In the Spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. And immediately, thanks to outlandish, paranoid Satanic Panic notions, investigative suspicion fell on a local eighteen-year-old, Damien Echols, ignorantly believed to be the leader of a local Satanic cult, and two of his teen friends, falsely believed to be his followers...

The story behind the new Iron Claw movie starring Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White. Was the Von Erich wrestling family actually cursed? I understand why some people think so. Five out of six of wrestling star Fritz Von Erich's sons would die prematurely and tragically, many of them dying shortly after the family became the most famous family in all of professional wrestling.

The first in what will hopefully be many Short Sucks! 45-60 minute stories delivered in a more traditional type of story-telling. No inside jokes and mythology to keep track of. Just some quick extra entertainment! This episode is all about the life of Grady Stiles, Jr. aka Lobster Boy, a "freak show" performer who truly was a monster.

Sharing the life and crimes today of William Lester Suff aka the Riverside Killer. Convicted of killing twelve women after being arrest in 1992 after already serving nearly a decade in prison in Texas for murdering his own child. Come for the true crime, stay for the chili recipe...

Whether or not you've seen the recent Amazon and/or Netflix docuseries on Twin Flames Universe, I think you're gonna love this one. Another cult episode, but with a few major twists. This cult was born and still lives primarily online. And rather than focused on selling salvation, it's focused on selling you romance.

For this year's annual, inspirational episode and wrap-up, I share the surprisingly inspiring and entertaining tale of Colonel Harland Sanders, fiesty man behind the KFC empire. Then I go over what went down in Bad Magic 2023, and what I'm hoping to do in 2024. Hail Nimrod and Happy Holidays!

Did you know the term "incel" no longer generally refers to someone who is just lonely and horny? Now, it's more synonymous with a new kind of domestic terrorist. A rise in mass shootings carried out by self-identified "incels," starting with Elliot Rodger in 2014, has more and more people looking into the "manosphere" that incels digitally inhabit. And it's a sad and terrifying place...

A big, crazy story full of zombie-talk, End Times prophecies, attempts to kill people with magic, and so much more. This week, we lay out a story largely set right here in Idaho about murderous mother, Lori Vallow, and the strange little doomsday cult she became a part of with Chad Daybell.

I finally look into what all the hype about the Murdaugh family murders is about. And the hype... is justified. I provide a summary of the Murdaugh's history of power and influence in South Carolina's Low Country and how a series of financial crimes and murders led to the collapse of their corrupt rural empire.

Want to know where a lot of the core ideas from the many conspiracies that revolve around the idea the a small, secretive cabal of wealthy Jews control the world and want to enslave and destroy humanity come from? Some old debunked Russian propaganda that is still causing problems over 125 years after it was written.

On the evening of May 6th, 2013, in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, three enduring mysteries were shockingly solved. Three missing Cleveland women, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina Dejesus - all long presumed dead - were found to have been held captive by a madman named Ariel Castro for roughly a decade.

You probably are pretty familiar with the Duggar family, from TLC's hit show 19 and Counting. But do you know about the sexual abuse they hid for years? And do you know about the organization, often called a dangerous cult, that shaped their beliefs that may have led to them downplay that sexual abuse, The Institute in Basic Life Principles? Wild one today.

Who decided to add cyanide to a bunch of bottles of Tylenol in the Chicago area in 1982? A couple of real shifty, odd suspects emerged in an investigation that lasted decades.

Headed to 15th century to explore the life of a man who may have been the wealthiest noble in all of France at one point, and commander of France's military - Gilles de Rais. Was this contemporary of Joan of Arc also a demon-worshipper child killer?

The true story behind the Hulu true crime mini-series, Under the Banner of Heaven. How did the "revelations" of a group of FLDS "prophets" lead to the murder of a young Mormon wife and her baby?

When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, he deposed a dictator. And then the man who promised democracy turned into a dictator himself, and turned Cuba communist. Did he also make Cuba better than it was before? Or worse?

Is Larry Hall, currently incarcerated in federal prison on a charge of kidnapping for the purposes of sexual gratification, one of America's most prolific serial killers? Or a serial confessor to murder? A, as some local police who initially interrogated him believed, a wannabe? The true story behind the Apple+ TV series, Black Bird.

How much do you know about "The Forgotten War" as the Korean War - technically a UN Police Action - is often called? Sandwiched between WW2 and Vietnam, it's never gotten the attention it's deserved. So let's give it some!

Have you heard of the Briley Brothers? Three young brothers, and a teenage neighbor, went on a vicious murder, robbery, and rape spree in Richmond, Virginia in 1979. And then two of the brothers later planned a historic death row prison escape.

My favorite episode in months. One that I'm hoping the most curious of the cult of the curious will truly enjoy. Today, we look at the very nature of our existence, how we came to our current theoretical understanding of the universe, what we know about black holes (like how the bend the very fabric of space-time!) and more entertaining and existential mind-candy!

Between August of 1979, and May of 1981, convicted serial rapist David Carpenter escalated to murdering his rape victims, and he killed at least seven young women, and likely several other victims. He also killed the fiancé of one victim and nearly killed the boyfriend of another. David's sexually violent crimes began almost 90 years ago, and he's still alive today, the oldest inmate on California's death row.

Did the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria truly set humanity's progress back 1,000 years? Or is that total speculation? What was stored in what was supposedly the greatest library of the ancient world? What happened to all that knowledge?

Did you ever consider that a non-religious, volunteer organization dedicated to helping the poor gain food, housing, legal aid, etc... could also be part of an abusive Communist Cult? The strange, concerning story of NATLFED today.

On August 9th, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of America, while serving his second term (after winning in a landslide), became the first and still only American leader to resign from office. Why? In a word, "Watergate." But Watergate was only the tip of the corruption iceberg.

Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen isn't known nearly as well in the United States as he is in the UK, but that isn't because his story isn't darkly fascinating. Nilsen's crimes were as... strange as they were brutal. Telling an especially weird true crime tale this week.