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October 17, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #209 – Italian Spiders

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 Spanish town halts black cat adoptions over Halloween season, a bat that almost got flushed down the toilet gets released back into the wild, Chicago’s infamous rat hole presents a slight mystery, a woman who swallowed eight frogs to cure her back pain (PS – don’t ever do that), and a rare intersex spider is discovered among a new species uncovered in Thailand!

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1. A black cat
2. The bat post toilet rescue
3. A different bat in a different toilet
4-6. The Chicago Rat Hole
7. A frog
8. Sparganum parasite
9. The intersex spider
10-11. Inazuma
12. Fantasy, our new spider!

October 15, 2025

Episode #371 – Turd Sculpture

Civic duty fulfilled! This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the crimes of Lawrence Singleton (aka the murder of Roxanne Hayes and the survival story of Mary Vincent). Plus: Dragula’s Monsters of Rock is back from the grave, realistic Halloween decor leaves one community feeling a little heated, and there’s no other way to say this, but Skims seems to have made a merkin.

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1. Mary Vincent
2. Lawrence Singleton
3. Roxanne Hayes
4. Lawrence Singleton under arrest in 1997
5. Mary pointing out Lawrence at trial in 1998
6. Lawrence Singleton’s final mugshot
7-8. Mary working on her art
9. Mary playing pool

October 10, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #208 – My Inner Vulture

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: the annual game of ‘Is it a dead body or a Halloween prop?’ plays out in Ohio, a 650-year-old shoe is found in a bird nest, Mister Terminator terrorizes an English town’s swan population, accusations fly around the discovery of a decapitated sea lion, and a woman tries to trauma bond with her co-workers by calling in a fake threat!

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1. La Salle High School in Ohio
2. Bearded vulture
3. 650-year-old shoe
4. Another shoe from the vulture nest
5. The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
6. Swans in Stratford-upon-Avon
7. Removing Mr. Terminator
8. The rescinded wanted poster from the NOAA
9. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey

October 8, 2025

Episode #370 – Bob-adook

Isn’t that just a man? This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the legend of Spring-Heeled Jack. Plus: dealings with a fast fashion thief, the clown rental service of your dreams/nightmares (depending on perspective), and Dragula’s got a brand new crop of Titans ready to compete.

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Depictions of Spring-Heeled Jack

October 3, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #207 – Self-Righteous Gemstones

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: two missing girls are found alive 36 years later, a monumental break in the infamous Yogurt Shop Murders, one Florida man’s strangely violent take on retribution toward a neighbour, a woman annihilates a Mortal Kombat tournament with her newborn in arm, and Harvard makes the bigots mad by hiring a drag queen as visiting professor!

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1. Maria Ramos
2. Maria’s daughters
3. Sarah Harbison, Jennifer Harbison, Eliza Thomas, and Amy Ayers
4. Robert Eugene Brashers
5. The peacock eater
6. Eating the Mortal Kombat logo
7-8. Legi0n and her newborn
9. LaWhore Vagistan
10. Kareem Khubchandani
11. Chunk the bear

October 1, 2025

Episode #369 – Cute Graffiti Times

Bring out the tablets! This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the history of the Faustian Bargain. Plus: a newly-unveiled Tina Turner statue is simply a mess, when the tragic roadside loss of a pet escalates into a full-on kidnapping, and soft-launching our new READTHEFUGNBOOK literacy campaign.

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1. Tina Turner ‘Simply a Mess’ statue
2. Depiction of real-life Dr. Georg Faustus
3. Christopher Marlowe
4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. Etching of Faust by Eugène Delacroix (circa 1828)
6. Illustration of Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles by Joseph Fay (circa 1846)
7. ‘Faust and Mephisto’ by Anton Kaulbach (circa 1900)

September 26, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #206 – Chewing and Biting

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: unauthorized AI straightwashing, aggressive squirrel attacks in a Californian neighbourhood have citizens on watch, a tiger handler is mauled to death in front of a crowd of onlookers, a YouTuber gets arrested for allegedly making false paranormal claims, and one foolish man’s $55k poop spray prank!

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1. Together movie poster
2. AI straight-washing of Together
3. The squirrel poster
4-5. Ryan Easley
6. Akshay Vashisht
7. Alexander Paul Robertson Lewis

September 24, 2025

Episode #368 – Messy Spaghetti Kid

Well, I’m done pointing out the obvious! This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the Setagaya Family Murders. Plus: ringing in the new fall season, Fat Bear Week 2025 is upon us, and a much-needed update on Fleetwood’s new blanket.

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1-3. The Miyazawa family
4. The Miyazawa’s house
5. The layout of the house
6-14. Crime scene photos
15. Flyer showing the killer’s belongings
16. Takeshi Tsuchida
17. Setsuko, Mikio’s mother
18. Takeshi with Setsuko

September 19, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #205 – Little Gymnastics Boy

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: the 8th annual International Grave Digging Championship crowns their winners, the ongoing case of a decomposed body found in the car of a young singer, a motel manager is beheaded after warning staff of a broken washing machine, a heroic trampoline rescue saves a family from devastation, and The Conjuring house is up for grabs yet again!

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1-3. The grave digger competition
4. D4vd
5. Celeste Rivas Hernandez
6. Crime scene at the Downtown Suites
7. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez
8. The burned house
9. The burnt home
10. The trampoline
11. John Lewis
12. Gabe Record
13-14. The Conjuring House
15. The Perron Family

September 17, 2025

Episode #367 – Little Crusty White Dog

Let’s move on! This week, Johnny and Tyler are opening up the doors of the Secret Society to share two of our favourite topics from Spooky Snacks (our Patreon-exclusive mini episodes): the Kentucky Meat Shower as well as the infamous gravesites of Henry Trigg and William Jeffreys. Plus: a little bit of social housekeeping, calling a cute puppet when we see one, and our on-the-spot reactions to the cast of Dragula Titans season 2.

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1. Sample collected from Kentucky Meat Shower
2. Kentucky Black Vulture
3. Henry Trigg’s coffin
4-5. Memorial Bell Witch sign in Adams, TN
6. Illustration of Trigg’s coffin
7. Trigg’s barn in 2016
8. William Jeffreys
9. Sign to Jeffreys’ grave
10-12. William Jeffreys’ grave
13-14. Broken slabs of Jeffreys’ grave
15. Shipworm
16. Rock eaten by shipworm