Conspiracy Theories
The world’s most controversial events, and the complex beliefs behind them. From Bigfoot sightings to bitcoin takeovers, alien landings to assassinations, who’s shaping the narrative — and why? Conspiracy Theories is a Spotify Podcast. New episodes Wednesdays.
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October 2, 2024 • 55 mins
Before becoming the world’s most famous mummy, King Tut was a teen pharaoh. When he suddenly died at age 19, it changed Egyptian history. But it wasn’t until the 1920s that a new theory came into play: King Tut was murdered in a political coup. And he might not have been the only victim.
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September 25, 2024 • 40 mins
Over the course of their decades-long investigation, the FBI interviewed thousands of potential D.B. Cooper suspects. All leads ran cold. But in 2011, citizen sleuth Tom Colbert started his own search—and he believes he may have finally found the real identity of the mysterious hijacker.
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September 18, 2024 • 40 mins
In 1971, a man operating under the pseudonym "Dan Cooper" hijacked a plane, stole $200,000, strapped the money to his body, and then parachuted into the darkness below. Who was he? And what happened to the money?
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September 9, 2024 • 48 mins
Ted Kaczynski, the man better known to the world as the Unabomber, died in 2023. But his manifesto and the ideas he presented as justifications for his killings have become more mainstream. We sat down with Candice DeLong, one of the FBI agents who helped capture Kaczynski in 1996, as well as Gary Wright, who survived a bombing in 1987.
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September 4, 2024 • 39 mins
With little explanation as to the meaning of the content of the Voynich manuscript, questions of a hoax arose.
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August 28, 2024 • 42 mins
Discovered by book dealer Wilfred Voynich in 1912, the centuries-old “Voynich Manuscript” is written in a strange text that no one has been able to decipher. Scholars, historians, and linguists have all tried to uncover the secret behind the mysterious tome.
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August 21, 2024 • 44 mins
A “wild” boy in 18th-century Germany meets the King of England. 100 years later, a child is raised in isolation by a man whose name he never knew. And a young girl in the 1950s survives the Colombian jungle – a troop of monkeys her only companions. These so-called feral children are no strangers to doubt, controversy, and conspiracy theories.
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August 12, 2024 • 51 mins
After 13 years as a Mafia hit man, he found himself in the crosshairs of the New Jersey Police. There was only one thing left to do: slaughter every last one of his friends before they got the chance to turn on him.
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August 5, 2024 • 50 mins
He killed over a hundred people before the police had even heard his name. So when the Mafia needed a body to drop without getting their hands dirty, there was only one man to call. Richard Kuklinski was quick, vicious, and utterly invisible.
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July 31, 2024 • 34 mins
Author Joseph A. Citro claims the Bennington Triangle has been haunted by stories of, quote, “mysterious lights, untraceable sounds, and unidentifiable odors” since pre-colonial times. The area, which is located in the southwest corner of Vermont, has provided the setting for monster sightings, murder, and a string of mysterious disappearances. Is it a coincidence or is the Bennington Triangle a hotspot for supernatural activity?
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July 24, 2024 • 41 mins
If you had to guess, I bet you’d say Thomas Edison was the inventor of motion picture cameras. But what if we told you…that’s wrong? Louis Le Prince shot the world’s first moving picture in 1888, years before Edison debuted his camera. But days before Le Prince was going to go public with his invention, he vanished. Instead, Edison got the fame and fortune. Could he have targeted Louis Le Prince? Or was it all just convenient timin...
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July 17, 2024 • 35 mins
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the most popular unsolved mysteries of all time. Since Conspiracy Theories last covered the topic in 2019, there have been several updates. Now well over 85 years old, it’s one story that just won’t quit — unless, of course, we finally get answers. For years, researchers and explorers have been searching for Amelia’s missing Lockheed Electra. Has a team of newcomers finally found it?
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July 10, 2024 • 34 mins
In January 1916, San Diego, California was hit by a deadly flood. Nobody had foreseen just how catastrophic the storms would be…including the City Council, who’d just hired the renowned “rainmaker” Charles Hatfield to fill the Morena dam with rainwater.
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July 3, 2024 • 41 mins
The political machinations of Tammany Hall extended to the buying and selling of political positions, including judgeships. New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater is claimed to have been one of the beneficiaries of this corrupt practice, but before the truth could come out he disappeared without a trace. The subsequent investigation captivated the nation, earning Crater the title of “the missingest man in New York.”...
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June 26, 2024 • 38 mins
Tammany Hall was the executive committee of the Democratic Party in New York City during the 1800s formed with the intention of aiding the city’s immigrant population — but by the 1860s it was riddled with claims of widespread corruption, bribery and fraud at the behest of its leader William “Boss” Tweed. Tweed’s greed and ill-gotten assets made him obscenely rich—all while the taxpayers suffered.
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June 19, 2024 • 44 mins
The Enron scandal shook Americans’ faith in their institutions. It also inspired a few different conspiracy theories. With the help of journalist Bethany McLean, Connor and Carter discuss the theories, Enron’s legacy, and the impact the scandal has had on how many of us view the world.
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June 12, 2024 • 54 mins
Whether you know the full story or not, you’ve probably heard the name Enron before. In the summer of 2000, the energy company, renowned for their innovation, was on top of the world with a market value of almost $70 billion. But a year later, they filed for what was, at the time, the largest bankruptcy in American history. What happened? And why?
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June 5, 2024 • 48 mins
In 1950 Enrico Fermi sat down to have lunch with his friends and colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. While discussing UFOs, Enrico asked a simple question: if aliens exist, where are they? This conflict between the high likelihood of alien life and the lack of evidence of such confounds scientists to this day. Tune in as Carter guides us through the science and attempts to resolve the ‘Fermi paradox’.
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May 29, 2024 • 39 mins
In July 1997 the National Guard announced their explanation for the Phoenix Lights. But we’re not convinced...if the lights weren’t military in origin, could they have been extraterrestrial?
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May 22, 2024 • 36 mins
Between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm MST, in a space of about 300 miles from the Nevada state line, thousands of people across three states witnessed bizarre lights in the sky — including actor Kurt Russell. What’s really happening in the American Southwest that makes it such a beacon for UFO activity?
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