For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #4
For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #4
Eating breakfast-desserts on a Saturday morning has never been more weird.
This week marked the first week where our second, more skilled and funnier author, Somebody Else’s Lawyer, published an article here at Bullshit Hunting. If you didn’t catch the post, you must go check it out. It’s amazing. She’s so good that we’re going to take a break from our serial on Doug Mouser, and instead run another article of hers next week on how to find a fire. We do occasionally dabble in lighter topics around here.
Speaking of Doug Mouser, his attorneys at the Northern California Innocence Project this week have won a hearing against the Stanislaus District Attorney. The state is now forced to turn over their evidence in Doug's 28-year-old case. Go check out our Advocacy page if you haven’t already!
Here’s some weirdness for you to keep you busy (and as you’ll see, outraged) until then!
What Justin Read This Week (And Listened To)
I can’t recommend this series called “A Tradition of Violence” from Knock LA, featuring a fearless journalist in Los Angeles, Cerise Castle, that takes on the history of gangs in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Buckle the fuck up, it’s way worse and way wilder than you can imagine. We need to collectively make noise on this issue as investigators, human rights researchers and journalists because I am not sure I’ve seen wholesale police violence and wrongful convictions at this scale before.
Read: https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/
Listen: https://linktr.ee/atraditionofviolence
What We Are Watching This Weekend
The Pantry Ghost Documentary (Amazon Prime) - apparently in the early days of the YouTube-generation, there was a found footage tape called “The Pantry Ghost” that was posted online and racked up millions of views. I had never seen the original video, so I figured why not, let’s try the documentary! As always, I will report back and I have no doubt this is going to generate a side quest or two so feel free to run ahead of me if you see anything weird!
From Last Weekend
What Justin Watched
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (Amazon Prime/Shudder) - I am really getting my Shudder trial’s worth of content again with the third instalment in one of my favourite found footage series. For whatever reason, this one scared the absolute, living, shit out of me. The visuals were scary, the story was scary, the acting was nothing spectacular but it didn’t have to be. I loved it.
10/10 pairs of soiled underwear.
ps. I also screwed up, I thought this was the third movie in the series but it’s the fourth so I gotta go re-watch Hell House III: Lake of Fire now. *makes the sign of the cross*
HH Holmes Side Quest Updates
From Issue #1 with a brief call back to watching the world’s worst documentary/drama, I issued a challenge:
H.H. Holmes was alleged to have killed over 200 people, but only confessed to 27 (some of which were still alive, so that’s neat I guess). The movie indicates that the 200 victim myth came from a pulp magazine in the 1940s. What magazine was this? Bonus points for screenshots!
UPDATE!
I can’t spoil it yet, but I think I have the answer and on December 11th, 2023 (mark your calendars), if all goes well with the Gods of Shipping, I’ll send out an update. Pretty sure you’re gonna love the Side Quest on this one because it will likely involve me embarrassing myself publicly.
Thank you to everyone who has subscribed, sent words of encouragement this week and for reading all the way down here. We know that’s never an easy task on a Friday.
— Much Love From The Bullshit Hunting Crew