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...

This week on Eavesdroppin’, Geordie & Michelle look at some really bad habits… Would you eat a live cat? Tarrare did. And if you don’t know who Tarrare is, he was only the grossest man alive in France in the 1700s. With an insatiable appetite and a stench that lingered, Tarrare was an unpleasant anomaly...

It’s a rough ride onEavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, as Geordie and Michelle look at bad cults… If you were a child with scholastic issues or behavioural problems in the early 1980s in the UK, you might have been sent to a Red House alternative education facility. The brochures told of an idyllic boarding school...

OnEavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie and Michelle look at aliens, strange space debris and would-be martians… On the 1st of December, 1987, Philip Spencer (not his real name) went out into the fog on Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire, England, for an early-morning walk. Through the fog, he saw what he initially thought was a...

OnEavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie and Michelle look at two unsatisfying cases where there’s more questions than answers… In November, 2004, Peter Porco was found murdered in his home, attacked by with an axe. His wife, Joan Porco, was also brutally attacked with the same axe but somehow survived. After ruling out several suspects,...

On Eavesdroppin’ comedy podcast this week, Geordie & Michelle look at a celebrity Christmas death… 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...