Eavesdroppin'

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at family scandals...   Have you ever watched 19 And Counting? It's a reality show on TLC and it looks at the ever growing Duggar family - yes, 19 and counting refers to the amount of children Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have! On the surface of it, the Duggar family embody the wholesome face of Americana - but sc...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two doorstop murders that have never been solved...   One afternoon in July 1996, 27 year old mother of three, Tania Furlan, answered a knock on the door at her home in Auckland, New Zealand. What happened next is one of the most heartbreaking, pointless and unresolved cases we've looked at on the podcast. Who...

Happy Halloween! On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at Halloween cemetery stories plus the death of River Phoenix - a Halloween Gawn Too Soon…   Have you heard of the Magnificent Seven? Not the Western, but London’s magnificent seven private cemeteries with hauntings galore! In honour of Halloween, Geordie recounts some cemetery folklore, starting...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at air disasters…   On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 from Moscow hit a DHL cargo plane mid air above the German town on Überlingen, near the Swiss border. There were no survivors. How could a tragedy like this occur? Were the pilots to blame? Was the air-traffic controller at fault? W...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle drop some news…    What are frankenfoods? Michelle looks at some crazy produce and weird gummy-bear anomalies before investigating penis filler. It's a thing - listen now to find out why getting filler downstairs is a thing for men right now. She also looks at the phenomenon of Cucumber Guy and the therapist-without-h...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at heartbreaking stories of people who went into the woods and never returned…    When 26 year old Terrence Woods Jnr signed up for a TV production job that would take him deep into the wild Idaho mountains, his father expected Terrence to be away filming for around 6 weeks, then back home to Maryland. Sadly...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at cults and conspiracies…  In 1929, the body of a woman called Willa Rhodes was found by police under the floorboards of her foster parents’ home. This gruesome discovery led police to the bizarre Blackburn cult, run by mother-daughter duo May Blackburn and Ruth Rizzio. Did archangel Gabriel really tell the pair to write...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at reincarnation, synchronicity and near death experiences... In December 1926, a baby girl named Shanti Devi was born in Delhi, India. When Shanti was 4 years old, she surprised her parents by claiming she was not Shanti Devi but a woman called Lugdi. Over the next few years, Shanti continued to astonish her parents with memor...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at killer lovers... In 2014 in Western Australia, Amy Wensley had a fight with her partner, called her mum to say she and her two young daughters were fleeing the family home and she'd see her soon. Fifteen minutes later, Amy was dead. In this week's chilling episode, Michelle looks at the heartbreaking case of Amy Wensley. Why...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at deaths on stage and the tragic life and death of Amy Winehouse…  Dying on stage is more common than you think… This week, Geordie digs deep to find performers who died on stage doing what they loved. What happened to Brazilian singer Ayres Sasaki? What’s the story behind Malaysian singer Irma Bule and a snake on stage?...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie co-hosts the episode with special guest Crystobelle Mathew-Rosacorde, a gorgeous Gen Z true-crime lover who steps in to co-host in Michelle's absence…  What happens when you want to throw a party and your parents won't let you? You kill them, obviously... This week, Geordie looks at the grisly case of Tyler Hadley, an angry 18 year old studen...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie co-hosts the episode with special guest Ray Hill in Michelle's absence…  As regular listeners know, we love it when you write in and this week, Geordie goes for a root around in the Eavesdroppin' mailbag and comes up with some corkers, starting with a message from Eavesdropper Louise. Are we alone in the universe? Are the governments of the w...

Hello, Eavesdroppers – we’ve got a Patreon special for you this week! Each month over on Patreon, Geordie and Michelle drop all the show links, telly recs and bits about the episode along with a monthly piece of extra content! And this week, we give you a taste of what’s behind the paywall with extracts from four Extra Droppings episodes, including a discussion about Donut the psychic dog, a look...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at the mysterious death of an Indian ghost buster, and the lucrative world of haunted eBay…  When Indian ghost buster-slash-paranormal investigator Gaurav Tiwari was found almost dead on the loo at his home in Dwarka in 2016, it was shrouded in mysterious circumstances. Was his jealous wife involved? Were there supernatura...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two true-crime cases where people close ranks …  In 1981 in the town of Skidmore, Kenneth McElroy was shot to death in his car in broad daylight. No one called an ambulance. No one saw a thing. Apparently. This week, Michelle looks at the town that got away with murder – and why the identity of Ken’s shooters has stayed...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at cults and creepiness…  Hidden away in the Italian Alps is an underground temple touted as the 8th wonder of the world. Thing is – it was built by a cult called The Federation of Damanhur and if you visit it, they’ll want to convert you. But… Damanhurians say they can time travel! They say they can talk to aliens! They s...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at honeytraps and fugitives…  In 2010, one of the biggest policing scandals in UK history was blown wide open when a group of women spoke out to the media about being deceived into relationships with undercover cops. This week, Michelle looks at the undercover policing relationships scandal and how for decades, male spy co...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at supernatural stuff – the Snedecker haunting and the mass UFO sighting at Broad Haven... Would you move into a house that used to be a funeral parlour? In 1986, the Snedeker family were excited to move into their new home in Southington, Connecticut. Except the real estate agent hadn’t told them that the house was full of fun...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two musicians gone too soon... Do you remember Avicii? The Swedish superstar DJ with number 1 hits all over the world? Geordie doesn't, but this week, Michelle takes a look at his life and legacy and digs into why he was gawn too soon. Avicii, real name Tim Bergling, was one of the most successful DJs on the planet, yet by a...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle look at classic porn star Annie Sprinkle and the wellness-slash-sexy cult OneTaste... There was a time when porn was made in a studio. Porn stars had their own kind of Hollywood and you could become a household name. We're talking the 70s and 80s here - and one of the big names in porn at the time was Annie Sprinkle. This week...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle look at the dodgy side of debt collecting & the origin story behind the TV show Mind Hunter…  We all like money but it's a bummer when you have to pay back a loan. This week, Michelle looks at debt hunters and asks the question: do bad things happen to debt collectors? In January 2011, Martin Ithell went to the home o...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle delve deep into iconic 70s movie Jaws and the real-life mysteries connected to it…  When Jaws was released in 1975, it was an instant box-office smash hit! But a rewatch in 2024 by Geordie and her kids left Geordie wondering – how much of this movie is based on fact and how much is ‘artistic licence’? This week, Geordie d...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle delve into a hometown murder… More specifically, a Swedish Hometown Murder and the story of the Skara Cannibal…  In November 2010 in the small Swedish town of Skara, Isakin Jonsson and his girlfriend Helle Christensen got up around noon, went to the bottle shop, bought some food, then went home for an afternoon nap. And t...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle look at conspiracies… When the Titanic went down on April 15, 1912, it shocked the world. Hailed as unsinkable, no one expected it to sink to the bottom of the ocean on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg. 1500 passengers didn’t make it. So that’s the end of the story, right? Or is it… This week, Geordie looks at the tr...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, hosts Geordie & Michelle look at the tragic life and death of blonde bombshell reality star Anna Nicole Smith… She was blonde, she was beautiful, she was married to a billionaire octogenarian oil tycoon - who else could we be talking about except Anna Nicole Smith! Escaping a life of poverty and hard knocks, Anna Nicole Smith hustled her way up the Ho...