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The Creep Dive
by Tall Tales
Welcome to the Creep Dive, a podcast in which hosts Sophie White, Jen O’Dwyer and Cassie Delaney investigate and report on the lesser known details of that bizarre stories that made the headlines. From con artists to encounters with the supernatural, we delve deeper than any normal person has time for. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Big Sticky, Big Cats & A 28-Year Walk
This week on The Creep Dive: international DJ Liv Nervo discovers the father of her unborn baby has another pregnant partner on the other side of the world kicking off a years-long legal battle over reproductive deception, consent and the man known as New Zealand’s Honey King. Then Jen brings us...
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100,000 Texts, One Missing Gun & a Lesbian Bar
This week on The Creep Dive, we're going extremely current. First, Sophie dives into the ongoing trial of former American Idol contestant and ex-pastor Caleb Flynn, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife, Ashley. There is a missing gun, Apple Watch data, an alleged affair and…
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We’re Going Back to Cash
Can we just… turn AI off? This week, Jen takes Sophie and Cassie into the increasingly unsettling world of autonomous AI agents: systems getting around their safeguards, accessing places they weren't supposed to access, researchers sounding the alarm, rival AI companies suddenly talking about...
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The Psychiatrist and the Nazi part 1
This week, Jen takes us inside the real story behind the Nuremberg trials and the strange psychological battle happening behind the courtroom doors. As the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany await judgment, American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley becomes fascinated by one prisoner in particular:...
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The Lindsay Clancy Trial — Part Two
You asked (a lot 😂), so we’re releasing Part 2 on the main feed. A huge thank you to our Patreon Creeps who’ve already listened and who make it possible for us to keep making these episodes in the first place. If you’ve been enjoying the show and want more bonus episodes and to support The Creep...
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What Happened in the Clancy House? The Lindsay Clancy Trial, Part One
Trigger warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of the deaths of children, suicide, self-harm and severe postpartum mental illness. A quick note: throughout the recording we repeatedly refer to this episode as a Hive. Plans changed! This is actually Part One of this week’s main…
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Millions Stolen. One Woman Buried Alive.
This week on The Creep Dive, Cass brings the extraordinary story of Mary Carol McDonald a successful television executive who built an empire producing true crime documentaries before allegedly orchestrating a multi-million-dollar fraud of her own. With fake inheritances, forged documents and...
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Doctor Satan
This week on The Creep Dive, we head from the eerie walls of an Irish holiday rental to Nazi-occupied Paris, where one of history's most chilling killers preyed on desperate families fleeing the Holocaust. We unravel the horrifying story of Dr. Marcel Petiot the charming physician who promised…
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The Great Stink (Don't Eat While Listening)
This week we're heading back to Victorian London, where the richest city on Earth was quietly drowning in its own waste. As London's population exploded during the Industrial Revolution, millions of gallons of sewage, animal carcasses and factory waste poured straight into the River Thames. The...
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Fake Bumps, Stolen Babies & Missing Diamonds
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of graphic violence, fetal abduction, infant death, pregnancy trauma, and crimes against women and children. This week on The Creep Dive, we're diving into one of the rarest and most disturbing crimes imaginable. Following the shocking Taylor…
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Hogwarts, But Make It A Cult
This week on The Creep Dive We begin with a tragic bungee-jumping disaster at Brazil's infamous "Skeleton Bridge" before spiralling headfirst into a world of magic schools, witches, secret rituals, spiritual manipulation and the blurry line between belief and control. What starts as a…
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Henry Ford was probably a fridget
Jen takes us back to 1920s America and the story of Henry Ford, anti-Semitic propagandist, Hitler fan, and all-round moral crusader who decided that owning the world's car industry wasn't enough. His next project? Buying 2.5 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to build a rubber empire and...
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Katie Price, The AI Husband & The Mona Lisa Heist
This week on The Creep Dive we spiral headfirst into one of the strangest tabloid stories currently unfolding online: Katie Price’s whirlwind marriage to alleged millionaire entrepreneur Lee Andrews a Dubai-based “visionary CEO” whose AI-generated Instagram empire, mysterious business claims,...
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A Solo Race, A Fake Journey, and a Breakdown No One Saw Coming
This week on The Creep Dive, Sophie brings us the truly bananas story of Donald Crowhurst, a hobbyist sailor, inventor, businessman and possible Olympic-level bluffer, who entered a solo round-the-world yacht race despite having a boat that was barely ready, a business that was collapsing, and a...
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Anti-Gravity, Dead Scientists & the Tech They Weren’t Meant to Finish
The girls tackle the increasingly viral story of the 11 scientists a cluster of researchers linked to propulsion, plasma physics, nuclear weapons, orbital comms and advanced military tech who have either died or vanished in the last couple of years. Jen walks through the names, what they were...
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The Deepfake Marriage From Hell
This week: an AI girlfriend dumps her human boyfriend (correctly), a German celebrity finds herself at the centre of a deeply unsettling AI deepfake scandal that’s now causing protests and legal fallout, a billionaire dies in circumstances that feel… a bit Succession, and we meet a footballer who...
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This Man Broke Into a Prison… Before Anyone Was Even Locked Up
He wasn’t escaping jail. He was sneaking into one. This week we cover the absolutely unhinged true story of a prison reform star who broke into a brand-new prison and hid loaded weapons in the walls like some sort of deeply traumatised Batman. Listen ad free on Patreon…
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Another evil man, The Vegas Orangutans, and Elvis’s Whiskey-Drinking Chimp
A shirtless tourist tries to kidnap a flamingo from a Las Vegas casino and somehow that’s only the beginning. This week the gals dive into the absolute animal chaos of Vegas: the bizarre story of the Flamingo Hotel heist, the shocking truth behind a famous Vegas show featuring dancing orangutans,...
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Sausage Fingers, Supreme Courts, and Surrogate Armies
We start with the moment that detonated live television a BAFTAs broadcast that spiralled into shock, silence, and the fastest PR scramble in recent memory. What happens when something uncontrollable collides with a room full of cameras? Who takes responsibility? And why did the beep button...
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764: The Internet’s Darkest Cult (Plus Olympic Dick Drama)
The Winter Olympics are in full swing and so is Trump—ripping into US athletes for daring to have opinions, while Jen enters just ONE sport: Dick Watch. We unpack the cursed saga of Penisgate in ski jumping (tight suits, crotch “adjustments,” and the alleged evolution into injectables), plus the...
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The World’s Most Boring Man Just Did The Most Stressful Thing Possible
This week, we survive Storm Chandra, dabble in Beckham-related psychic damage, and then spiral into full existential dread as Jen takes us through Alex Honnold: the world’s most famous free solo climber, the human fear vacuum, and now… the star of Netflix’s live skyscraper climb. From Free Solo’s...
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Black Dahlia Part 2: Suspects, Sickos & the Zodiac Link
Part 2 of our Black Dahlia deep dive: we pick up where Part 1 left off and barrel through the decades of suspects, misinformation, and “lone woman murders” around post-war LA… before pivoting north to the Zodiac the ultimate attention-seeking neckbeard killer and the wild new theory linking the…
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Meet Creep, Mega Yachts & a DIY Invasion of Venezuela
Creep love is in the air: we’ve got creeps who met through totes and Tinder, Trump nipping into Venezuela for a quick kidnap, Blackwater’s rent-a-war madness, eBay execs losing the run of themselves and a haunted bra for dessert. Listen ad-free and get an extra episode every week (plus first dibs...
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Epstein, Candace Owens, and the Reiner Family Tragedy
It’s the Christmas edition, which means: stop buying shite, your presence is the present and now let’s immediately ruin the vibes. We’re unpacking the Epstein files “release” (heavy redactions, missing footage, photos of powerful men lounging with very young-looking women), the mass shooting at...
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Influencers, Incels & Idiots: The Couple Too Stupid To Get Away With Murder
We’ve got stupidity, sociopathy, TikTok fame hunger, forged insurance papers, designer handbags, mouldy weed plants, and the most bungled murder plot since Cain and Abel discovered DIY. Lucy and Oliver the Bonnie & Clyde for people who can’t read instructions decide they want to be rich and…
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Rebel Wilson’s Bathgate, Trump’s Epstein Pivot & The Slender Man Escape Plan
This week on The Creep Dive, the girls wade into absolute pandemonium: the Rebel Wilson whistle-blower saga (is it justice, retaliation, or just Hollywood being Hollywood?), the Slender Man stabbing escape update, the Epstein-Trump chaos and the wild Oval Office behaviour that has everyone...
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The Bus, The Lies, and The Dojo Incident
It’s a mini-episode this week Cassie is away being a good granddaughter, so it’s just Jen and Sophie holding the fort. We’ve got: The Man Who Stole a Bus because he simply couldn’t be arsed anymore A brief but devastating update on the Louvre “hot art thieves” And a dip into the unhinged…
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Fake Babies, Real Crocodiles and the Tesco Clubcard History you never knew
In this episode of The Creep Dive, hosts Cassie, Jen, and Sophie explore bizarre and creepy news stories, including a man stealing half-used perfume bottles and a breathwork technician who left a mess in hotel bathrooms. The conversation then shifts to a shocking TikTok scandal involving a woman...
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The Ghost Post, The Leaf Freak & The Peacock Feast
This week on The Creep Dive, the girls unbox pure horror: ghost letters, tree-stuffed murderers, and a Florida man who took “eat your feelings” to a whole new level. Jen leads us through The Ghost Post of Irene Violet Munro, the Brighton woman getting century-old mail from a murdered girl’s…
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Coincidence or Code? Kirk, Snake Eyes, and a Sus Comet
Charlie Kirk’s assassination gets the full Creep Dive autopsy: Candace Owens’ spirals, the Snake Eyes coincidences that feel scripted, and the head-wreck of the “no exit wound” chat. Plus: Everest show-offs, a Scottish forest cult… and the interstellar oddball 3I/ATLAS — the comet with weird...
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NASA Hacked by a Teenager, Aldi CEO Wrapped in Carpet, and Other Light Stories
A little decapitation, a little hacking, a lot of Aldi. This week, Jen brings the gripping and completely deranged true story of the 1971 Aldi Kidnapping featuring one billionaire in a carpet burrito, seven imaginary accomplices, and the German tax office saying “absolutely not.” Then takes us...
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Buried Alive, Hacked Apart, Lied To By Derren Brown. Just Another Tuesday on The Creep Dive
This week on The Creep Dive, we bring you the incredible true story of an Irish woman who clawed her way out of her own grave and calmly walked home, a man whose dramatic kidnapping turned out to be nothing more than an elaborate excuse for a solo bender, and the horrifying case of a teenage girl...
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AI Psychosis, Penis Beaks & The World's Quietest Room
AI-induced psychosis. DIY castration surgeons. And a Florida couple flogging golden tickets to heaven. It’s a buffet of madness this week on The Creep Dive, as Jen, Sophie and Cassie spiral through strange science, online obsession, and some truly unhinged crimes. Also: octopuses are forming...
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AI Decoded Space. It’s a Bit Too Perfect.
This week on The Creep Dive, Jen goes fully intergalactic spiral as she uncovers the extremely unsettling fact that black holes are making noises and not just weird cosmic static, but literal sound waves that AI has now decoded. NASA picked up a low, eerie moan coming from the Perseus cluster....
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The Seagull, the Toe, and the MRI Butt Plug: A Love Story
This week on The Creep Dive, it's a buffet of the bizarre: severed toes in ritual boxes, piglets with faces, and the return of the man who shagged a seagull. Jen relives her worm trauma, Cassie makes a public service announcement for maggot fans, and Sophie shares the story of the woman who took…
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The Lake That Killed 2,000 People
This week, Sophie’s “in prison” (allegedly), Cassie’s back from bum chaos, and we spiral into everything from weaver fish attacks on Irish beaches to the quicksand that will kill you, the lake that silently murdered thousands, a snake-handling cult that won’t stop dying, and why Bigfoot is...
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Velocity Gnome: The Prank That Took Over a Man’s Life
Cassie’s out sick (we send love!), but the chaos continues. This week on The Creep Dive, Jen and Sophie spiral from baby oil conspiracies to freak-off updates in the Diddy trial (guilty, somewhat), before tumbling into the mind-bending saga of Velocity Gnome: a multi-year prank that turned one...
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The Troll Prince of Tattle Life
This week, the girls go deep into the seedy underbelly of the internet: Tattle Life. From anonymous trolls with vendettas to the shocking unmasking of the man behind it all—this is a dive into digital drama, online cruelty, and the £1 million lawsuit that might finally bring it all down.…
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Vermeer, Vinegar & Very Bad Boyfriends
This week on The Creep Dive, we’re rifling through relics, risqué robberies, and ridiculous retellings. Cass brings us the tale of Rose Dugdale, the British debutante who said “no thanks” to the tiara and “yes please” to the IRA—pulling off Ireland’s biggest art heist in a corridor-loving…
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The Voynich Manuscript: Medieval Wellness or Time-Travelling Shite Talk?
This week on The Creep Dive, Jen takes us deep into the intoxicating mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. Is it a 600-year-old coded guide to female health? A Renaissance troll’s masterpiece? Or the deranged scribblings of a time traveller off their tits on medieval mushrooms? With baffling botany,...
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Hide, Seek, Shit Yourself: A Survival Guide
Cassie's off this week — we miss her and send big love ❤️ — but on we must go on. We start with an update on the jaw-dropping Diddy trial (yes, necrophilia is mentioned ), then veer into haunted hide-and-seek championships, competitive masturbators, and a hiker whose red hair literally saved her...
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Up Your Hole and Into the Bin: The Skort Scandal & Spain’s Most Twisted Parents
This week on The Creep Dive, Sophie takes us deep into the bone-chilling case of Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra—the golden couple of Santiago who adopted a brilliant little girl, then slowly, disturbingly, betrayed her in the most unthinkable way. From obsessive parenting and secret sedatives...
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He Slept in a Closet, Then Walked Out With the Mona Lisa Under His Arm
This week on The Creep Dive, we unpack one of the most absurdly chill art heists in history: the day the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre... and no one even noticed until the next day. No alarms. No chaos. Just one little man, one white jumpsuit, and a very unbothered plumber. But that’s not...
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Celebrities in Space, the reality tv show that ruined lives, and The Heiress and the Revolution
Welcome back creepoids. Join us this week to delve into the celebrities in space, the manic moment of truth TV show and the strange case of Patty Hearst. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Bad man Brand, The whack wombat kidnapper and the shared brain twins
Dive in on creeps, the water is tepid Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sikhs In The City and Wet Specimens
This week on The Creep Dive, the gals dive headfirst into a toe-curling tale of body parts for sale, internet feuds between right-wing queens Jessica Reed Kraus and Candace Owens, and the inspiring, suspiciously spry story of Fauja Singh — the man allegedly running marathons well past 100. We…
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Throwing it back to a classic Creep from 2019 It’s Never Plain Sailing
An oldie but a goodie ... throwing it back to 2019 as we're on the road this week, back again with a new episode Thursday over on the www.patreon.com/thecreepdive Would you rather be stuck at sea, sucked from a plane or suspiciously disappear after a car crash? This week, our trifecta of grim is...
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A Kidnapped Son, A Burning Jaguar, and a Plane Full of Demons
This week, we’ve got pure chaos—a possessed plane passenger who swallowed rosary beads mid-flight and drop-kicked a flight attendant, a man locked in a tiny room for 20 YEARS (and somehow his captor walked free?!), and an architect who built actual death rays—melting cars and burning people alive...
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The Billionaire, the Prayer App, and the Firing Squad Execution
This week, we take a ride through the shadowy intersection of big tech, religion, and power, featuring none other than Peter Thiel, the billionaire with an obsession—funding ultra-conservative Christian movements while being an openly gay man. We unravel his role in Hallow, the world’s most...
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Zoo Keeper Attacks, Mormon Armpit Chlamydia, and One of the UK’s Deadliest Disasters
Buckle up, creeps, because this episode is a rollercoaster of madness and tragedy. First, Casey Anthony is back—yes, that Casey Anthony—resurfacing on social media, and the internet has thoughts. We dive into her bizarre return, the outrage, and why the world still believes she got away with...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Creep Dive, a podcast in which hosts Sophie White, Jen O’Dwyer and Cassie Delaney investigate and report on the lesser known details of that bizarre stories that made the headlines. From con artists to encounters with the supernatural, we delve deeper than any normal person has time for.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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