Conspiracy Theories

23 Jul 2025

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We can’t hop in a time machine and set it to a specific year…yet. But what if we can unwittingly...

16 Jul 2025

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Did Germany secretly establish a base in Antarctica prior to World War II? In 1947, the U.S. Navy la...

Wed, 09 Jul

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“Power is having impunity.” In January 1997, a photojournalist is found murdered on the side of ...

Wed, 02 Jul

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For over a century, common belief was that Vincent Van Gogh died by suicide. But in 2011, two Pulitz...

Wed, 25 Jun

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On New Year’s Day in Sydney, Australia, two dead bodies are discovered near a river. Dr. Gilbert B...

Wed, 18 Jun

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Fluoride and its presence in public water has become a hot-button issue in the United States. More a...

Wed, 11 Jun

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In 2018, a peer-reviewed article published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology suggested...

Wed, 04 Jun

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American New Age culture isn’t all crystals and Tarot cards. A New World Order? The Aryan race? Al...

Wed, 28 May

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Alcatraz was designed to be inescapable. But in 1962, three men broke out. The FBI concluded the inm...

Wed, 21 May

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In 1953, an Air Force jet took off from Michigan’s Kinross Air Force Base in pursuit of an unknown...

Wed, 14 May

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A legend tells of a cache of Civil War-era gold buried somewhere in the hills of Elk County, Pennsyl...

Wed, 07 May

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In the early 1970s, when he was still an Archbishop, Albino Luciani caught wind of a shady banking s...

Wed, 30 Apr

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After Malcolm X was assassinated, three men were arrested. Despite holes in the investigation and th...

Wed, 23 Apr

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Malcolm X’s radical ideas about racial justice won him many followers, and spawned just as many en...

Wed, 16 Apr

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Brazil, 1966. Two men in suits were found dead on a hill, surrounded by odd notes, and wearing lead ...

Wed, 09 Apr

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In 1973, author and activist Oscar Zeta Acosta told his son he was getting on a boat, and would see ...

Wed, 02 Apr

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In May 2000, 32-year-old Australian astrophysicist Rodney Marks died suddenly on an Antarctica base ...

Wed, 26 Mar

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Teenager Jane Grey was never supposed to be Queen of England. But in 1553, a complex conspiracy put ...

Wed, 19 Mar

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In 1976, a military coup led to an authoritarian regime in Argentina. The military and its new leade...

Wed, 12 Mar

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In the mid-19th century, British-occupied Ireland lost roughly one-third of its population during a ...

Wed, 05 Mar

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In early 2025, the FBI announced that they had found more than 2,000 new records related to John F. ...

Wed, 26 Feb

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When youth minister, husband, and new father Wesley Barrett Cox goes missing in rural Texas in 1984,...

Wed, 19 Feb

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In the summer of 2022, an explosion destroyed the granite monument known as The Georgia Guidestones....

Wed, 12 Feb

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An alternative-history conspiracy theory has been taking root on YouTube and Reddit forums. It alleg...

Wed, 05 Feb

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In 1966, Bobby Fuller was a rising rockstar. His eponymous band and their song "I Fought the Law" wa...

Wed, 29 Jan

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In 1897, locals of Aurora, Texas reported a UFO had crashed in their town. They supposedly discovere...

Wed, 22 Jan

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In 1969, the Manson Family disrupted the “Summer of Love” when they murdered multiple people acr...

Wed, 15 Jan

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On September 4, 1985, a British tabloid published a story attributing dozens of fires to a painting ...

Wed, 08 Jan

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Ned Doheny, the only heir to one of the world's richest oil baron was found shot to death next to hi...

Wed, 01 Jan

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In 1973, eight Americans attempted to summit Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the western and sout...

Wed, 25 Dec

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In 1901 Montreal, two members of the elite Redpath family were found dead from gunshot wounds in the...

Wed, 18 Dec

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In Carter's second Best of 2024 pick, we're returning to explore the remarkable life of legendary ma...

Wed, 11 Dec

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Continuing our holiday break, we're bringing you some of Carter's favorite episodes from this year! ...

Wed, 04 Dec

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This is the second week of our four-week holiday break. Today we’re featuring another one of Carte...

Wed, 27 Nov

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This is the first week of our four-week holiday break. Today we’re featuring one of Carter’s fav...

Wed, 20 Nov

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In 1984, Boris Weisfeiler went on a backpacking trip in Chile and never returned. Chilean investigat...

Wed, 13 Nov

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The Yonaguni Monument is a large underwater stone complex off the coast of a tiny Japanese island. A...

Wed, 06 Nov

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In the early 20th century, a Turkish historian discovered a map made in 1513 by famed cartographer P...

Wed, 30 Oct

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War veterans, wolf-hunters, and the king’s own men hunted the bloodthirsty beast for three years b...

Wed, 23 Oct

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In the 18th century, an unidentifiable monster preyed on French villagers. The carnage was so bad, o...

Wed, 16 Oct

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Long before they graced our screens as mindless, brain-eating monsters, zombies were rooted in Haiti...

Wed, 09 Oct

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Dubbed “The Last Vampire of New England,” Mercy Lena Brown allegedly feasted on her own family. ...

Wed, 02 Oct

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Before becoming the world’s most famous mummy, King Tut was a teen pharaoh. When he suddenly died ...

Wed, 25 Sep

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Over the course of their decades-long investigation, the FBI interviewed thousands of potential D.B....

Wed, 18 Sep

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In 1971, a man operating under the pseudonym "Dan Cooper" hijacked a plane, stole $200,000, strapped...

Mon, 09 Sep

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Ted Kaczynski, the man better known to the world as the Unabomber, died in 2023. But his manifesto a...

Wed, 04 Sep

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With little explanation as to the meaning of the content of the Voynich manuscript, questions of a h...

Wed, 28 Aug

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Discovered by book dealer Wilfred Voynich in 1912, the centuries-old “Voynich Manuscript” is wri...

Wed, 21 Aug

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A “wild” boy in 18th-century Germany meets the King of England. 100 years later, a child is rais...

Mon, 12 Aug

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After 13 years as a Mafia hit man, he found himself in the crosshairs of the New Jersey Police. Ther...

Mon, 05 Aug

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He killed over a hundred people before the police had even heard his name. So when the Mafia needed ...

Wed, 31 Jul

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Author Joseph A. Citro claims the Bennington Triangle has been haunted by stories of, quote, “myst...

Wed, 24 Jul

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If you had to guess, I bet you’d say Thomas Edison was the inventor of motion picture cameras. But...

Wed, 17 Jul

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The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the most popular unsolved mysteries of all time. Since...

Wed, 10 Jul

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In January 1916, San Diego, California was hit by a deadly flood. Nobody had foreseen just how catas...

Wed, 03 Jul

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The political machinations of Tammany Hall extended to the buying and selling of political positions...

Wed, 26 Jun

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Tammany Hall was the executive committee of the Democratic Party in New York City during the 1800s f...

Wed, 19 Jun

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The Enron scandal shook Americans’ faith in their institutions. It also inspired a few different c...

Wed, 12 Jun

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Whether you know the full story or not, you’ve probably heard the name Enron before. In the summer...

Wed, 05 Jun

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In 1950 Enrico Fermi sat down to have lunch with his friends and colleagues at Los Alamos National L...

Wed, 29 May

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In July 1997 the National Guard announced their explanation for the Phoenix Lights. But we’re not ...

Wed, 22 May

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Between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm MST, in a space of about 300 miles from the Nevada state line, thousand...

Wed, 15 May

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Harry Houdini was one of the greatest entertainers of his time. He was constantly reinventing himsel...

Wed, 08 May

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Benno Ohnesorg was shot in 1967. Uwe Barschel was poisoned in 1987. Despite the twenty-year gap, the...

Wed, 01 May

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Where do we stand with UFO disclosure in 2024? Does NHI contact represent a looming threat? On this ...

Wed, 24 Apr

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In Granby, Colorado, a petty feud with neighbors and the town council left Marvin Heemeyer feeling b...

Wed, 17 Apr

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October 9th, 1995, Amtrak's 12-car Sunset Limited train was powering through the Arizona desert with...

Wed, 10 Apr

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In September 1944, as World War II raged overseas, the small town of Mattoon, Illinois felt under at...

Wed, 03 Apr

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“You have been watched: Failure to comply and you shall suffer: no one can help: no one can protec...

Wed, 27 Mar

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What happens when a teenager goes missing in the world’s smallest, and supposedly safest, country?...

Wed, 20 Mar

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In 1948, an unknown man died on Somerton Beach near Adelaide, Australia. He carried only the clothes...

Wed, 13 Mar

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In the winter of 1978, a group of friends caught a college basketball game about an hour north of wh...

Wed, 06 Mar

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Everyone knows the CIA headquarters holds many secrets... But their most public secret might be the ...

Wed, 28 Feb

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One of the most controversial figures of the 2010s, Julian Assange is either a criminal, a hero, or ...

Wed, 21 Feb

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One week after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, someone began mailing envelopes containing a deadly form ...

Wed, 14 Feb

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A man identifying himself as Mel Waters called into the nationally syndicated talk show, Coast to Co...

Wed, 07 Feb

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How does the Taylor Swift of the swing era just... disappear? That’s the question Carter tries to ...

Wed, 31 Jan

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Carter examines alternative explanations for the famous alien sighting, including a government exper...

Wed, 24 Jan

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Nicknamed “The British Roswell,” it’s one of the most controversial UFO sightings. Carter pres...

Wed, 17 Jan

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By 2012, undercover DEA agents had cracked holes in an underground criminal conspiracy. It was the “...

Wed, 10 Jan

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Secret societies have long been the subject of conspiracy theories. But this one was very real, just...

Wed, 03 Jan

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This week on Conspiracy Theories: Book Club, we are joined by tech journalist and author Taylor Lore...

Wed, 27 Dec

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The state of crypto seems to change every day. Millions of people have made, and lost, money in what...

Wed, 20 Dec

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Plenty of conspiracies surround John F. Kennedy’s assassination. In this episode we sit down with ...

Mon, 18 Dec

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For the next three weeks, we’ll be putting out a special series we’re calling Conspiracy Theorie...

Mon, 11 Dec

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After the fallout at the PNC Bank, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Bill Rothstein scrambled to cover th...

Mon, 04 Dec

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In order to deactivate the bomb, Brian’s co-conspirators set up an elaborate scavenger hunt around...

Mon, 27 Nov

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In August 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Wells strapped a collar bomb to his neck and chest and ente...

Wed, 22 Nov

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Officially, the exiled French emperor died of stomach cancer in 1821. But for hundreds of years, con...

Wed, 15 Nov

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Sidney Reilly returns to his unfinished business in Russia, only to be dealt a final deadly hand. Co...

Wed, 08 Nov

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He's a legend in the world of spycraft, the “Ace of Spies”, and the inspiration behind Ian Flemi...

Wed, 01 Nov

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In this special episode, Carter sits down with Justin to discuss his new podcast, The Wedding Scamme...

Wed, 25 Oct

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Carter examines a cursed Connecticut neighborhood, its rumored royal origins, and the town’s ghost...

Mon, 16 Oct

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The true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon: Members of Osage Nation are being targe...

Mon, 09 Oct

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The true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon: In the early twentieth century, Oklahom...

Wed, 04 Oct

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After dozens of UFO sightings plagued Exeter, New Hampshire in 1965, a skeptical investigative journ...

Wed, 27 Sep

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It’s cited in war rooms and boardrooms, but perhaps the most important lessons from Sun Tzu’s Th...

Wed, 20 Sep

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Detective Sébeille begins to uncover the secrets of the Dominici family, but has his single-minded ...

Wed, 13 Sep

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A dogged detective travels to rural France in 1952 to investigate the murders of three British touri...

Wed, 06 Sep

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A disembodied arm, a man-eating shark, and multiple rumored mob hits. It’s one of Australia’s mo...

Wed, 30 Aug

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In 2018, a study ranked it as “the most influential film of all time.” Rotten Tomatoes certifies...

Wed, 23 Aug

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The only question bigger than “Who is the Isdal Woman?” is “Who’s keeping her identity secre...

Wed, 16 Aug

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In 1483, the rightful king of England and his heir apparent vanished. Popular opinion says they were...

Wed, 09 Aug

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To some, he was a hero of the Mexican Revolution. To others, a “bloody soul, born from evil.” In...

Wed, 02 Aug

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How does King Burr sound? While he’s most infamous for shooting a Founding Father in a duel, Aaron...

Mon, 31 Jul

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July 26th was quite a day in Congress. The House subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and ...

Wed, 26 Jul

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In April 1988, a top Soviet scientist, Valery Legasov, died by suicide. Before his death, he recorde...

Wed, 19 Jul

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In March 1938, a brilliant physicist boarded a ship from Palermo to Naples, Italy. When the ship doc...

Wed, 12 Jul

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A top-secret military program changed the world in August 1945. Today we’re examining the Manhatta...

Wed, 05 Jul

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Three years before the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of men including...

Wed, 05 Jul

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Before Oppenheimer hits theaters this summer, explore the real-life events that inspired the film. W...

Wed, 28 Jun

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A prehistoric species discovered in England was once hailed as the “missing link” between humans...

Wed, 21 Jun

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From doctoring scripts and censoring movies, to influencing programming for game shows, just how dee...

Wed, 14 Jun

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Are crime dramas just good PR for cops? From Dragnet to Law & Order, American crime shows have been ...

Fri, 09 Jun

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The Jurassic Park film franchise brought dinosaurs to life using CGI and special effects. But, with ...

Wed, 07 Jun

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It's been thirty years since the first Jurassic Park film dazzled global audiences. Since then, the ...

Mon, 05 Jun

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To celebrate its 30th anniversary, we're digging deeper into a film that preyed on the world's fasci...

Wed, 31 May

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Because of the government's classified files on UFOs, it's hard to know which US presidents knew abo...

Mon, 29 May

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When a flying saucer crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, President Harry Truman tried to downplay the in...

Wed, 24 May

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A small commercial airplane, the Star Dust, disappeared over the Andes Mountains in 1947. Some think...

Mon, 22 May

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A Boeing 727 took off from Angola and vanished from the skies above Southern Africa in 2003. Many su...

Wed, 17 May

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After the shipwreck, many rumors swirled about how the MS Estonia came to sink in the Baltic Sea. So...

Mon, 15 May

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In September of 1994, the MS Estonia was en route from Tallinn, Estonia to Stockholm, Sweden when it...

Wed, 10 May

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After the body of media mogul Robert Maxwell was pulled from the water, rumors began to swirl about ...

Mon, 08 May

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He was a controversial media mogul in Britain accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars fr...

Wed, 19 Apr

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In November 1974, Karen Silkwood died in a one-car crash while driving to meet a New York Times repo...

Mon, 17 Apr

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Worker safety was paramount to Karen Silkwood. That's why she was proud to be part of the Oil, Chemi...

Wed, 12 Apr

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A week after he was unwittingly dosed with LSD by MK-Ultra’s mastermind, Sidney Gottlieb, Frank Ol...

Mon, 10 Apr

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He was a military scientist for the CIA and worked on clandestine operations including MK-Ultra. As ...

Wed, 05 Apr

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While a massive manhunt was conducted by police, citizen "digilantes" scoured through thousands of p...

Mon, 03 Apr

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After two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April 2013, the reg...

Wed, 29 Mar

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During World War II, the Nazis had a base in an isolated, wooded area of the Austrian Alps called La...

Mon, 27 Mar

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On December 8, 1980, 25-year-old Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon outside the Dakota in New York ...

Wed, 22 Mar

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More than half a century ago, the Beatles officially broke up. It upset many fans, who directed thei...

Mon, 20 Mar

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After their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles were launched into worldwide stard...

Wed, 15 Mar

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There are numerous tall tales about the Count of Saint Germain, and it isn't easy to separate fact f...

Mon, 13 Mar

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Likely born around 1710, this self-styled alchemist traveled the world and rubbed elbows with societ...

Wed, 08 Mar

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After almost 100 spectators were killed at a football match in Sheffield, England, people were looki...

Mon, 06 Mar

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Saturday, April 15th, 1989, was set to be a highly-anticipated semi-final football match between Liv...

Wed, 01 Mar

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When it comes to modern-day marketing methods, brands have a knack for knowing exactly what products...

Mon, 27 Feb

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In the winter of 1924, the Phoebus Cartel concluded that the best way to sell more light bulbs was t...

Wed, 22 Feb

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On September 29th, 1913, German inventor and engineer Rudolf Diesel boarded the England-bound S.S. D...

Mon, 20 Feb

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Fueled by a desire to change the world, Rudolf Diesel spent his early adulthood refining an idea for...

Wed, 15 Feb

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After English farmhand Charles Walton was brutally killed on Valentine's Day, 1945, three distinct t...

Mon, 13 Feb

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In 1945, residents were left wondering who was responsible for the gruesome murder of 74-year-old fa...

Wed, 08 Feb

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In January 2015, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots became the center of another cheating scanda...

Mon, 06 Feb

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They had won three Super Bowls in four seasons. Their hunky quarterback and their no-nonsense coach ...

Wed, 01 Feb

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Over 100 instances of "Havana Syndrome" have been documented worldwide. Many people have dismissed i...

Mon, 30 Jan

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A mysterious ailment emerged in 2016 that affected American diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba. Vic...

Wed, 25 Jan

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She was told to find the future King Charles VII, get him crowned, and liberate France from the Engl...

Mon, 23 Jan

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As a teenager, she had divine visions. She was thrust into the spotlight when she became a military ...

Wed, 18 Jan

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After World War II, the U.S. government hoped to use LSD as a “truth serum” against its enemies....

Mon, 16 Jan

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A century ago, a secret society conspired to strip the power from Hawaii’s queen, and force the in...

Wed, 11 Jan

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Have popes throughout centuries signed off on secret intelligence programs designed to spy on revolu...

Mon, 09 Jan

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In the early 1970s, when he was still an Archbishop, Albino Luciani caught wind of a shady banking s...

Wed, 04 Jan

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The fate of the lost colonists has been debated for hundreds of years. Did they abandon their settle...

Mon, 02 Jan

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It’s a mystery that’s endured for centuries: When the English first began colonizing America, th...

Wed, 28 Dec

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After a dozen major campaigns and thousands of planted bugs and wiretaps, COINTELPRO was finally exp...

Mon, 26 Dec

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A secret intelligence project led by the FBI used illegal methods to spy on organizations and people...

Wed, 14 Dec

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Wrath, rivalry, or coverup? Despite over 2200 people dying in the Johnstown flood, no one has ever b...

Mon, 12 Dec

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After years of neglect, the decaying South Fork dam gave way in May 1889 — flooding a town of stee...

Wed, 07 Dec

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An IRS agent uncovers a trail of embezzlement in an American soccer official’s transactions, the F...

Mon, 05 Dec

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When Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, it made sports history — becoming the firs...

Wed, 30 Nov

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If NASA could hide an alliance with a government espionage office, what else could it be hiding? Tod...

Mon, 28 Nov

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High-risk missions. International competition. And the keys to the cosmos. When you think of clandes...

Wed, 16 Nov

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It’s a buzzy word meant to invoke a sense of immersion within a virtual world — where boundaries...

Mon, 14 Nov

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They’re modern marvels, all around us — artificial products we can eat (lab-grown meat), transpl...

Wed, 09 Nov

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Automation promises to make our lives radically more efficient, with the power to change everything ...

Mon, 07 Nov

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From brain implants and bionic limbs to gene editing and immortality — today’s technology has th...

Wed, 02 Nov

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In the 1960s and ‘70s, farmers across America were waking up to find that their cows had been slau...

Mon, 31 Oct

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For decades across America’s heartland, cattle ranchers have found healthy livestock dead, with th...

Wed, 19 Oct

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In the years following the unveiling of King Tut’s burial chamber, tragedy seemed to follow those ...

Mon, 17 Oct

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When Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon set out for Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, they hoped to uncov...

Wed, 12 Oct

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From an early age, Brian Jones showed a creative edge and an interest in self-destruction. His rebel...

Mon, 10 Oct

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By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. A theory emerged: What if the Mad Poisoner was...

Wed, 05 Oct

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If Roger Arnold wasn’t behind the murders, who was? Police turn their focus to a new suspect: a di...

Mon, 03 Oct

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Forty years ago, cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules led to the deaths of seven people all around the Chi...

Wed, 28 Sep

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When the papers referring to MJ-12 were released to the public, the news was a bombshell. But scruti...

Mon, 26 Sep

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Decades ago, a top-secret group of scientists, military officials and researchers reported on extrat...

Wed, 21 Sep

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For 11 days in December 1926, a famed writer — the “Queen of Crime” herself — vanished. Agat...

Mon, 19 Sep

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Famed novelist. Accomplished outdoorsman. Intrepid spy? Today we examine the evidence suggesting one...

Wed, 07 Sep

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Over 16 episodes, listeners tuned in to hear Superman and his allies battle against the Clan of the ...

Mon, 05 Sep

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In the early 1940s, journalist Stetson Kennedy tried to undermine the KKK’s recruiting power by ex...

Wed, 31 Aug

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From a royal to a humanitarian to a victim, Princess Diana significantly impacted the world during h...

Mon, 29 Aug

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As the world mourns, speculation runs wild. How could this have happened? Who was to blame? British ...

Wed, 24 Aug

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Twenty-five years ago, the British monarchy was forever changed upon the death of the “People’s ...

Mon, 22 Aug

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As a child, Philip Taylor Kramer looked to the stars to map his future. After a quick detour as a ro...

Wed, 17 Aug

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By October of 1968, the search for the USS Scorpion was over. Discovered at the bottom of the Atlant...

Mon, 15 Aug

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It was commissioned in 1960 to monitor Soviet submarines. Fast, agile, and heavily armed — the USS...

Wed, 10 Aug

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Who will strike it rich next? The gold mine that made Jacob Waltz a wealthy man has apparently never...

Mon, 08 Aug

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A trove of gold is rumored to be hidden in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. Legend has it, a Germ...

Wed, 03 Aug

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Was Marlowe’s death truly a tragic accident? Unsatisfied with that explanation, some believe his d...

Mon, 01 Aug

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A brilliant playwright fell out of favor with Queen Elizabeth I. Then he was murdered. Officially, h...

Wed, 27 Jul

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There are a few different theories about how our moon was formed. One of them proposes it didn’t f...

Mon, 25 Jul

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Ever since his flight in 1961, Yuri Gagarin has been considered the first person to go to space. Wha...

Wed, 20 Jul

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The Church Committee found that the CIA had in fact tried to assassinate foreign leaders – but nev...

Mon, 18 Jul

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In 1975, a Senate panel known as the Church Committee began investigating CIA abuses, including its ...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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For so long, the government’s stance when it came to UFOs was to deny and debunk. But when declass...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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By the late 1940s the U.S. government knew it had a problem on its hands. “Flying saucers” posed...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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Less than a week after the Roswell wreck, the U.S. Department of War issued a statement claiming the...

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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In 1947 the U.S. military seized an unidentified object that had crashed in the New Mexico desert. E...

Wed, 29 Jun

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A Nazi scientist. An unleashed disease. A legendary monster. Can they all be traced back to Plum Isl...

Mon, 27 Jun

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When the U.S. needed a place to study rare animal diseases during the Cold War, it established a res...

Wed, 22 Jun

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Is free energy already available to us? Some believe the technology exists today. If so, who is supp...

Mon, 20 Jun

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Across centuries, inventors have theorized machines that could produce endless power at little cost....

Wed, 15 Jun

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After the explosion of Flight 103, investigators followed a trail of clues to two suspects, both Lib...

Mon, 13 Jun

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Days before Christmas 1988, scorched metal rained from the sky over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. ...

Wed, 08 Jun

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When historians began dissecting the intelligence that spurred U.S. destroyers to retaliate in the G...

Mon, 06 Jun

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In 1964 an attack by North Vietnamese forces on U.S. naval destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin helped c...

Wed, 01 Jun

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When the Navy needed to catch Nazi spies during WWII, they turned to an unlikely source of help: the...

Mon, 30 May

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When mafiosos rose to power in 20th century America, they were untouchable criminals with an unbreak...

Wed, 25 May

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In 1669, the French government imprisoned a man whose identity they went to great lengths to keep hi...

Mon, 23 May

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In the summer of 1951, a French town became ground zero for a mysterious illness that caused halluci...

Wed, 18 May

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The death of the Director in 1972 put an end to a reign that spanned 48 years, and left America to l...

Mon, 16 May

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While antiwar and Civil Rights movements charged forward, Hoover unleashed the FBI upon his enemies ...

Wed, 11 May

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In the 1960s, the Director’s adversaries included the Kennedy brothers and leaders of the Civil Ri...

Mon, 09 May

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A new president in the White House meant a new opportunity for a power play. Unfortunately for Hoove...

Wed, 04 May

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By the 1930s, Hoover was America's top cop. He went after bank robbers and bandits in his War on Cri...

Mon, 02 May

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J. Edgar Hoover was eager and ruthless. The young intelligence officer believed wholeheartedly in th...

Wed, 27 Apr

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A legendary colt became the pride of Ireland after dominating the 1981 Epsom Derby. Two years later,...

Mon, 25 Apr

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After winning the 94th Kentucky Derby, the champion racehorse failed his drug test. It was unprecede...

Wed, 20 Apr

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The Nitrous Mafia have been a fixture at Grateful Dead shows and other jam band concerts since the ‘...

Mon, 18 Apr

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In the 1960s a counterculture revolution was upending traditional norms of life, and the Grateful De...

Wed, 13 Apr

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The FBI’s investigation led them to some of Boston’s most notorious criminals, but for ten years...

Mon, 11 Apr

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In March 1990 two men pretending to be police officers stole 13 pieces of art worth over $200 millio...

Wed, 06 Apr

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After the Rosenbergs’ death sentence is announced, protests erupt around the world. Famous figures...

Mon, 04 Apr

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How did an ordinary couple from New York become Communist spies during the height of the Cold War? A...

Wed, 23 Mar

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In 2019, a report from a public inquiry identified the main cause of the devastating Grenfell Tower ...

Mon, 21 Mar

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After a deadly residential fire in London broke out on the 4th floor of a concrete highrise, 71 peop...

Wed, 16 Mar

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Ever since his death in 1973, Bruce Lee’s fans have wondered how the 32-year-old martial artist co...

Mon, 14 Mar

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In 2010, Randy and Evi Quaid alleged they’d been targeted by a shadowy cabal bent on ruining their...

Wed, 09 Mar

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In 1999, an FDA food investigator found traces of mercury in America’s favorite sweetener. But whe...

Mon, 07 Mar

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Long before the days of expiration dates and ingredient labels, the drug and food industries were an...

Wed, 02 Mar

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Cats become creatures of warfare, pigeons are given a mission, insects are turned into spy bugs... T...

Mon, 28 Feb

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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is helping scientists make breakthrough discoveries about the nature ...

Wed, 23 Feb

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Untraceable poisons. Soviet espionage. Modern codebreaking. Any, none, or all of these things may ha...

Mon, 21 Feb

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A man was found dead on a beach in Australia in 1948 with his clothing tags cut out and 18 teeth mis...

Wed, 16 Feb

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In the 1800s, a movement spread across Great Britain that convinced thousands of Englishmen they wer...

Mon, 14 Feb

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The fate of the ten tribes of Israel has been a mystery for thousands of years. Some legends say the...

Wed, 09 Feb

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In November 2018, equipment from the largest utility provider in America sparked a fire that killed ...

Mon, 07 Feb

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In March 2011, the worst nuclear meltdown since Chernobyl took place in northern Japan. The incident...

Wed, 02 Feb

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An emergency plan to cut costs in Flint, Michigan resulted in a contaminated water supply for the ci...

Mon, 31 Jan

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The Love Canal was supposed to be a suburban idyll. Instead, it became a dumping ground for chemical...

Wed, 26 Jan

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After the Civil War, multiple caches of Confederate gold were discovered around the country. Were th...

Mon, 24 Jan

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In 1854, as tensions between the American North and South were brewing, a physician named George Bic...

Wed, 19 Jan

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After a dozen major campaigns and thousands of planted bugs and wiretaps, COINTELPRO was finally exp...

Mon, 17 Jan

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A secret intelligence project led by the FBI used illegal methods to spy on organizations and people...

Wed, 12 Jan

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Finding Beale’s treasure would be the thrill — and payout — of a lifetime. Without the key to ...

Mon, 10 Jan

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In 1818, a member of a hunting party in the American West spotted a glimmer on a hillside — gold. ...

Wed, 05 Jan

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A new wave of extraterrestrial discourse began in June 2021 after the release of the U.S. government...

Mon, 03 Jan

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Ever since “flying saucer” entered the lexicon, the U.S. government’s public stance on UFO sig...

Wed, 15 Dec

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In the final episode of our crossover special, we examine the theories suggesting the surprise attac...

Mon, 13 Dec

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In the hours, days and weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan’s forces coordinated a vast t...

Wed, 08 Dec

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In the summer of 1941, as hostilities between the two nations escalated, wartime negotiations offici...

Mon, 06 Dec

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Eighty years ago, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese fighter planes devastated the U.S....

Wed, 01 Dec

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There are so many unresolved mysteries surrounding the iconic monument, like whether it’s really a...

Mon, 29 Nov

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The Great Pyramids of Giza are some of the largest, most foreboding structures on the planet, but th...

Wed, 17 Nov

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Today, the health risks associated with smoking cigarettes aren’t a secret. But since the mid-1900...

Mon, 15 Nov

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In the 20th century, the mass production of cigarettes fueled a global addiction — but Big Tobacco...

Wed, 10 Nov

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The deaths of the Dyatlov Nine didn’t just seem bizarre — they seemed violent. What could explai...

Mon, 08 Nov

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In winter 1959, a group of experienced mountaineers went missing in a remote part of Siberia. When t...

Wed, 03 Nov

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When President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in 1919, First Lady Edith Wilson stepped ...

Mon, 01 Nov

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Around the 9th century C.E., a new pope rose to power. For years, the congregation was certain Pope ...

Wed, 27 Oct

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When critics didn’t understand Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece, fans stepped in to exp...

Mon, 25 Oct

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The release of The Exorcist in December 1973 caused a global wave of panic and trauma. Due to a seri...

Wed, 20 Oct

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Nearly two decades after the Waco Siege, people are still wondering what transpired at the Branch Da...

Mon, 18 Oct

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On February 28th, 1993, government agents raided a compound in Waco, Texas, belonging to a religious...

Wed, 13 Oct

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Valiant Thor's story has sparked a flurry of theories regarding our government's knowledge of UFOs. ...

Mon, 11 Oct

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In 1957, the Pentagon received an unexpected visitor. His name was Valiant Thor, and allegedly, he w...

Wed, 06 Oct

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For centuries, people have debated whether or not Jesus Christ rose from the dead. From graverobbers...

Mon, 04 Oct

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In Turin, Italy there’s a piece of cloth that has perplexed religious experts for decades. Is the ...

Wed, 29 Sep

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Locals are sure that big corporations are after their coal, and started the Centralia Fire to smoke ...

Mon, 27 Sep

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For nearly 60 years, a fire has been raging beneath a small town in Pennsylvania. Centralia was once...

Mon, 20 Sep

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In the final episode of our 9/11 series, we examine the legacy of that day, and how its memory impac...

Wed, 15 Sep

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How much did the U.S. government actually know about the 9/11 attacks before they happened? Was Pres...

Mon, 13 Sep

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Throughout the 1990s, a private equity firm called the Carlyle Group began purchasing and investing ...

Wed, 08 Sep

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We trace the path through history to 9/11, then examine how the official 9/11 Commission Report gave...

Mon, 06 Sep

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The horrific attacks of September 11th come to an end. In the aftermath, rescuers and volunteers cle...

Wed, 01 Sep

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The morning of September 11, 2001 changed the world. Twenty years later, questions still linger abou...

Mon, 30 Aug

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When U.S. forces invaded Iraq in 2003, investors began buying up Iraqi currency. Some expected a mas...

Wed, 25 Aug

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In the case of the century, O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of double homicide in 1995, despite a ...

Mon, 23 Aug

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On June 12th, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to death. Today, the ...

Wed, 18 Aug

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In 1976, Prime Minister Harold Wilson made a daring confession — someone had tried to overthrow hi...

Mon, 16 Aug

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In 1976, following an abrupt resignation, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson claimed he was forced...

Wed, 11 Aug

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Where there's a group of powerful world leaders, there's whispers of conspiracy and a New World Orde...

Mon, 09 Aug

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Formed after WWII as a way to unite the divided nations, the Bilderberg Group consists of some of th...

Wed, 04 Aug

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At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov was accused of doctoring thousands of urin...

Mon, 02 Aug

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When the 1984 Summer Olympics generated a massive profit for Los Angeles, cities around the world co...

Wed, 28 Jul

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In the 1st century B.C.E., competition between Roman senators was stiff — even deadly. When a poli...

Mon, 26 Jul

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In the 15th century, the Medicis were the most powerful banking family in Italy. Members of a rival ...

Wed, 21 Jul

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Remember, remember the 5th of November? You might remember it differently had Guy Fawkes and his tea...

Mon, 19 Jul

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In 1944, a group of Adolf Hitler's top-ranking officials devised a plot to kill the Nazi leader and ...

Wed, 14 Jul

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During World War II, hidden power stations below Grand Central Station may have been the target of a...

Mon, 12 Jul

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It’s an American icon, and an important piece of United States history. When Grand Central Station...

Wed, 07 Jul

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Among his many high-profile roles, Franklin still managed to keep some affairs out of the public eye...

Mon, 05 Jul

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He’s famous for being a Founding Father and a groundbreaking inventor. But behind his electric exp...

Wed, 30 Jun

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Twenty years after NASA landed the first rover on Mars, theorists believe there’s more to the Red ...

Mon, 28 Jun

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From the ancient Egyptians to 16th-century scientists to NASA today — fascination with the Red Pla...

Wed, 23 Jun

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Centuries after his death, Nostradamus is still a household name, but his accuracy, methods, and rep...

Mon, 21 Jun

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The deaths of kings. The makings of popes. Famines of entire civilizations. Nostradamus became famou...

Wed, 16 Jun

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After the mysterious death of his father in 1993, Michael Jordan retired unexpectedly. The decision ...

Mon, 14 Jun

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Was the 1985 NBA draft lottery rigged? Facing disillusioned fans and dwindling TV viewers, NBA commi...

Wed, 09 Jun

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When do conspiracy theories stop being theories? Today’s episode visits real accounts of deadly mi...

Mon, 07 Jun

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Reptile overlords. Pizzagate. QAnon. What makes conspiracy theories so alluring, and why are some mo...

Wed, 02 Jun

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Even expert primatologists can’t agree on whether Bigfoot exists. Is it all a hoax, or is the crea...

Mon, 31 May

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It’s the most-glimpsed creature that doesn’t exist. A mysterious ape-man whose legends date back...

Wed, 26 May

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They say a Bonesman is for life… Their secret bond might have led to the creation of another cland...

Mon, 24 May

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Formed at Yale in 1832, a fraternal secret society counts media moguls, CIA operatives, even U.S. pr...

Wed, 19 May

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In April 2021, Bitcoin hit its all time high of over 60K per coin — and it's still growing. While ...

Mon, 17 May

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An enigmatic creator. A much-hyped cryptocurrency. Bitcoin might be paving the way for a financial r...

Wed, 12 May

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RFID tags have become a paper-thin, barely detectable building block of our economy — but they are...

Mon, 10 May

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A spy device developed during the Cold War has evolved into ubiquity, used for everything from track...

Wed, 05 May

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After boarding a plane to visit her estranged husband in 1986, Marcela Basteri disappeared. Her wher...

Mon, 03 May

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As one of Mexico’s biggest pop stars, Juan Gabriel’s talent and rags-to-riches story were legend...

Wed, 28 Apr

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To this day, no one knows what made Berenger Saunier so incredibly wealthy. Some believe he uncovere...

Mon, 26 Apr

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Every year, thousands of people flock to a tiny French village to solve an ancient mystery. A 19th-c...

Wed, 21 Apr

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Is the threat posed by global warming as imminent as it seems? Is it possible that corporations are ...

Mon, 19 Apr

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Over the last century, the fossil fuel industry has exploded. Carbon emissions are at an all time hi...

Wed, 14 Apr

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The world looked on in shock when an assassin shot Pope John Paul II in May 1981. The official story...

Mon, 12 Apr

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In 1917, three children in Fatima, Portugal received a series of prophetic messages that were kept s...

Wed, 07 Apr

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Over the centuries, a stash of secret documents kept by priests ballooned into millions of documents...

Mon, 05 Apr

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Today, Vatican City is known as an elegant seat of divine power and prestige. But the centuries-long...

Wed, 31 Mar

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When it comes to government surveillance, most people likely have little to hide. But did a partners...

Mon, 29 Mar

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In the aftermath of 9/11, the government-approved PRISM surveillance program was meant to help keep ...

Wed, 24 Mar

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During the Cold War, many believed the Soviet’s greatest weapon was fear. Did they fake a UFO land...

Mon, 22 Mar

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Meteor crashes with no remains, metallic objects over small villages, and jellyfish creatures hoveri...

Wed, 17 Mar

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CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt led a covert operation to overthrow Iran's Prime Minister in 1953. But Op...

Mon, 15 Mar

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After Iran nationalized its oil fields, a seminal coup erupted in 1953. It appeared to be a spontane...

Wed, 10 Mar

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New Coke was one of the biggest commercial flops in American history, and a massive success for Coca...

Mon, 08 Mar

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In 1886, an Atlanta-area pharmacist created an American institution: Coca-Cola. Seven years later, t...

Wed, 03 Mar

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19th century author Mary Shelley is known for penning the classic horror novel, Frankenstein. But ma...

Mon, 01 Mar

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J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been held as a seminal book of required reading in Amer...

Wed, 24 Feb

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On April 3rd, 1996, the weather in Croatia wasn't great — but it wasn't bad enough to explain why ...

Mon, 22 Feb

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In 1996, during a trade mission to Croatia, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other passen...

Wed, 17 Feb

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Many experts believe the world will run out of oil in the next 30 years, and some people think the l...

Mon, 15 Feb

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In 1859, a prospector invented modern drilling technology and kicked off an oil rush in the United S...

Wed, 10 Feb

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Was Danny Casolaro murdered for getting too close to The Octopus? What had his investigations uncove...

Mon, 08 Feb

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In the early ‘90s, investigative journalist Danny Casolaro claimed he’d stumbled upon a clandest...

Wed, 03 Feb

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What took the NFL so long to admit the threat of traumatic brain injuries? Some suggest the dangers ...

Mon, 01 Feb

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Could one of America's favorite pastimes be a silent killer? For decades, the National Football Leag...

Wed, 27 Jan

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Theories multiplied in online and radio discourse about the true perpetrators of the Deepwater Horiz...

Mon, 25 Jan

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In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and then sank, kickstarting one of the largest oil s...

Wed, 20 Jan

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Fans believed it was no coincidence that Brittany and her husband Simon died six months apart from t...

Mon, 18 Jan

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Her breakout role in 1995’s “Clueless” made her America’s sweetheart. But was Brittany Murph...

Wed, 13 Jan

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For decades, the C.I.A. funded Operation Gladio and hid it from the public. They may have also used ...

Mon, 11 Jan

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During the Cold War, a secret military operation hid hundreds of weapons caches throughout Europe. T...

Wed, 06 Jan

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Secret files, vanished reports, called-in favors… How far did corporations, lobbyists, and possibl...

Mon, 04 Jan

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Once called a “magical mineral,” asbestos was used in everything from curtains to cigarette filt...

Wed, 16 Dec

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During the Cold War, the U.S. government funded radiation experiments on unwitting civilians — inc...

Mon, 14 Dec

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Originally billed as an education center for people with intellectual disabilities, the Fernald Scho...

Wed, 09 Dec

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This patch of ocean is at the center of famous disappearances, from the U.S.S. Cyclops to Naval Flig...

Mon, 07 Dec

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Ships vanish. Planes disappear. And no wreckage ever seems to surface. The Bermuda Triangle in the A...

Wed, 02 Dec

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Ever since the Bible code was deciphered, theorists have wondered who was responsible. Was it a gift...

Mon, 30 Nov

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A hidden code embedded within Hebrew Scripture has predicted some of the world’s biggest events, f...

Wed, 18 Nov

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After spending years investigating the alien attack at Fort Benning, John Vasquez only found one oth...

Mon, 16 Nov

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In the late summer of 1977, Private John Vasquez was allegedly abducted by aliens at Fort Benning, G...

Wed, 11 Nov

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Over the decades, numerous theories have been proffered as to what, exactly, crashed in Shag Harbour...

Mon, 09 Nov

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A sleepy Canadian fishing town gained international attention in 1967 when hundreds of people witnes...

Wed, 04 Nov

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Three generations of the Bush political dynasty have conspiracy theories swirling around them, invol...

Mon, 02 Nov

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The official story of the Bush family’s rise in America is one of adventure, accomplishment and po...

Wed, 28 Oct

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Paul Bennewitz’s 1981 report sparked multiple conspiracy theories, particularly around the Majesti...

Mon, 26 Oct

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After witnessing multiple UFO sightings around Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, researcher Pau...

Wed, 21 Oct

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It’s distracting at best, and destructive at worst — but what actually causes the Hum? Some say ...

Mon, 19 Oct

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Since it was first reported in England in the 1970s, this low-frequency humming has spread around th...

Wed, 14 Oct

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Did the Republican Party plot to hide evidence of Ronald Reagan’s wrongdoing? What was Vice Presid...

Mon, 12 Oct

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Throughout the 1980s, Ronald Reagan's administration ran an illegal weapons trade right under Congre...

Wed, 07 Oct

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The official story of Poe’s ill-fated final journey isn’t the only story. Some believe he was ro...

Mon, 05 Oct

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Most historians believe literary icon Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 of alcohol poisoning. But the cir...

Wed, 30 Sep

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According to a CIA dossier, the Red Brigade was an unimpressive group of barely competent terrorists...

Mon, 28 Sep

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On March 16, 1978, a radical terrorist cell kidnapped former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, killi...

Wed, 23 Sep

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The Black Hills Forest in South Dakota is home to Mount Rushmore. Some say that the area is a magnet...

Mon, 21 Sep

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It’s been hailed as a “shrine of democracy,” but Mount Rushmore’s history is filled with str...

Wed, 16 Sep

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The U.S. government refuses to comment on what went on at the Montauk Air Force Base. But several so...

Mon, 14 Sep

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Officially decommissioned in 1981, the Montauk Air Force Base in New York is rumored to have been th...

Wed, 09 Sep

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In his 1965 rematch with Muhammed Ali, heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston went down a little t...

Mon, 07 Sep

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Charles “Sonny” Liston was once the heavyweight boxing champion of the world: a human dreadnough...

Wed, 02 Sep

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If the world really is hollow, why have so many scientists covered up the evidence? Is it because th...

Mon, 31 Aug

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For centuries, human cultures around the world have maintained the earth is hollow—home to spiritu...

Wed, 26 Aug

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Fluoridated water may be one of the most controversial federal programs of the past century. In the ...

Mon, 24 Aug

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Nearly three out of four U.S. communities add fluoride to their water. Officially, the compound stre...

Wed, 19 Aug

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Investigating the blast and compiling evidence was a huge undertaking. And in the 25 years since the...

Mon, 17 Aug

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On the morning of the attack, McVeigh parked a rental truck below the Murrah building’s daycare ce...

Wed, 12 Aug

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After coming of age in the early ‘90s, Timothy McVeigh became increasingly radicalized against the...

Mon, 10 Aug

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2020 marks the 25th anniversary of this devastating attack: On April 19, 1995, a U.S. Army veteran n...

Wed, 05 Aug

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Fifty years after Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, no one knows how he died or where he was buried. Did ...

Mon, 03 Aug

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From the 1950s to 1970s, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa was America's working class hero. But his t...

Wed, 29 Jul

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Some theories about the Spear of Destiny are as old as the lance itself. Does it actually hold occul...

Mon, 27 Jul

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The lance that pierced Jesus on the cross is said to hold mystical powers. Passed down through histo...

Wed, 22 Jul

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When the U.S.S. Eldridge disappeared in a green fog, theories surrounding the failed Naval project r...

Mon, 20 Jul

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In October 1943, the U.S.S. Eldridge became enveloped in a green fog and disappeared in the Philadel...

Wed, 15 Jul

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To this day, no one is quite certain of how composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. He was well-liked...

Mon, 13 Jul

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On December 5th, 1791, one of the greatest composers of all time died at the age of 35. Wolfgang Ama...

Wed, 08 Jul

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After the Titanic sank, people searched for something—or someone—to blame. Millionaire J.P. Morg...

Mon, 06 Jul

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When the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, over 1,500 people lost their lives… and to thi...

Wed, 01 Jul

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His untimely death in 1996 left fans searching for answers. Some say Death Row Records CEO Suge Knig...

Mon, 29 Jun

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In 1996, rap artist Tupac Shakur was shot and killed just off the Las Vegas Strip. Many believe his ...

Wed, 24 Jun

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He was killed by police outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22nd, 1934. But some theorists be...

Mon, 22 Jun

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By the 1930s, John Dillinger pulled off 24 bank heists and three jailbreaks—making him Public Enem...

Wed, 17 Jun

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Since its establishment in 1913, the Federal Reserve has been primed for conspiracies. Some believe ...

Mon, 15 Jun

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In 1910, six wealthy bankers met in secret on Jekyll Island, Georgia. There, they drafted up the pla...

Wed, 10 Jun

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In 2010, word spread online that things around the world were changing. From beloved children's book...

Wed, 03 Jun

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The Matrix is considered to be one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. But what if it...

Wed, 27 May

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When a major earthquake hit the Caribbean in 2010, conspiracy theorists started studying the skies—...

Wed, 20 May

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After his sudden death in 1943, Nikola Tesla never saw his plans for an earth-shaking death ray to f...

Wed, 13 May

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After General Butler's claims were heard by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities in 1934,...

Wed, 06 May

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In the 1930s, many felt that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’'s New Deal program erred too far on the si...

Wed, 29 Apr

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Demonic possession, alien technology, and a secret base in Antarctica—it all seems like the stuff ...

Wed, 22 Apr

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Many have wondered how someone as evil as Adolf Hitler came to power. Between his rise from anonymou...

Wed, 15 Apr

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After publishing his books in the 1970s, followers of Zecharia Sitchin began to search for clues tha...

Wed, 08 Apr

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In the 1970s, author and researcher Zecharia Sitchin discovered the prospect of an additional planet...

Wed, 25 Mar

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Dr. Sidney Gottlieb ran the CIA's mind control program up until the 1970s without the public's knowl...

Wed, 18 Mar

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During the height of the Cold War, the United States scrambled to compete with the Soviets. As paran...

Wed, 11 Mar

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We’ve made enormous strides in the development of intelligent machines. But officially, the Techno...

Wed, 04 Mar

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Technologies exist today that could lay the groundwork for the development of fully conscious artifi...

Wed, 26 Feb

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Paganism. Human sacrifice. A “New World Order.” The Bohemian Club has been accused of plenty sin...

Wed, 19 Feb

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Deep in the heart of the redwood forests is a 2,700-acre plot of land called the Bohemian Grove, hom...

Wed, 12 Feb

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In the late 1980s, historical revisionist, Heribert Illig recognized a massive discrepancy in our ca...

Wed, 05 Feb

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In the year 1000 CE, Otto III and Pope Sylvester II met to discuss their plans on how to emulate the...

Wed, 29 Jan

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After thousands of witnesses reported mysterious airship sightings across the continental United Sta...

Wed, 22 Jan

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Between November 1896 and May 1897, thousands of mysterious flying objects were spotted across the c...

Wed, 15 Jan

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By Christmas 1926, New York City hospitals were flooded with those suffering from alcohol poisoning....

Wed, 08 Jan

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Between 1920 and 1933, it was illegal to make, sell, or transport alcohol in the United States. Boot...

Wed, 01 Jan

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Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: Richard Nixon resigned on August 9...

Wed, 25 Dec

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Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: On June 17th, 1972, five men were ...

Wed, 18 Dec

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Did Dorothy Kilgallen really die from an accidental overdose? Or was the famous journalist murdered ...

Wed, 11 Dec

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She was an American journalist and T.V. personality who died while investigating the assassination o...

Wed, 04 Dec

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Not everyone is so convinced that the CIA terminated Stargate Project in 1995 because remote viewing...

Wed, 27 Nov

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Is the human mind capable of seeing far off places or objects without needing to be physically there...

Wed, 20 Nov

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In 1838, Samuel Birley Rowbotham waded into the shallow waters of England’s Old Bedford River to c...

Wed, 13 Nov

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For as long as humans have believed the Earth was round, there have been skeptics. But could Aristot...

Wed, 06 Nov

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If William of Stratford never received a proper education, how could he have written such learned pl...

Wed, 30 Oct

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Many historians believe William Shakespeare is the greatest playwright who ever lived. Many don’t—...

Wed, 23 Oct

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What would have been a historic global circumnavigation in 1937, turns into the disappearance of one...

Wed, 16 Oct

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A record-breaking aviatrix who became a symbol for adventure vanishes in 1937. During an ambitious g...

Wed, 09 Oct

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Did the King of Rock ‘n' Roll kick the bucket due to a drug overdose? Or did an out of shape—pas...

Wed, 02 Oct

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Elvis Presley was one of the most successful musicians of all time and was one of the most famous me...

Wed, 25 Sep

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For nearly four decades, locals and tourists have wondered at the purpose behind the bizarre granite...

Wed, 18 Sep

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A bizarre monument made of granite and bearing a list of instructions for humanity’s survival exis...

Wed, 11 Sep

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The Great pyramid of Giza. The Nazca Lines. The Moai Statues of Easter Island. Long considered engin...

Wed, 04 Sep

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The ancient world proved itself capable of remarkable feats of construction. Thousands of years late...

Wed, 28 Aug

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Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, but Watergate was far from over. The scandal spawned a num...

Wed, 21 Aug

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On June 17th 1972, 5 men were caught breaking into the offices of the DNC at the Watergate Complex i...

Wed, 14 Aug

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In 1885, French priest Bérenger Saunière discovered a pair of ancient scrolls hidden in the altar ...

Wed, 07 Aug

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The early days of the Catholic church were plagued by dissent, infighting, and uncertainty. After ce...

Wed, 31 Jul

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In the summer of 1969, Senator and Presidential hopeful Ted Kennedy crashed his car into a pond on C...

Wed, 24 Jul

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On July 18th, 1969, Ted Kennedy, the youngest son of Joseph Kennedy Sr., drove his car off of a sing...

Wed, 17 Jul

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The Denver International Airport is the largest airport in the United States. Since it opened in 199...

Wed, 10 Jul

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In 1995, the Denver International Airport opened 16 months over schedule and nearly 2 billion dollar...

Wed, 03 Jul

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Officially, Operation Mockingbird was a brief wiretap of two journalists in the early 1960s. But the...

Wed, 26 Jun

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In the fallout of the Watergate scandal, a number of the CIA’s black ops operations were revealed ...

Wed, 19 Jun

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Over the past three decades, more and more details about the US government’s involvement in cocain...

Wed, 12 Jun

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In the 1980s, a super-potent new form of cocaine swept through the streets of America, leaving a tra...

Wed, 05 Jun

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In 2007, a lone conspiracy theorist proposed that the greatest threat to American sovereignty wasn’...

Wed, 29 May

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In the mid-2000s, rumors began to circulate that President George W. Bush, Mexico’s President Vice...

Wed, 22 May

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If a cure for cancer was discovered, millions of lives would be saved - and billions of dollars woul...

Wed, 15 May

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Since its founding in 1906, the Food & Drug Administration has been responsible for protecting the h...

Wed, 08 May

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Atlantis has captivated scholars and theorists for generations. It’s potential existence presents ...

Wed, 01 May

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A legend, used as a political allegory by the ancient philosopher Plato. But over the centuries, cou...

Wed, 24 Apr

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When Union troops cornered John Wilkes Booth in a remote barn after his assassination of President L...

Wed, 17 Apr

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At the close of the Civil War in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was killed by a conspiracy of Confe...

Wed, 10 Apr

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In 1962, the CIA proposed staging a false flag operation to drum up public support for a war on Cuba...

Wed, 03 Apr

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In April 1959, Fidel Castro visited the White House to meet with Vice President Richard Nixon. By th...

Wed, 27 Mar

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While thousands of previously healthy people were suddenly falling ill and dying throughout the '80s...

Wed, 20 Mar

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In the late '70s, a mysterious disease cropped up in the U.S. where healthy young people were sudden...

Wed, 13 Mar

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Low-resolution footage. Shadows that don't quite line up. Visible prop markers on rocks. If the 1969...

Wed, 06 Mar

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Half a billion viewers around the world tuned in to watch Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the...

Wed, 27 Feb

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When a 93-year-old Nazi war criminal was found dead in Spandau Prison in 1987, some refused to belie...

Wed, 20 Feb

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War criminal and powerful Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was sentenced to 50 years in prison at the Nuremberg Tr...

Wed, 13 Feb

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What many thought was a weather balloon turned out to be a top-secret surveillance craft being used ...

Wed, 06 Feb

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One morning in 1947 a rancher discovered debris on his property in Roswell, New Mexico. The debris d...

Wed, 30 Jan

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April 4th, 1968 marks the day one of the most powerful public speakers and civil rights activists wa...

Mon, 21 Jan

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James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped convict, pleaded guilty to the Assassination of Martin Luther ...

Wed, 16 Jan

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Pretty much everyone in the United States owns a cell phone today. Yet, they might be detrimental to...

Wed, 09 Jan

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Cell phones are a ubiquitous element of society today. We use them for just about everything. In man...

Wed, 19 Dec

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After the U.S. military dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world ...

Wed, 12 Dec

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After the U.S. military dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world roared w...

Wed, 05 Dec

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Is the agency known for helping the United States rebuild after natural disasters, actually responsi...

Wed, 28 Nov

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FEMA, The Federal Emergency Management Agency, helps millions of people recover after a natural disa...

Wed, 21 Nov

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Most Americans don’t believe the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas, Texas in 196...

Wed, 14 Nov

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Lee Harvey Oswald is the sole person responsible for Kennedy’s assassination. Or is he? Many Ameri...

Wed, 07 Nov

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Vaccines are universally accepted and overwhelmingly deemed safe and effective by medical profession...

Wed, 31 Oct

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These injections provide long-term, sometimes lifelong protection against a disease, but are there s...

Wed, 24 Oct

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The Human Genome Project allowed us to understand the genetic blueprint of a human being. What could...

Wed, 17 Oct

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Nations routinely advance themselves by creating schematics from stolen or recovered technology. Cou...

Wed, 10 Oct

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Is this organization planning to dominate the world through a sudden coup and implementing martial l...

Wed, 03 Oct

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Were organizations like the United Nations, NATO, and The Warsaw Pact truly designed to prevent anot...

Wed, 26 Sep

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In 1919, eight members of the Chicago White Sox, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, were accused of thr...

Wed, 19 Sep

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In 1919, America had two favorite pastimes: baseball and corruption. The two coincided in 1919, when...

Wed, 12 Sep

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The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols was the deadliest ac...

Wed, 05 Sep

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Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols met in army basic training during the 1980s. In 1995, they would k...

Wed, 29 Aug

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GMOs include foods that have been genetically modified or grown in labs. Some people claim scientist...

Wed, 22 Aug

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GMOs include foods that have been genetically modified or grown in labs. Opponents claim that GMOs c...

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:00:00 -0000

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This is a crossover episode with the hosts of Conspiracy Theories and Unexplained Mysteries. In part...

Wed, 15 Aug

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This is a crossover episode with the hosts of Conspiracy Theories and Unexplained Mysteries. Listen ...

Wed, 08 Aug

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Officially, Marilyn Monroe died of suicide on August 5th, 1962. But in the last weeks of her life, t...

Wed, 01 Aug

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Norma Jeane Mortenson adopted the name and persona of Marilyn Monroe when she began modelling as a t...

Wed, 25 Jul

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Diamonds are considered to be the rarest and most valuable gemstone. Is that really true? Or is maki...

Wed, 18 Jul

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Diamonds are considered one of the world’s most valuable gemstones. But what if their prices are h...

Wed, 11 Jul

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The Freemasons are seen as a secretive and elusive fraternal organization. But with their secrecy co...

Wed, 04 Jul

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Officially established in the late 1300s, the Freemasons were initially an oversight committee for o...

Wed, 27 Jun

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We now know that sugar plays a large role in the risk of developing heart disease. But this wasn’t...

Wed, 20 Jun

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In 1980, the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines recommended Americans restrict their saturate...

Wed, 13 Jun

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Who are the Men in Black? Are they are part of a shadow government designed to conceal alien activit...

Wed, 06 Jun

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The Men in Black are a secret organization that are believed to cover up UFO sightings and alien enc...

Wed, 30 May

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After World War II, the U.S. and Soviet Union raced to capture top German scientists in order to uti...

Wed, 23 May

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Following WWII, a secret CIA mission was put in place to recruit Germany’s top scientific minds in...

Wed, 16 May

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Did the CIA create the crack epidemic by planting the drug in the inner cities? Was the War on Drugs...

Wed, 09 May

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Over the past two decades, private prisons have increased exponentially to accommodate the rising in...

Wed, 02 May

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The body of Chandra Levy was found over a year after her disappearance. After numerous missteps by i...

Wed, 25 Apr

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Chandra Levy was a graduate student from the University of Southern California working at an interns...

Wed, 18 Apr

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With more than 900 people dead, the Jonestown Massacre has sparked many theories over the past 40 ye...

Wed, 11 Apr

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At the command of Jim Jones, more than 900 followers of The Peoples Temple drank a beverage laced wi...

Wed, 04 Apr

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Kurt Cobain, the famed musician who influenced grunge music and voiced the emotions of thousands of ...

Wed, 28 Mar

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Kurt Cobain’s fame as the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana, and his tumultuous marriage to Cou...

Wed, 21 Mar

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Reefer Madness and the war on drugs swept the United States in the 1930s but was this war truly star...

Wed, 14 Mar

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At the turn of the 20th century, pharmacies sold medicines containing cannabis regularly. There was ...

Wed, 07 Mar

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The root of hundreds of conspiracy theories, the modern Illuminati is shrouded in mystery and secrec...

Wed, 28 Feb

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Please note that today’s episode is going to sound a little different than a typical episode of Co...

Wed, 21 Feb

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In 1997, a viral email spread across the internet claiming chemicals were being released from planes...

Wed, 14 Feb

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We’ve all seen it: the long trailing cloud as a plane flies across the sky. These clouds, called a...

Wed, 07 Feb

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For years, Area 51—and the conspiracy theories surrounding it—has inspired many movies, books an...

Wed, 31 Jan

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From its founding in 1955 until 2013, Area 51 was completely top-secret. The CIA did everything to k...

Sat, 27 Jan

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Two years after Princess Diana died in a car crash, the French authorities concluded the death was a...

Sat, 27 Jan

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In 1997, Princess Diana of Wales died in a car accident in Paris. The news shocked the world, and ma...

Wed, 17 Jan

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The truth is rarely the only story. Every Wednesday, we take a skeptical look at history's most cont...