253 - Hammer Happy Serial Killer Peter Kürten, the "Vampire of Dusseldorf"
This guy. Killing mainly in 1929 when he was 46, the final year of his freedom, Peter Kürten would be charged with nine brutal murders and seven attempted murders in 1930, and then executed 1931. Over...
19 Heinä 20212h 3min
252 - Aliens, Sexual Abuse, Disco, Racism, and ... Egyptians? The Nuwaubian Nation of Moors Cult
So much WTF!?! coming at you today. Wow. Dwight York is a maniac. And a terrible writer. And only a good disco/r&b vocalist if you compare him to other cult leaders who also have dabbled in music. But...
12 Heinä 20212h 48min
251 - The Real Inglorious Basterds: Operation Greenup
Operation Greenup was a covert OSS operation carried out by a special group of men many have called the “real life Inglorious Basterds,” a reference to the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film in which a group...
5 Heinä 20212h 15min
250 - Serial Killing Sex-Crazed Couple: Fred and Rose West
My God. This story is so over-the-top, it's hard to accept as true. But sadly, it did happen. For roughly two decades, Fred and Rose West were the patriarch and matriarch of torture, sadism, incest, a...
28 Kesä 20212h 28min
249 - H.P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the Horror You Love Today
Hope you have as fun listening to this one as I had making it! I had no idea prior to digging into this topic, that Lovecraft was so influential on modern horror. Like Stranger Things? Heavily influen...
21 Kesä 20212h 26min
248 - P.T. Barnum and His "Human Curiosities"
Big episode for a big, complex topic today. PT Barnum has been called the The Greatest Showman on Earth. And he certainly was the most famous promoter of the 19th century. He brought entertainment to ...
14 Kesä 20212h 27min
247 - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Colossus of Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Temple of Artemis. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. These...
7 Kesä 20212h 28min
246 - Trail of Tears
When the 1830s began, nearly 125,000 various tribal members lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida - land where their ancestors had lived for cen...
31 Touko 20212h 32min
