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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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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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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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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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie co-hosts the episode with special guest Crystobelle Mathew-Rosacorde, a gorgeous Gen Z true-crime lover who steps in to co-host in Michelle’s absence… What happens when you want to throw a party and your parents won’t let you? You kill them, obviously… This week, Geordie looks at the grisly…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at the mysterious death of an Indian ghost buster, and the lucrative world of haunted eBay… When Indian ghost buster-slash-paranormal investigator Gaurav Tiwari was found almost dead on the loo at his home in Dwarka in 2016, it was shrouded in mysterious circumstances. Was his…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two true-crime cases where people close ranks… In 1981 in the town of Skidmore, Kenneth McElroy was shot to death in his car in broad daylight. No one called an ambulance. No one saw a thing. Apparently. This week, Michelle looks at the town…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle look at the dodgy side of debt collecting & the origin story behind the TV show Mind Hunter… We all like money but it’s a bummer when you have to pay back a loan. This week, Michelle looks at debt hunters and asks the question:…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle delve deep into iconic 70s movie Jaws and the real-life mysteries connected to it… When Jaws was released in 1975, it was an instant box-office smash hit! But a rewatch in 2024 by Geordie and her kids left Geordie wondering – how much of this…
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On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle delve into a hometown murder… More specifically, a Swedish Hometown Murder and the story of the Skara Cannibal… In November 2010 in the small Swedish town of Skara, Isakin Jonsson and his girlfriend Helle Christensen got up around noon, went to the bottle shop, bought…
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