Episode 345 – Quilting Notions

No wraparound shades for you! This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering Heartbeat in the Brain and the history of self-trepanation, as well as the Van Meter Visitor. Plus: Katy Perry flops in space, Drag Race’s LaLaPaRuza needed a better DJ, and a death on a New York subway takes more dark turns than we were ready for.

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1-2. Trepanned skulls
3. A hand trepan
4-5. Bart Huges
6. Amanda Feilding and Birdie
7-8. Stills from ‘Heartbeat in the Brain’
9. Joseph Mellen
10. Cover of Joseph Mellen’s book, ‘Bore Hole’
11. Amanda Feilding in present-day
12. Van Meter
13. The Van Meter Bank
14-18. Artwork of the Van Meter Visitor
19. The Van Meter Visitor Festival

Spooky Gay Bullshit #182 – Yolanda Piñata

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: an iPad found on the Thames has got some stories to tell, new details about the sinking of the Titanic, a de-extinction group puts their focus on the dire wolf, a mystery unfolding around two people found in the back of a moving truck, and how bad planning made one man’s funeral a flop.

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1. Louis Ahearne, Daniel Kelly, and Stewart Ahearne
2. Bullets in Paul Allen’s window
3. The washed up iPad
4-11. Titanic scans
12-13. Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolves, Romulus and Remus
14. Romulus and Remus as pups
15. The high speed U-Haul chase
16. Victims being rescued
17. Stacy Walker (Stacy is a man! oopsie poopsie!)
18-19. The funeral flop

Episode 344 – Fingerless Gloves

What is it about? This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the Vance Family tragedy, as well as the murder of Carol DiMaiti Stuart. Plus: the Tiger King’s sketchy legacy lives on, big surprises as Drag Race hits their semi-final, and Johnny’s award-winning Billie Eilish impression comes to say hello.

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1. Rebecca Vance
2. Christine Vance
3. Talon Vance
4. Talon’s journal
5-9. The campsite
10. Crosses laid out at the Vance campsite
11-12. Carol DiMaiti and Charles Stuart
13. Michael Stuart
14. Recovery of Charles’ body from Mystic River
15. Alan Swanson receiving an apology from the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu in 2023
16. Willie Bennett in 2023

Spooky Gay Bullshit #181 – Woodstock ’99 In Our Hearts

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: one man’s hunt to figure out who he’s pissed off, more proof why North Sentinel Island needs to be better protected, a couple that can’t keep it in their pants at a graveyard, Otterwatch is back in business, and for once Florida gains a reputation for something positive.

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1. Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery
2. Car left outside the cemetery
3. North Sentinel Island
4. A group of the Sentinelese people
5. Alex Van Duyn
6. The gallons of pee
7. Missing otter poster
8. Ophelia the otter
9. Top 10 USA states to survive an alien invasion

Episode 343 – Wire Me, Boys!

Well, that’s one approach to problem solving… This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, as well as the murders of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton. Plus: pondering ghost life at IKEA, Drag Race brings in the emotional big guns, and a sad family case unfolds after the death of a bagpiper.

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1-2. Channon Christian and Chris Newsom
3. Lemaricus Davidson
4. Letalvis Cobbins
5. George Thomas
6. Eric Boyd
7. Vanessa Coleman
8. Jerry Dean
9. Deborah Thornton
10. The pick axe
11-14. Karla Faye Tucker
15-16. Protests for Karla

Spooky Gay Bullshit #180 – Burnt Blueberry Bagels

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: when the monster under the bed is actually there, a person dies after getting rabies from a donated organ, teens try to murder their mother because she cut the Wi-Fi, a woman may have swept the category for most vile thing ever done at an airport, and Valerie the mini dachshund’s ongoing survival story in the bush.

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1. The “monster” under the bed
2. The University of Toledo Medical Center
3. The home where a mother was attacked by her children
4. Alison Lawrence
5. Alison with her dog
6. Dog tags retrieved from trash
7. Valerie
8. Kangaroo Island

Episode 342 – I’se Not the B’y

It’s spring, innit? This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the 1978 UFO encounters of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the crimes of Josef Fritzl. Plus: a mystery beach find has folks scratching their heads, Drag Race’s reprisal of the ugliest dress runway ain’t pretty, and a little reminder for our Canadian listeners to vote.

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1. James Blackwood during his interview
2. James’ drawing of the UFO
3. Clarenville, Newfoundland
4. St. Anthony, Newfoundland
5. Black Tickle, Labrador
6-7. Reports from the Canadian Archives
8. Bakeapples
9. The commemorative coin
10. James Blackwood aka the Raccoon Whisperer
11. Josef Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie
12-13. Elisabeth Fritzl prior to her kidnapping
14. Map of Fritzl’s basement
15. Part of the “public” portion of the basement
16. Bathroom in the hidden bunker
17. Hallway in the hidden bunker
18. Public outside the Fritzl house
19. Josef Fritzl after his arrest

Spooky Gay Bullshit #179 – Community Vape

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: unsettling news from a remote Antarctic base, folks come together after a 32-year-old man allegedly held captive by his family for 20 years is discovered, a TikToker working on an auction house finds more than they bargained for, a wildlife group looking for public help identifying a mystery animal, and answers about some strange QR codes found on headstones in Germany.

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1. Sanae IV research station
2. The Sullivan home
3. Kimberly Sullivan
4. The auctioned house
5. The skeleton
6. The mystery animal
7-8. Cemetery QR codes

Episode 341 – Darn’t

Toes? I want those! This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the Betz Sphere mystery, as well as the murder of Monika Beerle. Plus: Drag Race should have eliminated Ross Mathews this past episode, a misguided case of finders keepers, and little-known facts about both kinds of Foo Fighters.

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1. The Betz Sphere
2. The Betz’s former home in present day
3. Wayne Betz with the Sphere
4. Antoine and Jerri Betz with the Sphere
5. Terry Betz with the Sphere in 1974
6. The Sphere at the National Enquirer tests
7. Betz Sphere x-ray
8-9. Monika Beerle
10-11. Daniel Rakowitz
12. Daniel holding Rooster in Tompkins Square

Spooky Gay Bullshit #178 – Crystal Cool

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: a groundbreaking Tooth-in-Eye surgery comes to Canada, an embalmer gets caught exacting revenge on a corpse, a member of the Ghost Adventures team almost became a potential show topic, a magickal twist adds mystery to an already tricky case of fraud, and a guy’s ‘harmless habit’ lands him in the hospital.

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1. Tooth with lens added
2-3. Results of tooth in eye surgery
4. Amber Laudermilk
5. Charles Roy Rodriguez
6. Aaron and Victoria Goodwin
7. Grant Amato aka the hitman
8. Lilavati Hospital
9. The nose picker