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48: WHAT THE CULT: Synanon, plus Adolfo Costanzo’s black magic cult

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two very different cults… In 1958, Chuck Dederich founded a self-help group called Synanon, where addicts could help other addicts get clean. It was massively successful and the key to its success lay in a form of therapy called The Game. But as Synanon…

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47: ALIEN ENCOUNTERS: The Manhattan Alien Abduction recap, plus celebrity alien experiences

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle talk aliens… In 1989, a woman called Linda Napolitano claimed aliens levitated her out of the window of her Manhattan apartment, beamed her up into their spaceship and experimented on her. What happened next? Appearances on Oprah. Men in Black. Further abductions. Her kid being abducted….

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46: FAMILY SCANDALS: The Duggar Family, plus the Tetra Pak billionaire Hans K Rausing

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at family scandals… Have you ever watched 19 And Counting? It’s a reality show on TLC and it looks at the ever growing Duggar family – yes, 19 and counting refers to the amount of children Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have! On the surface…

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45: DOORSTOP MURDERS: The harrowing case of Tania Furlan, plus what really happened to Jill Dando?

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two doorstop murders that have never been solved… One afternoon in July 1996, 27 year old mother of three, Tania Furlan, answered a knock on the door at her home in Auckland, New Zealand. What happened next is one of the most heartbreaking, pointless…

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44: HALLOWEEN: The death of River Phoenix, plus ghost stories from London’s cemeteries

Happy Halloween! OnvEavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at Halloween cemetery stories plus the death of River Phoenix – a Halloween Gawn Too Soon… Have you heard of the Magnificent Seven? Not the Western, but London’s magnificent seven private cemeteries with hauntings galore! In honour of Halloween, Geordie recounts some cemetery folklore,…

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43: MAYDAY: The Überlingen air disaster, plus the kid in the cockpit tragedy

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at air disasters… On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 from Moscow hit a DHL cargo plane mid air above the German town on Überlingen, near the Swiss border. There were no survivors. How could a tragedy like this occur? Were the pilots…

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42: NEWS DROPPIN’: A news round up of Ds, Diddy, Cucumber Guy, The Purge and more!

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle drop some news… What are frankenfoods? Michelle looks at some crazy produce and weird gummy-bear anomalies before investigating penis filler. It’s a thing – listen now to find out why getting filler downstairs is a thing for men right now. She also looks at the phenomenon…

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41: MISSING IN THE WOODS: What happened to Terrence Woods Jr? And the off-grid tragedy of Rebecca Vance

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at heartbreaking stories of people who went into the woods and never returned… When 26 year old Terrence Woods Jnr signed up for a TV production job that would take him deep into the wild Idaho mountains, his father expected Terrence to be away filming…

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40: CULTS & CONSPIRACIES: The Blackburn Cult, the Rhesus Negative blood-type conspiracy & more!

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at cults and conspiracies… In 1929, the body of a woman called Willa Rhodes was found by police under the floorboards of her foster parents’ home. This gruesome discovery led police to the bizarre Blackburn cult, run by mother-daughter duo May Blackburn and Ruth Rizzio….

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39: SECOND CHANCES: Reincarnation, medical miracles and near death experiences

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at reincarnation, synchronicity and near death experiences… In December 1926, a baby girl named Shanti Devi was born in Delhi, India. When Shanti was 4 years old, she surprised her parents by claiming she was not Shanti Devi but a woman called Lugdi. Over the…

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