Author: thatsspookypod

May 2, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #184 – Prepper Ann

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: updates on three recent cases, a missing dog is found after 34 days in the most roundabout way, a man accused of killing his mother claims it was an exorcism, a Florida woman is caught selling undocumented human remains in an oddity shop, and a museum says, “This is also the skin of a killer, Bella.”

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1. Babysitting Buford
2. The Conley Family
3. Amina Abakarova
4. Umayganat Osmanova
5. CCTV footage of Amina
6. Aftermath of the car fire
7. Ally in the storm drain
8. Alexander Taylor Valdez
9. Teresita Sayson’s home
10. Ashley Lelesi and Kymberlee Schopper
11. Wicked Wonderland
12. Book bound in William Corder’s skin
13. William Corder death mask

April 30, 2025

Episode 346 – Code of Johnduct

You’re on their island! This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering two strange lighthouse stories–the tragedy of Bird Rock Lighthouse, and the curse of Rochers aux Oiseaux. Plus: the joy of being a tourist in your own city, Drag Race season 17 crowns a winner, and a three-alarm fire with steamy origins.

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1-4. Bird Rock Lighthouse, Bahamas
5-10. Rochers aux Oiseaux, Canada

April 25, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #183 – Ears and Eyes

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 update to Valerie the Dachshund’s survival tale, a sock-sniffer has their day in the hospital, Florida’s recent backward education laws claim their first victim, a toddler lost in the desert is saved by a do-gooder pooch, and two adults get caught tattooing children in their care (yup, you read that right).

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1. Stacy Walker
2. Stacy’s mom
3-4. Valerie the dachshund
5. Scotty’s property in Arizona
6-7. Buford the dog
8. Melissa Calhoun
9. Students in support of Ms. Calhoun
10. Pile of dirty socks
11. Aspergillus
12. Megan Farr and Gunnar Farr

April 23, 2025

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

April 18, 2025

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

April 16, 2025

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

April 11, 2025

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

April 9, 2025

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

April 4, 2025

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

April 2, 2025

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