A Light Supper With The Breatharians
Is it possible to live without food or water? A group of New Age extremists called the Breatharians claim that the human body can survive for years on...
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Welcome to Hobsession - where we get horribly obsessed, highly obsessed, hilariously obsessed with things that other people might find odd. Nothing is too obscure too creepy or too weird for us to research obsessively. We are Heidi and Rebecca, join us in our Hobsessions!
The Basement Music of The Shaggs
Helen, Betty and Dot Wiggin had no interest in being pop stars. Their dad, however, shaped his life around his mother’s psychic predictions, and she h...
Are You Bridget Cleary?
Bridget Cleary wasn’t like the other girls in her rural town in Tipperary, Ireland. It was the late 19th century, and Bridget was in many ways a moder...
The Obsessions of Hans Christian Andersen
It was 1857 and the last thing Charles Dickens and his family (who were in a state of upheaval) needed was a houseguest. They especially didn’t need a...
The Haunting of Humpty Doo House
It was the late 90’s in the small Northern Territory town of Humpty Doo, a place of sweltering heat, humid storms, crocodiles and hardworking people. ...
The Eternal Supermodel: Lizzie Siddal and the Feminine Muse
Lizzie Siddal was a young working class woman in Victorian London who longed for more. Desperate to be accepted as a poet and a painter, Lizzie found ...
Sing, Frights of Angels!
It’s nearly Christmas and we are surrounded by depictions of angels. On the Christmas tree, on greeting cards, in movies, beautiful humans in fluffy w...
The Unholy Death of Anneliese Michel
When Anneliese Michel reached out to Father Ernst Alt, she was desperate. Suicidally depressed and tormented by horrific hallucinations, she pleaded f...
Deadly Dancing: The Dance Marathons of the American Dust Bowl
Most people watch reality TV or follow internet drama, often with the desire to see people in challenging and sometimes humiliating situations. In the...
Uncanny Valley of the Dolls
Why do so many people claim to find dolls creepy? Are we influenced by popular culture or are we hardwired to find human replicas sinister? Heidi an...