True Life

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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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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34: SUMMER MASH UP: Revisiting the needle spiking phenomena, plus the secret love child of Charles & Camilla

This week on Eavesdroppin’, it’s our first summer special! While Geordie & Michelle enjoy a hard-earned break, we’ve re-issued a mash-up of classic episodes we hope you’ll enjoy! Geordie begins with a revisit of the Pricks & Privacy episode from Season 3, episode 6, where she looks at the serious topic of needle spiking. What…

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31: CELEBRITY NEAR MISSES: Keith Richards, Debbie Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Hemsworth, Clint Eastwood and more

This week on Eavesdroppin’, Geordie & Michelle look at celebrities who had a brush with the grim reaper… How would you expect the wild man of rock, Keith Richards, to meet his maker? This week, Michelle looks at the silly stunt that was nearly his undoing… Plus, she also looks at the time Leonardo DiCaprio…

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27: AI & FAKE GHOSTS: The rise and fall of Replika, plus The Philip Experiment and tulpas!

This week on Eavesdroppin comedy podcast’, Geordie & Michelle look at a sexy AI app gone rogue and an experiment that took a spooky turn… Do you think you could fall in love with a chatbot? In 2017, an AI companion app called Replika was created and it was way more successful than anyone could…

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26: BAD HABITS: Tarrare the Grotesque, plus cat lickers, sponge eaters and candle nibblers

This week on Eavesdroppin’, Geordie & Michelle look at some really bad habits… Would you eat a live cat? Tarrare did. And if you don’t know who Tarrare is, he was only the grossest man alive in France in the 1700s. With an insatiable appetite and a stench that lingered, Tarrare was an unpleasant anomaly…

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25: HOMETOWN MURDERS: The Angel of Belanglo, plus who killed Rachelle Childs?

It’s another rough ride on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, as Geordie and Michelle look at two Australian hometown murders… When two dirt-bike riders found human bones in the Belanglo State Forest in Australia, 2010, police were stumped. Who was this woman? Had anyone reported this Jane Doe as missing? Five years later, an unsuspecting…

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