This week, we cover: a library gets a bear-y special visitor, a priest dies after getting crushed by a crucifix mid-sermon, a reminder that you don’t decorate for Halloween in a vacuum, a case of two teens left on a mountain draw ‘Hansel & Gretel’ comparisons, and the officer who thought he could just take over a dead man’s home.

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1-3. The Li-bear-ian
4. Father Molinari
5. Moments before the cross fell
6. The controversial Halloween decoration
7. Toblach, South Tyrol
8. Brian Louis Sguros
9. Dennis West’s home

When I say go, you go! This week, Tyler and Johnny went into the vault and put together another supercut for a topic that took three episodes to tell: the story of Ed Gein. Plus: how we spent Tyler’s birthday, Drag Race UK gets spooky with a paranormal challenge, and why 1997’s Spice World should be in the Criterion Collection.

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1. Ed Gein
2. Augusta Gein
3. Henry Gein
4. Bernice Worden
5. Worden’s hardware store
6. Ed Gein in custody
7. Gein’s house
8. Inside Gein’s house (after remains were removed)
9. Augusta’s untouched quarters
10. Mary Hogan
11. Ed Gein in 1968
12. Gein’s vandalized headstone
13. The Gein family plot (Ed’s headstone was eventually removed)
14. Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and Leatherface

This week, we cover: two men caught driving a loveseat on a public road, Anthropic’s AI gets caught submitting false tips on a murder case, the case of the pissy Prof, prison inmates help pay down a school’s lunch debt, and a 19-foot Dachshund statue is erected in Texas’ Wiener Dog Capital.

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1. The scooter couch
2. Anthropic
3. Macalster College
4. Members of Reaching Out From Within
5. Giant wiener dog in Texas
6. Giant wiener dog is Seoul

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