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It’s one of the most fascinating interviews we’ve ever done, and the whole episode is dripping with Y2K-era cult goo! This week, Teams Edward and Kimberly square off with two bizarre but largely forgotten tales of doomsday cults, religious extremism, and cult psychology.

Edward opens fire with The Order of the Solar Temple, the notorious 1990s doomsday cult led by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret—a secretive society of high-achievers that eventually descended into ritual murder and mass suicide. Kimberly shoots back with the kinder, gentler Chen Tao, the Taiwanese UFO cult best known for alien worship, an apocalyptic prophecy, and spectacularly embarrassing itself in front of the international press on a suburban Texas lawn.

But the real draw this episode is Special Guest Judge Celeste Mott, who shares the story of her decade-long youthful involvement with an online vampire cult during the early days of the Internet—and yes, there were indeed digital “Lestat and Armand” encounters.

It’s a wild ride through doomsday cults, internet subcultures, groupthink, belief, and belonging—and what happens when even the smartest, most rational people go looking for a community to call their own.

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A dessert so delicious it sent a regent to an early grave. A royal banquet heinously serving underage eliticide as its entree. It’s the SEASON THREE PREMIERE (this time for real!!), and Teams Edward and Kimberly are throwing history’s most lethal meals on the table for your vote! 

With stops at King Adolf Frederick of Sweden’s tragic lobster and caviar banquet, the smoky castle hall which hosted Scotland’s infamous Black Dinner, and a random Italian province for an aside about a sinister delicacy known as “maggot cheese”, it’s a bizarre tasting menu sure to satisfy history, food, and true crime nerds equally. 

Special guest judge Chef David Kaye weighs in on which story left him most satisfied, while the party picks apart how human behavior, psychology, and our dinner tables are forever baked together, no matter where in the world we hail from. Which story wins? Only ye, the public, can decide.

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A whole episode about cults that make things EXTRA weird by "keeping it in the family?" Don't blame us — it's what listeners asked for. Back in the pandemic era, you voted, and incest cults won. Democratically. That happened.

In this returning Season 1 Finale, Team Edward introduces The Colt Family, who took the "rewilding" concept and turned it into an orgiastic, multi-generational freak show. Team Kimberly serves up hardcore Christianity with a side order of vampires, breaking down The Wesson Family's nightmarish life as dictated by "frustrated cult leader" and aspiring vampyr dad, Marcus Wesson.

Beloved New Orleans singer-chanteuse Debbie Davis is joined by Hollywood film industry survivor Garrison Paz on the judging panel — two actual parents with clean criminal records, brought in specifically because this topic required adult supervision.

This one's been locked in the Human Fuckery vault for half a decade. It deserved another run. Fair warning: sexual abuse of minors is discussed, handled with as much care as a subject this heinous allows.

A puppy named Charlie was also present during the original recording. His comments remain edited out, at the advice of our lawyers. Some things don't change.

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 We've got updates on Kimberly's recovery and the road to Season 3 — but while we claw our way back to regularly scheduled programming, we're pulling a lost episode out of the vault. This one hasn't been available anywhere since 2022, and it's a good one. Dolls may not be the holiday hot item they were during Tickle Me Elmo's reign, but put a dead guy's spirit inside one and fans of the macabre just can't get enough. Horror aficionados love big screen scares from poppets like Chucky and Annabelle; eBay is an online hub for hundreds of sellers looking to offload possessed toys; and markets in Africa ship haunted figurines around the world. Hosts Kimberly and Edward square off with haunting stories from Japan and Mexico, bringing to life the true tales of Okiku the Doll and Don Julian's Island of the Dolls. Special guest judges Jeffry Denman (Broadway's White Christmas; DDC's The Donner Party) and Jennifer Johnson (New Orleans history nerd and costumer) join the episode to ponder Florida's Robert the Doll, Las Vegas' Peggy the Doll, and whether horcruxes are real. 

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As the days shorten and winter’s breath creeps in, Kim and Edward drag you back through humanity’s oldest fear: the season that tried to kill us first. From ancient harvest rituals to the fiery nightmare of the Wicker Man, this episode explores the panic, desperation, and creative fuckery our ancestors unleashed in their attempts to bargain with the cold.

Joining us is Chris West, regenerative farmer, bassist for the heavy metal band Medicine Horse, and a man who literally lives inside the seasonal cycles our species keeps trying (and failing) to outsmart. We talk soil, death, music, and the thin line between feeding the land and feeding it people.

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After two long years in the shadows… Human Fuckery is back!

Hosts Kim and Dr. Edward return to the mic for a brand-new season of chaos, curiosity, and true-life nightmares — starting with one of the most haunting tragedies ever to hit an amusement park: The Six Flags Haunted Castle Fire of 1984.

Eight teens went in for fun. None made it out.

With attorney Jacey Winn joining us to untangle the legal fallout, we dive into a story where illusion met negligence — and the line between entertainment and accountability went up in smoke.

We missed you, spooky nerds. Let’s get weird again.

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Ghosts proposing marriage. Dead presidents playing the violin. Séances hosted by First Lady Lincoln in the Crimson Room—the White House is so much more paranormal than your high school history teacher ever let on.

Originally recorded in 2021, this previously lost episode is now available. Hosts Kimberly and Edward join forces once again to explore one of America’s most haunted mansions. From Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth’s shared obsession with the occult to the telltale signs that a medium might be full of @*#$, this is one presidential haunting you won’t forget.

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We’re back, baby. Season 3 of Human F*ckery kicks off next month with a fantastic Halloween special that’ll crawl right under your skin and stay there. But before we drop the main event, we’re opening the vault and unleashing stories that have never hit our main feed.

First up? The one, the only, the absolutely ridiculous: The Great Emu War of Australia. Yes, it really happened. Yes, the humans lost. And yes, you need to hear it to believe it.

This is just the beginning of what’s waiting for you this season - dark, hilarious, bizarre, and very, very human.

Subscribe, buckle up, and prepare yourself. Season 3 countdown of Human F*ckery starts now.

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You said you wanted an episode on serial killers, and after months of absolutely heinous research (Kim cried), recording, and editing, it’s finally here: The Season Two Finale, “Forgotten Serial Killers,” featuring the stars of Netflix’s MINDHUNTER series.

Teams Kimberly and Edward endeavored to find tales of true “multiple murderers” not already discussed to death by other podcasts and documentaries…and our guest judges, both well-versed professionally in retelling the stories of mad killers, agreed they pulled it off.

Team Edward presents the blood-chilling history of The Red Ripper, a prolific monster hidden for decades by Soviet censorship and the first-ever Russian criminal to be caught in part by employing psychological profiling.

Team Kimberly transports listeners to the antebellum frontier, where a family of mysteriously antisocial colonists led by a charismatic daughter terrorized travelers riding the Osage Mission Trail, earning themselves the terrible moniker The Bloody Benders.

Our hosts were joined by MINDHUNTER headliners Holt McCallany (Fight Club, Alien 3, Blue Bloods, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning) and Michael Cerveris (Broadway’s Sweeney Todd and Assassins; TV’s Fringe and The Gilded Age), two guys who have made careers out of either playing killers, or playing the people who catch killers. In addition to the serial killer talk, they give us insight into working with cinematic masters like David Fincher; befriending Charles Mansonite Bobby Boselie; and learning from FBI profilers.

If you’d like to learn more about The Bloody Benders yourself, check out one of our sources for this episode: 

Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

If you’d like to read the book MINDHUNTER was based on, you can find that here:

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit 

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If you’re not already familiar with The Toybox Killer case, you’re about to be….and head’s up that it’s from the deepest, darkest, stankest part of history’s colon. You may need a fresh baptism afterwards just from listening.

If you’ve ever wondered why there’s such a loud movement to shut down social media accounts teaching misogyny, and backlash to violent pornography, this story is a great example. It’s also further argument AGAINST smacking kids around, and/or letting them be exposed to violent and emotionally unfit parents, because while the Toybox Killer may have been born with a screw loose, his upbringing only made things worse.

It all goes down in a bleak and dusty stretch of desert just outside Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

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