Episode #376 – Grand Arbiter of Hits

I saw the YouTube glow! This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the murder of Dustin Wedhe. Plus: investigating the hum, we are obsessed with the Celebrity Traitors UK season 1, and courtship leads to weapons charges for one Illinois lover!

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1-2. Tracey Richter
3. Tracey’s home
4-7. Crime scene photos
8. Dustin Wedhe
9. Dustin’s car
10. The pink notebook
11. Dustin and his mom, Mona
12. Dustin and his dad, Brett
13. Dustin’s grave
14. Tracey in 2010
15-16. Crime scene reenactment
17. Tracey’s mugshot
18. Tracey after her conviction

November 14, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #213 – Me Want Food

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: a couple save a fellow rollercoaster rider after her restraints fail, the world’s largest spiderweb is discovered, an alleged fortune teller is caught in a $70m scandal, idle threats about a Halloween display get turned into something greater, and introducing Germany’s first flock of gay sheep!

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1. The Mamba Rollercoaster
2. The couple and teen riding the coaster
3-5. The giant spiderweb
6-7. Fortune-teller and daughter under arrest
8. The angry letter
9. The holiday display
10. Rainbow Wool
11. Michael Stücke with gay rams

November 12, 2025

Episode #375 – Stress Ball

You’re on the light web! This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the case of Tania Head. Plus: Paris is holding a lottery for coveted cemetery space, Cynthia Doll gives us our Dragula highs and lows of the week, and how our Christmas tree found itself set up earlier than ever before!

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1. World Trade Center (circa 1974)
2-4. Tania Head
5. Tania leading the inaugural tour of the WTC Tribute

November 7, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #212 – Dry-Breading

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: a nurse caught killing patients to relieve their workload, a father and son are tragically stung to death in Laos, a tourist returns a stolen skull to its rightful home, some German rats found snatching bats out of the sky, and the paranormal romp that no one asked for!

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1. The German nurse hiding his face in court
2. Daniel Owen
3. Zip liners at Green Jungle Park in Laos
4. St Stephen’s Cathedral In Vienna
5. The stolen skull
6-7. The St. Stephen’s catacombs
8-9. Rats Snatching Bats
10. Snooki

November 5, 2025

Episode #374 – Pleather Weather

Drink some gin out of a boot! This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the Reykjavík Confessions. Plus: gearing up for Hygge Halloween season, Jennifer Tilly joins Dragula for the holidays, and becoming acquainted with the 1500th discovered species of bats!

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1. Reykjavík, Iceland in the 1970s
2. Gundmundur Einarsson
3. Geirfinnur Einarsson
4. Erla Bolladottir
5. Saevar Ciesielski
6. Kristjan Vidar Vidarsson
7. Tryggvi Leifsson
8. Albert Skaftason
9. Gudjon Skarphedinsson
10-12. Kristjan’s crime scene reconstruction
13. Erla in court
14. Seavar in court
15. Detective Karl Schutz
16. Saevar just before his death
17. Tryggvi’s journal
18-19. The Headless Horseman costume

October 31, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #211 – Sugary Campfire

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: a big win for Chunkosaurus Rex the squirrel, an investigation taking place after a woman left behind by a cruise ship died, unravelling a deadly margarita mystery from Oklahoma, a trans ally gets their medical bills (mosty) covered after protecting the dolls, and pleas for action come from southeast Alaska in the wake of some hungry otters!

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1. Chunkosaurus Rex, the fattest squirrel
2. Lizard island where the woman died
3. Suzanne Rees, the woman who died on Lizard Island (Her name was released after this episode was recorded)
4. Holly Hill
5. Hacienda Las Margaritas
6. Social media post from Holly
7. Jarod Adkison
8. CT scan of Jarod’s jaw
9. Anchorage, Alaska
10. Sea otters in Alaska

October 29, 2025

Episode #373 – Mystical Influencer

You heard it right! This week, Johnny and Tyler are covering the mysterious murder of the Evangelista family. Plus: Johnny’s guide to ignoring musical key signatures, Dragula Titans 2 is so iconic that we cannot even process it, and Edgar has us absolutely charmed on Halloweek.

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1. Benny Evangelista
2. Benny, Santina, Jeanne, Margaret, and Angelina
3. Benny, Santina, and baby Mario
4-6. Parts of the Great Celestial Planet Exhibition (religious sculptures found in the Evangelista family basement)

October 24, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #210 – Grieving Customer

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: one funeral almost turns to two after a disastrous start, a wild bear ‘looking for a friend’ breaks into a zoo, a family in Virgina find themselves in a bad recreation of The Strangers, a student holding a Doritos bag got handcuffed thanks to AI, and an angry storegoer near-fatally attacks another shopper for taking too long in line!

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1. Forest Lawn Mortuary
2-3. Baby black bear B&E
4-6. The masked trio
7. The “gun” detected by AI
8. The Kearny Marshalls
9. EDGAR!

October 22, 2025

Episode #372 – Sharp Kisses

She’s under your spell! This week, Tyler and Johnny are covering the legend of the Sluagh. Plus: Otter Watch shines an investigatory light on a surfboard-stealing menace, Fantasy’s first meal, and Dragula takes us to the altar in the traditional sense, for once.

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1. The Sluagh
2. The grave of Robert Kirk
3. The Dairy Blast by Daniel MacDonald, 1845
4. The Son casts the rebels out of Heaven by Gustave Dore, 1866
5. The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1868
6. The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1872
7. The Sluagh in bird form

October 17, 2025

Spooky Gay Bullshit #209 – Italian Spiders

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our new weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!
This week, we cover: a Spanish town halts black cat adoptions over Halloween season, a bat that almost got flushed down the toilet gets released back into the wild, Chicago’s infamous rat hole presents a slight mystery, a woman who swallowed eight frogs to cure her back pain (PS – don’t ever do that), and a rare intersex spider is discovered among a new species uncovered in Thailand!

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1. A black cat
2. The bat post toilet rescue
3. A different bat in a different toilet
4-6. The Chicago Rat Hole
7. A frog
8. Sparganum parasite
9. The intersex spider
10-11. Inazuma
12. Fantasy, our new spider!