Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Episodes
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 UK pirates like Blackbeard, Black Bart, Calico Jac...
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 Island, New York. The first of over ten bodies fo...
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 active. Is it also a cult? What is an "intentional com...
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 instead, talk about how and why we humans have castrate...
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 Philippines at the end of 1944. And he kept fightin...
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 parents villa at a Portuguese vacation resort. Wha...
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 his portrayal of Dr. Cliff Huxtable on the hit, ic...
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 few simple tools and the clothes on your back? Some ...
438 - The Octopus Murders & Conspiracy
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Was aspiring investigative journalist Danny Casolaro murdered in his Sheraton hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia on August 10th, 1991 because he...
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 and a knife (and sometimes also a screwdriver), pr...
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 breakers have busted out of incarceration over the y...
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 having access to toilets... or the sewer systems benea...
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 you think about when you think of Dolly is big hai...
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 through the skull of 25-year-old railway worker Phinea...
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 enrolled in two different Boston area public high s...
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. Following her disappearance, a mystery surroundin...
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 the city of Strasbourg (modern day France) in the H...
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 few cells down from Ted Bundy. He's also believed...
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 another 613 missing in March of 2023. How did cult l...
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 ever wanted to have sex with your mother? Or your f...
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 intentionally hired known pedophiles to be the foster ...
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 Wuornos, who killed seven men over the course of o...
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 beaches in northern France in the largest military amp...
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 shocking as the crimes of London's Jack the Ripper mur...
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 the government and destroying the United States fro...
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 witches all over America, even the President, Ronald ...
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 true story, centered around the unsettling concept o...
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 Baby Homes when they lifted up a loose concrete sl...
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 victims. This 21 year-old pub bartender, waiting to ...
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 killer. She was recruited to help a couple of grift...
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 self-aware. He knew he was bad. He didn't pretend, fo...
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 Australia, somehow the murders are the least interesting ...
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 adaptation of the 1897 HG Wells classic, groundbreaking sc...
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 why are so many of them missing one of their pink...
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. And the topic pairs perfectly with weed: a philosoph...
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 roughly an hour’s drive north of Munich, six gruesome ...
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, Joey Buttafuoco, in the face in May of 1992? At th...
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 changed over the years, and what are some of the worst t...
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 across. This guy fooled so, so many people with ove...
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 review of psychiatric literature claims that over 5...
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 contribute to the founding of the United States? And how di...
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 Satanic Panic had existed in the quaint little town ...
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, along with her therapist, boss, and mentor, Jodi H...
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 religious visions from God informing him that he was Je...
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 five students there in August of 1990. The career ...
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 fight for Irish Independence, while ignored/overloo...
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 at least summarizing the first and second Persian ...
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 just outside of Florence, Italy were murdered. The...
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 lines that fed electricity to his entire village ...
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 silver dosing at the age of only 45 on April 16th, ...
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 became famous as an adult? Did you know he had a pet ch...
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 with child pornography and rape videos. Is it still?...
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 gymnasts, over a period of 25+ years, in plain sight...
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. The serial flasher, rapist, and I-5 Killer had an u...
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 August 5th, 1993? Did six of them really begin to ble...
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 Kids TV aired on Investigation Discovery and MAX, acc...
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 historically accurate? Who were these stylish Birming...
404 - The Moonies Cult 2: Empire in Decline
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we conclude yesterday's wild exploration of the cult Sun Myung Moon founded in Seoul, South Korea, in 1954. Moon's corruption and insanity final...
403 - The Moonies Cult: Sex, Control, and Marrying the Dead
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Seoul, South Korea, in 1954, Sun Myung Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, a new religious institut...
Short Suck #10 - Andrea Yates
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On June 20th, 2001, former high school valedictorian, captain of the swim team, and registered nurse, Andrea Yates, coldly drowned all five of her chi...
402 - Population Control Conspiracies: Are Wealthy Elites Trying To Kill You?
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are wealthy elites like Bill Gates and George Soros using their money and power to sterilize and/or kill you through vaccines, chemtrails, and more in...
401 - Kenneth McDuff: The Broomstick Killer
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kenneth McDuff killed three high school students the night of August 6th, 1966, repeatedly raping and sexually torturing one of them first. He'd be se...
Short Suck #9 - The US Human Body Trade
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to your body when it is donated to science? Does it actually end up in front of some doctor or medical student? Not necessarily. Sometime...
400 - Molly and Michael Jackson: Rolling on the King of Pop!
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Jackson is the most successful solo act in the history of recorded music. Only the Beatles have sold more albums. He has the top selling album...
399 - Osage Murders: The True Story Behind Killers of the Flower Moon
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Osage Reign of Terror - dramatized recently in the 2023 award winning Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon based on the 2017 book of t...
Short Suck #8 - Horror in the Woods: The Keddie Cabin Murders
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday night, April 11th, 1981, a young mother, her teenage son, and her son's teenage friend, were all violently murdered in the small, pictures...
398 - August Engelhardt and the Coconut Cult
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that in 1902, August Engelhardt travelled from Germany to a small island in the South Pacific and tried to build a community based mostly...
397 - Jim Bakker: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of an American Grifter
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Bakker, and his wife, Tammy Faye, revolutionized tele-evangelism in the 1970s and 1980s. Their PTL Club, was, at it's height, pulling in millions ...
Short Suck #7 - Survive the Apocalypse in Style: The World of Luxury Doomsday Bunkers
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a plan in mind for what you would do in a doomsday event like nuclear war, alien invasion, a deadly plague, some Terminator Skynet style "...
396 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From 1977 to 1980, Joseph Paul Franklin went on a multi-state murder and mayhem spree, bombing a synagogue, shooting at people exiting another, and sh...
395 - Ervil LeBaron: The Mormon Manson
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ervil LeBaron was raised by a cult leader... would have several brothers who were cult leaders...and would father several more cult leaders. And out o...
394 - Serial Killer Richard Byrd: The Las Vegas Strip Strangler
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard of disturbing serial killer Richard Byrd? He raped and strangled eight young women to death in Las Vegas between 1991 and 2001, bu...
393 - Tonight We Dine In Hell! The Spartans
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we explore what life was really like for ancient Greece's feared warriors, the Spartans. How close was it to the Hollywood depiction in movies l...
Short Suck #6 - A Van Life Nightmare: The Gabby Petito Story
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On July 2nd, 2021, 22 year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé, 23 year old Brian Laundrie, left the quaint hamlet of Blue Point, Long Island to embark u...
392 - Let The People Trip! (What Psychedelics Are and Where They Come From)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Very informative episode today! I learned so much and hope you do too. We explore the history of human psychedelic usage, and also dive into the origi...
391 - Skinny Folks Go To Heaven: The Remnant Fellowship Cult
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you ever think that overeating, specifically, could send your soul to Hell? Or that not losing enough weight, fast enough, could jeopardize your s...
Short Suck #5 - The Wild West's Deadliest Hitman: Jim "Killer" Miller
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Miller. Killin' Jim. Right before stepping off a wooden crate with a noose around his neck, in front of the members of the lynch mob that wanted h...
390 - The Florida Vampire Murders
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of November 25th, 1996, Rick Wendorf, 49, and his partner Ruth Queen, 54, were beaten to death with a crowbar inside their home in Eustis...
389 - The Fourth Dimension
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring some super interesting and strange territory today. I might not be able to record any more podcasts because NOW MY BRAIN IS MELTED! In this ...
Short Suck #4 - The Dark Disappearing Act of John List
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Short Suck is all about John List. With a bankruptcy looming, worried about the shame he'd face for no longer being able to provide his fami...
388 - How To Rid Yourself of Demons: A History of Exorcisms
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I share the real practice and history of the classic Catholic exorcism that so many of us have seen in films like 1973's The Exorcist and 2023's...
387 - Evil Eyes: Carl "The Sunday Morning Slasher" Watts
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Morning Slasher, Carl Watts, is thought to have killed over 100 women between Michigan and Texas, from 1974 to 1982. He's also the only US ...
Short Suck #3 - Is Bigger Better? The Scary World of Penis Enlargement
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Short Suck is all about the weird, wild world of penis enlargement! What options are out there? Are they safe? And why are so many unsatisfi...
386 - The Lady of Silence: Mexico's First Hunt For a Serial Killer
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1998 and 2006, at least 48 elderly women were strangled to death in Mexico City. These murders would lead to Mexico's first ever investigation...
385 - Brain Damage, Murder, and Football: The Aaron Hernandez Story
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've wanted to dig into this story for a couple of years now. Aaron seemed to have EVERYTHING going for him. And he threw it all away through committi...
Short Suck #2 - Grizzly Bear vs Mountain Man: The Story of Hugh Glass
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Short Suck is all about the life of Hugh Glass - the man whose insane story of surviving a Grizzly Bear attack inspired the 2015 Leonardo DiCa...
384 - Satanic Panic and the West Memphis Three
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the Spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. And immediately, thanks to outlandish, paranoid Satanic Pani...
383 - The Iron Claw: The Von Erich Curse
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story behind the new Iron Claw movie starring Zac Effron and Jeremy Allen White. Was the Von Erich wrestling family actually cursed? I understand ...
Short Suck #1 - The Strange Tale of Lobster Boy
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first in what will hopefully be many Short Sucks! 45-60 minute stories delivered in a more traditional type of story-telling. No inside jokes and ...
382 - The Riverside Killer: America's Forgotten Serial Killer
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sharing the life and crimes today of William Lester Suff aka the Riverside Killer. Convicted of killing twelve women after being arrest in 1992 after ...
381 - The Cult of the Twin Flames Universe
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether or not you've seen the recent Amazon and/or Netflix docuseries on Twin Flames Universe, I think you're gonna love this one. Another cult episo...
380 - Kentucky Fried Suck!
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this year's annual, inspirational episode and wrap-up, I share the surprisingly inspiring and entertaining tale of Colonel Harland Sanders, man be...
379 - The Incelosphere: Sex, Hate, and Violence
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know the term "incel" no longer generally refers to someone who is just lonely and horny? Now, it's more synonymous with a new kind of domesti...
378 - Zombies, White Camps, and Murder: The Story of Lori Vallow
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I know - this episode is a long one! I tried to cut as much as I could that didn't feel relevant to tell this tale. I really did! There's just so much...
377 - The Murdaugh Murders: Rise and Fall of a Low Country Dynasty
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I finally look into what all the hype about the Murdaugh family murders is about. And the hype... is justified. I provide a summary of the Murdaugh's ...
376 - Debunking The World's Most Dangerous Conspiracy: The Protocols
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Want to know where a lot of the core ideas from the many conspiracies that revolve around the idea the a small, secretive cabal of wealthy Jews contro...
375 - The Cleveland Kidnappings: Tremont's House of Horrors
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of May 6th, 2013, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, three enduring mysteries were shockingly solved. Three missing Clevel...
374 - The Duggar's Dark Secrets
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You probably are pretty familiar with the Duggar family, from TLC's hit show 19 and Counting. But do you know about the sexual abuse they hid for year...
373 - The Chicago Tylenol Murders
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who decided to add cyanide to a bunch of bottles of Tylenol in the Chicago area in 1982? A couple of real shifty, odd suspects emerged in an investiga...
372 - Gilles de Rais: Medieval Monster or Witch-Hunt Victim?
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Headed to 15th century to explore the life of a man who may have been the wealthiest noble in all of France at one point, and commander of France's mi...