Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Travis Walton's Alien Abduction
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
November 5th, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the events that inspired the 1993 film, Fire in the Sk...
Spring-Heeled Jack: Cryptid or Conspiracy?
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Supernaturally-high leaps. Glowing red eyes. Fire breath. This monster violently assaulted young wom...
Is An Alien Probe Really Coming in November?
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2025, researchers discovered an interstellar object entering our solar system. It’s only t...
Shakespeare’s Encrypted Map to Freemason Treasure
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shakespeare’s First Folio is an incredible historical treasure. It also might be an encrypted trea...
Candy Jones, the Brainwashed Fashion Model
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Candy Jones had an impressive résumé: Miss Atlantic City, Model of the Year, highest-paid cover mo...
Fake News and Forgeries: How MI6 Manipulated Americans
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Germany conquered Europe in 1940, the UK desperately needed foreign reinforcements. When the Amer...
Helena Blavatsky: The Most Interesting Woman in the World?
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most of what we know about Helena Blavatsky’s life seems improbable. In her 59 years on Earth, she...
The Gerry Irwin Incident
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Driving through the remote Utah desert on the way back to his military base, 23-year-old Private Ger...
The Smurl Family Haunting
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1973, Jack and Janet Smurl move into a modest duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, hoping for a...
The 600 Lives of Fidel Castro
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba’s dictator in 1959, the Communist leader and provocateur quickly ...
TWA Flight 800: The Plane That Exploded Mid-Air
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On July 17th, 1996, about 13 minutes into a direct flight from New York to Paris, TWA Flight 800 exp...
Australia’s Area 51
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First, they said Pine Gap was for space research. Then, it was a weather station. It’s now called ...
Was the “Pirate King” also the King’s Spy?
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1695, “The Pirate King” Henry Every pulled off a heist, evaded a global manhunt, and vanished...
Japan’s Evaporated People
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you wake up tomorrow and the person you depend upon most in this world is gone. No trace, no...
What’s Under the Pyramids of Giza?
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, Dr. Corrado Malanga and Dr. Filippo Biondi claimed they’d made a massive discov...
Time-Slipping Through Europe
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We can’t hop in a time machine and set it to a specific year…yet. But what if we can unwittingly...
Secret Nazi Bases in Antarctica
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did Germany secretly establish a base in Antarctica prior to World War II? In 1947, the U.S. Navy la...
The (Faked?) Death of an Argentine Tycoon
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Power is having impunity.” In January 1997, a photojournalist is found murdered on the side of ...
Who Shot Vincent Van Gogh?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For over a century, common belief was that Vincent Van Gogh died by suicide. But in 2011, two Pulitz...
Untraceable Poison? The Bogle-Chandler Mystery
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On New Year’s Day in Sydney, Australia, two dead bodies are discovered near a river. Dr. Gilbert B...
Fluoride + Communism = Mind Control?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fluoride and its presence in public water has become a hot-button issue in the United States. More a...
Are Octopuses Aliens??
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, a peer-reviewed article published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology suggested...
New Age Conspirituality
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
American New Age culture isn’t all crystals and Tarot cards. A New World Order? The Aryan race? Al...
Three Men Escaped Alcatraz, Evaded the FBI, and Lived Secret Lives
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Alcatraz was designed to be inescapable. But in 1962, three men broke out. The FBI concluded the inm...
The Kinross Incident: Did a UFO Abduct an Entire Jet?
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1953, an Air Force jet took off from Michigan’s Kinross Air Force Base in pursuit of an unknown...
Buried Gold: How the FBI Got Involved In a Treasure Hunt
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A legend tells of a cache of Civil War-era gold buried somewhere in the hills of Elk County, Pennsyl...
The Short Reign and Mysterious Death of Pope John Paul I
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the early 1970s, when he was still an Archbishop, Albino Luciani caught wind of a shady banking s...
The Assassination of Malcolm X Pt. 2
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After Malcolm X was assassinated, three men were arrested. Despite holes in the investigation and th...
The Assassination of Malcolm X Pt. 1
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm X’s radical ideas about racial justice won him many followers, and spawned just as many en...
UFOS, Occultists, Murder Schemes: The Deaths of Miguel and Manuel
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Brazil, 1966. Two men in suits were found dead on a hill, surrounded by odd notes, and wearing lead ...
The Dark Truth Behind Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1973, author and activist Oscar Zeta Acosta told his son he was getting on a boat, and would see ...
Murder in Antarctica?
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In May 2000, 32-year-old Australian astrophysicist Rodney Marks died suddenly on an Antarctica base ...
"My Lady Jane" and the Real Conspiracy to Take the English Throne
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Teenager Jane Grey was never supposed to be Queen of England. But in 1553, a complex conspiracy put ...
Argentina's Death Flights
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1976, a military coup led to an authoritarian regime in Argentina. The military and its new leade...
The Great Hunger of Ireland: Natural Disaster or Man-Made Genocide?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the mid-19th century, British-occupied Ireland lost roughly one-third of its population during a ...
JFK Revisited: FBI Finds 2,000 More Documents
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In early 2025, the FBI announced that they had found more than 2,000 new records related to John F. ...
The Dead Minister Who Lived
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When youth minister, husband, and new father Wesley Barrett Cox goes missing in rural Texas in 1984,...
The Fall of the Georgia Guidestones
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the summer of 2022, an explosion destroyed the granite monument known as The Georgia Guidestones....
The Colossal Reach of the Tartarian Empire
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
An alternative-history conspiracy theory has been taking root on YouTube and Reddit forums. It alleg...
I Fought the Law: The Death of Bobby Fuller
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1966, Bobby Fuller was a rising rockstar. His eponymous band and their song "I Fought the Law" wa...
Roswell of Texas: The Aurora UFO
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1897, locals of Aurora, Texas reported a UFO had crashed in their town. They supposedly discovere...
The Mysterious Death of the Manson Family Lawyer
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1969, the Manson Family disrupted the “Summer of Love” when they murdered multiple people acr...
Curse of the Crying Boy
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On September 4, 1985, a British tabloid published a story attributing dozens of fires to a painting ...
The Death of Ned Doheny
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ned Doheny, the only heir to one of the world's richest oil baron was found shot to death next to hi...
Death on Aconcagua
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1973, eight Americans attempted to summit Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the western and sout...
The Redpath Family Murders
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1901 Montreal, two members of the elite Redpath family were found dead from gunshot wounds in the...
Best of 2024: The Death of Harry Houdini [VIDEO]
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Carter's second Best of 2024 pick, we're returning to explore the remarkable life of legendary ma...
Best of 2024: Where Are All the Aliens?
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Continuing our holiday break, we're bringing you some of Carter's favorite episodes from this year! ...
Carter’s Holiday Pick: Otherworld
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the second week of our four-week holiday break. Today we’re featuring another one of Carte...
Carter’s Holiday Pick: Truthless
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the first week of our four-week holiday break. Today we’re featuring one of Carter’s fav...
A Dictator, a Commune, and the U.S. Embassy: The Disappearance of Boris Weisfeiler
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1984, Boris Weisfeiler went on a backpacking trip in Chile and never returned. Chilean investigat...
The Lost City of Atlantis... Found?
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Yonaguni Monument is a large underwater stone complex off the coast of a tiny Japanese island. A...
The Piri Reis Map
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the early 20th century, a Turkish historian discovered a map made in 1513 by famed cartographer P...
Werewolf or Royal Cover-up? The Beast of Gévaudan Pt. 2
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
War veterans, wolf-hunters, and the king’s own men hunted the bloodthirsty beast for three years b...
Werewolf or Royal Cover-up? The Beast of Gévaudan Pt. 1
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 18th century, an unidentifiable monster preyed on French villagers. The carnage was so bad, o...
The Haitian Zombie Potion
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Long before they graced our screens as mindless, brain-eating monsters, zombies were rooted in Haiti...
Vampires Feed on Fear
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dubbed “The Last Vampire of New England,” Mercy Lena Brown allegedly feasted on her own family. ...
Mummy Murder Cover-Up
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before becoming the world’s most famous mummy, King Tut was a teen pharaoh. When he suddenly died ...
D.B. Cooper Pt. 2
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of their decades-long investigation, the FBI interviewed thousands of potential D.B....
D.B. Cooper Pt. 1
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, a man operating under the pseudonym "Dan Cooper" hijacked a plane, stole $200,000, strapped...
Fallout: The Unabomber’s Crimes and Manifesto (with Candice DeLong)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Kaczynski, the man better known to the world as the Unabomber, died in 2023. But his manifesto a...
The Voynich Manuscript Pt. 2
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With little explanation as to the meaning of the content of the Voynich manuscript, questions of a h...
The Voynich Manuscript Pt. 1
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Discovered by book dealer Wilfred Voynich in 1912, the centuries-old “Voynich Manuscript” is wri...
What Are "Feral Children," and Do They Really Exist? (with Michael Newton)
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A “wild” boy in 18th-century Germany meets the King of England. 100 years later, a child is rais...
“The Iceman” Richard Kuklinski Pt. 2
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After 13 years as a Mafia hit man, he found himself in the crosshairs of the New Jersey Police. Ther...
“The Iceman” Richard Kuklinski Pt. 1
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He killed over a hundred people before the police had even heard his name. So when the Mafia needed ...
The Bennington Triangle
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Joseph A. Citro claims the Bennington Triangle has been haunted by stories of, quote, “myst...
Did Edison Kill the Father of Cinema? [VIDEO]
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you had to guess, I bet you’d say Thomas Edison was the inventor of motion picture cameras. But...
Have We Found Amelia Earhart's Missing Plane? [VIDEO]
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the most popular unsolved mysteries of all time. Since...
The Man Who Flooded San Diego [VIDEO]
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1916, San Diego, California was hit by a deadly flood. Nobody had foreseen just how catas...
Tammany Hall Pt. 2: "The Missingest Man in New York"
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The political machinations of Tammany Hall extended to the buying and selling of political positions...
Tammany Hall Pt. 1: “Boss” Tweed
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tammany Hall was the executive committee of the Democratic Party in New York City during the 1800s f...
The Enron Scandal Pt. 2
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Enron scandal shook Americans’ faith in their institutions. It also inspired a few different c...
The Enron Scandal Pt. 1
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you know the full story or not, you’ve probably heard the name Enron before. In the summer...
Where Are All the Aliens?
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1950 Enrico Fermi sat down to have lunch with his friends and colleagues at Los Alamos National L...
Phoenix Lights Pt. 2
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In July 1997 the National Guard announced their explanation for the Phoenix Lights. But we’re not ...
Phoenix Lights Pt. 1
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm MST, in a space of about 300 miles from the Nevada state line, thousand...
The Death of Harry Houdini [VIDEO]
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Houdini was one of the greatest entertainers of his time. He was constantly reinventing himsel...
The Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Benno Ohnesorg was shot in 1967. Uwe Barschel was poisoned in 1987. Despite the twenty-year gap, the...
UFO Disclosure and NHI Threat Analysis (with Bryce Zabel)
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Where do we stand with UFO disclosure in 2024? Does NHI contact represent a looming threat? On this ...
Killdozer
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Granby, Colorado, a petty feud with neighbors and the town council left Marvin Heemeyer feeling b...
The Sunset Limited Train Derailment
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
October 9th, 1995, Amtrak's 12-car Sunset Limited train was powering through the Arizona desert with...
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1944, as World War II raged overseas, the small town of Mattoon, Illinois felt under at...
The Circleville Letters
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You have been watched: Failure to comply and you shall suffer: no one can help: no one can protec...
Disappearance at the Vatican: The Orlandi Case
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a teenager goes missing in the world’s smallest, and supposedly safest, country?...
Solved: The Somerton Man Mystery
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1948, an unknown man died on Somerton Beach near Adelaide, Australia. He carried only the clothes...
The Yuba County Five
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the winter of 1978, a group of friends caught a college basketball game about an hour north of wh...
Kryptos: The CIA’s Unsolvable Cipher
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows the CIA headquarters holds many secrets... But their most public secret might be the ...
Julian Assange
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most controversial figures of the 2010s, Julian Assange is either a criminal, a hero, or ...
The 2001 Anthrax Attacks
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One week after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, someone began mailing envelopes containing a deadly form ...
Mel's Hole
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A man identifying himself as Mel Waters called into the nationally syndicated talk show, Coast to Co...
The Disappearance of Glenn Miller (with Dennis Spragg)
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does the Taylor Swift of the swing era just... disappear? That’s the question Carter tries to ...
The Rendlesham UFO Incident Pt. 2
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carter examines alternative explanations for the famous alien sighting, including a government exper...
The Rendlesham UFO Incident Pt. 1
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicknamed “The British Roswell,” it’s one of the most controversial UFO sightings. Carter pres...
The Silk Road Pt. 2
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By 2012, undercover DEA agents had cracked holes in an underground criminal conspiracy. It was the “...
The Silk Road Pt. 1
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Secret societies have long been the subject of conspiracy theories. But this one was very real, just...
Extremely Online with Taylor Lorenz (and a post-interview chat with Carter!)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Conspiracy Theories: Book Club, we are joined by tech journalist and author Taylor Lore...
Easy Money with Jacob Silverman
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The state of crypto seems to change every day. Millions of people have made, and lost, money in what...
JFK Facts with Jefferson Morley
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Plenty of conspiracies surround John F. Kennedy’s assassination. In this episode we sit down with ...
Presenting Conspiracy Theories: Book Club!
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the next three weeks, we’ll be putting out a special series we’re calling Conspiracy Theorie...