Eavesdroppin'

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at an under-the-radar British serial killer... When John Sweeney asked Delia Balmer if he could buy her a drink in a Camden pub back in London, 1991, Delia accepted the drink then moved on with her life. A chance meeting between the pair a few months later led to romance, with John quickly moving into Delia's council flat....

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at ESP and The Telepathy Tapes... Do you believe in ESP? There's a new podcast and documentary series called The Telepathy Tapes that is blowing up around the world, which aims to prove that some nonverbal autistic children have supernatural abilities. Journalist Ky Dickens looks at a group of nonverbal autistic children w...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at family secrets... When doctors and neighbours hadn’t seen John and Lois McCullough for quite some time, they raised the alarm with social services. Daughter Virginia told them her parents had moved to the seaside, but the truth was much more sinister. This week, Geordie dives into a tragic case that involves debt, decep...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at a rips in the matrix, drones and crop circles... Are aliens time travellers from the future coming back to our present? Are doppelgängers proof of a rip in the matrix? What's going on with all those drones in New Jersey? This week, Michelle looks at all this and more, with some confusing pseudo-science and some unanswer...

Happy New Year! On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at a Bad Girls - specifically the black-widow would-be-murderer Dalia Dippolito, plus murderer Shirley Turner who revenge-killed her ex-boyfriend Andrew Bagby... When Dalia Dippolito contacted her ex boyfriend to enlist his help in finding a hitman to kill her new husband, she thought he'd get on board, hel...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at a celebrity Christmas death while celebrating the life of George Michael... On the 25th of December, 2016, the world woke up to Christmas presents under the tree, Elf on the Shelf and the news that music icon George Michael had died. So this week, Michelle lovingly pays tribute to the life and musical legacy of Geo...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at a Christmas natural disaster... On the 26th of December, 2004, holiday makers in South East Asia woke up to another day in paradise. Sunshine. Blue skies. White-sand beaches. Boxing-Day bliss. And then, disaster struck. An underground earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2, caused by shifting tectonic plates, triggered...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at supernatural stuff...   Do you know what a timeslip is? It's where you're minding your own business, then all of a sudden you're in the same place but it's a different century! It happens and this week Geordie looks at a load of timeslips that have happened in Bold Street in Liverpool. Listen now to find out more!...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle have a Christmas pot luck party!   Have you ever had a strange encounter at Christmas? Michelle looks at 3 different real-life Christmas tales this week: a mysterious black cat appears at the door; a family gets Christmas letters from the grave, and a ghostly apparition waves from the gutter after a Christmas party… Michel...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at two very different cults...   In 1958, Chuck Dederich founded a self-help group called Synanon, where addicts could help other addicts get clean. It was massively successful and the key to its success lay in a form of therapy called The Game. But as Synanon gained more and more attention, things began to...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle talk aliens...   In 1989, a woman called Linda Napolitano claimed aliens levitated her out of the window of her Manhattan apartment, beamed her up into their spaceship and experimented on her. What happened next? Appearances on Oprah. Men in Black. Further abductions. Her kid being abducted. Alien implants. Skeptics....

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...