Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Episodes
64 - Pizzagate: How to make lies sound like truth
04 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What the Hell is Pizzagate? It’s a detailed conspiracy theory claiming that a pedophile ring - a Satanic pedophile ring was being run out of a Hilla...
63 - BTK Killer: Bind. Torture. Kill.
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
BTK. Bind. Torture. Kill. The name Wichita Serial Killer Dennis Rader gave to himself in the 1970s in letters he sent to the Wichita press where he wo...
BONUS 13 - Unit 731: Japan's Evil Experiments
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is Unit 731? It was one of Japan's WWII era medical research centers where doctors performed horrific experiments on prisoners, gruesomely tortur...
62 - Dyatlov Pass Incident
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sometime in the late hours of Feb. 1st, 1959, nine Russian college students died tragically in the Northern Ural mountains of the Soviet Union. When t...
61 - Chief Crazy Horse
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chief Crazy Horse. Pride of the Lakota people. Brilliant military tactician who handed the US Military it’s two greatest losses ever delivered at th...
60 - Man of War: Chesty Puller
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The most highly decorated Marine in the history of the Corps, Lewis "Chesty" Puller won five Navy Crosses, a Purple Heart, a Silver Star, the Army Dis...
BONUS 12 - The Zodiac Killer
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Who killed five people for sure and possibly many more in central California in late 1968 and 1969 and then taunted the entire Bay Area with letters s...
59 - The Shadow People
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a Halloween edition of Timesuck! Have you ever felt like something in the shadows was watching you? Something ominous. Have you ever woken ...
58 - The Bermuda Triangle
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What actually goes on in the Bermuda Triangle? Do more ships and airplanes disappear within it’s borders than they do anywhere elsewhere? And if the...
BONUS 11 - The Amityville Horror
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At roughly 3:00 AM, Nov. 13, 1974, twenty three year old Ronald Joseph "Butch" DeFeo Jr took a thirty-five caliber Marlin rifle and executed all six m...
57 - The Butcher of Rostov: Serial Killer Andrei Chikatilo
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We go REAL dark this week on Timesuck with an examination of Russian serial killer and relentless sadist Andrei Chikatilo, a monster who killed betwee...
56 - The Wonderland Murders (live performance in Hollywood!): Coke, Porn, and John Holmes
09 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Four dead bodies were found on July 1, 1981, at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was the most gruesome LA m...
BONUS 10 - Timesuck Sucks Itself
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Timesuck sucks itself in this special 1,000 review bonus edition of Timesuck! Why did I create Timesuck in the first place? Why did I get into standup...
55 - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to Amelia Earhart on July 2nd, 1937? Where did Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappear to? Amelia was due to land on Howland Is...
54 - Heaven's Gate UFO Cult
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What led 39 people to kill themselves in a desperate attempt to board a spaceship in 1997? Why did anyone believe that Marshall Applewhite, a former c...
53 - Teddy MF'n Roosevelt! President Tough Guy
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
America's 26th President went from an asthmatic child to a weightlifting, boxing, mountain climbing, book writing, lots-of-animals killing, calvary ro...
BONUS 9 - The Salem Witch Trials
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
So much crazy in one episode. In 1692, the residents of Salem Village became obsessed with the idea that the Devil himself was in their midst and that...
52 - 9/11: Looking Back at the Day That Changed America Forever
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Department of Homeland Security. The enduring military occupation of Afghanistan that began as Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global War on Te...
51 - "The Iceman": Serial Killer Richard Kuklinski
04 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Kuklinski once shot a man twice in the head on Christmas Eve because the guy owed him $1600. He beat a kid to death with a closet rod when he ...
50 - The Ku Klux Klan: Who are these hatemongers?
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recent events in Charlottesville, VA reminded me that the KKK is still around. I realized I've never thought much about who these people are. When was...
BONUS 8 - Project MK Ultra: The CIA experiments with LSD
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1950s, while many Americans were busy watching I Love Lucy or waiting for the new Elvis Presley album, the members of the CIA's Project MK Ultr...
49 - Kurt Cobain: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alt Rock's Greatest Icon
21 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I remember the exact moment I first heard Nirvana and I remember the day he died. But I didn't know how hard he had to work for Nirvana to break throu...
48 - Slenderman: A Modern Monster is Born
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, two twelve year old Wisconsin girls believed in monsters. They believed in one, Slenderman, so completely, they decided to kill their friend ...
47 - Rasputin: Russia's Mad Monk
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rasputin is one of the strangest historical figures out there. He was a Siberian peasant who ended up becoming part of the Tsar's inner circle due to ...
46 - Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory: Most Prolific Female Serial Killer Ever?
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
16th century Hungary was a place and time of unimaginable violence. Europe had been at war with itself and the Ottoman Turks for centuries. Hungary wa...
45 - North Korea: Prison Posing as a Nation
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is happening over in North Korea and why do we not try and stop the atrocities being committed? Just how insane is Kim Jong-un? (VERY) How bad is...
44 - The Transgender Debate
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What does it actually mean to be transgender? Why does one person identifying as transgender scare, disgust, or enrage so many others? Does it really...
BONUS 7 - Vlad "the Impaler" Dracula: Man Behind the Vampire
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do you become the real life basis for the most famous monster of our time? By being one of the most sadistic and terrifying figures who ever lived...
43 - The Lost City of Atlantis! So Many Crazy Theories...
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Atlantis! Did a highly advanced civilization sink into the sea tens of thousands of years ago? Can the cultures of the Romans, Maya, Incas, Mesopota...
42 - Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life, Legacy and Assassination Conspiracy
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How much do you really know about Martin Luther King, Jr.? Did you know he was so committed to nonviolence that he refused to even defend himself from...
41 - Blood and Glory: True Tales of the Texas Rangers
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If it weren't for the Texas Rangers, Texas probably wouldn't be a state today. These wild, eccentric frontiersman rode into battle on crippled legs, g...
40 - Doomsday Drama! Nostradamus & Apocalypse Prophets
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Did Nostradamus predict a series of major world events that would occur hundreds of years after his death? Did he know when the world would end? Or i...
39 - Bonnie & Clyde: Original Gangsters
12 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On May 23rd, 1934, 23 year old Bonnie Parker was shot 26 times. 25 year old Clyde Barrow was shot 17 times. They died in a hail of gunfire, initiated ...
38 - JFK Assassination Part 2 of 2
05 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The conclusion of Timesuck's first two part episode. Do I think Oswald killed Kennedy? I don't think so. Do I think the CIA was involved in Kennedy's ...
BONUS 6 - JFK Assassination Part 1 of 2
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We know that on November 22nd, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30PM CST while traveling...
37 - Shark Attacks! Great Whites, Megalodon, & Blood in the Water…
29 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Why do sharks terrify us? How dangerous are they? Can they attack in fresh water!?! Can they nibble your dick off!?! SO MANY QUESTIONS!!! So many answ...
36 - Jeffrey Dahmer: The Cannibal of Milwaukee
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sadist. Rapist. Pedophile. Murderer. Cannibal. Necrophiliac. Jeffrey Dahmer was all of these things. But why? Why did he do it? What exactly did he do...
35 - Murder, Drugs, Porn, and Pirates: Tales From the Dark Web
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday, May 25th, 2015, 31 year old Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, was sentenced to life in prison for money laundering, computer h...
34 - Jonestown Massacre: Cult leader Jim Jones and his mass suicide in South America
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The most insane suck yet, Timesuckers. How did a pastor and political activist convince nearly 1,000 people to move from California to a communist jun...
33 - Designer Babies: The Scary Pandora's Box of Genetic Modification
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly are designer babies? What plants and animals have scientists already genetically modified? Have any humans been genetically modified? How...
BONUS 5 - Pablo Escobar: Coke, Power, Mayhem & So Much Money
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do you rise from being so poor your parents can't afford to buy you shoes for school to being the 7th richest man in the entire world? If you're P...
32 - Marilyn Monroe: Life, Death, & Murder Conspiracy
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What do you know about Marilyn Monroe? Did you know it took years after she being "discovered" for her to "make it"? That she spe...
31 - The Mandela Effect: False Memories, Satanic Cults, Parallel Universes, and more...
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Mandela Effect: a large group of people remembering an event that never happened or remembering an alternate version of an event that did happen i...
30 - Caligula: Rome's Monstrous Son
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest episode! The hosts of the wildly entertaining Crime and Sports and Small Town Murder podcasts, James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman, r...
29 - The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
03 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On February 1st, 2013, 21 year old Canadian college student Elisa Lam vanished while staying at the Cecil hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Her nude, dec...
BONUS 4 - Scientology
31 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Scientology. What do they believe? How did it begin? Who, exactly, was L Ron Hubbard? What appeal does it have for Tom Cruise? So much crazy revealed ...
28 - Blackbeard the pirate!
27 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In just a year as captain of his own fleet of pirates, Blackbeard made one hell of a name for himself. A name that's lasted to this day. Pistols, cutl...
27 - ISIS, Syria, and Islam
20 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Yup. ISIS. We're talking about them Timesuckers! A brief explanation of Islam, what's going on in Syria, and how President Assad may be even worse tha...
26 - Sasquatch vs Loch Ness Monster!
13 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Skunk Ape from Shreveport, the Bigfoot from Bremerton squaring off against the Sea Creature from Scotland, the dinosaur of Drumnadrochit. S...
BONUS 3 - Hitler's Third Reich: How Did It Happen?
10 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How did Hitler and his Nazi Party ever gain political power in 1930s Germany? Why didn't the German people revolt? Why didn't America or any other cou...
25 - Serial Killer H.H. Holmes and his Murder Castle
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Who has a murder castle!?! 19th century serial killer H.H. Holmes, that's who. Dubbed "America's first serial killer", Holmes' terrorized Ch...
24 - Wild West Legend Billy the Kid
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
William Bonney aka Billy the Kid killed several men while still a teenager and shot his way out of a New Mexico jail when he was 21. He shot a man fo...
23 - The Nigerian Email Scam
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered who's sending you those crazy emails from someone claiming to want share a large sum of money with you or be tracking you down for a hug...
22 - Al Capone's Valentine's Day Massacre
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Feb. 14th, 1929, seven men were found dead in a North Side Chicago garage. The scene was grisly - each man had been shot anywhere from nine to fift...
BONUS 2 - Alien Extravaganza! Roswell, Area 51, UFOs and more!
10 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When did humans first claim to be contacted by extraterrestrials? What really happened at Roswell? What is going on at Area 51? Why do aliens want to ...
21 - Ghosts & Magic: Houdini takes on Spiritualism
06 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1920s, world renown escape artist and master magician, Harry Houdini, became obsessed with exposing seance-holding mediums as frauds and ...
20 - Insane Insane Asylum Tales
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What started off as a listener suggested look into the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia became a disturbing timesuck into the ...
19 - Flat Earth Theory F*ckery
23 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a Flat Earth Society edition of Timesuck! Think the Earth is a floating disc being propelled upwards by something you can't define? Think g...
18 - Charles Manson: Sex, Murder, and Helter Skelter
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 1969 Charles Manson convinced Tex Watson and several young women to brutally murder seven innocent people in Los Angeles, including rising star/mod...
17 - Is Walmart the Problem?
09 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is Walmart destroying middle class America? Is it the problem or merely a symptom of a larger economic disease? Find out who's bending over working cl...
16 - Is We Getting Dumberest?
02 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to the good old days when dumb, lazy fucks used to just die in the pre-industrialized, non-welfare state world of yesteryear? It’s ...
BONUS 1 - Robert the Cursed Doll
30 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Old porcelain dolls weird me out. Especially the kind whose eyes blink when you move them around. Those all too realistic looking glass eyes that seem...
15 - LBJ's "Jumbo" Johnson
26 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It was a crazy time in America in the 1960s. JFK was assassinated in Dallas, we were entrenched in Vietnam - a war that deeply divided the nation, t...
14 - Krampus: The Christmas Devil.
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the mountains of central Europe, jolly old St. Nick doesn’t work alone. He leaves the handling of the naughty list to Krampus - a horned, goat-le...
13 - The Dead Do Tell Tales
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Timesucker and British archaeologist Rebecca Pridmore sent me some fascinating articles on what we’ve learned from the excavation of various ancient...
12 - Elon Musk's Mars Mission
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to have a million people living on Mars by 2070 and wants to send the first 100 people to permanently live on...
11 - Ted Bundy, Real Life Monster
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Bundy is perhaps the most disturbing serial killer of the 20th century. Why? For starters, he didn’t look like a serial killer, so you can’t c...
10 - Robots, Artificial Intelligence, & Extinction?
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Will we see robots that look, feel, and communicate in such lifelike ways that we won’t be able to tell them apart from other humans in our lifetime...
9 - Corey Haim: Lost Years of the Lost Boy
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s to being a junkie and out-of-work actor labeled as...
8 - A President, Mole People, and Hollow Earth Theory
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States, a Massachusetts State Senator, a Harvard professor, the Secretary of State, and a mem...
7 - Halloween Origins
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is Halloween? Where does it come from? When did people start asking for candy? When did it become an excuse for women to dress like porn stars?? ...
6 - The Mongol Mass-Beheading of Nishapur
24 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Mongols sacked many cities over the course of their reign, but perhaps none so brutally as the Persian jewel of Nishapur in 1221. When they were d...
5 - The Great Clown Scare of 2016
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Year of the creepy clown. What's behind the insane number of creepy clown sightings happening around the world? Why do we fear clowns? Have these cre...
4 - Sociopaths and Psychopaths
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is a sociopath? What's a psychopath? Do you know one? Are you one? Dan breaks down the clinical definition of both and defines them in his own te...
3 - The Big One
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Your chances of dying in "the big one" Southern California earthquake are roughly the same as of being shot and killed by a toddler accordi...
2 - Weird Sex Customs
26 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Roman orgies! Columbian bestiality! Irish underwear! Find out what the Hell Dan is referring to and learn what Dan considers to be the ten strangest s...
1 - Lizard Illuminati Conspiracy
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Did you believe that a race of alien lizards has been secretly running the world’s governments since the dawn of human civilization, mining for mono...
What is Timesuck?
04 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Timesuck! Do you wonder how people end up in doomsday cults? Or why they believe in OUTLANDISH conspiracies? Are you morbidly curious abou...