Baby lock them doors and windows and everything else because this week’s episode is flooded with mayhem as Madison tells us about the London Beer Flood! Next, Spencer is breaking down the details of the infamous Boston Molasses Flood. We’ve got some sticky obituaries, some that stuck with us, and of course we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllllls!

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Sources:

https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/us-news/florida-police-discover-large-thermos-shoved-up-repeat-offenders-butt-during-his-26th-arrest/

https://www.history.com/articles/the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919

https://www.boston.gov/news/100-years-ago-today-molasses-crashes-through-bostons-north-end

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/victims-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/

https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/us-news/florida-police-discover-large-thermos-shoved-up-repeat-offenders-butt-during-his-26th-arrest/

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azcentral/name/randall-jacobs-obituary?id=2185424

https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-man-binges-junk-food-cigarettes-after-hiding-walgreens-bathroom-roam-store-after-hours

https://www.newspapers.com/image/974207052/?match=1&terms=%22mary%20banfield%22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles,_London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theatre

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-London-Beer-Flood-of-1814/

https://www.history.com/articles/london-beer-flood

https://historynuggets.squarespace.com/nuggets/2015/4/10/the-beer-flood

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Happy Halloween Eve Geoffs! This week we’re bringing the tricks and the treats! We’ve got surprises, we’ve got Spencer telling us about some ghoulish happenings at the Tennessee State Capital, Madison is telling us about a candy scandal that was anything but sweet. We’ve got a lotta obituaries and oh baby we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!

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Sources:

https://www.history.com/articles/the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919

https://www.boston.gov/news/100-years-ago-today-molasses-crashes-through-bostons-north-end

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/victims-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/

https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/us-news/florida-police-discover-large-thermos-shoved-up-repeat-offenders-butt-during-his-26th-arrest/

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azcentral/name/randall-jacobs-obituary?id=2185424

https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-man-binges-junk-food-cigarettes-after-hiding-walgreens-bathroom-roam-store-after-hours

https://www.newspapers.com/image/974207052/?match=1&terms=%22mary%20banfield%22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles,_London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theatre

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-London-Beer-Flood-of-1814/

https://www.history.com/articles/london-beer-flood

https://historynuggets.squarespace.com/nuggets/2015/4/10/the-beer-flood

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Happy Thursday Geoffs! This week Madison has some wild ghost hoaxes she’s sharing about some very problematic poltergeists! Next, Spencer is taking us on one skulls postmortem journey! We’ve got an obituary for a gal who wasn’t finished, one for Nancy Drew…NOT THAT ONE…and a guy who achieved a whole lot in his lifetime! Oh….we almost forgot…we’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn%27s_skull

https://inmozartsfootsteps.com/2227/the-strange-story-of-haydns-missing-skull/

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/nancy-drew-obituary?id=52693334

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/30/penny-dreadfuls-victorian-equivalent-video-games-kate-summerscale-wicked-boy

https://www.newspapers.com/image/980091531/?match=1&terms=spring%20heeled%20jack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammersmith_Ghost_murder_case

https://caasbrey.com/the-london-garrotting-panic-of-the-mid-19th-century/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ghost-hoaxing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-21/ghost-hoaxing-on-victorias-goldfields/12571526

https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/9042062/ballarats-ghostly-past-revived-in-role-playing-game/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.2015.1121622

https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/the-hammersmith-ghost-londons-paranormal-murder/

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