25 - Serial Killer H.H. Holmes and his Murder Castle
Who has a murder castle!?! 19th century serial killer H.H. Holmes, that's who. Dubbed "America's first serial killer", Holmes' terrorized Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair, killing an estimated 200...
6 Mar 20171h 5min
24 - Wild West Legend Billy the Kid
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 for insulting him, gunned down another in a saloon, ...
27 Feb 20171h 10min
23 - The Nigerian Email Scam
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 huge inheritance? Why are they almost always supposed...
20 Feb 201747min
22 - Al Capone's Valentine's Day Massacre
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 fifteen times, mowed down with shotguns and Thompson "...
13 Feb 20171h 5min
BONUS 2 - Alien Extravaganza! Roswell, Area 51, UFOs and more!
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 stick things in our butts? Is it all made up!?! Ta...
10 Feb 20171h 30min
21 - Ghosts & Magic: Houdini takes on Spiritualism
In the early 1920s, world renown escape artist and master magician, Harry Houdini, became obsessed with exposing seance-holding mediums as frauds and imposters, sometimes cancelling his own shows to a...
6 Feb 20171h 24min
20 - Insane Insane Asylum Tales
What started off as a listener suggested look into the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia became a disturbing timesuck into the dark history of mental health patient mistreatment,...
30 Jan 201754min
19 - Flat Earth Theory F*ckery
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 gravity is a myth? Do you have no respect for scien...
23 Jan 201749min
