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Unexplained Encounters

Badlands - Real Stories of the Famous at Their Most Infamous

Unexplained Encounters

Eeriecast Network

Nature, Society & Culture, True Crime, Science

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Unexplained Encounters has been sponsored by Badlands by Wondery! Introducing the true crime podcast Badlands— a show that dives deep into the real stories of the famous at their most infamous. Each season, host Jake Brennan, explores the real-life crimes and scandalous careers of the world’s most popular cultural figures. In season three, he tells the stories of A-listers whose crimes and career lows are as unbelievable as some of their films’ plot twists—Heath Ledger's spiral into darkness, Brittany Murphy’s mysterious death, Jack Nicholson’s proclivity to fits of rage, and many more. Did you know that America’s dad, Santa Claus himself, Tim Allen, got his comedy start in a Minnesota prison? For all that and more, listen to Badlands. Get new episodes every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts, or binge all of season three right now only on Amazon Music. Listen here: http://wondery.fm/UE_BADLANDS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I know you. You're like me and you love creepy and weird things. That's why Amazon

0:06.1

Music's podcast, Badlands, is perfect for you. Badlands is a show that dives into the stories

0:12.6

of celebrities whose crime and career lows are as crazy and unbelievable as some of their films,

0:18.4

plot twists. Now we all have an understanding that many celebrities live by a different set of

0:24.0

rules, more relaxed rules. Sometimes it seems they may even get away with murder. Some of them

0:31.2

literally have. Join host Jake Brennan as he explores Brittany Murphy's mysterious death.

0:37.6

Jack Nicholson's tendency towards fits of rage and run-ins with the law. And Tim Allen's

0:43.0

comedy start in prison, just to name a few. Get ready because I'm about to play a clip from Badlands

0:50.1

newest season. An episode about Heath Ledger's spiral into darkness before his untimely death.

0:56.5

About how he's scared and unnerved his co-stars when filming The Dark Knight, some who had known him

1:02.6

for years. Enjoy and be sure to tune in for new episodes of Badlands every Wednesday,

1:08.4

or binge all of season three right now only on Amazon Music.

1:12.4

Belle looked over at Heath, sitting in a corner, smoking a cigarette before the next take.

1:20.3

Heath was buried in a book. The journal he had with him on set at all times, with the Joker

1:25.6

written on the front above a picture of a woman in a sun hat feeding an elephant. It was a diary

1:30.8

in a scrapbook. Cut out comic book panels. Photos of Tim Curry is Pennywise, the demonic clown and

1:37.8

John Wayne Gacy, the all-too-real killer clown, who performed at birthday parties in children's

1:43.2

hospitals. But also, who killed at least 33 young men and boys. Paintings by Francis Bacon of

1:51.1

Medieval Popes reduced to screaming skeletons, dead birds and rotting slabs of beef.

1:57.6

Old playing cards in a photo of Malcolm McDowell leering grinning in a boulder hat and

2:02.4

an eyeliner as a clockwork orange's charismatic psychopath, Alex, Hyenas and handwritten dialogue.

2:10.2

Belle could go all in on a roll. He turned himself like leather to play Patrick Bateman in American

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