Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Each week, Dan Cummins enthusiastically deep dives into everything from cults to killers to conspiracies, absurdly and sarcastically sharing the best of what he uncovers with you. Join the Cult of the Curious!

  1. 428 - Andrew Higgins: D-Day's Secret War Hero

    5 DAYS AGO

    428 - Andrew Higgins: D-Day's Secret War Hero

    Happy Veteran's Day! On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, over 150,000 Allied troops stormed Nazi-defended beaches in northern France in the largest military amphibious assault operation the world had ever seen. D-Day led directly to Allied forces pushing the Nazis back into Germany and winning the war. And D-Day would have never worked without the troop and supply transport boats designed by a colorful boat builder in New Orleans named Andrew Higgins.

    2h 41m
  2. Short Suck #21 - The Servant Girl Annihilator aka The Midnight Assassin

    NOV 8

    Short Suck #21 - The Servant Girl Annihilator aka The Midnight Assassin

    Today I'm sharing the little known Servant Girl Annihilator murders. A series of crimes just as shocking as the crimes of London's Jack the Ripper murders, but occurred three years earlier, in Austin, Texas. Who kept dragging woman after woman from their beds and killing them with an ax?

    54 min
  3. 427 - McCarthyism: When Red Scare Paranoia Destroyed Innocent Lives

    NOV 4

    427 - McCarthyism: When Red Scare Paranoia Destroyed Innocent Lives

    Back in the 1950s, America was very afraid of Soviet spies and communist sympathizers infiltrating the government and destroying the United States from within. And there were actual spies sharing secrets with the Soviets. But concern soon gave way to paranoia, and a political witch-hunt began, with a self-serving senator from Wisconsin leading a very misguided and ultimately anti-American and embarrassing Red Scare that destroyed the lives of many.

    2h 33m
  4. 426 - The San Francisco Witch Killers

    OCT 28

    426 - The San Francisco Witch Killers

    In the early 1980s, Suzan and Michael Carson were very worried about witches. They thought there witches all over America, even the President, Ronald Regan, was a witch. And sometimes, in order to defend themselves from the dark magic of witches, they had to kill them. They had to! It was self-defense. This is what they and there defense attorney would actually claim, in court, when they were finally caught and charged with multiple murders.

    2h 31m
  5. Short Suck #20 - Are Tulpas Real? The Spooky Story of Olivia Mabel

    OCT 25

    Short Suck #20 - Are Tulpas Real? The Spooky Story of Olivia Mabel

    Today I’ll be sharing the strange and spooky story of Olivia Mabel. It's a story presented as a true story, centered around the unsettling concept of a “tulpa.” A thought form and sentient being willed into existence by, essentially, the power of one's imagination. Is that possible? And if not, aren't characters akin to tulpas created all the time by the power of vivid, immersive, fictional worldbuilding?

    42 min
  6. 425 - Ireland's True Houses of Horror

    OCT 21

    425 - Ireland's True Houses of Horror

    In 1975, two young boys in Tuam were exploring the grounds of one of Ireland's abandoned Mother and Baby Homes when they lifted up a loose concrete slab and found several tiny human skulls hidden underneath. Over three decades later, this discovery would lead to the uncovering of another massive and shocking Catholic scandal, centered around some of the worst crimes committed against young women and their babies in modern world history.

    2h 17m
  7. 424 - The Puppet Master: Robert Hendy-Freegard

    OCT 14

    424 - The Puppet Master: Robert Hendy-Freegard

    I highly doubt you have ever been conned by anyone to the degree Robert Hendy-Freegard conned his victims. This 21 year-old pub bartender, waiting to go on trial for planning to kidnap his ex-girlfriend, decided to start lying to some of his customers one day. And when they believed his lies, he lied some more. And he just kept lying. For years. And he convinced three people to drop out of university, give him all of their money, and follow him for up to a decade all around England, hiding from enemies that weren't real, and even lying to the police to protect a man who had convinced them he was a secret MI6 agent looking to expose hidden IRA members. And that's just the beginning of this surreal story.

    2h 57m
  8. Short Suck #19 - Magdalena Solís: The High Priestess of Blood

    OCT 11

    Short Suck #19 - Magdalena Solís: The High Priestess of Blood

    Magdalena Solís was a Mexican cult leader and the extremely rare sexually motivated female serial killer. She was recruited to help a couple of grifters keep running a cult-based scam out of a cave in the mountains of rural Mexico in 1963 by pretending to be an Aztec goddess, and then started to believe she really was that goddess, took over the cult, and so much blood and debauchery followed.

    39 min
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Each week, Dan Cummins enthusiastically deep dives into everything from cults to killers to conspiracies, absurdly and sarcastically sharing the best of what he uncovers with you. Join the Cult of the Curious!

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    Dan Cummins
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2024
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    476
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