Short Suck #18 - The War of the Worlds

Short Suck #18 - The War of the Worlds

On the evening of October 30th, 1938, the CBS Radio Network broadcasted Orson Welles's live adaptation of the 1897 HG Wells classic, groundbreaking sci-fi novel, The War of the Worlds, all across America. And those who paid close attention knew it was fiction. But thousands and thousands of others who didn't... literally thought the US was currently being invaded and attacked by hostile, killer aliens from Mars and fellow citizens were dying in droves. They panicked and true pandemonium ensued!

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464 - The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

464 - The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

Eric Edgar Cooke, nicknamed the Night Caller and the Nedlands Monster, was a serial killer who terrorized Perth, Australia from 1958 to 1963. He was incredibly hard to catch, because his MO was to not...

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463 - The Tuskegee Study (Secret, Deadly Medical Testing on American Citizens)

463 - The Tuskegee Study (Secret, Deadly Medical Testing on American Citizens)

From 1932 to 1972, six hundred poor, black sharecroppers in Alabama were told they were being treated for "bad blood," when in reality, the US government was conducting an experiment on how untreated ...

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Short Suck #37 - The Very Avoidable Oceangate Disaster

Short Suck #37 - The Very Avoidable Oceangate Disaster

On June 18th, 2023,  a deep-sea submersible called The Titan operated by the private company OceanGate mysteriously vanished while its CEO piloted four passengers who had paid $250,000 each to visit t...

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462 - Murder, Inc.

462 - Murder, Inc.

In the 1930s, an association of primarily Italian mafiosos and Jewish organized crime gangsters, based in Brooklyn, was formed for the purpose of putting distance between the underworld figures orderi...

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461 - The University of Cosmic Intelligence

461 - The University of Cosmic Intelligence

Did you know that US government is engaged in efforts to close stargates to other dimensions? Did you know that they engage in weather modification? Or that Arizona is part of Africa? Or that NBA play...

30 Jun 20252h 27min

Short Suck #36 - The Shocking Case of Mary Bell

Short Suck #36 - The Shocking Case of Mary Bell

In the summer of 1968, two young children, both under the age of five, turned up dead in Scotswood, a run down neighborhood of primarily government housing in the industrial English city of Newcastle ...

27 Jun 202558min

460 - Real Life Supervillain Mike DeBardeleben

460 - Real Life Supervillain Mike DeBardeleben

Ever heard the name Mike DeBardeleben? I hadn't either until very recently. This guy was something else. A prolific counterfeiter the Secret Service spent many years chasing. Also someone who kidnappe...

23 Jun 20252h 49min

459 - The Acid King, the Grateful Dead, and the Birth of the Counterculture Revolution

459 - The Acid King, the Grateful Dead, and the Birth of the Counterculture Revolution

Do you recognize the name, Owsley Stanley? If you're not a devoted Dead Head, probably not. But he's the guy who met the Dead when they had just formed, supplied them with LSD, and helped them form th...

16 Jun 20252h 54min

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