Timesuck with Dan Cummins
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Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Jump down new rabbit holes with Timesuck, the weekly podcast that takes you on a fascinating and bizarre journey through history’s darkest corners, most shocking conspiracies, and wildest true stories. Hosted by acclaimed standup comedian and storyteller Dan Cummins, each episode blends dark humor w...
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554 episodis
Nightmare Fuel 37: Dissonance (2 of 2)
Happy Halloween, Meatsacks! The conclusion of our Halloween week fictional horror! In this conclusion to yesterday's release, Duncan Briggs just wants...
Nightmare Fuel 36: Dissonance (1 of 2)
Hello again Meatsacks! The beginning of our last bit of Halloween week fictional horror! This one was originally released back in July. In this first...
Nightmare Fuel 30: Operation Wandering Soul
Hello Meatsacks! Time for more Halloween week horror! This one was, as you can guess, released the week before yesterday's story, from this past May....
Nightmare Fuel 31: The House of Hurt
Time for another Halloween week Nightmare Fuel! This one is from this past May. And in it, we head to Upstate New York's Woodhull Mountain, where Gabe...
Nightmare Fuel 28: He'll Make You Whole
This isn't a mistake, meatsacks! I've been wanting to show you some of the new fictional content I've been working on for awhile now. And the week of...
478 - The Hog Trail Killer
In the mid-1990s, the quiet backwoods of southwest Florida became the hunting grounds of a sadistic killer the media would dub “The Hog Trail Killer.”...
Short Suck #44: The Victorian Monster of Spring-Heeled Jack
From ghostly prankster to urban legend, Spring-Heeled Jack terrorized Victorian London with blue flames, metallic claws, and impossible rooftop leaps—...
477 - The Ogress of Reading and the Horrors of Baby Farming
In Victorian England, “baby farming” turned unwanted infants into a deadly business. Amelia Dyer, known as The Ogress of Reading, used it to hide an u...
476 - The Backpacker Killer: Ivan Milat
When seven backpackers vanished in the early 1990s, the vast Australian bush became the hunting ground of a sadistic killer. For years, hikers stumble...
Short Suck #43: Crescent Hotel Horrors: From Healing Springs to... Hauntings?
Once hailed as a luxurious spa retreat in the Ozarks, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs would earn a far darker reputation - one of fraud, tragedy....
475 - Dragon vs. Eagle: Will China Dethrone the US?
From AI breakthroughs and supply chains to TikTok and military might, China’s rise has reshaped global power over the past few decades. Can the U.S. h...
474 - Krumping for Christ! The 7M Cult & Christian Nationalism
This week, we deep dive into Pastor Robert Shinn, his Shekinah Church, and his management company 7M Films - and examine how a modern cult has (allege...
Short Suck #42: The Dingo Took the Baby: The Lindy Chamberlain Saga
In 1980, a camping trip at Australia’s magical Uluru sandstone monolith turned into an international media storm when nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain...
473 - Selena! When Fame Turns Fatal
Selena rose from an impoverished Texas childhood to become the Queen of Tejano music, breaking barriers and inspiring millions before her life was cut...
472 - The Girl in the Box
On May 19th, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking from her home in Eugene, Oregon, to a friend's birthday party in the little Northern Calif...
Short Suck #41: Stalin's Cannibal Gulag: Nazino Island
In 1933, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had his secret police goons round up hundreds of thousands of former farmers and he sent them into Siberia to c...
471 - South Africa's Ted Bundy: Moses Sithole
In the mid-1990's, convicted rapist Moses Sithole went on a murderous rampage in South Africa. He would blame his sadistic crimes on being falsely imp...
470 - Trial of the Century: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
In many ways, America's modern obsession with true crime began on March 1st, 1932, when the 20th-month-old-son of the most famous man in America, avia...
469 - Action Park: America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
If you were lucky enough to have gone to New Jersey's Action Park before it closed in the '90s, you probably have the scars to prove it. This place wa...
Short Suck #40: 764 The Real Global Satanic Pedophile Cabal
I have long dismissed whisperings of secret Satanic pedophile networks. But, it turns out there truly is an international group associated with a kind...
468 - Richard Cottingham: The Times Square Killer
The Times Square Killer didn't just kill in Times Square. Richard Francis Cottingham committed at least six murders in New York State between 1972 and...
467 - Russian Wizards, Witches, and Folk Magic, Oh My!
Did you know that roughly a million people in Russia today make their living as some kind of wizard, witch, or folk healer? And that some of the most...
Short Suck #39: The Abolitionist John MF'n Brown
You'll be hard pressed to find a man who stood for his convictions more firmly than John Brown. John was an white abolitionist willing to do more to e...
466 - Acres of Skin: Inside the Terrordome
Philadelphia's Holmesburg prison, before it was officially shut down in 1995, had been a house of horrors for much of its history. In addition to bein...
465 - OneTaste: The Orgasmic Meditation Cult
Did you know that women's clitoral orgasms have the power to completely transform the world and turn it into a blissful nirvana free from pain and suf...
Short Suck #38: Hollywood’s Biggest Forgotten Scandal: Patricia Douglas
Patricia Douglas was a young dancer and an extra working in Hollywood during its so-called Golden Era when she was tricked into attending a party Tins...
464 - The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke
Eric Edgar Cooke, nicknamed the Night Caller and the Nedlands Monster, was a serial killer who terrorized Perth, Australia from 1958 to 1963. He was i...
463 - The Tuskegee Study (Secret, Deadly Medical Testing on American Citizens)
From 1932 to 1972, six hundred poor, black sharecroppers in Alabama were told they were being treated for "bad blood," when in reality, the US governm...
Short Suck #37 - The Very Avoidable Oceangate Disaster
On June 18th, 2023, a deep-sea submersible called The Titan operated by the private company OceanGate mysteriously vanished while its CEO piloted fou...
462 - Murder, Inc.
In the 1930s, an association of primarily Italian mafiosos and Jewish organized crime gangsters, based in Brooklyn, was formed for the purpose of putt...
461 - The University of Cosmic Intelligence
Did you know that US government is engaged in efforts to close stargates to other dimensions? Did you know that they engage in weather modification? O...
Short Suck #36 - The Shocking Case of Mary Bell
In the summer of 1968, two young children, both under the age of five, turned up dead in Scotswood, a run down neighborhood of primarily government ho...
460 - Real Life Supervillain Mike DeBardeleben
Ever heard the name Mike DeBardeleben? I hadn't either until very recently. This guy was something else. A prolific counterfeiter the Secret Service s...
459 - The Acid King, the Grateful Dead, and the Birth of the Counterculture Revolution
Do you recognize the name, Owsley Stanley? If you're not a devoted Dead Head, probably not. But he's the guy who met the Dead when they had just forme...
Short Suck #35 - Issei Sagawa: The Unrepentant Cannibal
Issei Sagawa aka the Kobe Cannibal, made a living for most of his life off of the infamy he attained... for murdering and then eating a young Dutch wo...
458 - WTFF? The Madness of the Zizian Cult
Do you believe that all non-vegans should die? In part for their needless murder of senseless people like.... cows? And in part because their predator...
457 - Samuel Little: The Choke-and-Stroke Killer
This week we cover the life and crimes of the most prolific serial killer in US history, Samuel Little. A monster the LAPD once dubbed "The Choke and...
456 - The Staircase Murders
Did you ever watch the Staircase docu-series on Netflix? Or the 2022 HBO MAX adaptation? I watched both, and still wanted to learn more about the divi...
Short Suck #34 - The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
In the 1960s, Natalie Wood was one of the world's leading actress, her star shining as bright as Elizabeth Taylor's. She'd been acting since she was a...
455 - The Bone Wars
The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, is what a period of intense fossil hunting in the late 19th century came to be called, thanks pr...