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FORCED ADOPTIONS: It's been 8 years since Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard apologised to the women of Australia who'd been coerced into adopting out their new born babies against their will. This episode is close to our hearts for so many reasons - listen and all will be revealed...

From the 1940s to the 1970s, more than 250,000 unwed mothers from all over the country were coerced into giving their babies up for adoption in what has become one of the cruellest injustices in Australian history. This week, Geordie and Michelle take a look at some heartbreaking cases from Crown Street Women's Hospital and beyond... after they first discuss good telly, the death of Prince Phillip, truly jaw-dropping royal gaffes and the briefest of Ben Mendelsohn mentions...

Geordie talks about TV series The Terror, Michelle utters the words 'dog log', Geordie pays respects to the sad passing of actor Paul Ritter and Michelle has no recollection of ever watching BBC drama The Game.

Then it's on to the main shebang... Australia's forced adoption scandal. The pair discover how women were sent away from their homes, drugged, coerced to sign adoption papers and were even told their baby had died... heartbreaking stuff. But there's also a case that will surprise listeners, too... And a mention of Sherbert. HOWZAT! 

If you've been affected by any of the issues raised, please see the links at the end of the show notes for support.

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LINKS

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ARTICLE: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-nations-shame-it-was-the-most-horrific-thing-ive-ever-seen-20120228-1tzxi.html

THE 4 CORNERS DOCUMENTARY: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/given-or-taken/3860552

THE STORY OF DORELLE DOWNS & MARGARET HAMILTON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzh4tZsNAYI

LOVE CHILD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQRZ5HyRqo

THE TERROR TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq7Gl_hhPY

THE GAME TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlKb-z4nkyU

FOR ADOPTION INFO AND SUPPORT

UK: https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/your-family/fostering-adoption-kinshipcare/adoption-support/

AUSTRALIA: https://au.reachout.com/articles/finding-your-birth-parents

https://www.communityservices.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/808448/Searching-for-adoption-information-and-birth-relatives.pdf

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Poltergeists: does anyone even call them that anymore? This week, Geordie & Michelle look at three scary London hauntings from the 1930s, the 1950s and the 1970s... But only after Geordie does a swear, there's a brief mention of Eavesdroppin' Patron Saint Ben Mendelsohn, Geordie gives herself 10 Jen points and the pair speak in bad German accents. So... onto the hauntings!

Michelle kicks off the ep with the tale of Alma Fielding and the Thornton Heath haunting. Did Alma's pink porcelain dog really smash? Did Alma really manifest a mouse? Why is no one called Alma anymore? Big questions on this week's episode. Was Alma's house really haunted or was she simply projecting repressed memories... You decide!

Geordie moves onto the notorious case of the Enfield Haunting... Specifically, the BBC show The Reunion and the time she heard it in her car and had to pull over, she was so scared! We hear all about the two Peggys, 11 year old Janet Hodgson and a foul mouthed entity called Bill Wilkins who seems to be in love with Janet and how he haunted their lives for 18 months. This was after the girls used a ouija board... SO PEEPS, REMEMBER, YOUR OUIJA BOARD IS NOT A TOY!!!! Then it's onto the Battersea Poltergeist... sit back, grab a cup of mushroom coffee and let Geordie tell you all about Shirley Hitchings and Donald the poltergeist, who haunted her and her family for 12 YEARS!!!! yep. Whoa. What the actual F. Tapping, hammer toes, flying objects and media skepticism all kept the case alive for more than a decade, but at the end of it all, who really knows whether Donald was real or not or indeed, whether any of us will ever know whether Poltergeists truly exist... 

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LINKS

The Guardian article about Alma Fielding: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/19/the-housewife-the-ghost-hunter-and-the-poltergeist

Listen to the BBC show The Reunion all about the Enfield Poltergeist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yck6b

Check out Danny Robins' podcast The Battersea Poltergeist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0940193

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Hoarders: Junk. Actual sh*t. Animals. Stuff. That’s what this week’s episode is all about… yes, we’re talking about HOARDERS! Trigger warning: This week’s episode contains swearing (as usual) and stories relating to the mistreatment of animals. Proceed with caution… Geordie talks about her husband taking stuff off the street and drinking unknown murky liquids. Michelle talks about the time a childhood visit to a hoarder house scared the poop out of her. Geordie accuses Michelle of being a clothes hoarder. The pair delve into the psychology of hoarding and why hoarders hang on to stuff. Is there a difference between hoarding and collecting? The pair talk about celebrity hoarders including Andy Warhol, the Bouvier sisters and Grey Gardens, the Collyer Brothers, plus Rhonda in the Chris Lilley series Lunatics and Susan Random in the British series Toast of London. Michelle delves into the difference between hoarder brains and non-hoarder brains. TRIGGER WARNING – Michelle outlines the case of Terry, the cat hoarder, which turns out to be horrific. (Apologies for the shock-disbelief-laughter – it was a case of hysterical laughing or crying). The case of Rat Man gets a mention - with a gruesome ending. Shanna the poo hoarder also gets some airtime, and quite frankly, it’s shocking. Geordie wraps up with the case of the Honeycheck sisters and that’s about it from the Eavesdroppin’ duo.

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#hoarding #hoarders #comedy #comedypodcast #podcast #storytellingpodcast #eavesdroppin #supernatural #greygardens #andywarhol #lunatics #toastoflondon #2birdsyakkin 🤣

LINKS:

Grey Gardens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HNhlry-ggg&list=PLKHCtZGOtY8ekZgou0-_vzdjgWSYXtM7a

A little bit more on the Collyer Brothers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jV9D8FiFA

The Declan O’Rourke song about the Collyer Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGyC0gr-SE

More on the Andy Warhol time capsules:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29125003

Joyce from Lunatics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cecb9xxSt8o

If you’ve never seen Toast of London, here are some best bits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97eE2fst4A

Want to know more about Mushroom Coffee?

https://londonnootropics.com

Stats on animal hoarding:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/animal-hoarding-its-own-mental-disorder-study-argues

Study on how hoarding affects the brain:

https://www.livescience.com/22140-hoarders-brain-why-they-cant-ditch-stuff.html

Shanna the poop hoarder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7m4KzYR4Q

Terry the cat hoarder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VPZKvuDcIo

Glenn the Rat Man rat hoarder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsITgqGQgj4

Clip of the Honeycheck sisters in Detroit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qMBAgkyqcY

Bob & Lizzie Gibbons and their sex dolls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORIRmLgV9-c

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Can people really talk to the dead?? Oh my days, there's a rollercoaster of content this week, starting with LINE OF DUTY!!! Geordie and Michelle are beside themselves with excitement over Series 6! After a quick discussion about Roz Huntley's earrings and whether people REALLY hang up trackies, Geordie quotes Kate Flemming's immortal line: Listen Michelle... Stop making a tit of yourself and P*SS OFF! Love it!! The pair also decide that Ben Mendelsohn should be next in line for Season 7 - Listen Up Jed Mecurio!! After all the LoD chat, the girls get down to business... Can we talk to dead people? Michelle talks about Automatic Writing and gives some Dos and Don'ts. Geordie talks about ouija boards and recounts a story from our listener, Grace. Cryogenics get a mention, so do avatars that memorialise the dead, along with Black Mirror, Her, The Nutty Professor and DEVS (spoiler alert: if you don't want to know the ending, skip forward when you hear the girls start talking about it!). Geordie's amazing research into Dad Bots and computerised avatars is truly fascinating, along with Eternime , brain embalming and how you really might pronounce Nectome... Geordie chats about whether an app can really help you talk to the dead. Michelle talks about a Japanese hotline to heaven and the pair are enthralled by the My Heritage AI that can bring old phots to life...  Michelle's on the lash with Cuban rum; Geordie's swishing her ice cubes around her Dark n' Stormy and there are NEW DITTIES, TOO! Special thanks to our researcher AL TEGGART and end-music composer Ben Raine. Enjoy the episode and KEEP EAVESDROPPIN'!

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True Crime Part 2: This week, Geordie and Michelle dig into the cases of con artists Lezlie Manukian & Anna Delvey. After a laughing fit, an update of Part 1 & the case of Melissa Caddick, and Michelle dropping the C-bomb, Geordie takes a look at super shady lady Lezlie Manukian. In 2006, Kiwi backpacker Greg Wards met older woman and serial fraudster Lezlie Manukian in London - an encounter that went on to financially and emotionally devastate not just Greg but his entire family. Props to ABC podcast Unravel for the intel on the story. Michelle then unwraps the story of Anna Delvey slash Sorokin... The pair discuss how the daughter of a Russian truck driver managed to fool New York's wealthiest and most powerful into believing she was a German heiress on a mission to open an art foundation - and examine the wreckage she left behind. NEW MUSIC ALERT! We now have DITTIES! 

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True crime: Yep, we're looking at the curious case of con artist Melissa Caddick and the missing millions... This week, Michelle digs into Australia's craziest fraud case THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW and looks at how the missing financial investor swindled millions of bucks out of her friends and family to become Australia's answer to Bernie Madeof. Buckle up, guys, because this week's case has everything you could want and more: we've got fraud, deception, Ponzi schemes, scams, bogus financial portfolios, Dior dresses, heartbroken family members, zero CCTV footage, a missing person and... a washed-up foot. Not just any foot... MELISSA CADDICK'S FOOT! We don't literally have her foot but you know what we mean! And people, if you have a picture of her actual foot, GET IN TOUCH! But to kick off the ep, Geordie chats about swingers parties, The Blacklist, Dirty John and how Sting got stung... Michelle talks about drinking cockroaches and love deception... And after a deep dive into the Melissa Caddick fraud case, it all gets wrapped up with the pair realising that they've got to make the ep a TWO PARTER because they just aren't ready to stop the fraud/deception/conmen chit chat. So, get Eavesdroppin'! 

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Witches... They've been around since the dawn of time and this episode, the girls rev up their broomsticks to chat all things witchy! Not before a disgusting rat-chat rat off about rats, rat guts and rat encounters, that is... So, witches! Witchcraft! Familiars! Witchy True Crime! It's all here... Michelle reminisces about Mysteries in Covent Garden and whether Geordie has a witchy face... Geordie chats about the Crucible, her drama years and Goody Goode... Michelle talks about modern witches, witch influencers, feminism and #witchesofinstagram... Geordie dives into the case of Vanessa Mitchell, whose dream home in St Orsyth turned into a nightmare when the ghosts of witches past haunted her beyond the grave. 15th Century witch Ursula Kemp gets discussed, as do modern witches Bri Luna  & Harmony Nice, and the ep gets wrapped up with a terrifying True Crime recap of the case of Kristy Bamu and a couple of spells you can try at home to get rid of unwanted friends. What more could you want! 

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Three words: Big Foot, Mermaids, Unicorns... Ok, that's 4 words but you get where we're going with this... MYTHICAL CREATURES! Michelle keeps saying Monsters, but hey ho, she has no idea what she's talking about. Geordie talks about her love for John Leguziamo and Tom 'Hardy Cox'. Michelle can't believe Noah Taylor was in Peaky Blinders... Wha??? Geordie gives the lowdown on Charles Bronson the Circus Strongman... Michelle talks about catfishing and agrees to do a flow chart for 6 degrees of Ben Mendelsohn, but that's probably never going to happen. Big Foot aka the Abominablahblah Snowman aka Yeti aka Sasquatch is discussed. Mermaids get some airtime. We learn what a unicorn REALLY is and we wrap up with a half-arsed existential discussion on why we want to believe in mythical creatures... Enjoy! 

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Hello SATAN! This week, Geordie talks about The Church of Satan... Do they really drink the blood of bunnies? Is Anton LaVey hot? And would Geordie go there? Michelle talks about Satanic Panic, the insane case of the Cook circus family and how Bimini Bom Boulash is owning the latest season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Mendels' career gets trashed once again, Geordie thinks Silverwater sounds like a noice place to live and life advice is given: DON'T LIGHT THE EVIL SKULL CANDLE!!!   

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