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TW : Racism, eugenics Maybe you've seen a headline or two about the cult behind sleepytime tea and it's mother company, well we wanted to know more so we dug up the beliefs of this mostly decentralised religion(?) cult(?). I don't know what to call such a decentralised but clearly cultish in beliefs fringe group so we went with cult. It was quirky to start with lots of aliens and faux togetherness that quickly disseminated into straight-up raging racism.  It was uncomfortable to talk about for sure, but these people are flying under the radar a bit much for our liking so, I guess, let's talk about it. 

TW: talk of suicide *explicit*, talk of sexual and physical abuse of children  The Branch Davidians were a sect of Seven Day Adventists who settled at Mt. Carmel near Waco, Tx. They flew under the radar for years until the ATF launched an attack on the compound, they would stare each other down for over 50 days until tragedy struck. Few members survived and the attack left it's mark on history.

What if very few people cared about your murder? What if a whole town turned a blind eye to the truth? That happened nearly 40 years ago, in the 1980's, when Danny Paquette was shot in his backyard while working and, despite the murderers' identity being an apparently open secret, no one turned them in until 20 years later. A step daughter confessed and a man went to prison. 

Pea soup or the smog event of the century? The smog cloud that shut down London in 1952.

The ghost in literary machine, a thief who left some trace but no name. This man conned his way into acquiring an unknown wealth of unpublished manuscripts only to... keep them for himself? While he awaits trial we talk deets on the man that had the whole publishing industry shaking in their boots.

The life of Joseph Kallinger was anything but a fairytale. He started his life unwanted and ended it much the same, and we're talking about the crimes he committed along with the ones committed against him.

What actually happened to Princess Diana? A death so public and fraught we had to discuss the conspiracies around it. 

We discuss John Gilkey and his obsessive desire for rare, expensive, collectable books. His crimes lasted years and his mistakes were few but one book enthusiast would not let him get away.

One night on a boat trip to Catalina, star Natalie Wood, winds up dead in the ocean. How did she get there and what exactly happened on the night she died? Was there more to her relationship with Christopher Walken? Why did no one see or hear her screams? We look through the entirety of her public life and her family's statements to try for a peek at the truth. We will likely never know exactly what happened, but let's talk about it.

In this one, Kris tries to tell us about the Phillip experiment but mostly just gets really annoyed at Ash's skepticism and critique of their (extremely poor and utterly disappointing) scientific methodologies (if you can even call their nonsense that at all.) Can you create your own ghost with the power of the human mind? Listen and decide! CW: you may hear the very faint sounds of chewing at some points... I should not snack and record. My apologies. - Ash 

In this episode, we talk about some sad, some odd but always murderous cannibal cases. Ed Gein, Tarare of France and a few similar cases, and the Rotenburg Cannibal.  TW: cannibalism (obvi), murder of babies/minors, graphic descriptions of Ed Gein's house, gross eating habits, necrophagia

Ash brings us through some bizarre and mostly noncriminal (?) cannibal cases from around the world. Join us and laugh and probably cringe along!