The Uncover Up Conspiracy Cast
Episodes
Movie Time! An Analysis of "They Live"
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most important and interesting conspiracy-themed films ever is John Carpenter's 1988 sci-fi masterpiece "They Live". On this episode, Lee a...
Do Shape-Shifting Reptiles Control the World?
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan take a look at the belief that the world is secretly controlled by reptiles from space that can mimic humans. Their co...
The Denver International Airport Conspiracy
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan check into the reservation desk at the world's most sinister airport, and investigate the conspiracy theory that the a...
The TikTok Time Traveler
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan take an investigative look at a couple of examples of people who claimed to be from the future. Then, they attempt to ...
A Secret Plot to Dose the Planet?
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode Lee and Nathan discuss the "Brotherhood of Eternal Love" - a group that decided what the world needed was a massive LSD trip to get it...
Cryptid Hunt: The Kraken
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for another cryptid hunt! This time, Lee and Nathan dive to the bottom of the deep sea to look for the mythic creature that, legend has it, ...
The Chemtrail Conspiracy
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan turn their eyes to the skies to discuss whether there is anything behind the idea that we are being poisoned from abov...
The 2016 American Election Hack
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee investigates the role of Russian intelligence agencies in the 2016 American election, and explains why you should really think tw...
Are Ghosts Real?
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan exorcises the idea that ghosts are manifestations of mental substance that survive after we shed our mortal coils. Boo!
This Hollow Earth: Operation Highjump
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did the American Navy fight flying saucers from the centre of the earth at the South Pole in 1947? That's a complicated question. And it's going to re...
Video Game Mind Control? The Polybius Story
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this nostalgic episode, Lee and Nathan discuss the sinister legend of a mysterious video game that appeared in Portland in 1981. Was it real? Was i...
Operation Sea Spray - an Introduction to Bioweapons
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this not-cheerful episode, a world-weary Lee and Nathan look back at the history of biological weapons and examine a month in the fall of 1950 in w...
The Weird World of Disinformation Campaigns
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan and Lee examine three historical examples of Soviet disinformation campaigns in order to try to help understand our current si...
A Friendly Introduction to the KGB
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan start by trying to explain a recent Facebook disinformation campaign, but they begin the explanation in 1881, and only...
Operation Jade Helm: Did Obama Invade Texas?
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode Nathan looks back to 2015, a simpler time when thousands were terrified that the American federal government was about to use the US A...
The #FreeBritney Movement
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Alena Papayanis discuss the recent "Free Britney" movement, as well as the disturbing as...
The Pentagon UFO Report (Bonus Episode)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this bonus mini-sode, Nathan goes over the recent UFO report released by the Pentagon to see if there is anything in it that gives us any insight i...
Surviving The Nuclear Age
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest podperson and nuclear physicist Dr. Shelly Lesher dive into the terrifying logic of the Cold War, as we...
UFO Case File: The F/A-18 Incidents
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan discuss the recent UFO encounters by US Navy pilots, and try to figure out which bizarre hypothesis explaining ...
UFO Case File: The 1976 Tehran Incident
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan takes a look at an incident in which two F-4 Phantom fighter jets tangled with UFOs in the skies over Tehran, and also begins ...
The Bermuda Triangle
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan look into one of the classics as they try to figure out why the USS Cyclops and a flight of navy torpedo bombers disap...
Nikola Tesla's Death Ray
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan looks at the famed inventor and hipster fashion icon Nikola Tesla, in order to ask the questions: Did Tesla build a death ray ...
Cult Case File: There's Money in Mind Control
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan discuss the nature of belief and the dangers of mind control by investigating a well-known worldwide organizati...
UFO Case File: The Kinross Incident
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, the one thing we've always worried about happens and Nathan totally nerds out about Cold War airplanes. He also investigates an inci...
Doomsday Case File: The 1954 Flying Saucer Rescue
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan looks back at a time in 1954 in which an American doomsday group who were preparing to escape the Earth in flying saucers was ...
Can "The Simpsons" predict the future?
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this pop culture related episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan discuss ancient Greek culture and myths, 16th century France, multiverse theory, and severa...
Doomsday Cult Case File: Aum Shinrikyo
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this first in a series of episodes about doomsday cults, Lee and Nathan explore the context and motivations for the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on...
Vaccine Panics, Then and Now
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee looks back in history at some of the reactions people have had to past immunization efforts, and Alena compares those reactions t...
What's the Deal With Vaccines?
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan, Lee and Alena take a look at the human immune system and how vaccination works. There's a lot of conversation about many kin...
UFO Case File: The Portage County Chase
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan examines the time in 1966 when there was a chase between a few police cars and a flying saucer, followed by an Air Force cover...
Was Princess Diana Murdered?
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan look into the disturbing question of whether the beloved "People's Princess" was actually murdered on that Augu...
The Day the World Didn't End
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan examines the story of William Miller, a man who in the 1830s and 40s predicted the imminent end of the world and convinced ten...
What is QAnon?
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan examine the phenomenon of "QAnon", going into the beliefs, history, precursors, implications, and meaning behin...
A Secret Plot Against the White House! (In 1933)
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan looks into the possibility that there was almost a fascist coup in the early 1930s that could have ended American democracy an...
UFOs vs the US Air Force
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan investigates several events during the 1940s and 50s in which US Air Force or Navy planes encountered - and in some cases, fou...
Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan look back at the events of September 11th, 2001 to ask the question: were the attacks of 9/11 an inside job by ...
The Great Seattle Windshield Epidemic
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the strange (and largely forgotten) events of the Great Seattle Windshield Epidemic, which is more or less exa...
Alien Case File: The Flatwoods Monster
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan turns his attention back to West Virginia to investigate the monster seen by seven witnesses in 1952 and encounters the elusiv...
Mass Panics And Moral Panics
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan look at what happens when large groups of human beings freak the %$#@ out all at once. They discuss ghosts, bu...
Cryptid hunt: The Jersey Devil
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan's mind wanders off into the twisted trees of the Pine Barrens and twistier tangents of history to track down the elusive Jerse...
The Lavender Scare
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Pride Month, in this episode Alena, Lee, and Nathan discuss the "Lavender Scare". In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s the American and Canadian g...
The Lost Cosmonauts Conspiracy
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan looks into the eerie theory that, during the early 1960s, the Soviet Union lost a bunch of cosmonauts in space and then covere...
Cryptid hunt: Loch Ness Monster
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This time it's personal, as Alena investigates, analyzes, and then crushes Nathan's childhood hopes that the Loch Ness Monster exists. Stick around a...
Alien Case File: The Travis Walton Abduction
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In November of 1975, a logger went missing for five days and came back with a harrowing story of alien abduction. What actually happened? On this ep...
The Philadelphia Experiment
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan and Lee discuss the strange story of what may have happened to the USS Eldridge in Philadelphia, in October of 1943. The stor...
Cryptid Hunt: Bigfoot
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, it's Lee's turn to go on a cryptid hunt as he tracks down the elusive and mysterious Bigfoot, AKA Sasquatch. Sorry about the sound q...
Cryptid Hunt: Mothman!
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During a strange time, Lee and Nathan record a strange podcast about the strange phenomenon of Mothman, as part of our "Cryptid Hunt" series. Nathan ...
Weird Animal Projects
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan examines a few of the times in which the brain trust of the American covert agencies have come up with some truly bizarre plan...
The Psychology Of Conspiracy Thinking
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena and Nathan meet up with neuroscientist and special guest podperson Dr. Mandy Wintink to discuss the science behind why humans a...
UFO Case File: the Avrocar Flying Saucer
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this minicast episode, Nathan looks into his own family history when he delves into the odd world of flying saucers and the Cold War. Also, for To...
Castrocast! CIA Assassination Attempts
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this long-promised episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan wobble back and forth between amusement and horror as they discuss the many bizarre methods that ...
UFO Case File: The Kecksburg Incident
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan pull back the curtain a little bit to both talk about the 1965 Kecksburg UFO incident, and also how they research and ...
Did the FBI and CIA Accidentally Cause the 1960s?
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We had our first live podcast, and it was a big success and lots of fun. We will definitely do another one sometime in the next year... however, sinc...
Doomsday Devices
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this festive holiday episode, Nathan takes a look at a few of the doomsday-level devices that humans have applied their cleverness to. It's super ...
Who Killed John F. Kennedy?
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Alena, and Nathan do a deep dive into what happened at 12:30pm, November 22, 1963 in an attempt to untangle the Kennedy assassin...
Spooky Hallowe'en Bonus Episode
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this special bonus Hallowe'en episode, Nathan tells some scaaaary stories. Then does some scaaaary subtextual analysis of them to figure out what ...
Understanding 9/11 - Operation Cyclone
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan continue their investigation into the blowback of secret CIA operations by doing a really deep dive into the history o...
CIA Blowback: Operation Ajax and Iran
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Nathan and Lee plan on discussing two covert CIA operations in Iran and Afghanistan, but then they get carried away and only have tim...
UFO Cover Ups - Dulce Base and the Paul Bennewitz story
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Saucer Summer continues, as Lee, Alena, and Nathan look at the convoluted relationship between the American government and UFOs. What if the UFO stor...
Aliens and UFOs - What was really going on at Area 51?
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Saucer Summer continues as Lee, Alena and Nathan dive into hundreds of pages of redacted CIA documents to try to figure out what really went on at Are...
Alien Invasion? The Battle of Los Angeles
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Saucer Summer Season continues as Alena, Lee and Nathan investigate a possible flying saucer attack on Los Angeles in the winter of 1942. Over a thou...
Aliens and UFOs - Project Blue Book and the Mantell Incident
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1948, an American fighter pilot was sent after a UFO over the skies of Kentucky. A few minutes later, the plane had crashed and the pilot was dead...
Our Favourite Conspiracy Movies
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan talk about their favourite conspiracy films. They end up spending quite a bit of time comparing 1950s paranoia...
Our First Listener Mail Episode
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we answer some listener emails. Lee has a hot take on religious belief, Alena discusses the sad state of cartoon dopplegängers, and...
Shocking Freemason Exposé! More Satanism! Etc!
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Lee hiding out at an undisclosed location, Alena and Nathan hunker down in the bunker to tell the weird story of Leo Taxil's exposé of the Freem...
MK ULTRA - was Frank Olson murdered?
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lee, Alena, and Nathan continue their investigation of the horrors of MK Ultra, and ask if it is possible that Frank Olson, who was a...
Bonus episode - meet your Uncover Up hosts!
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this special short bonus episode we introduce ourselves, and explain why we study what we study and basically answer the question "who the %$&# do ...
CIA mind control - Introduction to MK ULTRA
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan finally make good on their promise to investigate MK ULTRA. This is one of the weirdest and most disturbing co...
Was the Moon Landing Faked?
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan do a deep dive into the evidence that the American government used NASA to fake a moon landing.
Cold War Space Shenanigans
01 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan do a deep dive into some of the odd things that the USA and the USSR got up to during the Cold War in lieu of simply n...
Does Beyonce Rule the Illuminati?
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan dive eyeball-first into the world of the Illuminati. Specifically, they want to investigate the question of wh...
Was Kurt Cobain Murdered?
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee, and Nathan travel back to their plaid-clad youth to try to figure out the sad death of a grunge icon.
Cointelpro
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan discuss the out-of-control FBI program "COINTELPRO". They all get very sad by the end, but if you push through...
The Dangers of False Conspiracy Theories
04 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan discuss a few examples in history when false information was spread for malicious purposes. Also, Lee almost c...
The CIA, crack, and America's inner cities
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan discuss the hypothesis that the CIA was deliberately spreading crack cocaine in America's inner cities to destr...
The Uncover up - The Death of Marilyn Monroe
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee, Alena, and Nathan look into the theory that Marilyn Monroe's death was not an accident or a suicide, but an assassination carrie...
The Uncover Up - post-war Nazi conspiracies
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan are joined by special guest podperson Alena to discuss theories about what happened to high-ranking Nazis after the en...
The Uncover Up - False Flags
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lee and Nathan discuss the concept of the "false flag" attack by looking at some historical examples. Also, they read some declassif...
The Uncover Up - Stargate
01 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lee and Nathan dive into the bizarre history of Project Stargate, and Lee complains about magicians.