Episodes

  • Over The Edge 1999: The Owen Hart Tragedy

    Over The Edge 1999: The Owen Hart Tragedy
    Apr 7 2023
    Owen James Hart (May 7, 1965 – May 23, 1999) was a Canadian-American professional wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He received most of his success in the WWF, where he wrestled under both his own name and the ring name The Blue Blazer. Hart died on May 23, 1999, during his entrance from the rafters of Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The equipment that was lowering him to the ring malfunctioned and he fell to his death in front of a live audience and live on Pay Per View during WWF's Over the Edge event.
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    41 mins
  • The Yuba County Five

    The Yuba County Five
    Mar 29 2023
    The Yuba County Five were a group of young men from Yuba City, California, with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, who attended a college basketball game at California State University, Chico, on the night of February 24, 1978. Four of them—Bill Sterling, 29; Jack Huett, 24; Ted Weiher, 32; and Jack Madruga, 30—were later found dead; the fifth, Gary Mathias, 25, has never been found. Come listen with Dak as he dives deep into this horrible horrible missing persons case and says words like it’s his first time talking.
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    42 mins
  • The Monster Study Of Davenport, Iowa

    The Monster Study Of Davenport, Iowa
    Feb 23 2023
    The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment performed on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa in 1939. It was conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Graduate student Mary Tudor conducted the experiment under Johnson's supervision.
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    28 mins
  • The Butcher Baker Robert Hansen

    The Butcher Baker Robert Hansen
    Feb 16 2023
    Robert Christian Hansen (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), known in the media as the Butcher Baker, was an American serial killer. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen abducted, raped, and murdered at least seventeen women in and around Anchorage, Alaska; he hunted many of them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. He was arrested and convicted in 1983, and was sentenced to 461 years without the possibility of parole. He died in 2014 of natural causes due to lingering health conditions at age 75.
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    36 mins
  • The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

    The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
    Feb 9 2023
    The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis. The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease when untreated, though by the end of the study medical advancements meant it was entirely treatable. The men were not informed of the nature of the experiment, and more than 100 died as a result.
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    44 mins
  • The Toy Box Killer David Parker Ray

    The Toy Box Killer David Parker Ray
    Feb 3 2023
    David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), also known as the Toy-Box Killer, was an American kidnapper, torturer, serial rapist and suspected serial killer. Though no bodies were found, Ray was accused by his accomplices of killing several women, and was suspected by the police to have murdered as many as sixty women from Arizona and New Mexico while living in Elephant Butte, approximately seven miles north of Truth or Consequences. Come listen as Dak digs deep into the Elephant Butte and gives you everything you need to know about the toy box killer.
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    33 mins
  • Questioning The Reality Of Human Civilizations In The Ancient Past

    Questioning The Reality Of Human Civilizations In The Ancient Past
    Aug 25 2022
    Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? How civilizations throughout history were able to build megalithic structure with stones tools and far less education and technology we have at our disposal today. In this episode of Hitting It With Dak we question the status quo/mainstream archaeological evidence for the beginnings of what we know as human civilization and theorize what could’ve or maybe even did come before us. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did making it.
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    1 hr
  • Vlad The Impaler: The Real Life Dracula

    Vlad The Impaler: The Real Life Dracula
    Jun 16 2022
    Vlad the Impaler was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania. Well known for a blood thirsty atrocities in the ancient world most notably for his impalement of his enemies. Come hangout with Dak for a quick little run down on his life and legacy.
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    33 mins