'We’re disgusting, weirdness-obsessed weirdos ourselves': Cork Podcast Festival preview

The Creep Dive crew have a show at Live at St Lukes as part of the upcoming Cork Podcast Festival 

Creep Dive podcast hosts: Cassie Delaney, Jen O'Dwyer and Sophie White. They present a live show as part of Cork Podcast Festival. 

The Creep Dive does what it says on the tin. Since starting in 2018, it has explored shameful, mind-bending stories, ones that make the front pages of the National Enquirer, the notorious American tabloid newspaper, look tame. Here’s a flavour: the woman who went on a Tinder date with a cannibal; Catherine the Great’s sex chair; a twentieth century serial-killing Greek nun, who might be the most evil woman in history; Randy Mr  Hands, “the equestrian who came to an untimely end after horsing around in bestiality”.

“The bedrock of it is that we’re disgusting, weirdness-obsessed weirdos ourselves,” says Sophie White, who co-hosts the podcast with Jen O’Dwyer and Cassie Delaney. “The three of us are creeps when we get together. Our WhatsApp chat was always links to weird stories we were reading. Back before we started it, murder and true crime podcasts were huge. I said, ‘Why don’t we do a weird podcast that's everything but murder.’ We agreed: ‘let's do the weirdest shit we can find on the Internet – hoaxers, scam artists, death fakers, everything like that.’