Timesuck with Dan Cummins

On September 13th, 1848, a dynamite blast rocketed a 43-inch long, 13-pound iron bar completely through the skull of 25-year-old railway worker Phineas Gage. It landed some eighty feet away, covered in Phineas' blood and brains. And after a few minutes, Phineas got up, started talking, walked over to an oxcart, rode it to the hotel where he was staying, sat on the porch and waited to speak with a doctor. Not long after the doctor arrived, he vomited and more of his brain fell out of his head. And he just... kept... talking...  For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com [https://www.badmagicproductions.com/]

Have you heard about the recent case of Shelby Hewitt? The 32 year-old Massachusetts Social Worker enrolled in two different Boston area public high schools as a sixteen year-old sophomore, and then later enrolled in another Boston area school as a 7th grader, spending nearly a year as a fake teen student before her real identity was uncovered. How??? And more importantly... why???  Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com  [http://www.badmagicproductions.com/] Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v [https://discord.gg/tqzH89v] Want to join the Cult of the Curious PrivateFacebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :) For all merch-related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste) Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/timesuckpodcast/] on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast [http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast] Wanna become a Space Lizard? Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast]. Sign up through Patreon, and for $5 a month, you get access to the entire Secret Suck catalog (295 episodes) PLUS the entire catalog of Timesuck, AD FREE. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch.

On June 22nd, 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared after attending a music lesson in Rome. Following her disappearance, a mystery surrounding it has deepened for over four decades, involving the  KGB trying to assassinate the Pope, an allegation of a satanic sex cults within the Vatican, Catholic prophecies in Portugal,  anti-communist revolts in Poland, the Holy See being involved in money laundering,  and Italian mob bosses being in cahoots with top Vatican officials.  Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com  [http://www.badmagicproductions.com/] Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v [https://discord.gg/tqzH89v] Want to join the Cult of the Curious PrivateFacebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :) For all merch-related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste) Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/timesuckpodcast/] on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast [http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast] Wanna become a Space Lizard? Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast]. Sign up through Patreon, and for $5 a month, you get access to the entire Secret Suck catalog (295 episodes) PLUS the entire catalog of Timesuck, AD FREE. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch.

What a tale I have for you today! In 1518, a very peculiar form of madness fell over the people of the city of Strasbourg (modern day France) in the Holy Roman Empire. People started... dancing. A lot of people. As in hundreds. And out in public in full view of anyone who wanted to watch! And many of them only stopped when they died. They literally danced themselves to death. What happened and why???  For Merch and everything else Bad Magic related, head to: https://www.badmagicproductions.com [https://www.badmagicproductions.com/]

Have you ever heard of serial killer Gerald Stano? For years, he sat on death row in Florida, just a few cells down from Ted Bundy. He's also believed my most sources to have killed more girls and young women than Bundy did. So why is this monster, whose first six months of his life were so brutal he was deemed "unadoptable" by the government agency that removed him from his mother's care, almost entirely unknown in the world of true crime? Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com  [http://www.badmagicproductions.com/] Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v [https://discord.gg/tqzH89v] Want to join the Cult of the Curious PrivateFacebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :) For all merch-related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste) Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/timesuckpodcast/] on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast [http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast] Wanna become a Space Lizard? Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast [https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast]. Sign up through Patreon, and for $5 a month, you get access to the entire Secret Suck catalog (295 episodes) PLUS the entire catalog of Timesuck, AD FREE. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch.