249 - H.P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the Horror You Love Today
Hope you have as fun listening to this one as I had making it! I had no idea prior to digging into this topic, that Lovecraft was so influential on modern horror. Like Stranger Things? Heavily influen...
21 Juni 20212h 26min
248 - P.T. Barnum and His "Human Curiosities"
Big episode for a big, complex topic today. PT Barnum has been called the The Greatest Showman on Earth. And he certainly was the most famous promoter of the 19th century. He brought entertainment to ...
14 Juni 20212h 27min
247 - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Colossus of Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Temple of Artemis. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. These...
7 Juni 20212h 28min
246 - Trail of Tears
When the 1830s began, nearly 125,000 various tribal members lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida - land where their ancestors had lived for cen...
31 Maj 20212h 32min
245 - Karl Denke, the Cannibal of Ziębice
Heard of this guy before? If you haven't, I'm with you. I hadn't either. And then once I got into this story, I wondered HOW had I never heard of him? This story is insane. Karl Denke killed, it seems...
24 Maj 20212h 2min
244 - Crazy US Laws!
Today we take a fun and sometimes concerning tour around the United States looking at laws that are still on the books that either definitely shouldn't be, shouldn't have ever been, are sadly necessar...
17 Maj 20212h 14min
243 - The Angel's Landing Cult
Cult! Cult! Cult! We're back to sucking on a cult - a small and relatively unknown one which is surprising considering how crazy this story is. For well over a decade, conman Daniel Perez convinced a ...
10 Maj 20212h 12min
242 - Jameson Whiskey and Cannibalism
Whiskey! Today’s suck is SOAKED in whiskey. Mostly, in Jameson - some Irish whiskey.John Jameson - the founder of Jameson - was originally a lawyer from Alloa in Scotland before he founded a distiller...
3 Maj 20211h 51min
