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
18 - Charles Manson: Sex, Murder, and Helter Skelter
In 1969 Charles Manson convinced Tex Watson and several young women to brutally murder seven innocent people in Los Angeles, including rising star/model Sharon Tate. Why did he do it and how did he be...
16 Jan 20171h 4min
17 - Is Walmart the Problem?
Is Walmart destroying middle class America? Is it the problem or merely a symptom of a larger economic disease? Find out who's bending over working class Americans and how hard they're sticking it to ...
9 Jan 201758min
16 - Is We Getting Dumberest?
What happened to the good old days when dumb, lazy fucks used to just die in the pre-industrialized, non-welfare state world of yesteryear? It’s never been easier for the least motivated members of s...
2 Jan 201740min
BONUS 1 - Robert the Cursed Doll
Old porcelain dolls weird me out. Especially the kind whose eyes blink when you move them around. Those all too realistic looking glass eyes that seem to be truly watching you. Just thinking about it ...
30 Dec 201642min
15 - LBJ's "Jumbo" Johnson
It was a crazy time in America in the 1960s. JFK was assassinated in Dallas, we were entrenched in Vietnam - a war that deeply divided the nation, the civil rights movement was in full swing, and, fr...
26 Dec 201636min
