CLASSIC: Grimoires: Fact and Fiction
From fictional works like the Necronomicon to the all-too-real Key of Solomon, humanity has long been obsessed with the idea of ancient tomes holding hidden, unholy and possibly dangerous secrets. But...
11 Okt 20221h 12min
Strange News: Plants Swing Machetes, Cheating Fishermen, Possible Serial Killer in California
The United States has created a new Ambassador exclusively for plants -- and good thing, too, because plants just learned to use machetes. The world of competitive fishing is rocked by a scandalous ch...
10 Okt 202249min
Who's Buying All The Glitter?
When most of us think of glitter, we think of arts and crafts -- not a conspiracy. But, as it turns out, the glitter industry has a strange, enduring secret. One group is buying the majority of the gl...
7 Okt 202256min
Listener Mail: Conspiracies About Conspiracies, Shotspotter, the Nature of Fact
A-Frame asks whether the wildest conspiracies are, themselves, part of a larger conspiracy to bury stories those in power would prefer we ignore. A caller asks for more information about the dystopian...
6 Okt 202240min
A Monster in Belgium: The Dutroux Affair, with Matt Graves
In 1996, hundreds of thousands of Belgian citizens marched in public protest against an apparent conspiracy of the highest order -- the kidnapper and serial murderer Marc Dutroux was, they claimed, no...
5 Okt 20221h 8min
CLASSIC: The Hemp Car Cover-up
Make no mistake: the United States is a car culture, and the extreme sprawl of the country means the vast majority of citizens can’t realistically live without their cars. This has inevitably led to e...
4 Okt 202254min
Strange News: Big Pharma, Mysterious Airport Moans and Bret Favre
Pharma company Biogen is on the hook for 900 millions dollars due to allegations of an unethical kickback scheme. Brett Favre is under suspicion of financial corruption in Mississippi. An American Air...
3 Okt 202243min
The Bizarre Tale of the Circleville Letters
The small town of Circleville, Ohio is, in most respects, a normal place. It has all the usual trappings of a small community: churches, grocery stores... and a few skeletons in the figurative closet....
30 Sep 202255min
