Short Suck #22 - The Kentler Experiment: That One Time Germany Intentionally Hired Pedos To Be Foster Parents
Today I'm sharing a wild story that I'm surprised isn't much more known - that one time Germany intentionally hired known pedophiles to be the foster parents of unsuspecting little boys, thinking that...
22 Nov 202458min
429 - Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos: Damsel of Death
The true story behind the incredible 2003 film, Monster, about sex worker and serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, who killed seven men over the course of one year beginning in November of 1989. Aileen's st...
18 Nov 20242h 24min
428 - Andrew Higgins: D-Day's Secret War Hero
Happy Veteran's Day! On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, over 150,000 Allied troops stormed Nazi-defended beaches in northern France in the largest military amphibious assault operation the world had ever seen....
11 Nov 20242h 40min
Short Suck #21 - The Servant Girl Annihilator aka The Midnight Assassin
Today I'm sharing the little known Servant Girl Annihilator murders. A series of crimes just as shocking as the crimes of London's Jack the Ripper murders, but occurred three years earlier, in Austin,...
8 Nov 202453min
427 - McCarthyism: When Red Scare Paranoia Destroyed Innocent Lives
Back in the 1950s, America was very afraid of Soviet spies and communist sympathizers infiltrating the government and destroying the United States from within. And there were actual spies sharing secr...
4 Nov 20242h 32min
426 - The San Francisco Witch Killers
In the early 1980s, Suzan and Michael Carson were very worried about witches. They thought there witches all over America, even the President, Ronald Regan, was a witch. And sometimes, in order to def...
28 Okt 20242h 30min
Short Suck #20 - Are Tulpas Real? The Spooky Story of Olivia Mabel
Today I’ll be sharing the strange and spooky story of Olivia Mabel. It's a story presented as a true story, centered around the unsettling concept of a “tulpa.” A thought form and sentient being wille...
25 Okt 202441min
425 - Ireland's True Houses of Horror
In 1975, two young boys in Tuam were exploring the grounds of one of Ireland's abandoned Mother and Baby Homes when they lifted up a loose concrete slab and found several tiny human skulls hidden unde...
21 Okt 20242h 17min
