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CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Happiest Place You Can't Leave: The Disney Machine
Episode 88
Walt Disney didn't just build a theme park. He built a system of total control, and convinced the world to call it magic. Employees aren't staff, the…
17 hours ago
Deadly Destinations: Paradise Lost
Three tropical destinations, three true crimes: in Aruba, 35-year-old Robyn Gardner vanishes from a beach with a travel companion who later tries to …
1 day, 17 hours ago
CRIME: The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe
Episode 87
On the morning of August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Los Angeles home. She was 36 years old. The Los Angeles County …
3 days, 17 hours ago
CULT: Skull & Bones
Episode 86
Behind a windowless brownstone on the Yale campus known only as "the Tomb," fifteen students are tapped each year to enter one of the most powerful a…
5 days, 17 hours ago
CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Episode 85
In the summer of 1776, as the Continental Army braced for a British invasion of New York City, a network of loyalist conspirators bribed five of Geor…
1 week ago
CRIME: The Boston Massacre
Episode 84
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers opened fire on a crowd of colonists on King Street in Boston, killing five men and wounding several o…
1 week, 3 days ago
CULT: The Freemasons
Episode 83
For centuries, the Freemasons have counted kings, revolutionaries, and founding fathers among their ranks, a secret brotherhood whose rituals, oaths,…
1 week, 5 days ago
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Who Drew the Nazca Lines?
Episode 82
In Peru's scorching Nazca Valley, ancient inhabitants carved enormous animal figures into the desert floor over a thousand years ago, figures so larg…
2 weeks ago
CRIME: Captain Phillips & the Maersk Alabama
Episode 81
In April 2009, four Somali pirates boarded the MV Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean, taking Captain Richard Phillips hostage in a lifeboat standoff …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
CULT: Pacific Cargo Cults
Episode 80
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, indigenous communities across Melanesia developed powerful religious movements in response to the sudden a…
2 weeks, 5 days ago