CRIME: Captain Phillips & the Maersk Alabama
In April 2009, four Somali pirates boarded the MV Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean, taking Captain Richard Phillips hostage in a lifeboat standoff that gripped the world. In this episode of Conspira...
26 Jun 40min
CULT: Pacific Cargo Cults
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, indigenous communities across Melanesia developed powerful religious movements in response to the sudden arrival of European colonizers and wartime military ...
24 Jun 41min
CONSPIRACY THEORY: China's Bigfoot featuring Maci and Nadoly from GHOSTEAS
For over 2,000 years, the Yeren, China's legendary wildman, has haunted the mountains and folklore of rural China, inspiring fear, government bans, and even a state-funded scientific expedition. In th...
22 Jun 46min
CRIME: Griselda Blanco the Cocaine Godmother
By her early 30s, Griselda Blanco had transformed herself from a poverty-stricken Colombian girl into one of the wealthiest and most feared drug lords in history, architecting a cocaine empire that fl...
19 Jun 39min
CULTS: Colonia Dignidad
In the Chilean wilderness, German preacher Paul Schaefer ran Colonia Dignidad, a walled commune where 300 followers lived under surveillance, forced labor, and daily abuse for decades. In this episode...
17 Jun 41min
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Lemuria the Lost Continent
In the mid-1800s, a British naturalist named Philip Sclater proposed the existence of a vast sunken continent called Lemuria to explain a gap in the fossil record. What began as a genuine scientific h...
15 Jun 36min
CRIME: Black Bart the Outlaw Poet
In 1875, a mild-mannered Civil War veteran named Charles Boles began robbing Wells Fargo stagecoaches across Northern California. He was always polite, never harmed passengers, and occasionally left h...
12 Jun 38min
