Cocktails and Conspiracies
Join us every week as we delve into a new conspiracy theory and how it came to be. Some of the theories we talk about are super well known and believable.. others are stupid AF but fun to talk about. We're researching the FACTS and history behind these theories to share with you cuties.
Episodes
The Astroworld tragedy is beyond horrible, and our hearts hurt for anyone affected. We hope the families of those killed get their justice, and that Travis Scott is banned from performing anywhere for the rest of his life. Today, we're giving a quick recap of the tragedy and what we know so far...
Happy Halloween weekend cuties! To get into the Halloween spirit, today we're sharing some spooooooky tales. First, the tale of the Black Eyed Children, which is equally as creepy as it sounds... then, the history of the Ouija board, along with some crazy Ouija board stories.
"It's all fun and games, until somebody gets murdered." - Tessy & McDub
Happy Friday!! Today we’re sharing stories on some of the most prolific poisonings throughout history…
First of a badass woman, known to be the most successful serial killer whose name you’ve never heard. Giulia Tofana was able to murder hundreds of men over the course of nearly 50 years without being caught — until, in a shocking twist, a bowl of soup caused her downfall.
Then, a candy-centric crime wave that struck Japan in the 80...
We’re baaaaack!! Today, we’re discussing INSANE survival stories - a kudos for all of us surviving the past 18 months. First, we’re talking about a horrific hijacking, where Jackie Pflung literally defies all odds and survives a true nightmare of a flight. Then, a story of Jose Salvador Alvarenga who was lost at sea for 438 days - could you imagine?! We couldn’t either…
Happy Friday!!! Today we're sharing 2 crazy stories...
First is the story of a Weird World. Pauline Dakin's childhood in Canada in the 1970s was full of secrets, disruption and unpleasant surprises. She wasn't allowed to talk about her family life with anyone - and it wasn't until she was 23 that she was told why...
Next we're talking about the infamous and super creepy Westfield Watcher. ...
The Panama Papers are a collection of leaked company documents that gave a glimpse into how the world’s richest and most powerful people avoid paying taxes by basically cheating the system and being shady AF.
The Background:
- In 2016, journalists from a German newspaper obtained 11.5 million documents from the law firm, Mossack Fonseca, that exposed how some of the world’s most prominent politicians, business leaders and celebriti...
Happy Friday! Get ready, these stories are CRAZY...
First, we're talking about the supposed reincarnation of the Polluck twins - John and Florence Polluck lost their girls in a tragic car accident in 1957.. A year later, Florence gave birth to twins, which John thought were his girls reincarnated. John sounds a little crazy, but the personality traits, birthmarks, and even memories the twins had of their late sisters...
Heyy 2020! We're kicking off the year talking about one of the most brutal and culturally enduring crimes in American history - the murder of Elizabeth Short, AKA the Black Dahlia.
WTF Moments:
- On January 15th, 1947, Elizabeth Short was found murdered, laying naked in a field, cut in half, and completely drained of blood. She was 22 years old.
- Elizabeth's dad was a d*ck, he "faked suicide" during the...
This week we are talking about the wonderful world of movies. From the start, we've seen some sketchy things going on in this industry...
First, we're talking about the real inventor of motion picture cinema: Louis Le Prince. Apparently he was working with movies wayyy before Thomas Edison, and right before he's about to make it big, he disappears and is never heard from again. Then, his son, who was the...
Are the Kennedy's cursed? - probably. This family’s string of untimely deaths from assassinations, freak accidents, plane crashes, suicides and overdoses is just so crazy. So. Much. Death.
Here's just a quick run down of some of the major tragic events that happened to the Kennedy’s from 1941-2019:
- In 1941 Rosemary Kennedy had a lobotomy that went drastically wrong. This left her unable to walk or speak well, ...
Today we're discussing two landmark alien-abduction cases - Antônio Villas Boas and Barney and Betty Hill.
Antônio Villas Boas was a Brazilian farmer who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials in 1957. The night he was abducted, he was picked and probed, gassed in a trapped room and ended the night having sex with a super hottie alien and getting her pregnant. Although his story sounds silly as hell;...
A familicide is a technical term for “family annihilation” which basically refers to the killing of one’s entire f*cking family. Today, we're each sharing a horrifically disturbing story of a familicide. Happy Friday!
First, we're talking about the super recent familicide of the Watt's family. Last year, a**hole Chris Watt's, murdered his pregnant wife Shanann and two daughters, (4-year-old Bella and...
Happy Friday! Today we're each bringing 2 freaky stories to the table, and they are both freaky AF.
First we're talking about The Giant of Kandahar- a biblical giant with flaming red hair who was killed by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002. Apparently our government is trying to cover it up...
Then, we're talking about the freakiest cult ever, Heaven's Gate. Heaven's Gate was a UFO c...
Our government is super shady, obvi. Today we're discussing a handful of secret-government projects that sound crazy AF, but actually happened.
Projects we're talking about: (yes, these are the actual names)
- The Brown Note AKA Disco Dump
- Acoustic Kitty
- Operation Mockingbird
- X-37B
- Project Rainbow
- Operation Big Itch
- The CHANI Project
- Project Sigma
Dean Corll was known for passing out sweets to kids in the Houston Heights, where his family had a candy factory. But that smile was a mask, and behind it was one of the most brutal, calculating serial killers of the 20th century.
WTF Moments:
- Long before Dean Corll ever killed any children, he earned his nickname as “The Candy Man” after his mother opened a candy shop in the Houston Heights, and he gave local teenagers free can...
On the night of the 24th of February, 1978, a group of five young men attended a college basketball game at California State University. The group of men had been anticipating their Special Olympic basketball tournament that was scheduled for the very next night in Sacramento, which they had been looking forward to for months. After the game, they traveled 70 miles in the opposite direction for no apparent reason, and 4 of the men...
Denver International Airport is weird AF.
WTF Moments:
- When Denver International Airport opened in February of 1995, construction had fallen 16 months behind schedule, and $2 billion over budget. The airport itself is 35,000 acres, which is almost twice as large as the next biggest U.S. airport.
- When the airport was originally built, they designed an entire automated baggage system that failed miserably. So what did...
Madeleine McCann was just 3 years old when she seemingly vanished into thin air. The little girl from England disappeared from her bed while she, her family and their friends were on vacation in a holiday apartment at a resort in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007. Madeleine’s whereabouts remain unknown, but interest in the child’s fate has only grown in the years since she went missing.
WTF Moments:
- Madeleine Beth McCa...
The "Reptilian Elite" suggests that in ancient times, a group of advanced reptiles from the Alpha Draconins star system came to Earth and infiltrated the governments of the ancient civilizations in order to control all the humans and enslave them and became their rulers and bred with other humans to form crossbreeds so that their DNA can infiltrate the minds of humans. With their DNA inside our systems, they can control ...
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