The Haitian Zombie Potion
Long before they graced our screens as mindless, brain-eating monsters, zombies were rooted in Haitian folklore. Rumors of a zombie potion made their way to 1980s Boston, where an ethnobotanist hoping...
16 Loka 202450min
Vampires Feed on Fear
Dubbed “The Last Vampire of New England,” Mercy Lena Brown allegedly feasted on her own family. But she wasn’t the first vampire, or the last. Stories like Lena’s evolved into modern day conspiracy th...
9 Loka 202446min
Mummy Murder Cover-Up
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...
2 Loka 202453min
D.B. Cooper Pt. 2
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...
25 Syys 202438min
D.B. Cooper Pt. 1
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 t...
18 Syys 202438min
Fallout: The Unabomber’s Crimes and Manifesto (with Candice DeLong)
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 dow...
9 Syys 202446min
The Voynich Manuscript Pt. 2
With little explanation as to the meaning of the content of the Voynich manuscript, questions of a hoax arose. Conspiracy Theories is now on Instagram @theconspiracypod and TikTok @conspiracy.pod! Fol...
4 Syys 202437min
The Voynich Manuscript Pt. 1
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 a...
28 Elo 202440min
