The Uncover Up Conspiracy Cast
Episodes
The Haunted Doll Business with David Cooper
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you do a search on eBay for "haunted doll", you'll get an array of glassy-eyed monstrosities and stories promising that you will ruin your life if ...
Wikileaks and War Crimes
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee discusses the shocking war crimes that were revealed by Wikileaks, and what happened to Julian Assange afterwards.
Fake Celebrity Deaths with David Cooper
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this interview from The Last Show with David Cooper, Lee talks about how difficult it is to try to fake your own death, particularly when you're a ...
The Spread of Ai Videos
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our information ecosystem is crawling with Ai slop and videos. On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine some of the dangers this poses, as well as some...
Gaslighting with David Cooper
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We're trying something new! In addition to posting our usual episodes every other week, we're going to start posting some of our radio interviews. Thi...
The NSA Surveillance Program
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Snowden blew the whistle on a program of terrifying overreach by the NSA. Lee is of the opinion that people aren't as worked up by these revela...
The Rendlesham UFO Incident
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In December of 1980, something strange happened outside of a Royal Air Force base near Rendlesham Forest. On this episode, Lee and Nathan try to figur...
Escaping from East Berlin
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Humans in power try to control other humans, and in turn those humans find ingenious ways to resist and escape. On this episode, Lee looks back at a s...
New Year's Eve 2025 Trivia Party!
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the end of another year! Which means it's time for the annual trivia party. Also, thanks to all of you for listening, and sharing your time with ...
The Town at the End of the World
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1500s, the town of Munster was surrounded by enemy soldiers. But inside the town, things were even stranger. On this episode, Lee finally...
CIA Mind Control and Manipulation
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan go back into the CIA files to look into how effective their mind control projects were. Also, it turns out that they h...
The Truth Behind Stranger Things
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the TV show "Stranger Things", and dive into the Upside Down to discuss the real-life experiments and projects...
The Burning of the Reichstag
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1933, the German parliament building is set on fire. In the resulting chaos, Adolf Hitler seizes more power and dismantles the safeguards that help...
Will the World End in 2012?
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the world going to end in December of 2012? This question is slightly easier to answer than most of the rest of their episodes, but Nathan and Lee ...
Depression, Anxiety, and Conspiracy Theories
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan discuss the complex relationships between anxiety, depression, and conspiracy theories. Also, special guest pod person...
Conspiracy Questions
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lee and Nathan are exhausted, and decided to spend a recording session hanging out and asking each other some questions about conspiracies and their e...
The Ghost Blimp of 1942
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In August of 1942, a blimp took off from San Francisco to do a submarine patrol. Later that day, it crash landed back in the city with nobody on board...
Two Roswell Hypotheses
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee takes a closer look at the classic alien myth of the Roswell crash. Then, Nathan takes a look at another explanation for what hap...
The Truth Behind Roswell
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Something happened in a rancher's field near Roswell New Mexico in the summer of 1947. This is one of the most famous UFO stories of all time, and Lee...
Junk Drawer Episode! Lost Time, Flying Jellyfish, and Angry Birds
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to empty out the junk drawer. This time, Lee and Nathan find stories about how it might not actually be the year we think it is, a strange f...
Promising Doomsday
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1993, hundreds of believers descended into a bunker to wait for a promised nuclear apocalypse. Like all promised apocalypses at this point, it didn...
A CIA Coup in Guatemala
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of 1954, Guatemala had a functioning democracy. By the time the year was over, they didn't. What role did the CIA play in that? On th...
The Late, Great, Planet Earth
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1970, a book was published that predicted how the end of the world was going to imminently unfold. Did it come true? If you are reading this senten...
The Secret Aurora Spy Plane
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There have been rumours since the 1980s of a super fast, super secret spy plane. This is all Nathan needed to hear to launch into an hour's worth of t...
The Rapture
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amongst some groups of Christians, there is the belief that an event is coming in which some people will be whisked up into the sky to avoid the horro...
The Climate Change Conspiracy
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many people have the feeling that they're being lied to about the climate change situation. As it turns out, they're right. But who is lying, what are...
The Calvine UFO Incident
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Scotland in 1990, two hikers allegedly came across a bizarre diamond-shaped craft hovering above them. They were able to take photographs of the UF...
Apocalypses Galore!
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People have been claiming the world was about to end for thousands of years, and (so far) they've all been wrong. On this episode, Nathan and Lee look...
Manipulation Through False Conspiracies
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People often believe conspiracy theories because they don't want to be manipulated by people in power. But sometimes, the conspiracy theory IS a way f...
The End Times and the Book of Revelation
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Social media are full a people who claim that they know the true identity of the antiChrist, or that some world event is heralding the end of the worl...
Alien Corpses and Crashed Saucers
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stories of crashed UFOs and recovered alien tech and bodies have been circulating for years. On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at an incident in Ne...
Introduction to the End of the World
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan look back at one of humanity's oldest known apocalypse stories, to see if they can find insight into why we sometimes ...
New Year's Eve Trivia Party!
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the end of another weird year, and what better way to celebrate than with a conspiracy-themed trivia party?
Flying Saucers!
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1947, the flying saucer craze was launched when pilot Kenneth Arnold saw something strange in the skies of Washington State. Within a few weeks, Ar...
The West Memphis Three
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tragically, In 1993, three children were murdered in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Understandably, the people of the town felt that something te...
The 1980s Ritual Abuse Scandal
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s, a horrifying story started making the news - that daycare centres were actually just fronts being used by satanic cults. But were the al...
Satanic Whistleblowers
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, several people came forward to claim that they had been high-ranking members of a Satanic cabal - the Illuminati. These stories would be...
Shooting Down an Airliner: the KAL007 Story
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In September of 1983, when the world was one mistake away from complete and utter nuclear devastation, a Korean airliner was headed towards Soviet air...
Stealing a Soviet Submarine
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1960s, a Soviet nuclear missile submarine went missing in the Pacific Ocean. The American government wanted those missiles. But how could ...
People are Trying to Manipulate You
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You have something extremely valuable that powerful people are trying to gain access to - your mind. On this episode, Nathan and Lee discuss the natur...
An Introduction to Satan
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Satan is showing up in more and more conspiracy theories these days, and so Nathan decided it was time for some old-fashioned Bible study. On this epi...
Reality, Fiction, and Medbeds
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do reality and fiction influence each other? On this episode, Lee and Nathan get philosophical as they discuss the importance of stories and the d...
Junk Drawer Episode! Astrology, Assassins, and Cold War Fighter Planes
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time to clean out the junk drawer... this time, Lee picks out a story of an American president using an astrologer to make important decisions during ...
A German Coup Attempt
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, an attempt was made by a secret group to overthrow the German government and replace it with a new version of the old monarchy. On this episo...
Revolutions and the Illuminati
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The French Revolution was a violent and shocking rearrangement of an ancient society. Was it the hand of the Illuminati that was pulling the lever of ...
The Bavarian Illuminati
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1776, a secret society was formed in Bavaria. They had plans to infiltrate positions of power, and take over the world. On this episode, Lee and Na...
The Queen's Sorcerer
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A tall gaunt man with a long beard and flowing robes stares into a crystal ball to try to communicate with supernatural beings in order to understand ...
Conspiracy Quiz Show!
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's been over a decade since Lee and Nathan started studying conspiracies and conspiracy theories - have they learned anything? As always, the best w...
The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1961, the CIA launched a false flag attack on the island nation of Cuba. On this episode, Nathan and Lee discuss how spectacularly flawed the plan ...
Is America Ruled by the Freemasons?
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee looks at the American dollar bill, and sees some pretty weird images and symbols. Is this evidence that America is actually run b...
Bugs as Weapons of Mass Destruction
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan and Lee discuss top secret plans to send the tiniest soldiers into battle during the Cold War: fleas and mosquitos. It's a mor...
What is the Holy Grail?
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan and special guest pod person Professor Jon Zeyl look at the history of the Holy Grail, and then investigate a little French to...
The Knights Templar
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee dives headfirst into distant history to try to put together the puzzle of the Knights Templar. Did they really disappear, or did ...
Introduction to Puppetmasters
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan begin examining the concept of the secret cabal, by looking at a real example (Skull and Bones) and a lie that was use...
Junk Drawer Episode! Mob murders, kidnappings, and paranoia
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this "Junk Drawer" episode, Lee and Nathan talk about a mob hit from the 1960s that's even shadier and more disturbing than you might think, a sche...
Skinwalker Ranch
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Utah there's an alleged hotbed of supernatural and extraterrestrial activity named "Skinwalker Ranch". As it turns out, the location might well be ...
Zombie Apocalypse!
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In October of 2023, a rumour started to spread on social media that a signal was going to be broadcast over everyone's cell phones that would activate...
The Montauk Project
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee looks at the claims made by Preston Nichols that he was part of a top secret American government project involving time travel, t...
Disinformation is bad for our health
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disinformation is widespread in our current media ecosystem, and even if we don't fall for it it can still be hazardous to our health. To find out why...
The Heaven's Gate Disaster: a Scam Without a Scammer?
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, dozens of people died by their own hands in a group called "Heaven's Gate" On this episode, Lee and Nathan try to make sense of the specific ...
We Watch an X-Files Episode
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lee and Nathan examine the season 3 episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" of the classic conspiracy TV show "The X-Files", and use the show to sprin...
William Cooper and "Behold a Pale Horse"
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if there was a secret conspiracy to conceal the fact that the American government was making deals with aliens to allow them to abduct people for...
A Review of the UFO Situation (Bonus Episode)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We've covered an awful lot of UFO material this year as we've worked from the 1940s up to the 1980s, and we thought a bit of review might be useful be...
UFOs and Whistleblowers
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In summer of 2023, a former intelligence official named David Grusch testified under oath in a Congressional hearing. In his testimony, he claimed tha...
Navy Pilots and UFOs - the Congressional UAP Hearing
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In July 0f 2023, there was a Congressional hearing on UAPs (aka UFOs). Two of the witnesses were Navy pilots who had first-hand encounters with flying...
Conspiracy Theory Red Flags
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We hear dozens of conspiracy theories every week - a few have some truth to them, some are accidental nonsense, and some are deliberate and dangerous ...
Was Yuri Gagarin Assassinated?
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to escape the Earth's atmosphere into space. In 1968, he was killed in a tragic and suspicious plan...
The First Human in Space
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1961, the USSR placed a man named Yuri Gagarin into a tiny capsule on the tip of a massive rocket and shot him into space. This is the story of tha...
We Almost All Died in 1983
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, the entire world was on the brink of disaster. The slightest mistake or miscalculation could have resulted in a nuclear armageddon that would...
Nazis and UFOs: "Wunderwaffen" of World War II
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many claims are made about the advanced technology developed by Germany during WWII. Is any of it accurate? Nathan and Lee go back to the 1940s to loo...
Junk Drawer Episode! Revenge, Propaganda, and Demonic Toys
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan open up the junk drawer and pull out segments on an urban legend about Phil Collins* from the 1980s, a recent example ...
Escape to Mars? The Alternative 3 Documentary
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee takes a close look at a British documentary from the 1970s that claimed that there was a secret Soviet/American space program to ...
Death at Area 51
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To Lee's dismay, Nathan has managed to trick him into doing an entire episode about Cold War aircraft. However, the story turns out to be much strange...
Alien Cover Up: the Majestic 12 Papers
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s, some documents started circulating that appeared to be a top secret memo regarding a massive cover up of a UFO crash. On this episode, L...
Cattle Mutilations: UFOs, Satanists, and the CIA
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, ranchers in multiple states found some of their cows dead on the ground, seemingly drained of blood and with strange surgical incisions ...
An Attempted Presidential Assassination
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We think things are pretty dicey politically these days, but how dicey did they used to be? On this episode Lee argues that it was quite dicey indeed ...
Alien Abduction: the Betty And Barney Hill Story
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to Betty and Barney Hill in the two missing hours between when they left Montreal and when they arrived at home? The story of the Hills ...
The Alien Contactee Movement
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1950s, lots of people came forward claiming that they had met with aliens, and that those aliens had an important message for us Earthlings. On...
Drugs and Exoskeletons: Super Soldier Schemes
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The battlefield is a terrible place. How can we make it an even more terrible place? Drugs and robot suits. On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine th...
Chaos and Meaning: our 100th Episode Celebration
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did this happen? 100 episodes of The Uncover Up!?! To get to the bottom of this, Lee and Nathan investigate their own origin stories - young Lee a...
Super Soldiers: an Introduction
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan look into the motivations behind the concept of building a "super soldier", and examine some historical examples invol...
The Men in Black
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the mysterious Men in Black that intimidate and frighten people who come forward with stories of UFOs? Lee and Nathan investigate the investig...
River Monsters, Giant Penguins, and Snake Oil Salesmen
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan begins by going off to scenic Paris, Ontario to hunt for a monster, and (in a Twilight Zone-esque twist) he and Lee learn that...
Searching for Atlantis
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan attempt to leave behind this world (with all its hassles and irritations) and find a lost island civilization instead....
Scammers And Parasites
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine the relationship that exists between conspiracy communities and scammers who try to take financial advantage o...
The Red Scare of the 1950s
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does a witch hunt look like in America of the 1950s? Lee does a deep dive into the paranoid world of Senator Joseph McCarthy. But is McCarthy a t...
Is Our Universe Just Someone Else's Video Game?
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible that our entire existence is nothing more than someone else's sandbox-style video game? On this episode, Lee and Nathan get into quantu...
Is This Real Life?
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are we really living in the real world, or just in some kind of elaborate trick or simulation? Turns out humans have been wondering that for a few tho...
The Hafnium Hand Grenade
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Shelly Lesher dive deep into the nature of existence to look into the possibility that t...
The Great Lakes Triangle
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine a mysterious and threatening area of the world in their own backyards. Is there something sinister going on in...
The Salem Massacre
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of the 17th century, the town of Salem accused dozens of people of being part of a massive witch conspiracy, and many of those accused end ...
Why Torture Doesn't Work
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If television and movies have taught us anything, it's that good guys won't break under torture, and bad guys confess the truth under torture. As it t...
Junk Drawer Episode! Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, and UFOs
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this "Junk Drawer" episode, Lee and Nathan look at some odd little stories that were interesting enough to discuss, but not big enough for their ow...
How a Book Contributed to Mass Murder - The "Hammer of Witches"
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at how the idea of the "witch" started to form in Europe in the 15th century. In particular, they look at one of ...
Witches and the Problem of Evil
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan attempt to go back in time to investigate the Salem witch trials of the late 17th century, and end up going all the wa...
What is Havana Syndrome?
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Starting in 2016, American and Canadian embassy workers began to show strange and alarming symptoms. Could it be evidence of a new secret weapon? Lee,...
Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan hang out in 18th and 19th century Europe, where groups of fancy French people are at strange parties, gathered around ...
Microwave Mind Control? Project "Pandora"
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Shelly Lesher (from the "My Nuclear Life" podcast) discuss the possibility that microwav...
The "Mad Monk" Rasputin and the Fall of Imperial Russia
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Was Rasputin a depraved occultist charlatan who lied his way in to the Russian royal family, or a gifted holy man with the divine power to heal? On th...
Introduction to the Occult
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if there was a third path, an alternative to official religion and scientific rationality? On this episode, Nathan and Lee start their exploratio...