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49: DODGY LADIES: The Black Widow Granny, plus The Black Widow of Sussex, Deana Thompson

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at two Black Widows… Betty Neumar, dubbed the “Black Widow Granny,” was a seemingly ordinary woman – except for the fact that all five of her husbands were dead. When Police began investigating exactly how her husbands died, the details were sketchy. With little evidence…

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48: LIFE AFTER LIFE: Can cryonics really help you live forever? Plus Venia Hill’s near-death experience

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle ponder life and death… Would you want to be cryogenically frozen and brought back to life in the future? How about freezing a beloved pet? Or just your brain? It sounds kind of great if you think about it in the abstract, but this week, Geordie…

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47: PSY DICKS: Psychic investigator Christine Holohan and the Jacqueline Poole case, plus Benjamin Radford, psychic debunker!

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle discuss psychic detectives… In 1983, 25-year-old Jacqueline Poole from west London was murdered in her home. Just streets away, a woman called Christine Holohan contacted police shortly after the crime, claiming to have received psychic visions about the killer, the victim and the scene. Her detailed…

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46: I KNOW WHAT I SAW: The Finnish UFO encounter, plus The Sandown Clown

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle ponder aliens, clowns and UFOs… On a cloudless afternoon in southern Finland in 1970, two skiers stopped to take a break and saw strange lights in the sky. Then they saw a space craft. Then they saw aliens in cute outfits. Then… well, you’ll have to…

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45: ALEISTER CROWLEY: A fresh look at The Great Beast

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, we celebrate our fifth Eavesdroppin’ birthday! And what better way to kick up our heels than to go back to the start for a look at another birthday boy – none other than the Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley, who turns 150! Just when you…

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44: HALLOWEEN: The Hobstones haunting, the witches of Pendle, plus Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle celebrate Halloween by looking at hauntings and horror… Imagine sitting on the loo only to have the door fly open by a dwarf monk holding a severed forearm. Could only happen at Hobstones, a haunted farm in Yorkshire, England, where spooky goings on happen on the…

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43: COULDA SHOULDA DIDN’T: The Tristate Crematory scandal, plus wife killer Brendan Banfield

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at stomach-churning stories about people who coulda, shoulda but didn’t… When a gas delivery driver noticed dead bodies littering the grounds of a local crematorium, he raised the alarm on what turned out to be one of the most shocking and disturbing crimes involving the…

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42: GAWN TOO SOON: The tragic deaths of Brandon Lee and Karen Carpenter

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at two celebrities, Gawn Too Soon… On March 31st 1993, on the set of The Crow, it was just another day at work for 28 year old actor Brandon Lee. Until it wasn’t. Just like the recent Rust controversy, there was an incident with a…

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41: CULTS! Who are the Zizians? Plus, a look at the SovCits, AKA the Sovereign Citizen Movement

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at a couple of cults… Have you heard of the Zizians? They’re the cult you have when you’re not having a cult because there’s apparently no leader, no organisation and no group. However, there are whole lot of deaths and a whole lotta convoluted twists…

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40: PROPHETS & TWINS: Baba Vanga, The Psychic Twins & The Twinnies!

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle discuss prophets, predictions, telepathy and twins… How accurate are psychic predictions? This week, Geordie looks at the predictions of Baba Vanga, a now-deceased Bulgarian mystic and healer who has predicted some terrifying things – both in the past and for the future. Real or vague generalisations?…

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