Tall Tales

The Creep Dive

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Welcome to the Creep Dive, a podcast in which hosts Sophie White, Jen O’Dwyer and Cassie Delaney investigate and report on the lesser known details of that bizarre stories that made the headlines. From con artists to encounters with the supernatural, we delve deeper than any normal person has time for. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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The Great Stink (Don't Eat While Listening) 07.07.2026

This week we're heading back to Victorian London, where the richest city on Earth was quietly drowning in its own waste. As London's population exploded during the Industrial Revolution, millions of gallons of sewage, animal carcasses and factory waste poured straight into the River Thames. The result was The Great Stink of 1858 a summer so unbearably foul that Parliament was forced to flee its ow...

Fake Bumps, Stolen Babies & Missing Diamonds 30.06.2026

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of graphic violence, fetal abduction, infant death, pregnancy trauma, and crimes against women and children. This week on The Creep Dive, we're diving into one of the rarest and most disturbing crimes imaginable. Following the shocking Taylor Parker case, Soph investigates a terrifying pattern that has appeared again and again across America: women...

Hogwarts, But Make It A Cult 16.06.2026

This week on The Creep Dive We begin with a tragic bungee-jumping disaster at Brazil's infamous "Skeleton Bridge" before spiralling headfirst into a world of magic schools, witches, secret rituals, spiritual manipulation and the blurry line between belief and control. What starts as a conversation about alternative education becomes something much darker as we unpack the experiences of people rais...

Henry Ford was probably a fridget 02.06.2026

Jen takes us back to 1920s America and the story of Henry Ford, anti-Semitic propagandist, Hitler fan, and all-round moral crusader who decided that owning the world's car industry wasn't enough. His next project? Buying 2.5 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to build a rubber empire and implant a wholesome, alcohol-free, jazz-free, union-free Midwestern town in the middle of one of the most h...

Katie Price, The AI Husband & The Mona Lisa Heist 19.05.2026

This week on The Creep Dive we spiral headfirst into one of the strangest tabloid stories currently unfolding online: Katie Price’s whirlwind marriage to alleged millionaire entrepreneur Lee Andrews a Dubai-based “visionary CEO” whose AI-generated Instagram empire, mysterious business claims, suspicious exes, possible travel bans and sudden disappearance have left the British tabloids absolutely f...

A Solo Race, A Fake Journey, and a Breakdown No One Saw Coming 05.05.2026

This week on The Creep Dive, Sophie brings us the truly bananas story of Donald Crowhurst, a hobbyist sailor, inventor, businessman and possible Olympic-level bluffer, who entered a solo round-the-world yacht race despite having a boat that was barely ready, a business that was collapsing, and a personal relationship with reality that was about to become extremely negotiable. What begins as a desp...

Anti-Gravity, Dead Scientists & the Tech They Weren’t Meant to Finish 21.04.2026

The girls tackle the increasingly viral story of the 11 scientists a cluster of researchers linked to propulsion, plasma physics, nuclear weapons, orbital comms and advanced military tech who have either died or vanished in the last couple of years. Jen walks through the names, what they were actually working on, what can be verified, what absolutely cannot, and why the internet has gone feral wit...

The Deepfake Marriage From Hell 06.04.2026

This week: an AI girlfriend dumps her human boyfriend (correctly), a German celebrity finds herself at the centre of a deeply unsettling AI deepfake scandal that’s now causing protests and legal fallout, a billionaire dies in circumstances that feel… a bit Succession, and we meet a footballer who simply never played football but still lived the full lifestyle. Honestly, reality is hanging on by a...

This Man Broke Into a Prison… Before Anyone Was Even Locked Up 24.03.2026

He wasn’t escaping jail. He was sneaking into one. This week we cover the absolutely unhinged true story of a prison reform star who broke into a brand-new prison and hid loaded weapons in the walls like some sort of deeply traumatised Batman. Listen ad free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thecreepdive Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another evil man, The Vegas Orangutans, and Elvis’s Whiskey-Drinking Chimp 09.03.2026

A shirtless tourist tries to kidnap a flamingo from a Las Vegas casino and somehow that’s only the beginning. This week the gals dive into the absolute animal chaos of Vegas: the bizarre story of the Flamingo Hotel heist, the shocking truth behind a famous Vegas show featuring dancing orangutans, and Elvis Presley’s pet chimp who developed a taste for whiskey and started attacking guests at Gracel...

Sausage Fingers, Supreme Courts, and Surrogate Armies 24.02.2026

We start with the moment that detonated live television a BAFTAs broadcast that spiralled into shock, silence, and the fastest PR scramble in recent memory. What happens when something uncontrollable collides with a room full of cameras? Who takes responsibility? And why did the beep button seemingly clock out early? Then we wade into royal territory custody, consequences, and that now-iconic phot...

764: The Internet’s Darkest Cult (Plus Olympic Dick Drama) 10.02.2026

The Winter Olympics are in full swing and so is Trump—ripping into US athletes for daring to have opinions, while Jen enters just ONE sport: Dick Watch. We unpack the cursed saga of Penisgate in ski jumping (tight suits, crotch “adjustments,” and the alleged evolution into injectables ), plus the tragic beauty of a sport where everyone flies like a terrified ironing board. Then we pivot because of...

The World’s Most Boring Man Just Did The Most Stressful Thing Possible 27.01.2026

This week, we survive Storm Chandra, dabble in Beckham-related psychic damage, and then spiral into full existential dread as Jen takes us through Alex Honnold: the world’s most famous free solo climber, the human fear vacuum, and now… the star of Netflix’s live skyscraper climb. From Free Solo ’s girlfriend stress horror to the ethics of watching a man risk it all in real time we’re asking the on...

Black Dahlia Part 2: Suspects, Sickos & the Zodiac Link 20.01.2026

Part 2 of our Black Dahlia deep dive: we pick up where Part 1 left off and barrel through the decades of suspects, misinformation, and “lone woman murders” around post-war LA… before pivoting north to the Zodiac the ultimate attention-seeking neckbeard killer and the wild new theory linking the two cases via a recently cracked cipher, a suspicious alias, and a creepy little “deathbed” sketch that...

Meet Creep, Mega Yachts & a DIY Invasion of Venezuela 06.01.2026

Creep love is in the air: we’ve got creeps who met through totes and Tinder, Trump nipping into Venezuela for a quick kidnap, Blackwater’s rent-a-war madness, eBay execs losing the run of themselves and a haunted bra for dessert. Listen ad-free and get an extra episode every week (plus first dibs on our Meat Creep Valentine’s show tickets) over on Patreon: patreon.com/thecreepdive . Hosted on Acas...

Epstein, Candace Owens, and the Reiner Family Tragedy 23.12.2025

It’s the Christmas edition, which means: stop buying shite, your presence is the present and now let’s immediately ruin the vibes. We’re unpacking the Epstein files “release” (heavy redactions, missing footage, photos of powerful men lounging with very young-looking women), the mass shooting at Brown, and the targeted killing of an MIT nuclear plasma physicist that has the internet whispering “ass...

Influencers, Incels & Idiots: The Couple Too Stupid To Get Away With Murder 09.12.2025

We’ve got stupidity, sociopathy, TikTok fame hunger, forged insurance papers, designer handbags, mouldy weed plants, and the most bungled murder plot since Cain and Abel discovered DIY. Lucy and Oliver the Bonnie & Clyde for people who can’t read instructions decide they want to be rich and famous and not work and not be held accountable for the death of that lad Oliver killed in a drink-drivi...

Rebel Wilson’s Bathgate, Trump’s Epstein Pivot & The Slender Man Escape Plan 25.11.2025

This week on The Creep Dive, the girls wade into absolute pandemonium: the Rebel Wilson whistle-blower saga (is it justice, retaliation, or just Hollywood being Hollywood?), the Slender Man stabbing escape update, the Epstein-Trump chaos and the wild Oval Office behaviour that has everyone questioning reality. It's conspiracies, lawsuits, teenage horror, political meltdown and a splash of celebrit...

The Bus, The Lies, and The Dojo Incident 11.11.2025

It’s a mini-episode this week Cassie is away being a good granddaughter, so it’s just Jen and Sophie holding the fort. We’ve got: The Man Who Stole a Bus because he simply couldn’t be arsed anymore A brief but devastating update on the Louvre “hot art thieves” And a dip into the unhinged spiritual swamp that is Steven Seagal. Small episode, big chaos. Full-length creep returning Thursday on the pa...

Fake Babies, Real Crocodiles and the Tesco Clubcard History you never knew 28.10.2025

In this episode of The Creep Dive, hosts Cassie, Jen, and Sophie explore bizarre and creepy news stories, including a man stealing half-used perfume bottles and a breathwork technician who left a mess in hotel bathrooms. The conversation then shifts to a shocking TikTok scandal involving a woman who faked her pregnancy and the existence of her baby, leading to a chaotic unraveling of her deception...

The Ghost Post, The Leaf Freak & The Peacock Feast 14.10.2025

This week on The Creep Dive , the girls unbox pure horror: ghost letters, tree-stuffed murderers, and a Florida man who took “eat your feelings” to a whole new level. Jen leads us through The Ghost Post of Irene Violet Munro, the Brighton woman getting century-old mail from a murdered girl’s mother. Cassie brings the leaf-hoarding lunatic Matthew Hoffman — the kidnapper who filled his house with 1...

Coincidence or Code? Kirk, Snake Eyes, and a Sus Comet 30.09.2025

Charlie Kirk’s assassination gets the full Creep Dive autopsy: Candace Owens’ spirals, the Snake Eyes coincidences that feel scripted, and the head-wreck of the “no exit wound” chat. Plus: Everest show-offs, a Scottish forest cult… and the interstellar oddball 3I/ATLAS — the comet with weird chemistry and a whiff of “is it a probe?” energy. It’s messy, mad, and very us. Want this ad-free — plus ou...

NASA Hacked by a Teenager, Aldi CEO Wrapped in Carpet, and Other Light Stories 16.09.2025

A little decapitation, a little hacking, a lot of Aldi. This week, Jen brings the gripping and completely deranged true story of the 1971 Aldi Kidnapping featuring one billionaire in a carpet burrito, seven imaginary accomplices, and the German tax office saying “absolutely not.” Then takes us through the tragic and shocking tale of Jonathan James, the teenage hacker who broke into NASA and the Pe...

Buried Alive, Hacked Apart, Lied To By Derren Brown. Just Another Tuesday on The Creep Dive 01.09.2025

This week on The Creep Dive, we bring you the incredible true story of an Irish woman who clawed her way out of her own grave and calmly walked home, a man whose dramatic kidnapping turned out to be nothing more than an elaborate excuse for a solo bender, and the horrifying case of a teenage girl who survived a brutal attack where both of her arms were hacked off and went on to face her attacker i...

AI Psychosis, Penis Beaks & The World's Quietest Room 19.08.2025

AI-induced psychosis. DIY castration surgeons. And a Florida couple flogging golden tickets to heaven. It’s a buffet of madness this week on The Creep Dive, as Jen, Sophie and Cassie spiral through strange science, online obsession, and some truly unhinged crimes. Also: octopuses are forming societies, and we are officially terrified. Want it ad-free and an extra weekly episode !? Support us on Pa...

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