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36: APPARENTLY ALLEGEDLY: Mutant fish, mushroom deaths, assisted suicide and a Canberra double-decapitation case

It’s Listeners’ Choice this week on Eavesdroppin’, as hosts Geordie & Michelle cover news, views and true crime tips from our dear dear listneners … What did Japanese fishermen find off the coast of New Zealand in 1977? Did Australian woman Erin Patterson deliberately serve us a killer mushroom wellington? What’s the tee with Canadian…

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35: CONSCIOUS DEVELOPMENT: Terri Hoffman and the cult you’ve never heard of

This week, Eavesdroppin’ host Michelle wraps up the cult double whammy with a mini-dive into a cult you’ve most likely never heard of… Terri Hoffman’s Conscious Development. In the early 1970s in Dallas, Texas, Terri Hoffman began giving free classes on spirituality and meditation. By the late 1970s, her cult was in full swing with…

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32: ACCIDENTAL DEATHS… OR?: A look at the night Marilyn Monroe died plus people found dead in chimneys

Eavesdroppin’ hosts Geordie and Michelle look this week at accidental deaths… or are they? Starting with Marilyn Monroe: Michelle’s research reveals crazy facts from the night Marilyn died, like why was the housekeeping doing a load of washing when the police arrived? Why all the enema talk? And did she know too much about aliens?…

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31: BOMBED!: Nail bombers & mail bombers – was Ted Kaczynski right?

Hosts Geordie and Michelle dive into the shallow end of two bombers: the London nail bomber and the Unabomber. Geordie’s research reveals heartbreaking stories, far-right radicalism and three nail-bomb attacks in Brixton, Soho and East London that left the city reeling, while Michelle researches the Unabomber and Gen Z’s fascination with Ted Kaczynski’s anti-tech pro-nature…

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30: UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA: Tina Resch’s poltergeist, Resurrection Mary the hitch-hiking ghost & the woman who gave birth to rabbits

What happens when an Eavesdropper gives you a brilliant gift that happens to be the Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained? You give it a flick and do an episode on the lucky-dip page you land on! (Thank you, Jane Beacon!) So this week on Eavesdroppin’, we delve into the supernatural… Starting with Tina Resch –…

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29: ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CONSPIRACIES: Is Paul McCartney dead? Plus the Kurt Cobain Courtney Love murder theories

Hello, Eavesdroppers! This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast… Rock n’ roll conspiracies! Is Paul dead? Yes, host Geordie looks at the classic conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney died in 1967 and was replaced by a lookalike. Why does Paul have no shoes in the Abbey Road album cover? Is John Lennon really saying “I buried…

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28: MAFIA, AUSTRALIAN STYLE: The murders of Donald Mackay and Colin Winchester

Hello Eavesdroppers! This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast… Michelle asks the question – who killed Australian drugs campaigner Donald Mackay in 1977? What has the Calabrian mafia in Griffith got to do with it? Has his body ever been found? And who is Al Grassby? Listen to find out! Geordie then dives into the murder…

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26: UFOS & PSYCHICS: The UFO that landed in Vegas plus psychic Tyler Henry’s brain scan while reading Steve O

Hello, Eavesdroppers! This week on Eavesdroppin’… UFO lands in Las Vegas… UFO whistleblower says the US government has alien spacecraft… What is going on? In June 2023, the Gomez family say a UFO crashed into their backyards and they saw 10ft tall aliens with shiny eyes looking at them. What did they see? Is it…

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25: MISSING PRESUMED MURDERED: Interpol’s 22 unidentified women plus the case of Brazilian soap star Jeff Machado

Hello, Eavesdroppers! This week on Eavesdroppin’… Visitation dreams… Interpol’s plea to the public to help identify 22 missing women… Over the past 50 years, 22 women have been buried in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands with only an ‘Unidentified Deceased’ plaque to honour their lives. Host Michelle delves into Interpol’s 22 cold-case Black Notices that…

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24: THE HAMPSTEAD HOAX: Why two kids accused their dad of running a satanic baby-eating cult

Hello, Eavesdroppers! This week on Eavesdroppin’, host Geordie investigates a disturbing 2014 TikTok video she saw of two children accusing their father not only of sexual abuse but of being the head of a satanic baby-sacrificing cult… In Hampstead… One of London’s wealthiest suburbs… More than that, according to the children, their dad led a…

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