mon, 16 Sep 2019

Mormonism. BIG topic today! Oh my HECK! We talk today about the history of Mormonism - a religion bo...

Mon, 9 Sep 2019

Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole committed at least four murders, or maybe five. They were, collectiv...

Mon, 2 Sep 2019

The only thing Leonardo da Vinci wasn't good at was raising his kids. And only because he didn't hav...

Mon, 26 Aug 2019

Jesse James! Perhaps the most notorious outlaw in wild west history. Yip, yip, yaw! But do you know ...

Mon, 19 Aug 2019

The Ninth Circle Cult! Is there actually a group of "global elites" hunting children in private Euro...

Mon, 12 Aug 2019

Infectious disease. The number one murderer of humankind. By far! Nasty little viruses and other pat...

Mon, 5 Aug 2019

Lost technologies! Greek fire, Damascus steel, the pyramid building abilities of ancient Egypt, Indi...

Mon, 29 Jul 2019

Hinker du teh hoingy boingy! Uff da! Uff da! Tiddly winks teh dingy thingy. Don't worry - not all of...

Mon, 22 Jul 2019

OJ Simpson. It's been twenty-five years since his *alleged* murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman...

Mon, 15 Jul 2019

Serial killer Robert Hansen abducted and killed at least seventeen women and hunted many of them dow...

Mon, 8 Jul 2019

Less than a week after the 4th of July, we Suck into the birth of the United States of America. We g...

Mon, 1 Jul 2019

Who killed Elizabeth Short in 1947? We still don't know. Or do we? Today we go over the details of t...

Mon, 24 Jun 2019

On April 19th, 2008, forty-two year-old Elisabeth Fritzl helped her seventy-three year-old father Jo...

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

Since 1971, well over thirty women have disappeared along a fifty mile-long patch of I-45 between Ho...

Mon, 10 Jun 2019

Really hope you enjoy this one. One of my favorite episodes so far. Such a big topic that touches so...

Mon, 3 Jun 2019

The Darwin Awards! Meatsacks removing themselves from being able to procreate or from the planet ent...

Mon, 27 May 2019

Albert Fish. The Boogey Man. The Werewolf of Wysteria. The Brooklyn Vampire. The Gray Man. The Moon ...

Mon, 20 May 2019

Do you enjoy knights, wizards, and dragons? How about medieval history? Folklore, maybe? Want to lea...

Mon, 13 May 2019

Today we talk about Vietnam. Do you know how the Vietnam war began? What events really led up to it?...

Mon, 6 May 2019

Back to the USSR! Talking about Mother Russia's long history with BRUTAL various secret police agenc...

Mon, 29 Apr 2019

Did Madame Delphine and her Dr. husband really torture their slaves in the most horrific of ways at ...

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

2019 is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! Yip, yip, yaw! On July 20th, 1969, Commander Neil ...

Mon, 15 Apr 2019

Vikings! We take a deep dive today into the history of Scandinavia, focusing in particular on the ag...

Mon, 8 Apr 2019

Napoleon! A man who knew before he died he would be remembered as being one of the most important Eu...

Mon, 1 Apr 2019

Former Russian police officer Mikhail Popkov was found guilty on December 10th, 2018 of killing fift...

Mon, 25 Mar 2019

On October 4th, 1994 the dead bodies of two Solar Temple cult members and their baby are found in Mo...

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

The origin of the Chupacabra legend! UFO sightings in Yosemite. A giant, lost Egyptian city in the G...

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

Liar, liar, pants on fire. Wow! I have never read about someone who told lies - big lies - more ofte...

Mon, 4 Mar 2019

Ted Kaczynski, aka "The Unabomber", is an American domestic terrorist who conducted a seventeen-plus...

Mon, 25 Feb 2019

South American serial killer Pedro "Monster of the Andes" Lopez was convicted of killing 110 girls i...

Mon, 18 Feb 2019

Should we banish pedophiles to an actual island? That's essentially what Washington state has been d...

Mon, 11 Feb 2019

The Black Panthers! A very controversial civil rights group originating in Oakland, California in 19...

Mon, 4 Feb 2019

The Black Death killed between 25 and 75 million people in Europe alone in just over five years! Thi...

Mon, 28 Jan 2019

The Mothman is a strange creature reportedly witnessed mainly in the Point Pleasant area of West Vir...

Mon, 21 Jan 2019

Born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, Edmund Kemper, at age 15, killed both his grandpa...

Mon, 14 Jan 2019

Whopper of a tale for you today. Battles, incest, murder, betrayal, and more! Born in 69 BCE, Cleopa...

Mon, 7 Jan 2019

November 24th, 1971. The day before Thanksgiving. Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, shows up at t...

Mon, 31 Dec 2018

Happy New Year's Eve! We take a look back at 2018 and a look forward to 2019 today on Timesuck. We a...

Mon, 24 Dec 2018

Malvika Iyer had both her hands blown off by a grenade when she was thirteen years-old. The blast al...

Mon, 17 Dec 2018

Three young girls were kidnapped, raped, and strangled to death near Rochester, NY in the early 70s....

Mon, 10 Dec 2018

Harriet Tubman! One of the most important conductors on the Underground Railroad. A brave, inspirati...

Mon, 3 Dec 2018

Founded by Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, Chicago’s first police detective, in 1850, the Pink...

Mon, 26 Nov 2018

The Hatfields and the McCoys repeatedly attacked one another in the rural Tug River Valley separatin...

Mon, 19 Nov 2018

The Federal Reserve Act. The Bilderbergers. The Freemasons, Wall Street, and the Council on Foreign ...

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

It's the 100th anniversary of WW1! The Great War. The War of Nations. The War to End All Wars. If on...

Mon, 5 Nov 2018

Did Russian Scientists seal five prisoners in an airtight chamber and dosed them with an experimenta...

Mon, 29 Oct 2018

The "true" horror stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren have turned into more than a billion dollars wor...

Mon, 22 Oct 2018

On February 29th, 2000, in the small, rugged town of Aberdeen, Australia, forty-five year old mother...

Mon, 15 Oct 2018

Alexander Pichushkin insisted he’d killed sixty-three people after being apprehended in 2006 but a...

Mon, 8 Oct 2018

During an oppressive heat wave in August 1892, prominent Fall River residents Andrew and Abby Borden...

Mon, 1 Oct 2018

In 1587, Englishman John White led a group of 118 colonists to what was supposed to Roanoke Island. ...

Mon, 24 Sep 2018

Andrew Jackson. Seventh president of the United States. First president born to immigrant parents. O...

Mon, 17 Sep 2018

Nikola Tesla. The prototypical "mad scientist". He slept only a few hours a night and devoted his li...

Fri, 14 Sep 2018

For centuries, Japan was ruled by a military dictatorship, the Shogunate, and the samurais were the ...

Mon, 10 Sep 2018

The Children of God cult aka The Family aka The Family International is still around today which is ...

Mon, 3 Sep 2018

On January 22nd, 1987, forty-seven year-old R. Budd Dwyer, Republican State Treasurer of Pennsylvani...

Mon, 27 Aug 2018

Immigration! Man - what a big, complicated topic. What is the Unite State's history with immigration...

Mon, 20 Aug 2018

Dean Arnold Corll. The Candyman Killer. A Texas momma’s boy who first made friends with local kids...

Mon, 13 Aug 2018

Well, you asked for it. We got a bunch of emails to do something special for the 100th Monday episod...

Mon, 6 Aug 2018

What actually goes on at Area 51? There are two competing narratives. One involves a series of class...

Fri, 3 Aug 2018

Werewolves! Awhoooooooo! Shape-shifting creatures of the night with unusual speed, otherworldly stre...

Mon, 30 Jul 2018

John Wilkes Booth wasn't some community theater bit player. He wasn't a bartender who did summer the...

Mon, 23 Jul 2018

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other ...

Mon, 16 Jul 2018

Billed now as the Pennhurst Haunted Asylum, Pennhurst was never an asylum. It wasn't a home for the ...

Fri, 13 Jul 2018

WARNING/DISCLAIMER: This is the most disturbing episode of Timesuck thus far. To the point I conside...

Mon, 9 Jul 2018

Pancho Villa! Pancho Villa was a revolutionary fighter who despised the wealthy landowners who had s...

Mon, 2 Jul 2018

The story of the Donner Party is one of the most disturbing tales of western migration during the ti...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Today we’re talking about the Aztecs! The Aztecs built a vast empire, one that outpaced, out-stage...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018

The Knights Templar fought their last stand in the Holy Land (their last proper stand) in Acre in 12...

Mon, 18 Jun 2018

The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty - bu...

Mon, 11 Jun 2018

The Ma Barker gang robbed bank, after bank, after drugstore, after hardware store, clothing store, C...

Mon, 4 Jun 2018

On Tuesday, April 24th, 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was taken into custody by local police and ...

Fri, 1 Jun 2018

Edgar Allan Poe did more than write The Raven and look creepy. He also basically invented the modern...

Mon, 28 May 2018

Joan of Arc was BURNED ALIVE on May 30th, 1431 CE, something no one ever aspires to have written on ...

Mon, 21 May 2018

An alarming number of Japanese citizens have taken a dark pilgrimage to the Aokigahara forest, more ...

Mon, 14 May 2018

Cold Open: The Men in Black. The men who inspired the movies, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Wh...

Fri, 11 May 2018

From August seventh to September tenth, 1888, a crazed killer who came to be known as "Jack the Ripp...

Mon, 7 May 2018

Gary "The Green River Killer" Ridgway is currently in prison in Walla Walla, Washington, having been...

Mon, 30 Apr 2018

The Spanish Inquisition started in 1478 and lasted all the way until 1834 - and it was terrible the ...

Mon, 23 Apr 2018

In 1973, 21 year old German college student Anneliese Michel began to descend into an existence of p...

Fri, 20 Apr 2018

Anneliese Michel would die in a small, German town on July 1st, 1976. The official cause of death? M...

Mon, 16 Apr 2018

The Lost Books of the Bible! Is that really what we’re talking about today on Timesuck? Yes. Was I...

Mon, 9 Apr 2018

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), founded by hatemonger Fred Phelps, is an American church (cult) k...

Mon, 2 Apr 2018

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted. In 19...

Fri, 30 Mar 2018

Serial killer Richard Ramirez killed at least 14 people and raped and tortured at least two dozen mo...

Mon, 26 Mar 2018

Toughest topic I’ve tackled so far. Marches going on across the country to ban assault rifles. Sch...

Mon, 19 Mar 2018

On Friday, April 25th, 1986, the Soviet city of Pripyat, built to support the local nuclear power pl...

Mon, 12 Mar 2018

The Bielski brothers led the largest Jewish-led rescue operation of Jewish civilians in ALL of World...

Fri, 9 Mar 2018

Aleister Crowley was many things: an author, an artist, a poet, a mystic, a student, a mountaineer, ...

Mon, 5 Mar 2018

What in the shit are we talking about this week? Norse Gods! Turns out they’re still being worship...

Mon, 26 Feb 2018

Tupac and Biggie - two of the biggest hip hop stars of all time. And neither of them would see the a...

Mon, 19 Feb 2018

Feb. 28th, 2018 will mark the 25th anniversary of the ATF raiding the Branch Davidian Compound in Wa...

Fri, 16 Feb 2018

When murder investigators entered the rural farm house of loner Ed Gein just outside the tiny town o...

Mon, 12 Feb 2018

The Irish Republican Army. Guys and gals who have, since their inception, been viewed as a liberatio...

Mon, 5 Feb 2018

I recently watched the new 4th season of Black Mirror on Netflix, and, if this season has a theme, I...

Mon, 29 Jan 2018

Before this week I knew very little about Africa’s history. It’s a continent of many nations, na...

Fri, 26 Jan 2018

"I'm your huckleberry." Did the real Doc Holliday actually say that? Or was that some Hollywood dram...

Mon, 22 Jan 2018

Joseph Stalin. Icon of the 20th century. Personification of Soviet might. Catalyst of the Cold War. ...

Mon, 15 Jan 2018

The Jersey Devil. Is it a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, horse, or dog? Most agree ...

Mon, 8 Jan 2018

Do the Freemasons work hand in hand with the illuminati? Are the Freemasons and the Illuminati one a...

Fri, 5 Jan 2018

Who are the Freemasons? An ancient, Satanic organization who are part of the illuminati and intent o...

Mon, 1 Jan 2018

John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the clown aka Patches the clown aka the Devil himself. This outgoing member...

Mon, 25 Dec 2017

Einstein! Theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winning mathematician. Guy who made his name synonymous...

Mon, 18 Dec 2017

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? She was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt. The wife of Franklin D. Roosevel...

Fri, 15 Dec 2017

What is the Oak Island Mystery? Why have been teams of people been digging hundreds of feet into the...

Mon, 11 Dec 2017

Griselda Blanco. The Godmother. La Madrina. The Black Widow. The Columbian drug lord who came BEFORE...

Mon, 4 Dec 2017

What the Hell is Pizzagate? It’s a detailed conspiracy theory claiming that a pedophile ring - a S...

Mon, 27 Nov 2017

BTK. Bind. Torture. Kill. The name Wichita Serial Killer Dennis Rader gave to himself in the 1970s i...

Fri, 24 Nov 2017

What is Unit 731? It was one of Japan's WWII era medical research centers where doctors performed ho...

Mon, 20 Nov 2017

Sometime in the late hours of Feb. 1st, 1959, nine Russian college students died tragically in the N...

Mon, 13 Nov 2017

Chief Crazy Horse. Pride of the Lakota people. Brilliant military tactician who handed the US Milita...

Mon, 6 Nov 2017

The most highly decorated Marine in the history of the Corps, Lewis "Chesty" Puller won five Navy Cr...

Fri, 3 Nov 2017

Who killed five people for sure and possibly many more in central California in late 1968 and 1969 a...

Mon, 30 Oct 2017

Welcome to a Halloween edition of Timesuck! Have you ever felt like something in the shadows was wat...

Mon, 23 Oct 2017

What actually goes on in the Bermuda Triangle? Do more ships and airplanes disappear within it’s b...

Fri, 20 Oct 2017

At roughly 3:00 AM, Nov. 13, 1974, twenty three year old Ronald Joseph "Butch" DeFeo Jr took a thirt...

Mon, 16 Oct 2017

We go REAL dark this week on Timesuck with an examination of Russian serial killer and relentless sa...

Mon, 9 Oct 2017

Four dead bodies were found on July 1, 1981, at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon neighbor...

Fri, 6 Oct 2017

Timesuck sucks itself in this special 1,000 review bonus edition of Timesuck! Why did I create Times...

Mon, 2 Oct 2017

What happened to Amelia Earhart on July 2nd, 1937? Where did Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, ...

Mon, 25 Sep 2017

What led 39 people to kill themselves in a desperate attempt to board a spaceship in 1997? Why did a...

Mon, 18 Sep 2017

America's 26th President went from an asthmatic child to a weightlifting, boxing, mountain climbing,...

Fri, 15 Sep 2017

So much crazy in one episode. In 1692, the residents of Salem Village became obsessed with the idea ...

Mon, 11 Sep 2017

The Department of Homeland Security. The enduring military occupation of Afghanistan that began as O...

Mon, 4 Sep 2017

Richard Kuklinski once shot a man twice in the head on Christmas Eve because the guy owed him $1600....

Mon, 28 Aug 2017

Recent events in Charlottesville, VA reminded me that the KKK is still around. I realized I've never...

Fri, 25 Aug 2017

In the 1950s, while many Americans were busy watching I Love Lucy or waiting for the new Elvis Presl...

Mon, 21 Aug 2017

I remember the exact moment I first heard Nirvana and I remember the day he died. But I didn't know ...

Mon, 14 Aug 2017

In 2014, two twelve year old Wisconsin girls believed in monsters. They believed in one, Slenderman,...

Mon, 7 Aug 2017

Rasputin is one of the strangest historical figures out there. He was a Siberian peasant who ended u...

Mon, 31 Jul 2017

16th century Hungary was a place and time of unimaginable violence. Europe had been at war with itse...

Mon, 24 Jul 2017

What is happening over in North Korea and why do we not try and stop the atrocities being committed?...

Mon, 17 Jul 2017

What does it actually mean to be transgender? Why does one person identifying as transgender scare,...

Fri, 14 Jul 2017

How do you become the real life basis for the most famous monster of our time? By being one of the m...

Mon, 10 Jul 2017

Atlantis! Did a highly advanced civilization sink into the sea tens of thousands of years ago?  Can...

Mon, 3 Jul 2017

How much do you really know about Martin Luther King, Jr.? Did you know he was so committed to nonvi...

Mon, 26 Jun 2017

If it weren't for the Texas Rangers, Texas probably wouldn't be a state today. These wild, eccentric...

Mon, 19 Jun 2017

Did Nostradamus predict a series of major world events that would occur hundreds of years after his ...

Mon, 12 Jun 2017

On May 23rd, 1934, 23 year old Bonnie Parker was shot 26 times. 25 year old Clyde Barrow was shot 17...

Mon, 5 Jun 2017

The conclusion of Timesuck's first two part episode. Do I think Oswald killed Kennedy? I don't think...

Fri, 2 Jun 2017

We know that on November 22nd, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United State...

Mon, 29 May 2017

Why do sharks terrify us? How dangerous are they? Can they attack in fresh water!?! Can they nibble ...

Mon, 22 May 2017

Sadist. Rapist. Pedophile. Murderer. Cannibal. Necrophiliac. Jeffrey Dahmer was all of these things....

Mon, 15 May 2017

On Friday, May 25th, 2015, 31 year old Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, was sentenced t...

Mon, 8 May 2017

The most insane suck yet, Timesuckers. How did a pastor and political activist convince nearly 1,000...

Mon, 1 May 2017

What exactly are designer babies? What plants and animals have scientists already genetically modifi...

Fri, 28 Apr 2017

How do you rise from being so poor your parents can't afford to buy you shoes for school to being th...

Mon, 24 Apr 2017

What do you know about Marilyn Monroe? Did you know it took years after she being "discovered&...

Mon, 17 Apr 2017

The Mandela Effect: a large group of people remembering an event that never happened or remembering ...

Mon, 10 Apr 2017

Special guest episode! The hosts of the wildly entertaining Crime and Sports and Small Town Murder ...

Mon, 3 Apr 2017

On February 1st, 2013, 21 year old Canadian college student Elisa Lam vanished while staying at the ...

Fri, 31 Mar 2017

Scientology. What do they believe? How did it begin? Who, exactly, was L Ron Hubbard? What appeal do...

Mon, 27 Mar 2017

In just a year as captain of his own fleet of pirates, Blackbeard made one hell of a name for himsel...

Mon, 20 Mar 2017

Yup. ISIS. We're talking about them Timesuckers! A brief explanation of Islam, what's going on in Sy...

Mon, 13 Mar 2017

It's the Skunk Ape from Shreveport, the Bigfoot from Bremerton squaring off against the Sea Creatur...

Fri, 10 Mar 2017

How did Hitler and his Nazi Party ever gain political power in 1930s Germany? Why didn't the German ...

Mon, 6 Mar 2017

Who has a murder castle!?! 19th century serial killer H.H. Holmes, that's who. Dubbed "America'...

Mon, 27 Feb 2017

William Bonney aka Billy the Kid killed several men while still a teenager and shot his way out of ...

Mon, 20 Feb 2017

Ever wondered who's sending you those crazy emails from someone claiming to want share a large sum o...

Mon, 13 Feb 2017

On Feb. 14th, 1929, seven men were found dead in a North Side Chicago garage. The scene was grisly -...

Fri, 10 Feb 2017

When did humans first claim to be contacted by extraterrestrials? What really happened at Roswell? W...

Mon, 6 Feb 2017

In the early 1920s, world renown escape artist and master magician, Harry Houdini, became obsessed w...

Mon, 30 Jan 2017

What started off as a listener suggested look into the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, We...

Mon, 23 Jan 2017

Welcome to a Flat Earth Society edition of Timesuck! Think the Earth is a floating disc being propel...

Mon, 16 Jan 2017

In 1969 Charles Manson convinced Tex Watson and several young women to brutally murder seven innocen...

Mon, 9 Jan 2017

Is Walmart destroying middle class America? Is it the problem or merely a symptom of a larger econom...

Mon, 2 Jan 2017

What happened to the good old days when dumb, lazy fucks used to just die in the pre-industrialized,...

Fri, 30 Dec 2016

Old porcelain dolls weird me out. Especially the kind whose eyes blink when you move them around. Th...

Mon, 26 Dec 2016

It was a crazy time in America in the 1960s.  JFK was assassinated in Dallas, we were entrenched in...

Mon, 19 Dec 2016

In the mountains of central Europe, jolly old St. Nick doesn’t work alone. He leaves the handling ...

Mon, 12 Dec 2016

Timesucker and British archaeologist Rebecca Pridmore sent me some fascinating articles on what we’...

Mon, 5 Dec 2016

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to have a million people living on Mars by 2070 and wants t...

Mon, 28 Nov 2016

Ted Bundy is perhaps the most disturbing serial killer of the 20th century. Why? For starters, he di...

Mon, 21 Nov 2016

Will we see robots that look, feel, and communicate in such lifelike ways that we won’t be able to...

Mon, 14 Nov 2016

Corey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s ...

Mon, 7 Nov 2016

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States, a Massachusetts State Senator, a Ha...

Mon, 31 Oct 2016

What is Halloween? Where does it come from? When did people start asking for candy? When did it beco...

Mon, 24 Oct 2016

The Mongols sacked many cities over the course of their reign, but perhaps none so brutally as the P...

Mon, 17 Oct 2016

Year of the creepy clown. What's behind the insane number of creepy clown sightings happening aroun...

Mon, 10 Oct 2016

What is a sociopath? What's a psychopath? Do you know one? Are you one? Dan breaks down the clinical...

Mon, 3 Oct 2016

Your chances of dying in "the big one" Southern California earthquake are roughly the sam...

Mon, 26 Sep 2016

Roman orgies! Columbian bestiality! Irish underwear! Find out what the Hell Dan is referring to and ...

Mon, 19 Sep 2016

Did you believe that a race of alien lizards has been secretly running the world’s governments sin...

Sun, 4 Sep 2016

Welcome to Timesuck! Do you wonder how people end up in doomsday cults? Or why they believe in OUTL...