History Podcast / TheLastPodcastOnTheLeft

The show was originally created by Ben Kissel and Marcus Parks in 2011, its name a reference to the 1972 horror film ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft. Shortly after its creation, Henry Zebrowski joined as the third host of the show.

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''[[http://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com The Last Podcast On The Left]]'' is a horror and true-crime based [[BlackComedy comedy]] podcast and is part of [[http://www.lastpodcastnetwork.com The Last Podcast Network]]. Recurring topics on the show include serial killers, cults, aliens, cryptids, and hauntings and the horrible people frequently involved are discussed with all the respect that they deserve... [[BlackComedy none]].

The show was originally created by Ben Kissel and Marcus Parks in 2011. Shortly after its creation, Henry Zebrowski joined as the third host of the show. On October 4th, 2023, they announced [[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx_U4N7x63y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link on their Instagram]] that Ben would be leaving the show following allegations of abuse. Ed Larson took over as the third host.

--> "RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!" - From the [[https://youtu.be/B590bNUfiKs video game]], ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast''.

->"''Every week Ben Kissel, Henry Zebrowski, and Marcus Parks explore the horrors of the world both imagined and real.''"

''[[http://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com The Last Podcast On The Left]]'' is a horror and true-crime based [[BlackComedy comedy]] podcast and is part of [[http://www.lastpodcastnetwork.com The Last Podcast Network]]. The show was originally created by Ben Kissel and Marcus Parks in 2011. Shortly after its creation, Henry Zebrowski joined Marcus and Ben as the third host of the show.

Recurring topics on the show include serial killers, cults, aliens, cryptids, and hauntings and the horrible people frequently involved are discussed with all the respect that they deserve... [[BlackComedy none]].

On October 4th, 2023, they announced [[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx_U4N7x63y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link on their Instagram]] that Ben would be leaving the show.

* GentleGiant: Despite being very tall, Ben Kissel used to be a dog nanny.

* HollywoodVoodoo: Averted in the Adolfo Constanzo episodes, where Marcus and Henry take great pains to discuss Santeria and Palo Mayombe in a respectful manner, and Henry even gets contacted by some practising paleros who provide further information. They note that Adolfo's version of Palo Mayombe might as well have been this, as it had him doing everything that is taboo to that religion-- in particular, [[HumanSacrifice feeding human flesh to his Nganga.]]

* WhoShotJFK: Episodes 400-405 are about the Kennedy Assassination, of which the last two are devoted to the various conspiracy theories. The hosts do concsede that they believe the official story is probably mostly what happened.

* WorthIt: In the Casey Anthony series, the hosts tell the story of a man chosen to be a juror in the trial and, wanting no part of it, deliberately spoke to reporters as soon as he could, getting himself thrown off the jury and slapped with Contempt of Court. He proclaimed he had no regrets about this action.

** Henry [[NightmareFetishist isn't fazed by much]]. When Ben tells the story of how he sat on a jury for a sexual assault case and heard one fellow juror engage in blatant UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming, though, Henry yells "Jesus Christ!" in disgust.

* WatchItStoned: certain episodes come with an early recommendation to roll up a hogs leg of a joint before listening.

** Henry also has a bizarre admiration for L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, that disturbs the other two a great deal.

** Mark David Champan, the killer of Music/JohnLennon, is noted as an extreme example of this trope. Between his undiagnosed behavioural disorder(s) and the multiple narratives he's given, the hosts admit that they can't really tell how much of it is real or not. The fact that the [[ImaginaryFriend Little People]] turned out to be more rational than their own creator causes them to doubt even ''that'' account.

* TrashyTrueCrime: The podcast has a running gag where, when talking about decades-old that attracted morbid attention from the public, one of the hosts will ask, "But why true crime now?", in a snobby tone. (One such example occurs when talking about serial killer Belle Gunness's farm being invaded by curious locals after news of her murders came up.) Apparently, the joke originated from a judgmental interviewer who asked the hosts why the genre became so popular in the 2010s, when incidents like the aforementioned Gunness "fans" have existed for decades, if not centuries.

* Angrish: Israel Keyes' taunting text to the boyfriend of Samantha Koenig reduces Marcus to disjointedly muttering in disgust before he finally spits out:

* CainAndAbel: There were some suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Ed Gein's older brother Henry; for example, while Ed claimed that they were seperated while fighting a wildfire, he was still able to lead the search party straight to where his body lay. While Ed was never charged with any wrongdoing, Ben is convinced that he did it.

** In the case of Robert Hansen, who took sex workers out into the wilderness to kill them, there were multiple occasions he was suspected or even caught dead to rights when survivors of his attempted kidnappings reported him. In the case of one of one survivor, who was able to accurately describe ''the inside of his home'' right down to the presence of a Foosball table, a record-keeping issue caused his wrap sheet to come out clean, not showing any prior arrests, and that ''immediately'' made Hansen's word more valuable than the sex worker's.