Season Of Obsession The Madness Arc

What do a conman, a cannibal, a campus stalker, a towering intellect, and a boy-next-door have in common?

They weren’t just killers. They were obsessed with control, legacy, and the illusion of genius.

In this dark descent of the Madness Arc, we ride the elevator to the lowest levels of the human psyche… and meet five men whose atoms split without warning:

•  H.H. Holmes – The blueprint of murder
•  Ted Bundy – The killer who rehearsed his charm
•  Ed Kemper – The intellect who dissected his own family
• Jeffrey Dahmer – The man who tried to build love from corpses
• Dennis Rader – The file clerk who thought he was a god

They weren’t monsters. They were men.

And that’s what makes them terrifying.

If genius is powered by awareness… what happens when awareness turns off the lights?

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Robin Williams lived like a spark that refused to sit still a one-of-one supernova built from motion, empathy, and a restless drive to make the world feel seen. In this episode of One Up the Annals: Season of Obsession, we follow the lonely child from the quiet mansion, to the comic hurricane who rewrote stand-up, to the actor who healed millions, to the heartbreaking final battle no one saw coming.

This isn’t the simplified story the world told after he died.

This is the truth through the lens of genius, madness, and the fragile barrier that separates the two: awareness.

We explore:

• His childhood isolation and the birth of his “Love Me Syndrome”

• The San Francisco stand-up scene that couldn’t contain him

• Cocaine, Belushi’s death, and the moment he changed course

• Why Mork & Mindy exploded into a phenomenon

• The roles that defined him  Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, The Fisher King, and more

• His radical compassion, private vulnerability, and relentless need to connect

• The silent, biological betrayal of Lewy Body Dementia

• The truth behind his final months and why depression was not the story

Robin wasn’t a tragedy.

He was a North Star, a force of motion and love whose spark still echoes long after the silence.

I’m Rab Greeson, the Original Un-fluencer  and tonight, in the Annals, we see Robin clearly. He’s not alone. And the mission he carried his whole life, to make us feel seen, is complete.

Nanoo-nanoo.

Let’s goooooo.

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Heath Ledger

He wasn’t chasing fame, he was chasing perfection and damned near found it. But the cost of brilliant obsession can blend genius and madness to something else.

From restless Perth kid to Hollywood icon, Heath Ledger lived like a spark looking for fuel.

This episode dives deep into the mind and motion of a man who built brilliance from obsession, who prepared for The Joker role with obsessive detail, who filmed, sketched, and sound-tracked his own descent into legend.

We trace his journey from Peter Pan to Patrick Verona, from Brokeback Mountain’s quiet ache to The Dark Knight’s immortal grin.

 This isn’t just the story of Heath Ledger. It’s a study of how far an artist will go before brilliance starts to burn like chaos.

One Up the Annals — where shame becomes legend, and genius flirts with madness.

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Before Elon Musk built rockets, Howard Hughes tried to sterilize the sky.

He was a visionary who conquered Hollywood, rewrote the rules of flight, and then vanished into a fortress of milk bottles and Kleenex.

From the Spruce Goose that flew only once to the Vegas empire he bought just to be left alone, this is the true story of the man who turned genius into isolation and obsession into legend.

Where shame becomes legend.

 Listen now on One Up the Annals Episode 18: Howard Hughes The Man Who Tried to Sterilize the Sky.

In this introduction, Rab Greeson your Archivist of Obsession lays out the roadmap for the Season of Obsession: where creation meets collapse, and brilliance flirts with chaos and sometimes, crosses.

From Howard Hughes to Heath Ledger, Robin Williams to the monsters Bundy, Holmes, Dahmer, who perfected the art of madness, this season traces the same current running through them all.

Five minutes of foreplay before the full descent. Let’s gooooo

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Before the neon, before the mob, before the Elvis impersonators and bad decisions Vegas was nothing but dust, dynamite, and desperation.

When the Hoover Dam brought twenty-thousand men to the desert in the 1930s, Boulder City stayed “dry”… so they crossed the sand to Vegas, where nothing was illegal if you didn’t get caught.

Brothels, bootleggers, and backroom bribes built the foundation of America’s most shameless city  and the mob simply added management.

From “Block 16” to Bugsy Siegel, this is the real story of how a handful of dam workers, hustlers, and working girls turned a mirage into an empire.

I’m Rab Greeson, your dam host and moral compass gone rogue.

Where the dam shame becomes the dam legend.

Short, true, filthy, it’s “Annals Origins: Vegas Baby.”

Before the circus. Before the birthday parties.
 Laughter was survival and death wore a painted smile.

In this mini Halloween edition of One Up the Annals, we drag the truth through the greasepaint to uncover where clown fear was really born. From Rome’s enslaved mimus who danced for their lives, to England’s broken legend Joseph Grimaldi, to America’s nightmare smile that never fades, the clown has always carried the souls of the performers who died behind the mask.

And tonight, they want to make you laugh… or get their revenge.

Written and narrated by Rab Greeson — The Original Un-fluencer.

Theme: Historical Horror / The Origin of Clown Fear
Length: 11 min
Best for: fans of true-crime lore, dark history, and beautifully cursed bedtime stories.

“Consider this your warning. The tent is open. The music plays. The paint is on.” Let's Gooooooooooooo

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Episode 13

I’m your host Rab Greeson and tonight we continue the October month long Annals Of Darkness.

He murdered, ate, and photographed a woman in 1981 — then became a celebrity.

In this episode of One Up the Annals: Annals of Darkness, host Rab Greeson unravels the chilling true story of Issei Sagawa — the Japanese literature student who turned cannibalism into content and fame into absolution.

🔪 Inside this episode:

– Sagawa’s lifelong fantasies of flesh

– The calculated murder of Renée Hartevelt in Paris

– The two‑day cannibalistic ritual that followed

– His shocking release and rise to celebrity status

– The disturbing psychology behind his obsession and the media that enabled it

This isn’t a horror movie — it’s documented history.

A man consumed beauty, walked free, and the world applauded.

⚠️ Content warning: Contains graphic discussion of real crimes, cannibalism, and severe mental illness. Listener discretion advised.

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Where shame becomes legend… and horror learns how to sell itself.

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“Every masquerade ends with a corpse.”

In Part II of our Edgar Allan Poe series, the chandeliers blaze, the clock tolls midnight — and the man behind The Raven unravels for good.

This chapter dives into the masquerade of Poe’s final years:
 the scandals, the drinking, the feuds that earned him the name “The Tomahawk Man,”
and the mysterious death that turned his legend into a ghost story.

🎭 Inside this episode:

• The real plague behind The Masque of the Red Death
• Poe’s self-destruction, obsession, and “Imp of the Perverse”
• His chilling final days and the mystery of the cooping gangs
• The funeral eulogy he never received — until now

He called it fiction.
 But it was his diary.
 And when the clock struck twelve, death didn’t knock… it danced.

🕯️ Listen now — before the music stops.

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