Eavesdroppin'

When a woman was found dead in her home in Ringgold, Georgia, police were baffled for two reasons. First, her husband’s story didn’t add up. And second — no one in town even knew she existed. In one of America’s strangest and most twisty true-crime stories, Michelle dives into the mysterious case of Alvin Ridley. Did he murder his wife, Virginia? How could a woman live — and die — completely unsee...

Geordie and Michelle dive into the amorphous thing that is the Age of Aquarius. Geordie's research reveals conspiracy theories, Jungian shadow selves, archetypes, debates on whether the Age of Aquarius has even begun and humans merging with tech! So grab a brown lemonade and settle in as the duo chat about yin & yang, dental emergencies, telly recs, eating crow and more, only on Eavesdroppin’...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look back at the year that was, look forward at what’s to come and lotsa stuff inbetween…  Happy New Year, Eavesdroppers! We’ve got a bitsa extravaganza this week that’s as random as can be  What did you love about 2025? What was your favourite ep? Telly recs anyone? And is boundary setting just a validated way to be mean or s...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at a couple of twisted Christmas cases in this Xmas Bitsa…  It’s a Christmas Potluck and Geordie & Michelle are stuffing your stockings with festive madness and a custardy dollop of true-crime horror! This week, they unwrap the bizarre 2016 Worldwide Clown Panic, the jaw-dropping story of a man who stalked a bus conduc...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at two Ohio cases that are very, very different…  Philip Taylor Kramer was not only the former bassist for Iron Butterfly but a tech entrepreneur, an inventor and science genius. He also vanished under mysterious circumstances in 1995 after a series of strange phone calls and cryptic messages. So who was Philip Taylor...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, it's a re-hash mash-up where Geordie & Michelle look at the bugbear of privacy infringement and bent coppers... What are your thoughts on the way the world has simply given up on the idea of privacy? Does it worry you? Or have you embraced it because it's just the way it is? This week, Geordie & Michelle have a chat about a couple of recent develo...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at two Black Widows... Betty Neumar, dubbed the "Black Widow Granny," was a seemingly ordinary woman - except for the fact that all five of her husbands were dead. When Police began investigating exactly how her husbands died, the details were sketchy. With little evidence and a lot of speculation, two questions emerged: was Be...

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 dives into the practical ins and outs of cryonics and the potential horrors of reanimat...

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 descriptions seemed spot on -...

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 listen if you want to know what happened next to Aarno Heinonen and Esko Viljo. Ma...

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 think you know everything there is to know about Aleister Crowley, Geordie and Michelle manag...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle celebrate Halloween by looking at hauntings and horror…  Imagine sitting on the loo only to have the door fly open by a dwarf monk holding a severed forearm. Could only happen at Hobstones, a haunted farm in Yorkshire, England, where spooky goings on happen on the reg. Geordie also looks at the gruesome history surrounding the...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at stomach-churning stories about people who coulda, shoulda but didn’t…  When a gas delivery driver noticed dead bodies littering the grounds of a local crematorium, he raised the alarm on what turned out to be one of the most shocking and disturbing crimes involving the mistreatment of dead bodies. So what happened at Tr...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at two celebrities, Gawn Too Soon... On March 31st 1993, on the set of The Crow, it was just another day at work for 28 year old actor Brandon Lee. Until it wasn’t. Just like the recent Rust controversy, there was an incident with a prop gun that went horribly wrong. So what happened that day? Who was Brandon Lee? How did he di...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle look at a couple of cults... Have you heard of the Zizians? They're the cult you have when you're not having a cult because there's apparently no leader, no organisation and no group. However, there are whole lot of deaths and a whole lotta convoluted twists and turns! A radical group of trans-gender geniuses that grew out of the Ba...

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? You decide! Plus, stories of...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle discuss risky behaviours... Michelle looks at the disturbing and harrowing case of serial killer nurse Charles Cullen. Every time Charles Cullen got a new job at a new hospital, patients begin dying in mysterious and unexplained ways. IV bags suddenly become contaminated. People were dying from high levels of strange meds. Although...

This week on Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast, Geordie & Michelle discuss two tragic celebrity deaths... Geordie heads to Jamaica this episode to look at the life and tragic death of reggae legend Peter Tosh. On September 11, 1987, when Peter Tosh was brutally murdered in his own home, the world was stunned to lose a musical icon. But for the people who were with Peter in his last horrifying momen...

This week on Eavesdroppin’, Geordie & Michelle discuss two miscarriages of justice... When Kathleen Folbigg's son died from SIDS in Australia in 1989, it was a tragedy for her and her husband Craig. So they tried for a second child, who tragically died from epilepsy, aged 8 months, in 1991. When the Folbigg's third child died aged 10 months from a respiratory infection, suspicious were raised....

This week on Eavesdroppin’, Geordie & Michelle discuss witches, bitches, ghosts, aliens and UFOs... In a century long long ago, Geordie looks at the last witch burned alive in Ireland - the irrepressible Bridget Cleary. Young, smart and entrepreneurial, Bridget was a bit of a live wire in her small rural town. No harm, no foul, you'd think, except when she fell ill at the age of 26, her husban...

This week on Eavesdroppin’, it’s our second summer special and what a mash-up of two classic supernatural eps! Michelle begins with a revisit of a supernatural episode, Season 3, episode 40, about poltergeists where YouTubers and TikTokers Lainey and Ben from Buckinghamshire in the UK claim they live with two poltergeists called Andy and Davewho ma...

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 is needle spiking? Why has it become a new date-rape phenomena i...

This week on Eavesdroppin’, Geordie & Michelle discuss muses... Despite having an anti-feminist spasm about the whole concept of muses, this week Michelle dives in to look at the life of Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian woman who was the muse to three different men! When Marianne met a guy called Axel Jensen, it set her on a path to Hydra, which led her to meeting Leonard Cohen and having an almost...

This week on Eavesdroppin’, Geordie & Michelle look at more cults! Because why not!  How many doomsday cults have you heard of? This week, Geordie rattles off a load of them including Heavens Gate, the Branch Davidians, The People’s temple… Plus she discusses the Doomsday Clock and takes a look at a new cult based on an old idea – the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, otherwise kno...

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 decided to treat himself to a sky-diving adventure that ended with him just seconds aw...