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WE'RE DOING LOTS OF TIME TRAVELING LATELY! HERE'S A FUN EASTER SPECIAL FROM TWO YEARS AGO FOR EVERYONE'S BIBLICAL PLEASURE! Happy Good Friday! That works as a special holiday greeting to our friends who celebrate and also just a nice greeting for everyone else haha!In the Christmas episode, Ash first told her version of the story of the birth of Jesus and Christmas, and then Kristal and Ryan schooled her on what she got wrong (hint: there were three wise men, not twelve). In our Easter episode we're doing the exact same thing, Ash gets about 20% of the story right and Kristal tells the rest! Find Kristal on her Linktree, check her out on TheGram, and find more info about and tickets to for her live stand-up shows here! GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

Join our Patreon to access early releases, ad-free episodes, and tons of bonus content, including all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible! Back in February 2023, Ash was joined by hosts of Live, Laugh, Larceny, Amanda and Trevin to discuss the 2011 tsunami in Japan. It was the second most destructive tsunami of the 21st century... leaving 18,000 people dead or missing. It also caused the infamous disaster at the Fukushima power plant. March 11, 2026 marked the 15th anniversary of that devastating tragedy and the 2026 HBO documentary Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare chronicled those events incredibly well. 10/10 highly recommend! Listen to Amanda and Trevin on Live, Laugh, Larceny here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-laugh-larceny/id1559664170https://open.spotify.com/show/07BHoPqsPlOt4z8du7aX3O?si=6IaCIO18SkaX_x16ZcuNOAFollow Live, Laugh, Larceny on: www.instagram.com/livelaughlarcenypodcastwww.facebook.com/livelaughlarcenypodcast GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

Join our Patreon to access the Dancing Plague playlist and for maps of various locations that similar occurences happened in that region and time! You can also get early releases, ad-free episodes, and tons of bonus content, including all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible! In the summer of 1518, something deeply unsettling took over the streets of Strasbourg, Alsace, in the Holy Roman Empire. It wasn’t a music festival, a flash mob, or a medieval TikTok trend. It was a full-blown, weeks-long dancing epidemic that left hundreds of people physically unable to stop moving… until many of them literally danced themselves to death. The outbreak started when a woman known as Frau Troffea and her daughter Fräulein Emma Götz began to dance fervently and uncontrollably in a street in Strasbourg. This spiraled into mass hysteria (or something even stranger), as more and more people joined in, day after day, under the brutal summer heat. No food, no rest, no relief. Just nonstop dancing, collapsing bodies, and a city completely unable to explain what the hell was happening. In this episode, Kristen tells Ash about one of history’s weirdest and most haunting phenomena: the Dancing Plague of 1518. Was it mass psychogenic illness? Religious panic? Poisoned bread? Or something darker lurking beneath the surface? Because serioulsy, how do you explain a situation where your body just… won’t stop dancing? GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

In the final installment of our three-part investigative series, Ash and Kristen put the stories of Sally Horner, Jan Broberg, and the infamous novel Lolita side by side. At first glance, these cases seem unrelated... a forgotten 1948 kidnapping, a shocking 1970s true crime case, and one of the most controversial novels ever written. But when you line them up, a disturbing pattern begins to emerge. Authority. Grooming. Isolation. Movement. Social camouflage. Narrative control. Public misunderstanding. In this episode, Ash breaks down the blueprint of coercive control that connects all three stories and explores how predators manipulate not just their victims, but the people and systems around them. Because once you see the pattern… you can’t unsee it. And the more you recognize it, the harder it becomes for these stories to repeat themselves unnoticed. TW: For everything mentioned above... this is an upsetting topic that I found very difficult to research, make sure to take care of yourselves 🫶 TSFU Ep. 187 - KIDNAPPED: Sally Horner & The Real Story Behind Lolita (Part I)TSFU Ep. 187 - KIDNAPPED: Jan Broberg & Abducted in Plain Sight - Part II (Re-Release)Here's the psychological warfare IG post that I referenced in the intro!! This woman explains what I mentioned in much greater and more understandable detail! STUFF TO CHEER YOU UP: Ash's list of "Comfort Shows" (and where to watch them for freeeee)Ash learned a dance and actually filmed it... aka Ash dancing alone in …her yard aka "How Ash Likes to Party" Behind the scenes of Ash struggling to make a simple dance video ft. her SPARKLY BOOTS!PODS TO KEEP YOU INFORMED: It Could Happen HereHigher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel LindsayPod Save the World This F*cking GuyBehind the BastardsGaslit NationThe Daily Show: Ears EditionJoin our Patreon for early releases, ad-free episodes, and tons of bonus content, including all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible!GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

PART III AVAILABLE NOW, AD-FREE, ON PATREON! This week we’re revisiting one of the wildest and most disturbing cases we’ve ever covered: the abductions of Jan Broberg. This re-release is part two of our three-part investigative series exploring the disturbing patterns shared between the stories of Sally Horner, Jan Broberg, and the character known as "Lolita" or "Dolly" in the infamous novel Lolita. Make sure to check out last week's episode first, TSFU Ep. 187 - KIDNAPPED: Sally Horner & The Real Story Behind Lolita (Part I), where Ash told the story of Sally Horner, the real child whose 1948 kidnapping would later echo inside Nabokov’s controversial novel. In the final installment of this series, we’ll put all three stories side by side and expose the shared blueprint of authority, grooming, isolation, social camouflage, narrative control, and public misunderstanding that links them. Originally released in 2022, this episode dives into the case made famous by Netflix’s documentary Abducted in Plain Sight. Ash told Cam about how trusted family friend Robert Berchtold groomed not just Jan, but her entire family... before abducting her at ages 12 and 14.The deeper you look, the more unbelievable it gets: secret affairs with both of Jan’s parents, manipulation of an entire community, and a predator who managed to convince nearly everyone around him that he should be trusted. Berchtold had been abusing young girls since he was a child himself, and the adults around him repeatedly enabled it. TW: For everything mentioned above... this is an upsetting topic that I found very difficult to research, make sure to take care of yourselves 🫶 STUFF TO CHEER YOU UP: Ash's list of "Comfort Shows" (and where to watch them for freeeee)Ash learned a dance and actually filmed it... aka Ash dancing alone in …her yard aka "How Ash Likes to Party" Behind the scenes of Ash struggling to make a simple dance video ft. her SPARKLY BOOTS! PODS TO KEEP YOU INFORMED: It Could Happen HereHigher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel LindsayPod Save the World This F*cking GuyBehind the BastardsGaslit NationThe Daily Show: Ears Edition Join our Patreon for early releases, ad-free episodes, and tons of bonus content, including all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible!GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

PART II AVAILABLE NOW, AD-FREE, ON PATREON! Ash and Kristen begin a three-part investigative series on the abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner, the real child whose 1948 kidnapping would later echo inside one of the most controversial novels ever written, Lolita. In Part I, Ash breaks down how a convicted sex offender posing as an FBI agent groomed and kidnapped Sally, launching a 21-month ordeal built on authority, manipulation, and fear. Next week, we revisit the grooming and abduction of Jan Broberg. And in the finale, we put all three stories side by side- exposing the shared blueprint of coercive control, isolation, social camouflage, and narrative manipulation that connects them. Because these aren’t just separate cases. They’re the same pattern... repeated. TW: For everything mentioned above... this is an upsetting topic that I found very difficult to research, make sure to take care of yourselves 🫶 STUFF TO CHEER YOU UP: Ash's list of "Comfort Shows" (and where to watch them for freeeee)Ash learned a dance and actually filmed it... aka Ash dancing alone in …her yard aka "How Ash Likes to Party" Behind the scenes of Ash struggling to make a simple dance video ft. her SPARKLY BOOTS! PODS TO KEEP YOU INFORMED: It Could Happen HereHigher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel LindsayPod Save the World This F*cking GuyBehind the BastardsGaslit NationThe Daily Show: Ears Edition Join our Patreon for early releases, ad-free episodes, and tons of bonus content, including all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible!GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

Ash and Kristen continue their dive into the wildly controversial world of Graham Hancock and his hotly debated speculations! In part two, the gals dig into Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse era- breaking down his theory that a catastrophic comet wiped out an advanced civilization at the end of the last Ice Age, whose survivors may have spread knowledge of agriculture, astronomy, and architecture across the world. They explore mysterious Indonesian mountaintop ruins, buried structures, global mythology connections, archaeological pushback, debate-stage drama, and Hancock’s ventures into altered consciousness, psychedelics, and the eternal question: suppressed truth, misunderstood evidence… or just a really fascinating speculative rabbit hole? STUFF TO CHEER YOU UP: Ash's list of "Comfort Shows" (and where to watch them for freeeee)Ash learned a dance and actually filmed it... aka Ash dancing alone in …her yard aka "How Ash Likes to Party" Behind the scenes of Ash struggling to make a simple dance video ft. her SPARKLY BOOTS! PODS TO KEEP YOU INFORMED: It Could Happen HereHigher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel LindsayPod Save the World This F*cking GuyBehind the BastardsGaslit NationThe Daily Show: Ears Edition GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

PART II ALREADY OUT ON PATREON! IT'S AD-FREE, AND THERE'S A TON OF OTHER GREAT PATREON PERKS, JOIN US THERE! Ash and Kristen begin their dive into the wildly controversial world of Graham Hancock and his hotly debated speculations. Along the way, they take approximately 700 Wikipedia detours through Gnosticism, Catharism, esoteric secret-knowledge clubs, and so much conspiracy-adjacent archaeology, religious relic lore, and Ice Age brain-melt timelines that Ash has to stop Kristen every 2-3 minutes to define something. So naturally, we had to make this a two-parter! In part one, the gals talk about Hancock's journey from respected journalist to alternative archaeologist who digs into controversial theories about lost ancient civilizations and literally everything else throughout time and space. They dig into his greatest hits: the Ark of the Covenant, the Knights Templar, pyramids/Sphinx “they’re older than you think” chaos, the Face on Mars, and that whole “is this an ancient warning or just Virgin Mary on toast?” dilemma. STUFF TO CHEER YOU UP: Ash's list of "Comfort Shows" (and where to watch them for freeeee)Ash learned a dance and actually filmed it... aka Ash dancing alone in …her yard aka "How Ash Likes to Party" Behind the scenes of Ash struggling to make a simple dance video ft. her SPARKLY BOOTS! PODS TO KEEP YOU INFORMED: It Could Happen HereHigher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel LindsayPod Save the World This F*cking GuyBehind the BastardsGaslit NationThe Daily Show: Ears Edition GOFUNDMEInstagramDiscord

NEW EPISODE OUT ON PATREON TODAY! Free feed friends, catch us for a brand new episode next Friday or join our Patreon for early, ad-free access and much more! Ash and former co-host Michelle Mosher are joined by hilarious historian, host of HILF: History I'd Like To Fck, Dawn Brody! For Valentine's Day 2023 the gals brought you your own tales of dating, romance and love gone wrong.We got a toooon of submissions from Colorado, Denver in particular... ladies of Denver, STAY STRONG! We are so sorry, and thank you for sharing your horror stories with us! Be safe out there everyone, love hurts. Find Dawn from HILF: History I'd Like To Fck here:https://www.dawnbrodey.com/Follow HILF: History I'd Like To Fck on:https://www.instagram.com/HILFpodcast/https://www.instagram.com/dawn_brodey/ GOFUNDMEDiscordhttps://www.youtube.com/@HapterMusic

NEW EPISODE COMING TO PATREON THIS FRIDAY! Free feed friends, catch us for a brand new episode next week or join our Patreon for early, ad-free access and much more! This week we take another trip down TSFU memory lane to V-Day 2022 when Ash and Cam read stories from Kristine, who met a potential cult leader on a dating app; an anonymous listener who was stalked by a terrifying Todd in college; and another anonymous listener whose co-worker was murdered by his step-son. Love kills y'all! GOFUNDMEhttps://www.youtube.com/@HapterMusic

Join Ashley and Fallon as they reconnect after a break, catching us up on life’s latest ups and downs—housing insecurity, mental health struggles, and some serious community love. Fallon shares news about stepping back from co-hosting, and the gals dive headfirst into the spine-chilling tale of the Amityville Horror. From the tragic DeFeo murders to the Lutz family’s eerie encounters, they cover paranormal scares, family drama, and the infamous investigations by Ed and Lorraine Warren. It’s a mix of personal updates, ghostly thrills, and supernatural skepticism! To hear all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible, plus early access to regular content, and ad-free versions of all 600 episodes in our catalog, visit our Patreon!If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :)

Ash is joined by long time Guru and research assistant Celi Riojas as they wrap up the Devious Dolls season! Ash tells Celi about one of the word's most infamous dolls, Annabelle. But the real Annabelle isn't like the scary one in the Conjuring movies, she's just an innocent looking Raggedy Anne doll... with very sinister intentions. Ashley also denounces her love of Ed and Lorraine Warren after finding out that Ed was allegedly sleeping with a 15 year old while married to Lorraine (which she apparently knew about), and that he was physically abusive towards Lorraine... Make sure to listen to TSFU Ep. 185- SPOOKY: The Smurl Haunting, The True Story Behind "The Conjuring: Last Rites" for all of the deets on THAT! -Crave more stories involving hauntings, ghosts, demons, aliens, cryptids, conspiracies, curses and lore? Check out these episodes! Episode 10- Vampires: Vlad the Impaler and The Blood Countess Elizabeth BathoryDexter's Conjectures 1- The Curse of King Tut's War TrumpetsDexter's Conjectures 2- All About AliensDexter's Conjectures 4- Cattle MutilationsDexter's Conjectures 7- Crop CirclesEpisode 36- Cursed Movies: The Exorcist and Dementia 13Episode 50- Aliens and Cryptids: The Abduction of Antonio Villas Boas and the Mothman of Point PleasantEpisode 58- Demonic Possession: The Devil Made Me Do It, the True Story Behind The Conjuring 3Episode 63- Conspiracy Theories: The Reptilian Illuminati and the Philadelphia ExperimentEpisode 86- Murder by Exorcism: The Death of Janet MosesEpisode 103- Real Urban Legend: Cropsey and Willowbrook State SchoolBinge or Bust?- Episode 8: Beware the SlendermanEpisode 113- Vampire Panic: The Highgate Cemetery VampireTSFU Halloween Spookysode- "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"Binge or Bust?- Episode 10: Devil's Road- The True Story of Ed and Lorraine WarrenEpisode 122- Haunting: The True Story Behind "The Conjuring"Feisty Festivals- Episode 3: Fun Religious FestivitiesPatreon Exclusive: Ash and Michelle Do the Bible- Episode 1: Genesis- The Garden of Eden If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :)

"Ed and Lorraine Warren battled demons, devils and poltergeists for over 50 years, influencing today's ghost hunters and spawning a blockbuster movie franchise. Exclusive interviews and a stunning archive charts their rise as a paranormal power couple."- Discovery+ If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :)

The Conjuring/Warrens/Demonic/Haunting fun continues with a June 2021 throwback to a very special Listenersode where Ash and Cam shared their own spooky experiences... but this version has a twist because Kristen shares her own personal story with the paranormal as well! The gals read Meg's listener story about the Black Bear Inn spree killings in Bethel, Maine. Ash tells a personal ghost story from her childhood... and Cam one-ups her with her own terrifying tale of demonic possession! Good Golly! If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :)

One of Ash's ALL TIME FAVES for suuuuure, that didn't quite make it onto "TSFU's 12 Faves of Christmas", but definitely deserved a spot there! This was the first episode about the Warrens and their cases that TSFU covered, way back in June 2021. Make sure to listen to last week's episode TSFU Ep. 185- SPOOKY: The Smurl Haunting, The True Story Behind "The Conjuring: Last Rites" first! Still to come this month: Ash and Cam talk about the true story behind The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It! Jeepers Creepers!⁠ Arne Johnson claimed that he was possessed by the devil when he stabbed his friend and landlord Alan Bono to death on February 16, 1981 in the sleepy town of Brookfield, CT. Prior to that, the affable 19 year old had been present at several exorcisms performed on his fiancé's little brother, David Glatzl. At the last exorcism performed on David, Arne challenged the demon that was terrorizing David to come into him and take him instead. The night ended in peace, with David and Arne seemingly free from the demon's grasp, but famous Catholic paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren told Arne what a terrible idea this had been and warned him, and the Brookfield police, that there would certainly be more trouble ahead... If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :)

Ash tells a story (besides her own - "TSFU Ep. 180- MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE: The Ashley Love Richards Story (Parts I-III) available now on Patreon) for the first time in 6-8 months, digging back into her obsession with the Warrens and The Conjuring franchise! She unearths a lot of very unsavory facts about the previously beloved Warrens... and tells the true story behind the fourth and "final" Conjuring movie, The Conjuring: Last Rites, about The Smurl family, who was viciously haunted and attacked in their home in West Pittston, Pennsylvania for over a decade. -If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :) -Audio editing by Tina Lukic.

LISTEN TO PART I AND PART II FIRST! Sean Moon is the youngest son of Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church (aka the Moonies), and his wife Hak Ja Han. He's a far-right extremist, Trump-loving rapper, and leader of the Rod of Iron Ministries. Sean loves AR-15s and bullet crowns, and hates his mother, who he refers to as the Whore of Babylon. Strap in, because the finale of this three part episode is a super wild ride! -Check out our Patreon for pics of Sean sporting his camo gear and bullet crown, along with links to some of his uhhh very interesting music videos... as well as a playlist of Ash and Kristen's fave country songs mentioned in the episode! -If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :) -Researched and co-hosted by Kristen Jones. -Audio editing by Tina Lukic.

LISTEN TO PART I FIRST! PART III, OUT NOW ON PATREON! Kristen finishes setting the stage for Sean Moon's gun-toting, far-right extremist, antigovernment and anti-LBGTQAI+, Pennsylvania-based World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church (aka Rod of Iron Ministries), by telling Ash all about Sean's dad... leader of The Unification Church (aka The Moonies)! -To hear all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible, plus early access to regular content, and ad-free versions of all 600 episodes in our catalog, visit our Patreon! -If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :) -Researched and co-hosted by Kristen Jones. -Audio editing by Tina Lukic.

Kristen sets the stage for Sean Moon's gun-toting, far-right extremist, antigovernment and anti-LBGTQAI+, Pennsylvania-based World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church (aka Rod of Iron Ministries), by telling Ash all about Sean's dad... leader of The Unification Church (aka The Moonies)! -To hear all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible, plus early access to regular content, and ad-free versions of all 600 episodes in our catalog, visit our Patreon! -If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :) -Audio editing by Tina Lukic. -Researched and co-hosted by Kristen Jones.

Anonymous chaos, gore galore, and the darkest side of the surface web. Ash and Erin continue their deep dive into some of the worst that the internet and society has to offer. From the Manosphere, 4Chan's rebrand to 8Chan... and beyond. Recommended listening order for max context on this insane rollercoaster of a rabbit hole: ASH GOES DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Ep. 1- Looksmaxxing into the ManosphereTSFU Ep. 175- 4CHAN: Incels, Trolls and WTF ScrollsTSFU Ep. 179- GOVERNMENT FCKERY: QAnon (Part I)- Maybe They're Not So Qrazy After-AllTSFU Ep. 179- GOVERNMENT FCKERY: QAnon (Part II)- Maybe They're Not So Qrazy After-All -To hear all 25 episodes of Ash Learns the Bible, plus early access to regular content, and ad-free versions of all 600 episodes in our catalog, visit our Patreon! -If you'd like to support my escape to Indonesia, check out the GOFUNDME :) -Audio editing by Gaytrice Perdue. -Ready for a virtual game night?! Head over to our Discord!