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88 - Aokigahara: Japan's Suicide Forest
An alarming number of Japanese citizens have taken a dark pilgrimage to the Aokigahara forest, more commonly known as Japan’s suicide forest, to end their lives, most commonly by hanging themselves f…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
87 - The "Real" Men in Black
Cold Open: The Men in Black. The men who inspired the movies, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Who or what are they? Aliens? Extra top secret government officials specializing in suppressing UFO-r…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
BONUS 21 - Jack the Ripper!
From August seventh to September tenth, 1888, a crazed killer who came to be known as "Jack the Ripper” terrorized the Whitechapel district of London's impoverished East End. This extremely violent s…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
86 - The Green River Killer
Gary "The Green River Killer" Ridgway is currently in prison in Walla Walla, Washington, having been convicted of 49 different murders, most of which took place in the early and mid-1980s. It took in…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
85 - The Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition started in 1478 and lasted all the way until 1834 - and it was terrible the whole time. But it was at its worst in the first hundred years, when thousands and thousands of inn…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
84 - The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel 2 of 2
In 1973, 21 year old German college student Anneliese Michel began to descend into an existence of pure and utter madness. She had begun to see the faces of demons appear around her with increasing f…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
BONUS 20 - The Demonic Possession of Anneliese Michel 1 of 2
Anneliese Michel would die in a small, German town on July 1st, 1976. The official cause of death? Malnutrition and dehydration. But why did she stop eating? Mental illness? She’d seen a plethora of …
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
83 - Lost Books of the Bible!
The Lost Books of the Bible! Is that really what we’re talking about today on Timesuck? Yes. Was I super excited to dive into this topic when I found out our Space Lizard listeners voted it in on the…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
82 - The Westboro Baptist Lunatics
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), founded by hatemonger Fred Phelps, is an American church (cult) known for protesting funerals with preposterously homophobic signs and for its use of inflammatory h…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
81 - The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted. In 1971, newly tenured psychology professor Richard Zimbardo turned the basement of the Stanford Univers…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago