2026 Do Go On BLOCK Poll
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BLOCK POLL (2026 edition)
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It's coming up to that most wonderful time of the year, BLOCKtober where we cover the biggest/most suggested (and after this poll) the most voted for topics!
Pick your favourite 12 topics from this long list to help us pick which topics we're going to do for BLOCK! I kept it to a relatively brief 235ish options this year (down from 250 last year and 500 the year before)!
These topics have made the short list by being our most suggested topics and/or voted in by our patreon supporters...
Cheers!
Jess, Dave and Matt
Godzilla (iconic movie monster/Kaiju)
1916 Easter rising (the foundation of modern Ireland)
Fatty Arbuckle and the Hollywood blacklist (murder trial and aftermath)
Simo Häyhä “The white death” (WW2 sniper badass)
Wu-Tang Clan (influential hip hop group)
Billy the Kid (Wild West cowboyyyy)
The Tulsa Massacre (white supremacist terrorists)
The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic of 1962
Rosa Parks (human rights activist)
the Borgias (scandalous Renaissance family)
Eleanor of Aquitaine (medieval antics)
Hunter S Thompson (gonzo journalist/drug taker)
Ragnar Lothbrok (Viking king)
The 2008 financial crisis
Norwegian Black Metal (controversial music genre Black Metal and the burnings of the 1990)
The Gary Demon House (haunted house)
Aleister Crowley AKA The Beast 666 (cult leader)
The Voynich Manuscript (Mysterious coded manuscript from 15th century)
The London Bridge in America (Tycoon bought the bridge and moved it brick-by-brick to the American desert)
Oktoberfest (the origin and history of famous German festival)
X-Men Movie Series (Recap in style of Fast and Furious or Mission: Impossible)
United Airlines 232, the impossible landing
Adolf Hitler (WW2 fuckhead)
1883 Krakatoa eruption (loudest ever volcano eruption?)
History of Halloween
The Great Wall of China
The American Revolution
Come From Away (city where diverted 911 planes went)
Yuba County five (It's America's Dyatlov Pass Incident)
Yagan the Nyoongar warrior (Indigenous Australian warrior)
Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project (story of the A-bomb)
Beanie Babies (marketing fluff or genuine collectables)
Bluey (Australian Dog Cartoon)
The Glen Coe Massacre & The Black Dinner (Inspiration for the Red Wedding)
The Doomed Voyage of the Karluk (epic polar expedition)
The Spanish Civil War
Terry Pratchett (great writer, wonderful human being)
Deep throat/ Debbie does Dallas (the "golden age of pornography")
Oasis (the band and the tumultuous relationship between the Gallagher brothers)
COINTELPRO (covert and illegal FBI projects1956-1971)
The Hays Code and it's effect on Hollywood
The Irish Mob War (Bloodiest gang war in Boston history)
The role of Native Americans (inc. Navajo) code-talkers in the world wars
The Banana Wars (Central American conflicts in the late 1800s and early 1900s relating to USA intervention and occupation).
The Guillaume Affair (Germany's greatest espionage scandal)
WW2 journalist Lee Miller (one of the few female correspondents during the war)
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade aka The Heddgehog (leader of WW2 French Resistance)
King Leopold (Brutal Belgium King who personally owned the Congo)
Hankering for Wankering (history of wanking)
The Lockerbie bombing (the ultimate detective story?)
Swoon for womb
Self-mummifying monks, the whirling dervishes (and other fascinating monk-types)
The jewel thief, Gerald Blanchard (from small time theft in Omaha to international heister)
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Fall of Benito Mussolini and fascism in Italy
The Cambridge 5 (fascinating spy story)
Brabant killers (three mysterious men kill over 150 people before disappearing)
Frank Butler (Australia's first serial killer)
Caesar (the emperor, not the salad)
Niki Lauda (F1 world champion who overcame a horrific crash)
X-Files (Um there's gotta be a logical explanation Mulderr)
Lucille Ball (comedy legend who changed TV forever)
The Rise and Fall of Napster and the dawn of the music streaming age
Netflix (from mail order DVD rentals to a streaming giant)
The Sinking, and rediscovery of the Bismarck (Nazi Germany’s biggest ship)
Raise a Glass for the Arse/Ass (history of arses)
Missing 411. Strange unsolved cases of missing persons
I lost my cool. I killed Don." (Murder at a US embassy)
Alfred Hitchcock (Great Director, Shady C**t)
The murder of Kitty Genovese (and the invention of 911)
Pearl Harbour (attack that brought the USA into WW2)
Hinterkaifeck Murders (Murder, Germany, Unsolved)
The Mayan Civilisation
The Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria (All Eight of Them)
Theodore Roosevelt (US president/mad lad)
LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners)
Centralia, Pennsylvania (town on fire…since 1962)
The English Civil War (briefly giving monarchy the boot)
the disappearance of paddy moriarty (in a town of 11 people in outback australia, one resident goes missing)
Babe Ruth (the Don Bradman of Baseball)
David Hahn (the Radioactive Boy Scout)
Desmond Doss (WW2 badass who refused to carry a gun)
Lufthansa heist (Jewels heist inspired Goodfellas)
Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z (British explorer gets lost searching for a lost city)
Bloody Benders (A Family of Serial Killers in the 1800s)
The Second French Intervention in Mexico of 1861 aka Cinco de Mayo
Hillsborough Disaster and the police cover up (a footballing tragedy)
Shavarsh Karapetyan (Soviet-Armenian hero in multiple disasters!)
Bear Brook Murders (Murder investigation case which led to the changes in forensic DNA use)
The life and mysterious death of Jimmy Hoffa
World War II (Sequel to WWI)
Tunnel 29 (The First Successful Tunnel Under the Berlin Wall)
The Candy Wars (and the invention of the M&M - Mars vs Hershey)
Tonya Harding and Nancy Carrigan (infamous sporting event)
Cyclone Tracy (a Christmas-time cyclone that wiped out 80% of Darwin)
Kony 2012 (documentary/movement)
Jeanne de Clisson (medieval noblewoman turned pirate)
Image Comics (disgruntled comic artists go rogue)
The Greenbrier Ghost Murder Trial (a ghost as the star witness?)
The Sinking of the nuclear submarine, the Kursk (biggest nuclear submarine of the time)
Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Social Activist)
Pablo Escobar (Colombian Drug Lord)
The "Spy in the Bag" death/murder of MI6 analyst Gareth Williams
The Inca and Machu Picchu (icon of the Inca Empire)
Phar Lap (legendary NZ/Aus race horse who met a suspicious end)
The Anthrax Mailing incident of 2001
The man eating Lions of Tsavo (1898 dozens maybe hundreds of people killed)
Robert Smalls (slave who stole a confederate ship and became a politician)
The Wave Hill walk off/Vincent Lingiari (From Little Things Big Things Grow)
Cicada 3301 (internet mystery)
The assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
The Yorkshire Ripper (English Serial Killer)
The Cottingley Fairies Hoax (kids made adults believe in fairies)
Taylor Swift (singer who the Swifties really like)
Amber Hagerman murder and the origin of the amber alert
Jesse James and the James Gang (American Outlaws)
Nancy Ward (Cherokee badass)
The Black Panther Party (black power political group)
Martha Stewart (the lifestyle brand to prison pipeline)
Indian independence from the British
The history of the spice trade (how spices changed the ancient world)
The Irish Famine
WW1 Badass Klondike Joe Boyle (spy, lover, thief, manager of stanley cup hockey team)
The history of bananas (There used to be so many types of bananas and the world loved 1 type but it was prone to disease)
Catherine di Medici (The Serpent Queen of France)
Frank Sinatra (Famous singer with mob connections?)
Hamilton (the true story behind the musical)
The Altamont Free Concert ("Woodstock of the West", an absolute disaster)
‘The Grizzly Man’ Timothy Treadwell (Lived in the wild with bears and paid the price)
The history of the domestication of cats
The French Catacombs (6 million skeletons?)
Raygun (Australia's Embarrassing (?) Olympic break dancer)
1990s Console Wars between Nintendo and Sega (and the birth of playstation)
History of the Internet (what you're on right now)
The Cleveland Torso Murders (13 murders in Cleveland between 1934 and 1938)
Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Brazillian serial killer who killed serial killers)
2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake Tsunami
Rajneeshees (religious cult in Oregon in the 80s)
Achilles & the Trojan War
Gloria Ramirez (The Mysterious Death Of The 'Toxic Lady')
The Max Headroom Incident (and other strange TV phenomena)
The Radium Girls (aka The Society of the Living Dead)
1953 Iranian coup d'état (MI6 and CIA take down democratically elected leader for oil)
Gene Roddenberry and the history of Star Trek (the second-longest running Science Fiction/Genre Program in History)
Blockbuster Video (defunct video/dvd rental business)
The Gilgo Beach Killer
The life of Coco Chanel (fashion powerhouse turned Nazi?)
The Fall of Constantinople
1966 (a year where lots happened)
The Chinese Cultural Revolution
Charles Darwin (theory of evolution, ever heard of it?!)
the 1942 Oregon state hospital mass poisoning (crime with twists and turns)
Juan Pujol García aka Agent GARBO (WWII double agent made a fool of the nazis)
The origin of chiropractic care (it involves a ghost?)
Eddie Mabo (Indigenous Australian Activist)
The USS Indianapolis Disaster (related to Hiroshima and Jaws?)
Jaws and the real attacks that inspired it (Original Summer Blockbuster)
The Hatfields and McCoys (epic family feud)
Stonehenge (prehistoric rock monument)
The Ghost Army (WWII operation)
Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide series
The Struggles of Euro Disney
Henry Lee Lucas (Confessed to tens of murders he couldn't have committed)
Dorothea Puente aka The Killer Landlady (serial killer who murdered various tenants)
Leslie Nielson (Airplane!, The Naked Gun, etc)
The Salisbury Poisonings (Russian double agent poisoned?)
Wars of the Roses (series of dynastic civil wars in late-medieval England)
Fidel Castro (leader of the Cuban Revolution)
Wall Street Crash of 1929
French Revolution/Marie Antoinette (Let Them Eat Cake... Let Them Lop Off Your Head))
The Princes in the Tower (Edward V mystery)
The Sniderverse (DC movie universe)
Maurice Wilson and his solo 1934 Everest attempt
British Airways Flight 5390 (airline disaster with happy ending)
Nirvana and/or Kurt Cobain (Grunge Legends)
Hurricane Katrina (natural disaster)
The fantastic laboratory of Dr Weigl (how a nerd helped defeat hitler)
the Suffragette movement
Thomas Midgley Junior (accidental inventer of things that would kill millions inc. himself)
Oklahoma City Bombing (the sequel to Waco)
Oceangate gate (submersible disaster)
Vince McMahon (Wrestling Promoter and Bad person?)
Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia)
Typhoid Mary (asymptomatic disease carrier)
Wild stories from Norse mythology
The Great Texas Camel Experiment (Horses swapped for camels?!)
Mata Hari (Famous Dancer and WWI spy)
The Berlin Wall (and when it fall (fell))
Al Capone (American Gangster)
William Randolph Hearst vs Orson Welles and the making of Citizen Kane
Martin Luther King, Jr. (great civil rights leader)
The Chicxulub asteroid (cause of dinosaur extinction?)
Battle of cable street - 1936 London (British Union of fascists kicked out by Anti Fascists)
The Black Death 1347 - 1351/Bubonic Plague
Julian Assange & Wikileaks
The North Carolina Nuclear mishap (and other nuclear near-misses)
The KLF (The band that vanished!)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (US explorers)
Carlos Kaiser (the football conman)
The Isdal Woman (Norwegian murder mystery ala taman shud)
Mary Anning - (Original Fossil Hunter)
The Wager (mutiny, betrayal and murder)
Gary, Indiana (a symbol of American decline?)
The Life and Assassination of James A. Garfield (US Pres)
History of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Order of the Solar Temple (fascinating cult)
The "Zone of Death" - where murder is legal(ish)?
Pixar (famous animation studio)
The Crusades (Series of Religious Wars)
William Buckley (escaped convict settlement lived with indigenous Australians for decades)
Oliver Cromwell (English statesman, politician and soldier)
The Iranian Revolution of 1979
The Tham Luang Cave Rescue aka Thailand Cave Rescue
The kidnapping of Freddy Heineken (CEO of the Heineken Company)
Vestigial organs (Traits occurring in humans that have lost all or most of their original function through evolution)
Ayrton Senna (greateast F1 driver of all time?)
The Troubles ((a conflict) an understatement)
A history of banned children’s toys (inc. Gilbert’s atomic chemistry set)
The Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai'i and Queen Liliʻuokalani
Jacques Cousteau (Deep Sea Diving Pioneer)
Polybios (the arcade game that never existed)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (legendarily terrible military move)
Stede Bonnet (the Gentleman Pirate)
The Cuban Missile Crisis (Brink of Nuclear War)
Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid
Sarah Winchester's Mystery House (gun manufacturer's haunted house)
The Making and Marketing of the Blair Witch Project (Horror Movie)
The Gallipoli Campaign (WW1 event)
ACDC (Iconic Aussie Rock Band)
Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Treaty’s role in NZ today.
Henrietta Lacks (The story of He-La Cells!)
Napoleon (Frenchman/War Lover)
The Great Earthquake of 1923 in Japan