Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
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...
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 Ko...
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 Unificati...
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...
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 ...
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 an...
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 do...
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 h...
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, Kill...
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, ...
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 P...
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 P...
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 invasio...
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 syn...
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...
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 wom...
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 c...
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 qu...
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 hum...
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 e...
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 f...
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 t...
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...
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...
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...
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 an...
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 t...
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 murde...
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 ...
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 G...
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 immedi...
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 Eri...
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 tradi...
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 kill...
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 th...
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 en...
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? No...
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 ...
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...
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 t...
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 myst...
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...
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...
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...
371 - The School of The Prophets Cult Killings
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we dig into both LDS and FLDS teachings, and learn about The School of the Prophets, a gro...
370 - The Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's Communist Tranformation
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, he deposed a dictator. And then the man who promised democ...
369 - Larry Hall: Serial Killer or "Wannabe"?
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is Larry Hall, currently incarcerated in federal prison on a charge of kidnapping for the purposes o...
368 - The Korean War: First Shots of the Cold War
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How much do you know about "The Forgotten War" as the Korean War - technically a UN Police Action - ...
367 - The Bloody Briley Brothers
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you heard of the Briley Brothers? Three young brothers, and a teenage neighbor, went on a vicio...
366 - Black Holes and the Nature of the Universe!
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My favorite episode in months. One that I'm hoping the most curious of the cult of the curious will ...
365 - The Trailside Killer
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between August of 1979, and May of 1981, convicted serial rapist David Carpenter escalated to murder...
364 - The Mystery of the Great Library of Ancient Alexandria
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did the fall and/or destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria really set human progress a thous...
363 - NATLFED: Communist Cult Hiding in America
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early '70s, a man presenting himself as Eugenio Mario Perente-Ramos creates the Eastern Farmw...
362 - Watergate: When Faith in American Politics Was Destroyed
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On August 9th, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of America, whil...
361 - The UK's Jeffrey Dahmer: Dennis Nilsen
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to being a serial killer who very likely killed at least 15 young men and boys around L...
360 - The Lynching of Emmett Till
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Early on the morning of August 28th, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped from his great-uncl...
359 - William Shakespeare (Billy Shakes?)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do we known about William Shakespeare the man? And why are his works still popular today? Who w...
358 - The Mysterious Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On March 8th, 2014, 227 passengers boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, taking off from Kuala Lumpu...
357 - Whitey Bulger: How the FBI Built a Mob Boss
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we take a fascinating look into how Whitey Bulger rose to power in Boston's underworld in the ...
356 - Jerry Brudos: The Shoe Fetish Slayer
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We got a weird one today! Wow. Jerry Brudos was a serial killer who became completely consumed with ...
355 - Witchcraft!
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we do a deep dive on the history of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? How does it differ from or...
354 - The Redemption Experiment of Serial Killer Jack Unterweger
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fiftee...
353 - The Crusades
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 1095 to 1291 CE, thousands and thousands of knights, peasants, nobles, soldiers, and more left ...
352 - R. Kelly's Sex Cult
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did R. Kelly truly have a sex cult? For around a quarter-of-a-century Robert Sylvester Kelly wrote...
351 - Pizza Bomber: The Mysterious Death of Brian Wells
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On August 28, 2003, a 46 year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank nea...
350 - The Hillside Stranglers
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between October 1977 and February 1978, with a nickname originating from the fact that many of the v...
349 - The 1928 Banana Massacre
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that American banana corporations turned almost all of Central America into US satellit...
348 - The Fountain Cult
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've covered a lot Los Angeles area cults from the 1960s and 70s, but as it turns out, there were c...
347 - The Lonely Hearts Killers
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1940s, troubled lovers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, ran a scam using dating servic...
346 - The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 AM local time, a major explosive eruption took place at a volcano in southw...
345 - The Prospect Killer: Terry Blair
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Terry Blair. The Prospect Killer. Before he became a serial killer in the Prospect Avenue neighborho...
344 - Bible Belt Strangler/Redhead Murders
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we look into a series of murders, mostly occurring in the mid-1980s, in the southeastern US. T...
343 - The Irish Mob
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we dig into the origins and the history of America's Irish Mob. We begin centuries ago in Ir...
342 - The Kirtland Cult Killings and Jeffrey Lundgren: 2 of 2
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The conclusion of the the craziest cult story I had never heard of. This week, things, incredibly,...
341 - The Kirtland Cult Killings and Jeffrey Lundgren: 1 of 2
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The craziest cult story I had never heard of. Jeffrey Lundgren was a cult leader and a mass leader b...
340 - The Skull and Bones aka The Brotherhood of Death
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Skull and Bones has been shrouded in mystery ever since it was founded nearly two centuries ago now,...
339 - The Death Angels
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Zebra Murders were a series of racially motivated attacks and murders committed in San Francisco...
338 - Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Early in the morning of March 28th, 1979, equipment failures and a stuck open relief valve prevented...
337 - Heist! The $600 Million Gardner Museum Robbery
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On March 18th, 1990 two men disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner...
336 - The Night Witches
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On October 8th, 1941, with Stalingrad surrounded, Leningrad besieged, and the Nazis making new gains...
335 - Leopold and Loeb: The Perfect Murder
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the the Perfect Murder? It's what two affluent and academically brilliant young Chicagoans...
334 - The Tiananmen Square Massacre and Protests
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China in 1989 is one of the most important, noteworthy t...
333 - The Sullivanians: Therapy Sex Cult
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s, a strange new cult emerged in Manhattan's Upper West Side out of the Sullivan Institut...
332 - Patrick Kearney: The Trash Bag Killer
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we investigate the life and crimes of one of the Freeway Killers. Patrick Kearney, the Tra...
331 - Julius Caesar: Roman Daddy Dictator
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we dig into the life of Julius Caesar and the final days of the Roman Republic. How was Caesar...
330 - Amanda Knox and the Murder of Meredith Kercher
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do you think you know about Amanda Knox? Do you think she was a sex-crazed party girl who got a...