Conspiracy Theories

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

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

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

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

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

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

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

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

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

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

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

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 2025

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

Wed, 25 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

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

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 06 Nov 2024

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

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

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

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

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

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

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

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

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

Wed, 04 Sep 2024

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

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

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

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

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

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

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

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

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

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 24 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 03 Jul 2024

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

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

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

Wed, 29 May 2024

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

Wed, 22 May 2024

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 2024

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

Wed, 08 May 2024

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

Wed, 01 May 2024

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

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

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

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 20 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

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

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 07 Feb 2024

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

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 03 Jan 2024

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

Wed, 27 Dec 2023

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

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

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

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

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

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

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

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

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

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 01 Nov 2023

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

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

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

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

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

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

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

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

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

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

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

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

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

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

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

Wed, 06 Sep 2023

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

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 23 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 09 Aug 2023

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

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

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

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 05 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 05 Jul 2023

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

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

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

Fri, 09 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 07 Jun 2023

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

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

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

Wed, 31 May 2023

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

Mon, 29 May 2023

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

Wed, 24 May 2023

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

Mon, 22 May 2023

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

Wed, 17 May 2023

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

Mon, 15 May 2023

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

Wed, 10 May 2023

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

Mon, 08 May 2023

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

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

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

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

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

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

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

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

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

Wed, 05 Apr 2023

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

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

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

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

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

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

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

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

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

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 08 Mar 2023

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

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

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

Wed, 01 Mar 2023

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

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

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

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

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

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

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

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

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

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

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

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

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

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

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

Wed, 01 Feb 2023

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

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

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

Wed, 25 Jan 2023

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

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

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

Wed, 18 Jan 2023

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

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

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

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

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

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

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

Wed, 04 Jan 2023

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

Mon, 02 Jan 2023

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

Wed, 28 Dec 2022

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

Mon, 26 Dec 2022

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

Wed, 14 Dec 2022

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

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

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

Wed, 07 Dec 2022

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

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

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

Wed, 30 Nov 2022

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

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

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

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

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

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

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

Wed, 09 Nov 2022

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

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

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

Wed, 02 Nov 2022

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

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

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

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

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

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

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

Wed, 12 Oct 2022

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

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

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

Wed, 05 Oct 2022

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

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

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

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

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

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

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

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

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

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

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

Wed, 07 Sep 2022

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

Mon, 05 Sep 2022

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

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

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

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

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

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 17 Aug 2022

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

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

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

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 03 Aug 2022

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

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

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

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

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

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

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

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

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

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

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

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

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

Tue, 12 Jul 2022

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

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

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

Tue, 05 Jul 2022

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

Wed, 29 Jun 2022

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

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

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

Wed, 22 Jun 2022

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

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

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

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

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

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

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

Wed, 08 Jun 2022

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

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

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

Wed, 01 Jun 2022

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

Mon, 30 May 2022

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

Wed, 25 May 2022

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

Mon, 23 May 2022

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

Wed, 18 May 2022

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 2022

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

Wed, 11 May 2022

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

Mon, 09 May 2022

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

Wed, 04 May 2022

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

Mon, 02 May 2022

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

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

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

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

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

Mon, 18 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

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

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 06 Apr 2022

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

Mon, 04 Apr 2022

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

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

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

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

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

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

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

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

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

Wed, 09 Mar 2022

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

Mon, 07 Mar 2022

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

Wed, 02 Mar 2022

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

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

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

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

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

Mon, 21 Feb 2022

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 2022

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

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

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

Wed, 09 Feb 2022

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

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

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

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

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

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

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

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 19 Jan 2022

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

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

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

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 05 Jan 2022

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

Mon, 03 Jan 2022

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

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

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

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

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

Wed, 08 Dec 2021

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

Mon, 06 Dec 2021

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

Wed, 01 Dec 2021

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

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 17 Nov 2021

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

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 10 Nov 2021

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

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 03 Nov 2021

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

Mon, 01 Nov 2021

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

Wed, 27 Oct 2021

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

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

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

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 13 Oct 2021

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

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 06 Oct 2021

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

Mon, 04 Oct 2021

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

Wed, 29 Sep 2021

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

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

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

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

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

Wed, 15 Sep 2021

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

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

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

Wed, 08 Sep 2021

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

Mon, 06 Sep 2021

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

Wed, 01 Sep 2021

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

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 25 Aug 2021

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

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 18 Aug 2021

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

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 11 Aug 2021

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

Mon, 09 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 04 Aug 2021

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

Mon, 02 Aug 2021

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

Wed, 28 Jul 2021

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

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 21 Jul 2021

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

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 14 Jul 2021

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

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 07 Jul 2021

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

Mon, 05 Jul 2021

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

Wed, 30 Jun 2021

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

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 23 Jun 2021

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

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 16 Jun 2021

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

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 09 Jun 2021

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

Mon, 07 Jun 2021

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

Wed, 02 Jun 2021

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

Mon, 31 May 2021

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

Wed, 26 May 2021

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

Mon, 24 May 2021

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

Wed, 19 May 2021

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

Mon, 17 May 2021

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

Wed, 12 May 2021

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

Mon, 10 May 2021

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

Wed, 05 May 2021

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

Mon, 03 May 2021

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

Wed, 28 Apr 2021

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

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 21 Apr 2021

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

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 14 Apr 2021

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

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 07 Apr 2021

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

Mon, 05 Apr 2021

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

Wed, 31 Mar 2021

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

Mon, 29 Mar 2021

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

Wed, 24 Mar 2021

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

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

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

Wed, 17 Mar 2021

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

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

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

Wed, 10 Mar 2021

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

Mon, 08 Mar 2021

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

Wed, 03 Mar 2021

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

Mon, 01 Mar 2021

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

Wed, 24 Feb 2021

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

Mon, 22 Feb 2021

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

Wed, 17 Feb 2021

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

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

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

Wed, 10 Feb 2021

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

Mon, 08 Feb 2021

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

Wed, 03 Feb 2021

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

Mon, 01 Feb 2021

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

Wed, 27 Jan 2021

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

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

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

Wed, 20 Jan 2021

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

Mon, 18 Jan 2021

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

Wed, 13 Jan 2021

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

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

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

Wed, 06 Jan 2021

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

Mon, 04 Jan 2021

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

Wed, 16 Dec 2020

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

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

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

Wed, 09 Dec 2020

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

Mon, 07 Dec 2020

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

Wed, 02 Dec 2020

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

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

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

Wed, 18 Nov 2020

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

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

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

Wed, 11 Nov 2020

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

Mon, 09 Nov 2020

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

Wed, 04 Nov 2020

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

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

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

Wed, 28 Oct 2020

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

Mon, 26 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 21 Oct 2020

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

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 14 Oct 2020

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

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 07 Oct 2020

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

Mon, 05 Oct 2020

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

Wed, 30 Sep 2020

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

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

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

Wed, 23 Sep 2020

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

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

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

Wed, 16 Sep 2020

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

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

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

Wed, 09 Sep 2020

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

Mon, 07 Sep 2020

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

Wed, 02 Sep 2020

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

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 26 Aug 2020

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

Mon, 24 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 19 Aug 2020

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

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 12 Aug 2020

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

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 05 Aug 2020

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

Mon, 03 Aug 2020

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

Wed, 29 Jul 2020

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

Mon, 27 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 22 Jul 2020

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

Mon, 20 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 15 Jul 2020

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

Mon, 13 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 08 Jul 2020

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

Mon, 06 Jul 2020

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

Wed, 01 Jul 2020

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

Mon, 29 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 24 Jun 2020

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

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 17 Jun 2020

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

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 10 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 03 Jun 2020

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

Wed, 27 May 2020

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

Wed, 20 May 2020

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

Wed, 13 May 2020

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

Wed, 06 May 2020

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

Wed, 29 Apr 2020

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

Wed, 22 Apr 2020

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

Wed, 15 Apr 2020

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

Wed, 08 Apr 2020

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

Wed, 25 Mar 2020

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

Wed, 18 Mar 2020

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

Wed, 11 Mar 2020

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

Wed, 04 Mar 2020

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

Wed, 26 Feb 2020

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

Wed, 19 Feb 2020

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

Wed, 12 Feb 2020

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

Wed, 05 Feb 2020

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

Wed, 29 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 22 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 15 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 08 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 01 Jan 2020

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

Wed, 25 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 18 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 11 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 04 Dec 2019

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

Wed, 27 Nov 2019

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

Wed, 20 Nov 2019

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

Wed, 13 Nov 2019

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

Wed, 06 Nov 2019

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

Wed, 30 Oct 2019

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

Wed, 23 Oct 2019

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

Wed, 16 Oct 2019

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

Wed, 09 Oct 2019

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 2019

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

Wed, 25 Sep 2019

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

Wed, 18 Sep 2019

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

Wed, 11 Sep 2019

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

Wed, 04 Sep 2019

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

Wed, 28 Aug 2019

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

Wed, 21 Aug 2019

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

Wed, 14 Aug 2019

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

Wed, 07 Aug 2019

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

Wed, 31 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 24 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 17 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 10 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 03 Jul 2019

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

Wed, 26 Jun 2019

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

Wed, 19 Jun 2019

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

Wed, 12 Jun 2019

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

Wed, 05 Jun 2019

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

Wed, 29 May 2019

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

Wed, 22 May 2019

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

Wed, 15 May 2019

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

Wed, 08 May 2019

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

Wed, 01 May 2019

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

Wed, 24 Apr 2019

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

Wed, 17 Apr 2019

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

Wed, 10 Apr 2019

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

Wed, 03 Apr 2019

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

Wed, 27 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 20 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 13 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 06 Mar 2019

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

Wed, 27 Feb 2019

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

Wed, 20 Feb 2019

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

Wed, 13 Feb 2019

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

Wed, 06 Feb 2019

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

Wed, 30 Jan 2019

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

Mon, 21 Jan 2019

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

Wed, 16 Jan 2019

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

Wed, 09 Jan 2019

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

Wed, 19 Dec 2018

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

Wed, 12 Dec 2018

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

Wed, 05 Dec 2018

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

Wed, 28 Nov 2018

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

Wed, 21 Nov 2018

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

Wed, 14 Nov 2018

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

Wed, 07 Nov 2018

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

Wed, 31 Oct 2018

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

Wed, 24 Oct 2018

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

Wed, 17 Oct 2018

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

Wed, 10 Oct 2018

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

Wed, 03 Oct 2018

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

Wed, 26 Sep 2018

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

Wed, 19 Sep 2018

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

Wed, 12 Sep 2018

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

Wed, 05 Sep 2018

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

Wed, 29 Aug 2018

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

Wed, 22 Aug 2018

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

Thu, 16 Aug 2018

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

Wed, 15 Aug 2018

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

Wed, 08 Aug 2018

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

Wed, 01 Aug 2018

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

Wed, 25 Jul 2018

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

Wed, 18 Jul 2018

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

Wed, 11 Jul 2018

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

Wed, 04 Jul 2018

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

Wed, 27 Jun 2018

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

Wed, 20 Jun 2018

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

Wed, 13 Jun 2018

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

Wed, 06 Jun 2018

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

Wed, 30 May 2018

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

Wed, 23 May 2018

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

Wed, 16 May 2018

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

Wed, 09 May 2018

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

Wed, 02 May 2018

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

Wed, 25 Apr 2018

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

Wed, 18 Apr 2018

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

Wed, 11 Apr 2018

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

Wed, 04 Apr 2018

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

Wed, 28 Mar 2018

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

Wed, 21 Mar 2018

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

Wed, 14 Mar 2018

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

Wed, 07 Mar 2018

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

Wed, 28 Feb 2018

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

Wed, 21 Feb 2018

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

Wed, 14 Feb 2018

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

Wed, 07 Feb 2018

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

Wed, 31 Jan 2018

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

Sat, 27 Jan 2018

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

Sat, 27 Jan 2018

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

Wed, 17 Jan 2018

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