473 - Selena! When Fame Turns Fatal
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Selena rose from an impoverished Texas childhood to become the Queen of Tejano music, breaking barri...
472 - The Girl in the Box
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On May 19th, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking from her home in Eugene, Oregon, to a fr...
Short Suck #41: Stalin's Cannibal Gulag: Nazino Island
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1933, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had his secret police goons round up hundreds of thousands of...
471 - South Africa's Ted Bundy: Moses Sithole
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-1990's, convicted rapist Moses Sithole went on a murderous rampage in South Africa. He wo...
470 - Trial of the Century: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In many ways, America's modern obsession with true crime began on March 1st, 1932, when the 20th-mon...
469 - Action Park: America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you were lucky enough to have gone to New Jersey's Action Park before it closed in the '90s, you ...
Short Suck #40: 764 The Real Global Satanic Pedophile Cabal
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have long dismissed whisperings of secret Satanic pedophile networks. But, it turns out there trul...
468 - Richard Cottingham: The Times Square Killer
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Times Square Killer didn't just kill in Times Square. Richard Francis Cottingham committed at le...
467 - Russian Wizards, Witches, and Folk Magic, Oh My!
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that roughly a million people in Russia today make their living as some kind of wizard,...
Short Suck #39: The Abolitionist John MF'n Brown
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You'll be hard pressed to find a man who stood for his convictions more firmly than John Brown. John...
466 - Acres of Skin: Inside the Terrordome
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Philadelphia's Holmesburg prison, before it was officially shut down in 1995, had been a house of ho...
465 - OneTaste: The Orgasmic Meditation Cult
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that women's clitoral orgasms have the power to completely transform the world and turn...
Short Suck #38: Hollywood’s Biggest Forgotten Scandal: Patricia Douglas
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Douglas was a young dancer and an extra working in Hollywood during its so-called Golden Er...
464 - The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Edgar Cooke, nicknamed the Night Caller and the Nedlands Monster, was a serial killer who terro...
463 - The Tuskegee Study (Secret, Deadly Medical Testing on American Citizens)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From 1932 to 1972, six hundred poor, black sharecroppers in Alabama were told they were being treate...
Short Suck #37 - The Very Avoidable Oceangate Disaster
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 18th, 2023, a deep-sea submersible called The Titan operated by the private company OceanG...
462 - Murder, Inc.
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1930s, an association of primarily Italian mafiosos and Jewish organized crime gangsters, bas...
461 - The University of Cosmic Intelligence
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that US government is engaged in efforts to close stargates to other dimensions? Did yo...
Short Suck #36 - The Shocking Case of Mary Bell
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1968, two young children, both under the age of five, turned up dead in Scotswood, ...
460 - Real Life Supervillain Mike DeBardeleben
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever heard the name Mike DeBardeleben? I hadn't either until very recently. This guy was something e...
459 - The Acid King, the Grateful Dead, and the Birth of the Counterculture Revolution
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you recognize the name, Owsley Stanley? If you're not a devoted Dead Head, probably not. But he's...
Short Suck #35 - Issei Sagawa: The Unrepentant Cannibal
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Issei Sagawa aka the Kobe Cannibal, made a living for most of his life off of the infamy he attained...
458 - WTFF? The Madness of the Zizian Cult
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you believe that all non-vegans should die? In part for their needless murder of senseless people...
457 - Samuel Little: The Choke-and-Stroke Killer
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we cover the life and crimes of the most prolific serial killer in US history, Samuel Litt...
456 - The Staircase Murders
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you ever watch the Staircase docu-series on Netflix? Or the 2022 HBO MAX adaptation? I watched b...
Short Suck #34 - The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s, Natalie Wood was one of the world's leading actress, her star shining as bright as Eli...
455 - The Bone Wars
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, is what a period of intense fossil hunting in ...
454 - The Light of the World Sex Cult
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard of La Luz Del Mundo? a.k.a., LLDM? a.k.a., The Church of the Living God, Pillar ...
Short Suck #33 - The Great Race of Mercy
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when a bunch of dogs saved hundreds of human’s lives in Alaska a century ago? In January ...
453 - The House of Horrors Killer Gary Heidnik
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever heard of Gary Heidnik? Pop culture wise, he's made a much bigger impact than most murderers, bu...
452 - The Life and Works of Dr. Seuss
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You've undoubtably heard of Dr. Seuss. The author of The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christ...
Short Suck #32 - The Identical Deaths of the Identical Marcus Twins
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would you choose to have an identical twin? Someone who looked so much like you, that even your own ...
451 - Panic on the TV! Do Violent Movies Create Violent Children?
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk about moral panics. Specifically, the "Video Nasty" moral panic that happened in the U...
450 - Serial Killer Pee Wee Gaskins: Meanest Man in America
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pee Wee Gaskin's diminutive size of 5'2" tall and 130 pounds soaking wet didn't stop him from brutal...
Short Suck #31 - Why Do We Do That?
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're we’re gonna tackle a bunch of questions you never knew you needed answering, questions...
449 - Russia's Terrifying Cyberwar Against the West
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much of what you read online has been planted there by Russian propagandists? How many times hav...
448 - The Delphi Murders
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the afternoon of February 13th, 2017, in the sleepy little 3000(ish) person town of Delphi, India...
Short Suck #30 - Sherlock Holmes and Spiritualism
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we take a peek at the interesting life of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who invented ...
447 - Falun Gong: The Cult Behind The Epoch Times and Shen Yun
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been to one of those Shen Yun traveling traditional Chinese dance performances? Have y...
446 - Who Was The Real Mr. Rogers?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we examine the beloved host of the long-running children's television show, Mr Rogers' Neighbo...
Short Suck #29 - Luis Garavito: The World's Most Prolific Serial Killer
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was a ruthless, sadistic Colombian rapist and serial killer who becam...
445 - Anders Breivik & the 2011 Neo-Nazi Norway Attacks
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On July 22nd, 2011, Norwegian alt-right gamer Anders Behring Breivik carried out the deadliest attac...
444 - Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How much do you know about Nelson Mandela and South Africa's brutal, racially oppressive system of a...
Short Suck #28 - The Pirate Queen
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ching Shih, born as Shi Yang, was quite possibly the most powerful pirate of all time. While famous ...
443 - The Long Island Serial Killer
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On November 20th, 1993, the sexually violated and mutilated corpse of a young woman is found on Long...
442 - Ganas: Intentional Community? Or Cult?
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ganas is an intentional community founded in 1979 in Tompkinsville, Staten Island that is still acti...
Short Suck #27 - The History of Castration
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Valentine's Day! Let's talk about love. Kind of. But not really. Not all actually. Let's inste...
441 - Never Surrender! The WW2 Soldier Who Kept Fighting Until 1974
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you heard of Hiroo Onoda? The Japanese 2nd Lieutenant was sent to the island of Lubang in The P...
440 - The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of May 3rd, 2007, three year-old British girl Madeleine vanished from her bed in her ...
439 - Bill Cosby.... America's Dad?
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian, actor, author, and producer Bill Cosby... affectionately nicknamed as "America's Dad" for ...
Short Suck #26 - Castaway! Stranded on an Island...
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you imagine being stranded for years on a remote uninhabited island with almost nothing but a fe...
438 - The Octopus Murders & Conspiracy
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Was aspiring investigative journalist Danny Casolaro murdered in his Sheraton hotel room in Martinsb...
437 - The Yorkshire Ripper
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Sutcliffe, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper in the press, attacked woman after woman with a hammer ...
Short Suck #25 - Prison Breaks!
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A look at how we humans have chosen to incarcerate those who break the rules and how certain rule br...
436 - The History of Sh*t (Literally)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever think about where your poo goes once you flush it down the toilet? Or about how not havi...
435 - Dolly Parton: WWDD?
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time for some year end inspiration from the incomparable Dolly Parton! A true living legend. If all ...
Short Suck #24 - The Improbable Survival of Phineas Gage
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On September 13th, 1848, a dynamite blast rocketed a 43-inch long, 13-pound iron bar completely thro...
434 - Shelby Hewitt: The 32-Year-Old 7th Grader
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you heard about the recent case of Shelby Hewitt? The 32 year-old Massachusetts Social Worker e...
433 - The Vatican Girl Disappearance
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On June 22nd, 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared after attending a music lesson in Rome....
Short Suck #23 - The Weird But True Dancing Plague of 1518
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What a tale I have for you today! In 1518, a very peculiar form of madness fell over the people of t...
432 - Gerald Stano: Florida's Forgotten Monster
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard of serial killer Gerald Stano? For years, he sat on death row in Florida, just a...
431 - 400+ Dead in the Forest: The Malindi Doomsday Cult
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We take a look at the recent, tragic final act of a doomsday cult in Kenya that left 448 dead and an...
430 - Sigmund Freud: The Sex Crazed Father of Psychoanalysis
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does not having a penis make you feel inferior due to a bad case of penis envy? Do you or have you e...
Short Suck #22 - The Kentler Experiment: That One Time Germany Intentionally Hired Pedos To Be Foster Parents
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm sharing a wild story that I'm surprised isn't much more known - that one time Germany inte...
429 - Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos: Damsel of Death
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The true story behind the incredible 2003 film, Monster, about sex worker and serial killer, Aileen ...
428 - Andrew Higgins: D-Day's Secret War Hero
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Veteran's Day! On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, over 150,000 Allied troops stormed Nazi-defended beac...
Short Suck #21 - The Servant Girl Annihilator aka The Midnight Assassin
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm sharing the little known Servant Girl Annihilator murders. A series of crimes just as shoc...
427 - McCarthyism: When Red Scare Paranoia Destroyed Innocent Lives
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the 1950s, America was very afraid of Soviet spies and communist sympathizers infiltrating t...
426 - The San Francisco Witch Killers
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1980s, Suzan and Michael Carson were very worried about witches. They thought there wit...
Short Suck #20 - Are Tulpas Real? The Spooky Story of Olivia Mabel
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’ll be sharing the strange and spooky story of Olivia Mabel. It's a story presented as a tr...
425 - Ireland's True Houses of Horror
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1975, two young boys in Tuam were exploring the grounds of one of Ireland's abandoned Mother and ...
424 - The Puppet Master: Robert Hendy-Freegard
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I highly doubt you have ever been conned by anyone to the degree Robert Hendy-Freegard conned his vi...
Short Suck #19 - Magdalena Solís: The High Priestess of Blood
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Magdalena Solís was a Mexican cult leader and the extremely rare sexually motivated female serial k...
423 - Serial Killer Carl Panzram: One Man Apocalypse
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Panzram is one of the most interesting serial killers we've ever covered. He was incredibly sel...
422 - The Snowtown Murders: Seven Years of Insanity in South Australia
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an episode about the most infamous series of murders in the history of the state of South Austral...
Short Suck #18 - The War of the Worlds
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of October 30th, 1938, the CBS Radio Network broadcasted Orson Welles's live adaptati...
421 - The Yakuza: Japan's Notorious & Inked Up Gangsters
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the Yakuza? How similar are they to the Mafia? What's up with all the tattoos they have? And...
420 - Existentialism and Weed: I'm High and We're All Gonna Die!
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of the 420 episode, I decided to smoke a nice strong joint for this one while recording. An...
Short Suck #17 - Who Was In The Attic? The Hinterkaifeck Axe Murders
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On March 31st, 1922, on a cold, snowy, and quiet night in Germany, at a small unassuming farm roughl...
419 - Joey Buttafuoco and Amy "The Long Island Lolita" Fisher
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you remember when seventeen-year-old Amy Fisher shot the wife of her thirty-five-year-old lover, ...
418 - A Brief(ish) History of Torture
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When did we meatsacks start torturing one another? How did we do it? How have torture methods change...
417 - The Slavemaster: Serial Killer John Edward Robinson
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This one is a doozy! John Edward Robinson may be the most intelligent serial killer I've ever come a...
Short Suck #16 - Clinical Vampirism: Are Vampires Real?
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard of "clinical vampirism," more commonly known today as Renfield's Syndrome? One r...
416 - Alexander Hamilton
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An in-depth look at the Founding Father behind the hit musical Hamilton. How did Alexander contribut...
415 - The Kidwelly Sex Cult
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2011, Wales would be shocked to learn that for the previous 14 years, an actual cause for Sa...
Short Suck #15 - Ruby Franke
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On August 30th, 2023, Ruby Franke, a recently very popular Youtuber and "momfluencer" was arrested, ...
414 - The Taiping Rebellion: The Craziest, Bloodiest Civil War Ever
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that in that in 1850, Hong Xiuquan, a man who interpreted literal fever demons as relig...
413 - The Gainesville Ripper
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Rolling brought terror to the college town of Gainesville, Florida, when he brutally murdered ...
Short Suck #14 - Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever heard of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins? The Big Fellow? His heroic contributions to the f...
412 - Saddam Hussein
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a look into the life of the former dictator of Iraq today, which will of course lead us into ...
411 - The Monster of Florence
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1968 and 1985, eight couples having sex in either parked vehicles or a tent in remote areas ...
Short Suck #13 - The Tsuyama Massacre
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Tsuyama Massacre. The strange tale of one sexually frustrated man, Mutsuo Toi, who cut the power...
410 - The Love Has Won Cult
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Love Has Won Cult was led by Amy Carlson, who died from alcohol abuse, anorexia, and colloidal s...
409 - Elvis Presley
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you know about the King, baby? Did you know how poor he was growing up? How quickly he becam...
Short Suck #12 - The Dark Truth about Pornhub (And Where You Can Jerk/Rub Ethically!)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know why Pornhub removed over 80% of its content at the end of 2020? The site was littered wi...
408 - Larry Nassar and the US Gymnastics Scandal
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How was Dr. Larry Nasser able to sexually abuse over 500 victims, almost all of them young female gy...
407 - Serial Flasher/Rapist/Killer Randy Woodfield
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I don't know if anyone has ever loved exposing themselves to strangers as much as Randy Woodfield. T...
Short Suck #11 - The Khamar-Daban Incident
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What really happened to a group of seven hikers in the Khamar-Daban mountain range in Siberia on Aug...
406 - Nickelodeon's Dan Schneider: Witch Hunt Victim or Predator?
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On March 17th, 2024, the first episode of a five-part docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kid...
405 - The Real Peaky Blinders
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we learn about who the real Peaky Blinders were? How much of the hit BBC/Netflix series is his...