FIFA World Cup Scandal Pt. 2
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An IRS agent uncovers a trail of embezzlement in an American soccer official’s transactions, the F...
FIFA World Cup Scandal Pt. 1
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, it made sports history — becoming the firs...
Secrets of NASA Pt. 2
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If NASA could hide an alliance with a government espionage office, what else could it be hiding? Tod...
Secrets of NASA Pt. 1
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
High-risk missions. International competition. And the keys to the cosmos. When you think of clandes...
Future Tech: The Metaverse
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a buzzy word meant to invoke a sense of immersion within a virtual world — where boundaries...
Future Tech: Artificiality
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They’re modern marvels, all around us — artificial products we can eat (lab-grown meat), transpl...
Future Tech: Automation
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Automation promises to make our lives radically more efficient, with the power to change everything ...
Future Tech: Transhumanism
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From brain implants and bionic limbs to gene editing and immortality — today’s technology has th...
Cattle Mutilation Pt. 2
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s and ‘70s, farmers across America were waking up to find that their cows had been slau...
Cattle Mutilation Pt. 1
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For decades across America’s heartland, cattle ranchers have found healthy livestock dead, with th...
The Mummy's Curse: Curse of the Pharaohs Pt. 2
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the years following the unveiling of King Tut’s burial chamber, tragedy seemed to follow those ...
The Mummy's Curse: Curse of the Pharaohs Pt. 1
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon set out for Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, they hoped to uncov...
The Death of a Rolling Stone
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From an early age, Brian Jones showed a creative edge and an interest in self-destruction. His rebel...
The Tylenol Murders Pt. 3: A Nightmare on Halloween
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. A theory emerged: What if the Mad Poisoner was...
The Tylenol Murders Pt. 2: A Walking Crime Wave
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If Roger Arnold wasn’t behind the murders, who was? Police turn their focus to a new suspect: a di...
The Tylenol Murders Pt. 1: Poisoning the Well
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forty years ago, cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules led to the deaths of seven people all around the Chi...
Majestic 12 Pt. 2
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the papers referring to MJ-12 were released to the public, the news was a bombshell. But scruti...
Majestic 12 Pt. 1
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Decades ago, a top-secret group of scientists, military officials and researchers reported on extrat...
The Disappearance of Agatha Christie
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For 11 days in December 1926, a famed writer — the “Queen of Crime” herself — vanished. Agat...
Ernest Hemingway, the Spy
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Famed novelist. Accomplished outdoorsman. Intrepid spy? Today we examine the evidence suggesting one...
Superman Defeats a Klan Plot Pt. 2
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over 16 episodes, listeners tuned in to hear Superman and his allies battle against the Clan of the ...
Superman Defeats a Klan Plot Pt. 1
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1940s, journalist Stetson Kennedy tried to undermine the KKK’s recruiting power by ex...
Princess Diana: The Royal Special Pt. 3
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From a royal to a humanitarian to a victim, Princess Diana significantly impacted the world during h...
Princess Diana: The Royal Special Pt. 2
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the world mourns, speculation runs wild. How could this have happened? Who was to blame? British ...
Princess Diana: The Royal Special Pt. 1
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty-five years ago, the British monarchy was forever changed upon the death of the “People’s ...
Death of Philip Taylor Kramer
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a child, Philip Taylor Kramer looked to the stars to map his future. After a quick detour as a ro...
Disappearance of the USS Scorpion Pt. 2
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By October of 1968, the search for the USS Scorpion was over. Discovered at the bottom of the Atlant...
Disappearance of the USS Scorpion Pt. 1
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was commissioned in 1960 to monitor Soviet submarines. Fast, agile, and heavily armed — the USS...
The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine Pt. 2
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who will strike it rich next? The gold mine that made Jacob Waltz a wealthy man has apparently never...
The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine Pt. 1
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A trove of gold is rumored to be hidden in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. Legend has it, a Germ...
The Death of Christopher Marlowe Pt. 2
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Was Marlowe’s death truly a tragic accident? Unsatisfied with that explanation, some believe his d...
The Death of Christopher Marlowe Pt. 1
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A brilliant playwright fell out of favor with Queen Elizabeth I. Then he was murdered. Officially, h...
Hollow Moon
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are a few different theories about how our moon was formed. One of them proposes it didn’t f...
The Lost Cosmonauts
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since his flight in 1961, Yuri Gagarin has been considered the first person to go to space. Wha...
The CIA & The Church Committee Pt. 2
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Church Committee found that the CIA had in fact tried to assassinate foreign leaders – but nev...
The CIA & The Church Committee Pt. 1
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1975, a Senate panel known as the Church Committee began investigating CIA abuses, including its ...
Roswell Legacy Pt. 4: Ufology
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For so long, the government’s stance when it came to UFOs was to deny and debunk. But when declass...
Roswell Legacy Pt. 3: Secret Programs
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By the late 1940s the U.S. government knew it had a problem on its hands. “Flying saucers” posed...
Roswell Legacy Pt. 2: The Cover Up
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Less than a week after the Roswell wreck, the U.S. Department of War issued a statement claiming the...
Roswell Legacy Pt. 1: The Crash
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1947 the U.S. military seized an unidentified object that had crashed in the New Mexico desert. E...
Plum Island Pt. 2
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Nazi scientist. An unleashed disease. A legendary monster. Can they all be traced back to Plum Isl...
Plum Island Pt. 1
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the U.S. needed a place to study rare animal diseases during the Cold War, it established a res...
Free Energy Pt. 2
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is free energy already available to us? Some believe the technology exists today. If so, who is supp...
Free Energy Pt. 1
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Across centuries, inventors have theorized machines that could produce endless power at little cost....
Pan Am Flight 103 Pt. 2
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After the explosion of Flight 103, investigators followed a trail of clues to two suspects, both Lib...
Pan Am Flight 103 Pt. 1
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Days before Christmas 1988, scorched metal rained from the sky over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. ...
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident Pt. 2
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When historians began dissecting the intelligence that spurred U.S. destroyers to retaliate in the G...
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident Pt. 1
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1964 an attack by North Vietnamese forces on U.S. naval destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin helped c...
Mafia Pt. 2: Presidents, Hitmen, Spies
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Navy needed to catch Nazi spies during WWII, they turned to an unlikely source of help: the...
Mafia Pt. 1: The Rise of La Cosa Nostra
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When mafiosos rose to power in 20th century America, they were untouchable criminals with an unbreak...
The Man in the Iron Mask
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1669, the French government imprisoned a man whose identity they went to great lengths to keep hi...
The Sickness of Pont-Saint-Esprit
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1951, a French town became ground zero for a mysterious illness that caused halluci...
J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 6: The Bizarre End & Political Fallout
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The death of the Director in 1972 put an end to a reign that spanned 48 years, and left America to l...
J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 5: Smear Campaigns
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While antiwar and Civil Rights movements charged forward, Hoover unleashed the FBI upon his enemies ...
J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 4: Surveilling King & Kennedys
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s, the Director’s adversaries included the Kennedy brothers and leaders of the Civil Ri...
J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 3: Hunting for Spies
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new president in the White House meant a new opportunity for a power play. Unfortunately for Hoove...
J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 2: Gangsters, Nazis and Communists
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By the 1930s, Hoover was America's top cop. He went after bank robbers and bandits in his War on Cri...
J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 1: The Birth of the FBI
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
J. Edgar Hoover was eager and ruthless. The young intelligence officer believed wholeheartedly in th...
The Shergar Kidnapping
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A legendary colt became the pride of Ireland after dominating the 1981 Epsom Derby. Two years later,...
The 1968 Kentucky Derby
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After winning the 94th Kentucky Derby, the champion racehorse failed his drug test. It was unprecede...
Conspiracies of the Grateful Dead Pt. 2
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Nitrous Mafia have been a fixture at Grateful Dead shows and other jam band concerts since the ‘...
Conspiracies of the Grateful Dead Pt. 1
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1960s a counterculture revolution was upending traditional norms of life, and the Grateful De...
The Gardner Museum Heist Pt. 2
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The FBI’s investigation led them to some of Boston’s most notorious criminals, but for ten years...
The Gardner Museum Heist Pt. 1
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1990 two men pretending to be police officers stole 13 pieces of art worth over $200 millio...
Soviet Espionage: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Pt. 2
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After the Rosenbergs’ death sentence is announced, protests erupt around the world. Famous figures...
Soviet Espionage: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Pt. 1
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How did an ordinary couple from New York become Communist spies during the height of the Cold War? A...
The Grenfell Tower Fire Pt. 2
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, a report from a public inquiry identified the main cause of the devastating Grenfell Tower ...
The Grenfell Tower Fire Pt. 1
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a deadly residential fire in London broke out on the 4th floor of a concrete highrise, 71 peop...
The Death of Bruce Lee
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since his death in 1973, Bruce Lee’s fans have wondered how the 32-year-old martial artist co...
The Hollywood Star Whackers
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, Randy and Evi Quaid alleged they’d been targeted by a shadowy cabal bent on ruining their...
“No Evidence of Risk” (FDA Pt. 2)
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, an FDA food investigator found traces of mercury in America’s favorite sweetener. But whe...
Embalmed Beef & Fatal Snake Oil (FDA Pt. 1)
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Long before the days of expiration dates and ingredient labels, the drug and food industries were an...
Animal Espionage
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cats become creatures of warfare, pigeons are given a mission, insects are turned into spy bugs... T...
Big Bang, Black Holes & The Gateway to Hell
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is helping scientists make breakthrough discoveries about the nature ...
The Somerton Man Pt. 2
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Untraceable poisons. Soviet espionage. Modern codebreaking. Any, none, or all of these things may ha...
The Somerton Man Pt. 1
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A man was found dead on a beach in Australia in 1948 with his clothing tags cut out and 18 teeth mis...
The Lost Tribes of Israel Pt. 2
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1800s, a movement spread across Great Britain that convinced thousands of Englishmen they wer...
The Lost Tribes of Israel Pt. 1
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fate of the ten tribes of Israel has been a mystery for thousands of years. Some legends say the...
California’s Deadliest Wildfire
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2018, equipment from the largest utility provider in America sparked a fire that killed ...
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2011, the worst nuclear meltdown since Chernobyl took place in northern Japan. The incident...
The Flint Water Crisis
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An emergency plan to cut costs in Flint, Michigan resulted in a contaminated water supply for the ci...
New York’s Toxic Love Canal
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Love Canal was supposed to be a suburban idyll. Instead, it became a dumping ground for chemical...
Knights of the Golden Circle Pt. 2
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After the Civil War, multiple caches of Confederate gold were discovered around the country. Were th...
Knights of the Golden Circle Pt. 1
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1854, as tensions between the American North and South were brewing, a physician named George Bic...
COINTELPRO Pt. 2
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a dozen major campaigns and thousands of planted bugs and wiretaps, COINTELPRO was finally exp...
COINTELPRO Pt. 1
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A secret intelligence project led by the FBI used illegal methods to spy on organizations and people...
Treasure Hunt: The Beale Papers Pt. 2
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finding Beale’s treasure would be the thrill — and payout — of a lifetime. Without the key to ...
Treasure Hunt: The Beale Papers Pt. 1
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1818, a member of a hunting party in the American West spotted a glimmer on a hillside — gold. ...
UFO Government Surveillance Pt. 2
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new wave of extraterrestrial discourse began in June 2021 after the release of the U.S. government...
UFO Government Surveillance Pt. 1
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since “flying saucer” entered the lexicon, the U.S. government’s public stance on UFO sig...
Pearl Harbor Pt. 4: Codes & Cover-ups
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of our crossover special, we examine the theories suggesting the surprise attac...
Pearl Harbor Pt. 3: Entering the Pacific Theater
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the hours, days and weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan’s forces coordinated a vast t...
Pearl Harbor Pt. 2: "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1941, as hostilities between the two nations escalated, wartime negotiations offici...
Pearl Harbor Pt. 1: Hideki Tojo & Japanese Imperialism
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eighty years ago, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese fighter planes devastated the U.S....
Ancient Egypt: The Great Sphinx
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are so many unresolved mysteries surrounding the iconic monument, like whether it’s really a...
Ancient Egypt: Pyramids
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Great Pyramids of Giza are some of the largest, most foreboding structures on the planet, but th...
Tobacco Industry Cover-up Pt. 2
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, the health risks associated with smoking cigarettes aren’t a secret. But since the mid-1900...
Tobacco Industry Cover-up Pt. 1
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 20th century, the mass production of cigarettes fueled a global addiction — but Big Tobacco...
Dyatlov Pass Pt. 2
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The deaths of the Dyatlov Nine didn’t just seem bizarre — they seemed violent. What could explai...
Dyatlov Pass Pt. 1
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In winter 1959, a group of experienced mountaineers went missing in a remote part of Siberia. When t...