Timesuck with Dan Cummins

151 - Lost Technologies!

05 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lost technologies! Greek fire, Damascus steel, the pyramid building abilities of ancient Egypt, India's flying vimanas, Rome's miracle medicine, the ...

150 - Belle Gunness and Her Murder Farm

29 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hinker du teh hoingy boingy! Uff da! Uff da! Tiddly winks teh dingy thingy. Don't worry - not all of today's show is in Norwegian (and neither is that...

149 - OJ Simpson

22 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

OJ Simpson. It's been twenty-five years since his *alleged* murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. You've heard about the murders. You've heard abo...

148 - Robert "The Butcher Baker" Hansen

15 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Serial killer Robert Hansen abducted and killed at least seventeen women and hunted many of them down in the Alaskan wilderness in the 1970s and 80s a...

147 - Revolutionary War

08 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Less than a week after the 4th of July, we Suck into the birth of the United States of America. We glance at some of the war's important battles and i...

146 - The Black Dahlia Murder Mystery

01 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Who killed Elizabeth Short in 1947? We still don't know. Or do we? Today we go over the details of the Black Dahlia murder mystery - to this day the m...

145 - Josef Fritzl: Austria's Monster

24 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On April 19th, 2008, forty-two year-old Elisabeth Fritzl helped her seventy-three year-old father Josef carry their nineteen year-old unconscious daug...

144 - The Texas Killing Fields

17 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Since 1971, well over thirty women have disappeared along a fifty mile-long patch of I-45 between Houston and Galveston. Some refer to this stretch of...

143 - America's Homeless Epidemic

10 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Really hope you enjoy this one. One of my favorite episodes so far. Such a big topic that touches so many lives. What is the history of homelessness i...

142 - Darwin Awards and Evolution

03 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Darwin Awards! Meatsacks removing themselves from being able to procreate or from the planet entirely in the most easily avoidable ways. Natural s...

141 - Albert Fish: NY Killer and SUPER Creep

27 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Fish. The Boogey Man. The Werewolf of Wysteria. The Brooklyn Vampire. The Gray Man. The Moon Maniac. A sexual sadist, sexual masochist, kidnapp...

140 - The Legend of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and More

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you enjoy knights, wizards, and dragons? How about medieval history? Folklore, maybe? Want to learn how England became England? We learned a lot ab...

139 - The Vietnam War

13 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today we talk about Vietnam. Do you know how the Vietnam war began? What events really led up to it? You will after this episode. You'll learn about c...

138 - The Brutal KGB and Russia's Long History of Secret Police

06 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Back to the USSR! Talking about Mother Russia's long history with BRUTAL various secret police agencies terrorizing its own people today on the Suck. ...

137 - Madame Delphine LaLaurie: How Evil Was She?

29 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Did Madame Delphine and her Dr. husband really torture their slaves in the most horrific of ways at the now infamous LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal St...

136 - The Moon Landing Conspiracy

22 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

2019 is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! Yip, yip, yaw! On July 20th, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, two ...

135 - Vikings!

15 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Vikings! We take a deep dive today into the history of Scandinavia, focusing in particular on the age of the Vikings! We look into what they wore, how...

134 - Napoleon MF'n Bonaparte!

08 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Napoleon! A man who knew before he died he would be remembered as being one of the most important European leaders in history - and boy was he right. ...

133 - Mikhail "The Werewolf" Popkov: Russia's Most Prolific Serial Killer

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Former Russian police officer Mikhail Popkov was found guilty on December 10th, 2018 of killing fifty-six people in Siberia. All but one victim were w...

132 - Order of the Solar Temple Doomsday Cult

25 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On October 4th, 1994 the dead bodies of two Solar Temple cult members and their baby are found in Morin Heights, Quebec. All three have been stabbed t...

131 - Disappearances, Hidden Cities, Murders and More: National Park Mysteries

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The origin of the Chupacabra legend! UFO sightings in Yosemite. A giant, lost Egyptian city in the Grand Canyon. Another underground city supposedly i...

130 - Casey Anthony - Free and Guilty?

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Liar, liar, pants on fire. Wow! I have never read about someone who told lies - big lies - more often and consistently than Casey Anthony. On July 5, ...

129 - Ted "The Unabomber" Kaczynski

04 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ted Kaczynski, aka "The Unabomber", is an American domestic terrorist who conducted a seventeen-plus-year series of attacks, using mail bombs to targe...

128 - Serial Killer Pedro "Monster of the Andes" Lopez

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

South American serial killer Pedro "Monster of the Andes" Lopez was convicted of killing 110 girls in Ecuador in 1983. He claimed to have killed rough...

127 - Pedophile Island

18 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Should we banish pedophiles to an actual island? That's essentially what Washington state has been doing since 1990 with the Special Commitment Center...

126 - The Black Panthers

11 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Black Panthers! A very controversial civil rights group originating in Oakland, California in 1966. Formed by young revolutionaries Huey Newton an...

125 - The Black Death

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Black Death killed between 25 and 75 million people in Europe alone in just over five years! This terrifying outbreak of the plague killed roughly...

124 - Mothman

28 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Mothman is a strange creature reportedly witnessed mainly in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia between November 12, 1966, and December 1967...

123 - Serial Killer Ed Kemper: The Co-ed Killer

21 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, Edmund Kemper, at age 15, killed both his grandparents to "see what it felt like." He turned himsel...

122 - Cleopatra: Queen. Seductress. Product Of SO MUCH INCEST!

14 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Whopper of a tale for you today. Battles, incest, murder, betrayal, and more! Born in 69 BCE, Cleopatra VII was part of the Macedonian dynasty that to...

121 - The DB Cooper Hijack Mystery

07 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

November 24th, 1971. The day before Thanksgiving. Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, shows up at the Portland, Oregon airport looking like your aver...

120 - Year End Wrap Up! And More Tales of Inspiration

31 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year's Eve! We take a look back at 2018 and a look forward to 2019 today on Timesuck. We also find more inspiration in the tales of Nick Vuj...

119 - Triumph Over Unbelievable Tragedy: Two Exceptional Tales!

24 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Malvika Iyer had both her hands blown off by a grenade when she was thirteen years-old. The blast also turned her legs into a mangled mass of blood an...

118 - The Alphabet Murders

17 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Three young girls were kidnapped, raped, and strangled to death near Rochester, NY in the early 70s. Carmen Colon, Michelle Maenza, and Wanda Walkowic...

117 - Harriet MF'n Tubman

10 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Harriet Tubman! One of the most important conductors on the Underground Railroad. A brave, inspirational human being who escaped slavery in Maryland a...

116 - The Pinkerton Detective Agency - "We Never Sleep"

03 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Founded by Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, Chicago’s first police detective, in 1850, the Pinkerton Agency quickly became one of the most import...

115 - Hatfield-McCoy Feud

26 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Hatfields and the McCoys repeatedly attacked one another in the rural Tug River Valley separating West Virginia and Kentucky for over a decade in ...

114 - Illuminati Revealed! The New World Order Conspiracy

19 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Federal Reserve Act. The Bilderbergers. The Freemasons, Wall Street, and the Council on Foreign Relations. The National Security Act of 1947. Area...

113 - World War One: Unprecedented Carnage

12 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's the 100th anniversary of WW1! The Great War. The War of Nations. The War to End All Wars. If only that were true. What a war it was! It was a war...

112 - The Russian Sleep Experiment

05 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Did Russian Scientists seal five prisoners in an airtight chamber and dosed them with an experimental stimulant gas to test the effects of prolonged s...

111 - Demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (from Annabelle, the Conjuring, and more)

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The "true" horror stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren have turned into more than a billion dollars worth of scares at the box office between The Conjuri...

110 - Australia's Katherine Knight and the Murder Everyone Saw Coming

22 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On February 29th, 2000, in the small, rugged town of Aberdeen, Australia, forty-five year old mother and grandmother Katherine Knight stabbed her live...

109 - The Chessboard Killer: Alexander Pichushkin

15 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Pichushkin insisted he’d killed sixty-three people after being apprehended in 2006 but authorities only had enough evidence to convict him...

108 - Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...

08 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

During an oppressive heat wave in August 1892, prominent Fall River residents Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their home; each dealt ...

107 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1587, Englishman John White led a group of 118 colonists to what was supposed to Roanoke Island. One hundred fifteen of those colonists were never ...

106 - Andrew MF'n Jackson: Gunslingin' War Hero and President

24 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Jackson. Seventh president of the United States. First president born to immigrant parents. Only president to serve in both the American Revolu...

105 - Nikola Tesla: A Strange and Beautiful Mind

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nikola Tesla. The prototypical "mad scientist". He slept only a few hours a night and devoted his life to science like none-other. A rags-to-riches-to...

Bonus 26: The Way of the Samurai, a Brief History of Japan, and the Warrior Life of Miyamoto Musashi

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries, Japan was ruled by a military dictatorship, the Shogunate, and the samurais were the enforcers of this rule. The samurai was soldier, p...

104 - The Children of God Sex Cult

10 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Children of God cult aka The Family aka The Family International is still around today which is very disturbing considering their twisted origins ...

103 - The Public Suicide of Budd Dwyer and the Tragic Events That Led Up To It

03 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On January 22nd, 1987, forty-seven year-old R. Budd Dwyer, Republican State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, held a press conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylv...

102 - Immigration: Fact Versus Fiction

27 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Immigration! Man - what a big, complicated topic. What is the Unite State's history with immigration? How much have policies changed over the years? H...

101 - The Candyman Killer: Houston's Nightmare

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dean Arnold Corll. The Candyman Killer. A Texas momma’s boy who first made friends with local kids by handing out candy from his family’s Houston ...

100 - Drunk as F*#k Suck of the Axeman of New Orleans

13 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well, you asked for it. We got a bunch of emails to do something special for the 100th Monday episode of TImesuck and the main request was to do Times...

99 - Area 51: Secret Weapons Program or Alien Experimentation?

06 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What actually goes on at Area 51? There are two competing narratives. One involves a series of classified Cold War projects involving covert aerial su...

Bonus 25 - Werewolves: Howl at the Moon!

03 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Werewolves! Awhoooooooo! Shape-shifting creatures of the night with unusual speed, otherworldly strength, lightning fast reflexes, and incredibly heig...

98 - The Assassination of Lincoln: It's Crazier Than You Think

30 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Wilkes Booth wasn't some community theater bit player. He wasn't a bartender who did summer theater. He was one of the most famous actors of the ...

97 - Spartacus: When Gladiators Attacked Rome Itself

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other gladiators and slaves and then led a slave rebelli...

96 - Pennhurst State Hospital: Pennsylvania's Dirty Secret

16 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Billed now as the Pennhurst Haunted Asylum, Pennhurst was never an asylum. It wasn't a home for the mentally ill when it first opened its doors in 190...

Bonus 24 - The Toy Box Killer: New Mexico's Satanic Sadist

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

WARNING/DISCLAIMER: This is the most disturbing episode of Timesuck thus far. To the point I considered not releasing it. Maybe it just hit me unusual...

95 - Pancho MFN' Villa: Mexico's Robin Hood

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pancho Villa! Pancho Villa was a revolutionary fighter who despised the wealthy landowners who had subjugated the impoverished farming class, comprise...

94 - The Donner Party: Cannibalism, Cholera, and More Horribleness

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the Donner Party is one of the most disturbing tales of western migration during the time of Manifest Destiny, the common 19th-century be...

93 - The Aztec Empire: So Much Human Sacrifice!

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re talking about the Aztecs! The Aztecs built a vast empire, one that outpaced, out-staged, and out-populated the likes of Paris at the tim...

Bonus 23 - Knights Templar pt 2 of 2: Fall and Conspiracies

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Knights Templar fought their last stand in the Holy Land (their last proper stand) in Acre in 1291 and shit was epic. They went down, but, they di...

92 - Knights Templar pt 1 of 2: License to Kill (Rise of the Pope's Army)

18 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty - but they soon, ironically became immensely wealthy a...

91 - The Ma Barker Gang! Ruthless 1930s Killers

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Ma Barker gang robbed bank, after bank, after drugstore, after hardware store, clothing store, Chevy dealership, jewelry store, and still more ban...

90 - The Golden State Killer

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On Tuesday, April 24th, 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was taken into custody by local police and FBI agents when he stepped outside his Citrus Heig...

Bonus 22 - Edgar Allan Poe

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Edgar Allan Poe did more than write The Raven and look creepy. He also basically invented the modern detective story. He was America's first "master o...

89 - Joan of Arc

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Joan of Arc was BURNED ALIVE on May 30th, 1431 CE, something no one ever aspires to have written on their obituary. She fought to end the Hundred Year...

88 - Aokigahara: Japan's Suicide Forest

21 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An alarming number of Japanese citizens have taken a dark pilgrimage to the Aokigahara forest, more commonly known as Japan’s suicide forest, to end...

87 - The "Real" Men in Black

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cold Open: The Men in Black. The men who inspired the movies, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Who or what are they? Aliens? Extra top secret gover...

BONUS 21 - Jack the Ripper!

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From August seventh to September tenth, 1888, a crazed killer who came to be known as "Jack the Ripper” terrorized the Whitechapel district of Londo...

86 - The Green River Killer

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gary "The Green River Killer" Ridgway is currently in prison in Walla Walla, Washington, having been convicted of 49 different murders, most of which ...

85 - The Spanish Inquisition

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Spanish Inquisition started in 1478 and lasted all the way until 1834 - and it was terrible the whole time. But it was at its worst in the first h...

84 - The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel 2 of 2

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1973, 21 year old German college student Anneliese Michel began to descend into an existence of pure and utter madness. She had begun to see the fa...

BONUS 20 - The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel 1 of 2

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Anneliese Michel would die in a small, German town on July 1st, 1976. The official cause of death? Malnutrition and dehydration. But why did she stop ...

83 - Lost Books of the Bible!

16 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Lost Books of the Bible! Is that really what we’re talking about today on Timesuck? Yes. Was I super excited to dive into this topic when I foun...

82 - The Westboro Baptist Lunatics

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), founded by hatemonger Fred Phelps, is an American church (cult) known for protesting funerals with preposterously h...

81 - The Stanford Prison Experiment

02 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted. In 1971, newly tenured psychology professor Richard Zim...

BONUS 19: Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Serial killer Richard Ramirez killed at least 14 people and raped and tortured at least two dozen more, mostly during the Spring and Summer of 1985. H...

80 - America's Guns: What is the Real Problem?

26 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Toughest topic I’ve tackled so far. Marches going on across the country to ban assault rifles. School walkouts. Gun rights advocates staging their o...

79 - The Chernobyl Disaster: What, Why, and How Bad Was it?

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday, April 25th, 1986, the Soviet city of Pripyat, built to support the local nuclear power plant Chernobyl, had 13,414 apartments, a hospital, ...

78 - Defiance: the Nazi Killing Bielski Brothers

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Bielski brothers led the largest Jewish-led rescue operation of Jewish civilians in ALL of World War II. They saved over 1,200 men, women, and chi...

BONUS 18: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aleister Crowley was many things: an author, an artist, a poet, a mystic, a student, a mountaineer, a world traveler, and a notorious occultist. He sh...

77 - Norse Gods

05 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What in the shit are we talking about this week? Norse Gods! Turns out they’re still being worshipped today. Who knew? Well, our own Timesuck editor...

76 - Tupac & Biggie: Fame, Money, & Murder

26 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tupac and Biggie - two of the biggest hip hop stars of all time. And neither of them would see the age of 26. Their West Coast/East Coast rap feud hel...

75 - Guns and God: David Koresh's Waco Siege

19 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Feb. 28th, 2018 will mark the 25th anniversary of the ATF raiding the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco Texas, setting off a 51 day armed standoff betw...

BONUS 17 - Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When murder investigators entered the rural farm house of loner Ed Gein just outside the tiny town of Plainfield, Wisconsin on November 16th, 1957, th...

74 - The IRA: Freedom FIghters or Terrorists?

12 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Irish Republican Army. Guys and gals who have, since their inception, been viewed as a liberation force by some and a terrorist group by others. T...

73 - Digital Immortality

05 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I recently watched the new 4th season of Black Mirror on Netflix, and, if this season has a theme, I’d say it’s the concept of digital immortality...

72 - The Colonial Devastation of Africa

29 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Before this week I knew very little about Africa’s history. It’s a continent of many nations, nations whose boundaries and governments are near co...

BONUS 16 - Doc Holliday

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"I'm your huckleberry." Did the real Doc Holliday actually say that? Or was that some Hollywood dramatization added to Tombstone? Turns out he did tel...

71 - Stalin: Russia's Ruthless Man of Steel

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Stalin. Icon of the 20th century. Personification of Soviet might. Catalyst of the Cold War. Hero to some, monster to many. The Man of Steel wh...

70 - The Jersey Devil

15 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Jersey Devil. Is it a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, horse, or dog? Most agree that it has wings, hooves, horns, and a tail. Wher...

69 - Freemasons 2 of 2: Are Freemasons the Illuminati?

08 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Do the Freemasons work hand in hand with the illuminati? Are the Freemasons and the Illuminati one and the same? Is Alex Jones a Freemason? Was Jack t...

BONUS 15 - Freemasons 1 of 2: Original Cult of the Curious?

05 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Who are the Freemasons? An ancient, Satanic organization who are part of the illuminati and intent of destroying Christianity and ruling the world? A ...

68 - John Wayne Gacy: Chicago's Serial Killing Clown

01 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Wayne Gacy aka Pogo the clown aka Patches the clown aka the Devil himself. This outgoing member of his Chicago community, this Democratic Party v...

67 - Einstein: A Complicated Genius

25 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Einstein! Theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winning mathematician. Guy who made his name synonymous with genius. Man who changed the world’s unders...

66 - Eleanor MF'n Roosevelt

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? She was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt. The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. So much Roosevelt! She was also a bad MF'er. Sh...

Bonus 14 - Oak Island Mystery!

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What is the Oak Island Mystery? Why have been teams of people been digging hundreds of feet into the ground for over 200 years there? Is there buried ...

65 - Griselda "The Godmother" Blanco: Cocaine Queenpin

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Griselda Blanco. The Godmother. La Madrina. The Black Widow. The Columbian drug lord who came BEFORE the Medellin Cartel. Before Pablo Escobar. The wo...