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436 - The History of Sh*t (Literally)
Do you ever think about where your poo goes once you flush it down the toilet? Or about how not having access to toilets... or the sewer systems beneath them... would dramatically (and negatively) im…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
435 - Dolly Parton: WWDD?
Time for some year end inspiration from the incomparable Dolly Parton! A true living legend. If all you think about when you think of Dolly is big hair, bigger boobs, and some catchy songs, I hope yo…
Published on 1 year ago
Short Suck #24 - The Improbable Survival of Phineas Gage
On September 13th, 1848, a dynamite blast rocketed a 43-inch long, 13-pound iron bar completely through the skull of 25-year-old railway worker Phineas Gage. It landed some eighty feet away, covered …
Published on 1 year ago
434 - Shelby Hewitt: The 32-Year-Old 7th Grader
Have you heard about the recent case of Shelby Hewitt? The 32 year-old Massachusetts Social Worker enrolled in two different Boston area public high schools as a sixteen year-old sophomore, and then …
Published on 1 year ago
433 - The Vatican Girl Disappearance
On June 22nd, 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared after attending a music lesson in Rome. Following her disappearance, a mystery surrounding it has deepened for over four decades, involvin…
Published on 1 year ago
Short Suck #23 - The Weird But True Dancing Plague of 1518
What a tale I have for you today! In 1518, a very peculiar form of madness fell over the people of the city of Strasbourg (modern day France) in the Holy Roman Empire. People started... dancing. A lo…
Published on 1 year ago
432 - Gerald Stano: Florida's Forgotten Monster
Have you ever heard of serial killer Gerald Stano? For years, he sat on death row in Florida, just a few cells down from Ted Bundy. He's also believed my most sources to have killed more girls and yo…
Published on 1 year ago
431 - 400+ Dead in the Forest: The Malindi Doomsday Cult
We take a look at the recent, tragic final act of a doomsday cult in Kenya that left 448 dead and another 613 missing in March of 2023. How did cult leader Paul Mackenzie, pastor of Good News Interna…
Published on 1 year ago
430 - Sigmund Freud: The Sex Crazed Father of Psychoanalysis
Does not having a penis make you feel inferior due to a bad case of penis envy? Do you or have you ever wanted to have sex with your mother? Or your father? When most people think of Freud they think…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
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 tha…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago