97 - Spartacus: When Gladiators Attacked Rome Itself
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other gladiators and slaves and then led a slave rebellion against the armies of Rome in the 1st century B...
23 Jul 20181h 46min
96 - Pennhurst State Hospital: Pennsylvania's Dirty Secret
Billed now as the Pennhurst Haunted Asylum, Pennhurst was never an asylum. It wasn't a home for the mentally ill when it first opened its doors in 1908. It was a home for epileptics and the intellectu...
16 Jul 20181h 42min
Bonus 24 - The Toy Box Killer: New Mexico's Satanic Sadist
WARNING/DISCLAIMER: This is the most disturbing episode of Timesuck thus far. To the point I considered not releasing it. Maybe it just hit me unusually hard for some reason but the crime scene detail...
13 Jul 20181h 53min
95 - Pancho MFN' Villa: Mexico's Robin Hood
Pancho Villa! Pancho Villa was a revolutionary fighter who despised the wealthy landowners who had subjugated the impoverished farming class, comprised of mostly indigenous people, since long before h...
9 Jul 20181h 41min
94 - The Donner Party: Cannibalism, Cholera, and More Horribleness
The story of the Donner Party is one of the most disturbing tales of western migration during the time of Manifest Destiny, the common 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand...
2 Jul 20181h 43min
93 - The Aztec Empire: So Much Human Sacrifice!
Today we’re talking about the Aztecs! The Aztecs built a vast empire, one that outpaced, out-staged, and out-populated the likes of Paris at the time. They were a powerhouse warrior based society with...
25 Jun 20182h
Bonus 23 - Knights Templar pt 2 of 2: Fall and Conspiracies
The Knights Templar fought their last stand in the Holy Land (their last proper stand) in Acre in 1291 and shit was epic. They went down, but, they didn't go down easy. And then, less than two decades...
22 Jun 20181h 49min
92 - Knights Templar pt 1 of 2: License to Kill (Rise of the Pope's Army)
The Knights Templar was founded in 1119 CE on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty - but they soon, ironically became immensely wealthy and obedient to almost no one but themselves and th...
18 Jun 20181h 52min
