The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 102 - The Strangling

27 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The year 1952 was an eventful one for the city of London. Not only was it the year a deadly smog settled over the city, killing thousands of people. B...

Introducing: Murder Minute

15 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Through meticulously crafted storytelling and sound design, Murder Minute delivers a unique and immersive listening experience for the die-hard true-c...

Ep. 101 - The Shortcut

13 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Teleportation is a concept that has been around a long time. All the way from the Bible up to the modern day, stories exist of people who mysteriously...

Ep. 100 - The Whistleblower

29 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For my 100th episode, I take a step back and return to a subject I talked a bit about in my very first episode. This is the story of Karen Silkwood, a...

Ep. 99 - The Honor Killing

15 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1931, a young woman named Thalia Massie claimed to police that a group of native islanders from Hawaii brutally kidnapped and assaulted her. The fa...

Ep. 98 - The Death of an American Goddess - Part 2

29 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this second part of this special two-part episode, we discuss Marilyn Monroe's last days, along with many of the conspiracy theories that have spru...

Ep. 97 - The Death of an American Goddess, Part 1

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1962, one of Hollywood's biggest stars died tragically. Officially, Marilyn Monroe's cause of death was listed as an apparent suicide. But ever sin...

Ep. 96 - The Kurim Case

04 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 2007, a man living in the tiny Czech Republic town of Kurim set up a video baby monitor in his infant son's room. But what he saw on the monitor wa...

Ep. 95 - The Remains

18 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mummies have been found all over the world for centuries. It turns out there's a lot more to mummies than you've seen in monster movies. Hear the stor...

Ep. 94 - The Harbinger

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Between 1966 to 1967, strange things were happening in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. People throughout the region began reporting sightings of all so...

Ep. 93 - The Butcher of Paris

21 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1944, police made a gruesome discovery inside a Paris townhouse, a mass collection of dismembered body parts being burned in a furnace. This would ...

Ep. 92 - The Smell of Death

07 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In February, 1994, a 34-year-old cancer patient named Gloria Ramirez was rushed into the Riverside General emergency room having difficulty breathing....

Ep. 91 - The Christmas Conspirators

24 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this special Christmas episode, I present eight short holiday themed tales. Listen as I tell you the strange story of an astronaut's UFO encounter,...

Ep. 90 - The Dead of Winter

10 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most tragic and disturbing stories from American history has to be that of the Donner Party. But the story of the ill-fated journey by the ...

Ep. 89 - The Hatchet

26 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1892, one of the most infamous murders ever occurred in American history in Fall River, Massachusetts. Someone brutally murdered Andrew and Abby Bo...

Ep. 88 - The Bad Trip

12 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I tell you the strange history of the drug LSD, from it's origins involving a deadly fungus that may have caused a bizarre dancing pla...

Ep. 87 - The House of the Devil

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I tell you about the history of Satanism. Hear about Anton LaVey and the origins of the Church of Satan, and how it relates to the not...

Ep. 86 - The Ghost Trials

15 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ghosts and the law don't seem like two things that go together. But throughout history there have been several instances where the two intersect. In t...

Ep. 85 - The Skeptic

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, spiritualism was all the rage across America. People across the country regularly visited so-called psychic...

Ep. 84 - The Other Assassin

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I tell you about the lives of two men, John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Abraham Lincoln, and Boston Corbett, the man who shot Booth...

Ep. 83 - The King of the Mountain

03 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1979, a four person Cessna crashed on the frozen peak of a California mountain. One of those people on board was a remarkable 11 year old boy named...

Ep. 82 - The Mesmerists

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hypnotism is a controversial subject that has been around in one form or another since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Under hypnosis, a person bec...

Ep. 81 - The Blood Countess

06 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Countess Elizabeth Bathory is considered by many historians to be the most prolific female serial killer in history. Stories persist of the vicious to...

Ep. 80 - The Deathless

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

During the 18th century there lived a mysterious man known as The Count of Saint Germain. He was a master musician, artist, linguist and alchemist...a...

Ep. 79 - The Guilty

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In July, 1954, a young Ohio woman named Marilyn Sheppard was brutally murdered in her home. Her husband Dr. Sam Sheppard was tried and convicted for h...

Ep. 78 - The Butcher of Plainfield

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1957, an odd, soft-spoken man named Ed Gein shocked the nation. What they discovered on his remote farm in rural Wisconsin was the stuff of nightma...

Ep. 77 - The Wolf Trials

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For just as long as people were being put on trial for being witches, what is much less known is that people were also being tried and convicted of be...

Ep. 76 - The Land of the Lost

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries, there have been people who have believed that the earth is a hollow ball. These stories include practically everything strange and  un...

Ep. 75 - The Premonition

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Stories of people who believe they could predict the future have been around for nearly as long as recorded history. Hear the stories of noted prophet...

Ep. 74 - The House of Many Doors

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To some people, the Winchester Mystery House is the most haunted house in the world. Was it fear of ghosts that drove Sarah Winchester to build this b...

Ep. 73 - The Cemetery Man

16 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1932, Charles Lindbergh's infant son was kidnapped and murdered. To this day there are some people who believe that the man who was convicted of th...

Ep. 72 - The Mad Sculptor

02 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's been said that there's a fine line between genius and madness. In 1937, a gifted but mentally disturbed sculptor named Robert Irwin shocked New Y...

Ep. 71 - The Octopus

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1991, police found the body of 41 year old journalist named Danny Casolaro in a West Virginia hotel room with his wrists slashed. Although investig...

Ep. 70 - The Lost and Found

05 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The national parks system is sometimes called the greatest idea in the history of America. But there's a dark side to the parks as well. For hundreds ...

Ep. 69 - The Rock

19 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alcatraz. It's the most infamous prison in American history, and it will forever be tied to the most famous prison escape in history as well. In this ...

Ep. 68 - The High Priestess of Blood

05 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One of the darker aspects of some religions, is ritual human sacrifice. Mexico is one of those countries that is steeped in tradition, but some of tho...

Ep. 67 - The Plague Island

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There are thousands of islands scattered across the globe, and many of those islands contain dark and terrifying stories of their own. In this episode...

Ep. 66 - The Cabin in the Woods

08 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hollywood caught on long ago that one of the ideal settings for a horror movie is the isolated cabin in the woods. But in real life, many murders have...

Holiday Minisode - The Truce

23 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a special holiday minisode for all my listeners. It's the true story of the remarkable event that occurred on Christmas 1914, along the western...

Ep. 64 - The Crossing

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1873, three women were trapped on a tiny island of the coast of Maine with a vicious axe murderer, in a true story that seems like something straig...

Ep. 63 - The Last Witch Trial

27 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

England's official laws regarding the prosecution of witches date back to the 1600s. Those laws would be responsible for the persecution and deaths of...

Ep. 62 - The Monster of Florence

13 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The city of Florence, Italy is the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. It's also the birthplace of a terrifying serial killer who helped inspire th...

Bonus Minisode - The Ghost Ships

31 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As a special Halloween treat, here's a special bonus mini episode, featuring myself and a special guest, my son, Nate Hale, Jr., another entirely fict...

Ep. 61 - The Last Exorcism

23 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Most major religions around the world have some concept of demons and hell. The history of exorcism is both tragic and terrifying. In this episode we ...

Ep. 60 - The Devil's Business

09 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the conclusion of our three-part series on Charles Manson and the Manson Family, we discuss the events surrounding the Tate-LaBianca murders, as we...

Ep. 59 - The Family

02 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second part in a special three-part series on Charles Manson and the Manson Family murders. In part one we discussed Charles Manson's upbr...

Ep. 58 - The Gardener

25 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout history there have been certain crimes that have shaped a generation. This is the first in a special three-part series on the life and crim...

Ep. 57 - The Spirit Board

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout history, many cultures around the world have claimed to have had people who could contact the spirits. In the late 19th century, during the...

Ep. 56 - The Blackout Ripper

28 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

During World War II, the German Luftwaffe began a massive bombing campaign over London and the surrounding British countryside known as The Blitz. By ...

Ep. 55 - The Cannibal Plateau

14 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the winter of 1874, prospector Alfred G. Packer headed out into the Colorado mountains with a group of five other men. Only Packer returned alive. ...

Ep. 54 - The Red Canoe

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1916, a series of deadly shark attacks occurred along the Jersey shore. This is the true story that some people say inspired Jaws. Patreon: htt...

Ep. 53 - The Great Detective

17 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Without a doubt, the greatest detective in literature is Sherlock Holmes. When the world’s most foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes was found strangl...

Ep. 52 - The Hunger Doctor

03 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Starvation is a terrible way to die. This is the true story of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor who lived in Washington in the early 20th century. Hazzar...

Ep. 51 - The Eaters

26 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The true stories of Charles Domery and Tarrare, two men whose insatiable hunger needs to be heard to be believed. Each of these men were able to eat i...

Ep. 50 - The Annihilator

19 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A full three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London, there was another vicious serial killer who terrorized people in the city of ...

Ep. 49 - The Departed

12 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A recent National Geographic poll showed that more than 77 percent of the public believes that aliens from another planet have visited the earth at so...

Ep 48 - The Carrier

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

New York in the early part of the 20th century was struck by a typhoid epidemic. An investigator managed to track down the unlikely cause, a 37-year-o...

Patreon Minisode 1 - The Sultan's Palace

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In New Orleans in the 1800s, a mysterious Turkish Sultan moved into a lavish mansion in New Orleans’s French Quarter. Legend has it that a bloody ma...

Ep. 47 - The God Machine

29 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1853, a reverend named John Murray Spear attempted to do something shocking. He believed he was receiving messages from spirits beyond the grave, w...

Ep. 46 - The Kiss of Death

22 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

One common legend that appears over and over in many forms throughout cultures around the world, is the legend of the vampire. Listen to hear some vam...

Ep. 45 - The Falling Star

15 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1932, actress Peg Entwistle made a name for herself in Hollywood. But it wasn’t because of any movie role. Peg gained worldwide infamy by jumpin...

Ep. 44 - The Phantom

08 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1946, the town of Texarkana was terrorized by a serial killer who stalked people parked in lover’s lanes at night. This mysterious madman has bee...

Bonus Episode: Interview with Ed Dentzel of Unfound Podcast

02 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this special bonus episode, I interview Ed Dentzel, host of the Unfound podcast. In this interview, Ed and I discuss some of his most interesting m...

Ep. 43 - The Boys on the Ice

01 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1868, the cargo ship The Arran set sail for Quebec, Canada from Greenock, Scotland. Unknown to the captain, on board were a group of seven young st...

Ep. 42 - The Call

24 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Without a doubt the telephone is one of the greatest inventions in human history. But the invention also has a dark side. Listen to hear several true ...

Ep. 41 - The Stain

17 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

You can often judge a society by how it treats it’s least fortunate members. In particular, the disabled and the mentally ill. Throughout history, p...

Ep. 40 - The Man Eaters

31 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1896, the British decided to build a railroad across their colony in Africa. An Army colonel named John Henry Patterson was brought in to supervise...

Ep. 39 - The Evangelist

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

During the early 20th century, America was caught up in a growing spiritualist movement that swept the nation. One hotspot for seances and new religio...

Ep. 38 - The Lonely Hearts

20 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The first lonely hearts ads were published in 1695, just five years after the first newspapers were created. Almost from the very beginning, there hav...

Ep. 37 - The Witch Hunters

13 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout history there have been many self-appointed witch hunters who dedicated themselves to wiping out the minions of Satan. Hear the strange st...

Ep. 36 - The Bennington Triangle

05 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

During the 1940s and early 1950s, a string of strange disappearances occurred around Glastenbury Mountain in Vermont. Theories range from alien abduct...

Ep. 35 - The Dangerous Mind

26 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

One of the great myths about serial killers perpetuated by books and the movies is that they’re all criminal geniuses like Hannibal Lecter. In truth...

Ep. 34 - The Bad Boy

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1958, 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Anne Fugate, set out on a murder spree that shocked a nation. Was Caril an innocent vi...

Ep. 33 - The Hex

13 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Logic tells us curses aren’t real. Yet history is full of instances that make you scratch your head and wonder. Hear some of the strange true storie...

Ep. 32 - The Long Walk

06 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 1927, an immigrant named Lillian Alling grew fed up with life in the United States, and she decided she would return to her homeland no matter...

Ep. 31 - The Tourist Trap

30 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 1912, on a warm June night in the little Iowa town of Villisca, an unknown madman murdered eight people with an axe. Learn the horrifying true...

Ep. 30 - The Island of the Dead

20 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Although there’s no accurate count, it’s estimated there are about 100,000 islands scattered around the globe. Sometimes, remote islands have been...

Ep. 29 - The Night Lincoln Died

16 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all heard the story about how John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. But did you ever hear the story ab...

Ep. 28 - The Deceivers

09 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout history, there have been a number of shadowy groups dedicated to the art of deception and murder. Today, we have a name for these people. W...

Ep. 27 - The Devil Inside

02 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

H.H. Holmes was the alias of one of America’s first serial killers. In Chicago in the late 1800s, he built an enormous “murder castle” where he ...

Ep. 26 - The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

26 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In survival stories, we often play the “what if” game, and wonder what we would do differently under the same circumstances. Here are two true sto...

Ep. 25 - The Burning

19 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On Christmas Eve, 1945, the home of George and Jennie Sodder was destroyed by fire. George, Jennie and four of their ten children managed to escape un...

Ep. 23 - The Secret Agent

12 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Long before the Zodiac Killer terrorized southern California, there was another similar string of murders in which a bizarre killer stalked and murder...

Ep. 22 – The Unfriendly Skies

05 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On April 7, 1994, FedEx Flight 705 took off on a routine flight from Memphis to San Jose. What happened next was anything but routine though. A rogue ...

Ep. 21 - The Bloody Benders

28 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It’s bizarre enough when a single serial killer is terrorizing the community. But an entire family of serial killers is almost unheard of. In 1843, ...

Ep. 20 - The Wych Elm

21 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In 1943, a group of teenage boys in England’s Hagley Woods discovered a woman’s skeleton inside the trunk of a gnarled old wych elm. Was it a biza...

Episode 19: The Prince of Humbugs

14 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

P.T. Barnum was many things in life–a showman, a con artist, a politician, and much more. This is the amazing true story of the man who managed to h...

Episode 18: The Death of Poe

07 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The story of what happened to Edgar Allan Poe in his final days has endured for centuries. In his final days, the writer disappeared for days, then my...

Ep. 17 – The Beast

31 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For three years during the mid 18th Century, the Gevaudan region of southern France was terrorized by a real life monster. To this day, no one knows p...

Ep. 16 - The Living Dead

24 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries there have been stories of people who were buried alive. These are the macabre true stories of people who were declared dead and buried,...

Ep. 15 - The Cannibals

17 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In 1961, millionaire Michael Rockefeller disappeared in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Did he drown as the official stories claim? Or did he suffer ...

Ep. 14 – The Saint

10 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

They say that revenge is a dish best served cold. History has many tales of people who took the act of revenge to a whole new level. In this episode h...

Ep. 13 - The Bone Wars

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid-1870s two of the most prominent paleontologists in the world, Edward Drinker Cope and O.C. Marsh, waged an epic and often ridiculous war...

Ep. 12 – The House Guest

26 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever been home alone and felt like you were being watched? Here are two stories of people whose killers may have been living with them unawar...

Ep. 11 - The Resurrectionists

19 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

During the 18th century in Britain, there was a thriving business in black market body snatching. An enterprising duo named Burke and Hare took the pr...

Ep. 10 - The Untouchable

12 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The true story of the Cleveland Torso Murders, and legendary lawman Eliot Ness’s investigation into the murders. Although officially the killer was...

Ep. 9 - The Dark Side of the Moon

05 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The strange true story of Jack Parsons, one of the co-founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and fathers of modern rocket science, as well as the m...

Ep. 8 - The Empress of Floreana

29 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The strange true story of The Galapagos Affair. On a tiny tropical island, a self-described “Baroness” mysteriously vanished after running afoul o...

Ep. 7 - The Love That Would Not Die

29 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep. 6 - The Book of Secrets

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Isdal Woman of Norway and the Somerton Man of Australia are two of the most famous unsolved crimes in history. Who were these mysterious people? N...