Ride the buffalo, get the horns! This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the spooky history of the Phantom of the Opera. Plus: how Robert Eggers’ VVitch would infiltrate the Mormon TikTok girlypops, Drag Race UK teaches us about ‘Agadoo’ in the worst way imaginable, and an unfortunate outcome after a man enters a tiger enclosure at a UK wildlife park.

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1. Gaston Leroux
2. The Phantom of the Opera book
3. The Palais Garnier Opera House
4. The levels of the Palais Garnier
5-6. The underground waterways
7. Firefighters in the underground waterways
8. Fish beneath the opera house
9. Preparing the Paris Opera time capsule in 1907
10-11. The Paris Commune
12-13. Lon Chaney’s Phantom
14. Christina Nilsson
15. The Palais Garnier Chandelier
16. Leroux’s article about the chandelier accident
17. The Phantom of the Opera Musical
18. The Opera Fire
19. Emma Livry

This week, we cover: when gun safety talks turn deadly, a woman discovers her new calling in cemeteries, the unfortunate unfolding case of Abby Choi’s murder, an abandoned pet cemetery’s impromptu keeper makes a plea to the public, and the largest Sasquatch calling contest in the US crowns a winner.

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1. Dawn Freeman
2-3. Allyson Stephenson
4. Abby Choi
5. The crime scene in Hong Kong
6. Evidence taken from the crime scene in Hong Kong
7-9. Jim Giffin in the Bay County Pet Cemetery
10. Graves in the Bay County Pet Cemetery
11-12. Michael O’Connor
13. Sasquatch Calling competition winners

Bring out the bands! This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the Farmville Murders. Plus: the time Johnny’s teenage lip ring almost got him busted, Drag Race UK gets Rick Rolled, and an otter is spotted trying to non-consensually catch a wave on a surfer’s board.

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1-3. Richard McCroskey
4-5. Emma Niederbrock
6. Debra Kelley
7. Mark Niederbrock
8-9. Melanie Wells
10-11. Emma and Melanie
12. Syko Sam
13. The crime scene
14-15. Richard’s arrest
16. Richard’s mugshot
17. Richard after sentencing
18. Mourners on the news

This week, we cover: how an AI picture of a crocodile may land one man in jail for 10 years, the woman who survived lethal injection on death row, resolution in the 2007 case of a missing California woman, a school superintendent who gives up their certifications after a ‘pageant’ gone weirdly wrong, and a well-timed group of skydivers who help a plane crash in progress.

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1. Ye Lin
2-3. Crista Pike
4. Jill Maiorca
5. Hazard High School
6-7. The crashed plane
8. The haunted Mitch McConnell doll

Et cetera, et cetera… This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the Zodiac Killer (part four). Plus: lessons in not dropping icons, Drag Race UK wins our hearts with a literature runway, and Fat Bear Week 2026 crowns a big ol’ chunky winner.

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1-2. Arthur Lee Allen
3. Donald Cheney
4. Lawerence Kane
5. Donna Lass
6. Ross Sullivan
7. Cheri Jo Bates
8. Earl Van Best Jr.
9. Jack Tarrance
10. Gary Francis Poste

This week, we cover: Mt. Everest has a tee-tee problem, a retailer’s problematic Halloween costume gets pulled, introducing our new least favourite person from Texas, a man accused of killing a lawyer defends himself in court, and a zoo learns the power of words.

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1. Everest Basecamp
2. An Everest Basecamp toilet
3. We don’t want to show you the racist clown costume so instead here is a picture of Loonette, a non-problematic clown
4. The animal crusher
5. Tomasz Kosowski
6. Steven Cozzi
8. The predator tour at Chester Zoo

I wish them nothing but food! This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the Zodiac Killer (part three). Plus: sharing our wedding photos, Drag Race UK attempts the Snatch Game, and it’s time once again for Fat Bear Week.

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1. Jim Dunbar and Melvin Belli on air with “Sam”
2. Z340 cipher
3. Explosive sketch from 04/20/70 Zodiac letter
4. Z13 cipher
5. Card sent by Zodiac on 04/28/70
6. Z32 cipher
7. Richard Radetich
8. Kathleen Johns
9. Zodiac card from 10/07/70 with the thirteen punched holes
10. Halloween card sent to Paul Avery from Zodiac

This week, we cover: a lawyer uses ChatGPT for court and (surprise, surprise) gets AI slop, a wannabe Michael Myers chases people in England, a potentially mourning humpback is observed, a Texas police department gets disbanded for failing to provide their community any benefit (actually), and a crappy neighbourly affair.

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1. The Batley Michael Myers
2. Mother humpback whale in mourning
3. The police in Trinidad, Texas
4. Yirsi Rivera

Isn’t that what constitutes a Bermuda short? This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the Zodiac Killer (part two). Plus: culotte memories of days gone by, Drag Race UK’s glorious mess continues with a double goodbye, and an app that could mean increased security for Korean victims of stalking.

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1. Bryan Hartnell
2. Cecelia Shepard
3. Lake Berryessa shoreline in present-day
4. Recreation of Bryan and Cecelia’s attack from the movie Zodiac
5. Sketch of Bryan and Cecelia’s attacker
6. Bryan being interviewed in hospital while recovering
7. Composite sketch of potential suspect from other people at Lake Berryessa on the day
8. Bryan Hartnell in present-day
9. Paul Stine
10. Paul’s cab after his attack
11. Sketch of the suspect seen attacking Paul
12. Comparing the sample of Paul’s shirt that arrived with a Zodiac letter
13. Johnny’s half-moon International Klein Blue manicure

This week, we cover: a sinkhole pops up in front of the purported Malibu home of a movie star, an unfortunate twist to last week’s Cat in the Hat story, why it’s not good when the hospital teaching skeletons break containment, the murderers of Sam Nordquist are sentenced, and a dog walker gets a hole lot more than she was asking for (and that’s not a spelling mistake).

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1-4. Maple the baby hippo
5-7. Nicolas Cage’s sinkhole
8. Real security footage of the Cat in the Hat in Canada
9. Model skeleton being used as IV drip
10. Sam Nordquist
11. Precious Arzuagw
12. The other suspects in Sam’s murder
13. The carrot butt guy