The FBI vs Tickled
Webworm has 102 pages of the FBI's file on David D'Amato!
All of Webworm's public interest journalism is free, which is made possible thanks to paying members (who sign up to support Webworm, and to access behind-the-scenes pieces like this):
Hi,
"Did you know there are these guys who tickle each other? It's like a sport. There are tickling teams. And they see who can take it the longest."
"That's stupid," I said.
"No, it's a thing," Mickey insisted. "I saw it on Netflix."
I grew up obsessed with RL Stine's Goosebumps franchise, so when a reader sent me photos from the Goosebumps book they were reading to their kid this week – 'They Call Me the Night Howler!' – I let out a little yelp.
Next week will mark 10 years since Tickled premiered at Sundance – a documentary which essentially changed the course of my life. Getting into that festival felt like a once in a lifetime thing, and kinda slapped me out of a slightly fugue zombie state in a New Zealand TV newsroom. And to this day, I'm still seeing Tickled pop up in funny places – like in Goosebumps books.
And in FBI files.
