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Abnormalcy podcast

17 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings

Todd Robbins tells twisted true tales of bad things that happened back in the good old days of the past.

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Episodes

The City That Knows How...To Kill.

March 23, 2021 21:23 - 44 minutes - 50.2 MB

This episode is a 45-minute verbal sprint through 170 years of murder and deadly mayhem in the City By the Bay, San Francisco. Please support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/toddrobbins

Ep. 203-That City That Knows How

December 29, 2020 17:33 - 36 minutes - 40.2 MB

Here's an overview of a lovely city out west that has always been filled with quirky dark charm. Please support this podcast at https://patreon.com/toddrobbins

Ep. 202-Cupid's Poisoned Arrow

August 18, 2020 16:09 - 26 minutes - 28.5 MB

They say that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved before. Well, in this episode, you will hear about women that not only loved and lost, they also lost their money and/or lives. Please support this podcast on Patreon. https://patreon.com/toddrobbins

Ep. 201-Board To Death

July 01, 2020 22:59 - 27 minutes - 29.9 MB

Season 2 of Abnormalcy starts with an episode about the Ouija Board. It's just a fun spooky little toy, right? What could go wrong?

Ep. 113-Start 'Em Young

June 01, 2020 13:47 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB

In uncertain times, people often look to our children as the hope for the future, and yet, through the years there have been a number of malevolent kids whose stories rattle that faith. The stories in this episode are being told by a guest narrator, 12-year-old Phineas Taylor Robbins. This is episode is the end of Season 1. Season 2 will be coming soon. Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/toddrobbins

Ep. 112-Fun and Games

April 09, 2020 19:34 - 27 minutes - 31.1 MB

Here's a cheerful earful of joyous diversions that all take a turn toward the sinister. 

Ep. 111-Seemed Like a Good Idea

February 28, 2020 18:11 - 32 minutes - 37.4 MB

In this episode are a number of stories of people making a good choice that turns out to be a very, very bad choice. 

Ep.110-Mysteries

December 12, 2019 17:40 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MB

Here's an episode filled with stories that have no easy answers. Actually, they have no answers at all. It's a mystery to me. 

Abnormalcy ep. 109-How Ya Fixed For Soap?

July 08, 2019 19:58 - 29 minutes - 62 MB

A lovely summer's picnic of darkness featuring soap, death, police corruption, death, baseball, death, a vaudeville drag queen, death, a mind reader, and death. 

Abnormalcy ep. -108 Seemed So Nice

May 02, 2019 00:29 - 26 minutes - 61.3 MB

Beneath a smile often lies all sorts of sinisterness that is nothing to smile about. In this episode, you will hear about some very fine people: a sweet man from Wisconsin, an English woman that truly took care of many, a mayor of a German town that sprung into action when his townfolk needed him most and a very tasteful Mexican poet. Who they are is not who they are. www.patreon.com/toddrobbins

ep. 107-He Made the Twenties Roar

March 22, 2019 20:26 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MB

An extended episode about con artists and other slick folks, including several women that were very good at being bad. www.patreon.com/toddrobbins

ep. 106-Rest in Peace?

January 08, 2019 03:05 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MB

This episode is all about a bit of murder, quirky ways to die and quirky ways not to die. It will all make sense when you listen to it.  https://www.patreon.com/toddrobbins https://abnormalcypodcast.com/

Abnormalcy ep. 105-The Canary Can Sing, But It Can't Fly

December 22, 2018 22:51 - 23 minutes - 54.8 MB

A tantalizingly twisted episode featuring intertwining tales of murder and mayhem that all, more or less, took place in fun-loving Coney Island, NY.  https://abnormalcypodcast.com/ https://www.patreon.com/toddrobbins  

Abnormalcy ep. 104-Vices

November 30, 2018 23:45 - 26 minutes - 61 MB

We all have a few weaknesses in our character. Hopefully, you haven't let them get out of hand the way the folks in these true tales did. 

Abnormalcy ep. 103-Stewed Prunes

November 21, 2018 19:51 - 21 minutes - 49.9 MB

This is the curious true story of a woman that went chasing after love, and whenever she found it, death came along sooner or later. It was nothing to laugh at...and yet she did.

Abnormalcy ep. 102-Making a Killing in Show Business

November 13, 2018 19:49 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB

A fun little romp through a few dark moments from the past when the show didn't go on because it had come to a dead stop...in more ways than one. 

Abnormalcy ep. 101-East Side, West Side

November 06, 2018 18:13 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

On this episode, Todd Robbins takes us on a lovely stroll down the bloody streets of New York City and tells delightfully disturbing tales of some dark history there. Things often don't end well, though occasionally there is a kinda-sorta happy-ish ending.