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Necronomipod
Hosted by Cool Down Media · EN
Let’s drink some beer & explore the stories behind some of history’s most ruthless serial killers, conspiracy theories, alien abductions & cults!
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Robert Smalls
1w ago01:09:06Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Robert Smalls, the enslaved man who stole a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom. On May 13th, 1862, while the three white officers of the CSS Planter were ashore for the night, Smalls put on the captain's hat, fired up the engines, picked up his wife and children, and navigated past five Confederate checkpoints in the dark giving the correct signals at every one. We'll walk through how he pulled it off, what he did after, and why a man born into slavery ended up serving five terms in the United States Congress. and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Necro Overtime: Dead Scientists and UAPs Part 2
2w ago00:48:38Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight we're wrapping up our dead scientists series by going through the rest of the list. We'll also get into the latest disclosure news, and the star-shaped UAP filmed by Ukrainian military drone footage that looks a whole lot like something the Pentagon already had in its files from 2013. Here's everything we talked about it the episode: war.gov/UFO: This is the actual government site. All 162 files from the first release are here, and they're adding more on a rolling basis. https://www.war.gov/ufo/ All 28 PURSUE videos in one place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bepozDGheY The Chandelier UAP: The eight-pointed star from 2013. One minute and forty-six seconds of IR footage from the Middle East. Still unresolved after thirteen years. This is the government's own upload. https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1006088/dow-uap-pr38-unresolved-uap-report-middle-east-2013 Full PURSUE file archive on GitHub: Someone mirrored the whole 3.7 gig release and set up a scraper to catch new batches automatically. https://github.com/richgel999/ufo_data The Ukrainian star-shaped UAP: Original Reddit post with the Beskrestnov video. https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1tadb9l/the_video_from_telegram_was_posted_by_ukrainian/ Stabilized version: 100% and 200% zoom. This is the one that blew up. https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1tarxmm/ukrainian_telegram_flash_video_stabilized/ Geolocation: Someone found the exact coordinates using the lake visible in the thermal footage. Satellite comparison included. The lake was on the front line in May 2025. https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1td60n8/exact_location_of_the_ufo_sighting_in_ukraine/ Beskrestnov's 2023 video: The earlier sighting. Different drone, different object. This is the one where the crew says "maybe ram it." https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1taew8h/a_ukrainian_military_drone_reportedly_recorded_a/ The Ezekiel comparison: Side-by-side of the Ukrainian footage and ophanim artwork. https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1tarxmm/i_mean_im_just_saying/ Luna's letter to Hegseth: The March 31 letter requesting 46 UAP videos. Official House Oversight page. https://oversight.house.gov/release/luna-continues-transparency-investigation-into-uaps/ Luna and Avi Loeb, Sol Foundation: From May 15, 2026. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rFSlorsSI Metabunk thread on the Ukrainian footage: If you want to see where the technical analysis is at. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/ukrainian-drone-footage-of-6-pointed-star.14880/ Ukrainian news coverage: Original article about the Armed Forces' UAP document. It's in Ukrainian. https://ua.korrespondent.net/ukraine/4877809-u-zsu-ye-spetsialnyi-dokument-schodo-nlo-flesh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Maury Travis
2w ago01:32:15Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Maury Travis, the St. Louis serial killer who murdered at least twelve sex workers between 2000 and 2002 and filmed himself doing it. Travis got away with it for years, targeting women from marginalized communities that nobody was looking for. We'll go through the murders, the single stupid mistake that led the FBI straight to his door, and what investigators found waiting for them inside his house in Ferguson, Missouri. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Tara Lynn Lee
3w ago01:23:04Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Tara Lynn Lee, the Macomb County mother who ran a nationwide adoption fraud scheme under the name Always Hope Pregnancy and Education Center. For four years, Tara posed as a licensed social worker and matched hopeful couples with birth mothers who didn't exist, babies who were never real, and pregnancies she made up from thin air. She took in over two million dollars from more than 160 families across 24 states. We'll go through how she pulled it off and how one adoptive mother brought the whole thing down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Tylenol Murders Part 2
May 301:28:33Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. Tonight we're getting into the suspects, starting with James Lewis, the man who sent Johnson and Johnson an extortion letter demanding a million dollars to stop the killings and became the prime suspect for the next four decades. We'll walk through his criminal history, the other names investigators looked at, the DNA testing that should have closed the case but only made things more complicated, and why after forty plus years and one of the largest investigations in American history, nobody has ever been charged with a single one of these murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Tylenol Murders Part 1
Apr 2601:22:56Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. We'll start with the morning of September 29th, when a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village took a Tylenol for a cold and died, and the hours that followed as authorities slowly pieced together that the deaths spreading across the Chicago suburbs weren't a coincidence. We'll walk through the victims, the investigation, and the realization that someone had been pulling bottles off store shelves, lacing capsules with potassium cyanide, and putting them back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Necro Overtime: Dead Scientists and UAPs Part 1
Apr 2500:48:39Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight is Part 1 of a two-parter. In April 2026, a list of eleven missing or dead scientists with alleged ties to UAP and advanced propulsion research started circulating online and eventually went all the way up to the White House. Tonight we're laying the groundwork before we get into the list itself. We'll cover Amy Eskridge, whose 2022 death became the centerpiece of the entire narrative, and Ning Li, the University of Alabama physicist whose anti-gravity research influenced later conspiracies. These are the two names the whole list seem to be built around. Part two is where we go through the rest of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →The Mackenzie Shirilla Case: Murder of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan
Apr 1901:27:30Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murders of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. In the early morning hours of July 31st, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove her car into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio at over 90 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend Dominic and his friend Davion, who was along for the ride and had nothing to do with any of it. We'll walk through the relationship between Mackenzie and Dominic, the prior incidents people around them quietly noted, and the investigation that eventually reclassified the deaths as homicides and landed Mackenzie in front of a judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Kenneth McDuff Part 2
Apr 1201:12:58Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight as wrap up our series on Kenneth McDuff! Last week we covered the Broomstick Murders and the series of decisions that put him back on the street in 1989. Tonight we follow what happened next. We'll walk through the early 1990s killing spree that included the abduction of Melissa Northrup from a Waco convenience store and the abduction of Colleen Reed from an Austin car wash, the investigators who refused to let the cases go cold, and how a fugitive warrant and an appearance on America's Most Wanted finally brought McDuff down working as a garbage truck driver in Kansas City. Then we'll cover the trials, the 1998 execution, and the legislative fallout that followed — because the McDuff case didn't just end with a lethal injection. It blew up the Texas parole system and changed the way the state handles violent offenders to this day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Necro Overtime: Bundy Confirmed, Killing Fields Update & RIP Nick Pope
Apr 1000:30:25Tap to summarizeGrab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, after 51 years, Utah County authorities have officially closed the book on the 1974 Halloween night murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, with DNA technology finally confirming what Ted Bundy confessed to before his execution but never got charged for. Then, a massive update in the Texas Killing Fields: prime suspect Clyde Hedrick died by suicide in a Houston hospital on March 21st by removing his own breathing tube, just days before prosecutors were set to seek four murder indictments against him, and his longtime friend James Elmore has since been indicted for his alleged role in the deaths of Laura Miller and Audrey Cook. And finally, we lost Nick Pope on April 6th, the former UK Ministry of Defence official who ran Britain's government UFO desk from 1991 to 1994 and spent the decades after that pushing UAP disclosure into the mainstream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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