Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
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,...
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 u...
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 itse...
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?...
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,...
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 m...
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...
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 nonvi...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 State...
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 ...
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....
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 t...
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...
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 modifi...
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 th...
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&...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 do...
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 himsel...
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 Sy...
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 Creatur...
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 ...
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'...
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 ...
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 o...
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 -...
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? W...
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 w...
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, We...
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 propel...
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 innocen...
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 econom...
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,...
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. Th...
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...
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 ...
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’...
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 t...
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 di...
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...
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 ...
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 Ha...
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 beco...
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 P...
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 aroun...
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...
3 - The Big One
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Your chances of dying in "the big one" Southern California earthquake are roughly the sam...
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 ...
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 sin...
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 OUTL...