Ghost Stories For The End Of The World

37 - Process Church: Feed Your Head Jan 21, 2022

We kick off 2022 with a deep dive into the Process Church of the Final Judgement as part of our lateral look at the Manson family. A new religious movement and cult that was influenced by Carl Jung as much as Scientology, Process has been the subject of wild and feverish speculation for years. Art school try-hards or the guiding hand behind a secret "Satanic terror network"? Neonazi occultists or a pyramid scheme aimed at middle class dropouts? Our goal in this episode is to chart a path through the fog of bullshit and paranoia, and find something approximating the Truth.

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Episode 36 - Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army Dec 23, 2021

Hollywood Ghost Stories continues as we get into the mind-warping, brain melting, sanity blasting story of Donald Defreeze and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. From bank jobs to CHAOS agents, the Phoenix Program to revolutionary fervor, MKUltra to the LAPD, this story has it all, and is easily one of the most incredible we've ever discussed.

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Episode 35 - COINTELPRO, CHAOS and Manson in the New Hollywood pt 1 Dec 10, 2021

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Part 1: Hollywood. 1969. Hippies and revolutionaries mingle with rock gods and movie stars. The dream is over, but the party won't end. Gangsters, drug dealers, spooks and cult leaders haunt the scene. As the summer rolls on, Reagan unleashes his dogs on the counterculture, LAPD bulls run wild, paranoia reaches fever pitch, secret networks plot in the shadows, and the Family mounts an apocalyptic assault on Cielo Drive.

Tonight, we begin the end of Season of the Witch with a look at the dark networks encircling the LA scene of the late-60s, and go deep on one of the CIA's most controversial programs and the sickos who ran it.

Episode 34 - Nixon and Invisible Bridges Nov 23, 2021

A look at the life, times and mindset of Richard Nixon and his America. Bridging the 1960s and the 1970s, his administration is infamous for its corruption, dirty tricks and endless hustles. We follow him as he navigates a swamp of neofascist masons and CIA congressmen, Bohemian Grove bigshots and Wall Street creeps, discussing everything from his bloodcurdling foreign policy to his raving paranoia.

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Episode 33 - Tales From the Graveyard Bunker Oct 31, 2021

In association with iLovePodMedia, and with the help of Bradley and the Mrs, this year we offer a trilogy o' terrifying tales for All Hallows' Eve. For your consideration: 1. The ExorCIAist 2. Project Blue Beam: The New World HORRORder 3. Operation Stab-io Enjoy. Well...I say "enjoy"...ahahahahahaha. Support the show by laundering some money here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Find us on twitter @ghoststoriesend

Episode 32 - More Tales of the Yankees and Cowboys Oct 27, 2021

Howard Hughes goes to war with the Syndicate in Vegas. We look at a deep state in transition, the mob on the brink of implosion, and a private eye chasing land fraud and silver mining scams.

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Episode 31 - The Assassination of RFK Oct 15, 2021

Jimmy Falun Gong (@JimmyFalunGong) of Programmed to Chill is here to blow minds and explode myths about the RFK assassination. Once again, 1968 proves to be a crucial year for us as we traverse a land haunted by women in polka dot dresses, the Rosicrucian Order, the rise of Nixon, the CIA, sinister hypnotists and more.

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Episode 30 - Acid Spooks II: Psychedelic Gladio (PREVIEW) Oct 09, 2021

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The next stop on our mission upriver:

CHEMIST

DROP OUT

GANGSTER

REVOLUTIONARY

CON MAN

BRITISH

TERRORIST

ACCOUNTANT

FREEDOM FIGHTER

NERD

RONALD MOTHER FUCKING STARK

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Episode 29 - This is the Zodiac Speaking pt 2 ft. Brace Belden Sep 30, 2021

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Part 2 of our look at the Bay Area and the serial killer as a social and political subject in the 60s and 70s. The Dark Cowboy (Brace - @TrueAnonPod) once again guides the humble host (myself - @ghoststoriesend) on a dark voyage into the West Coast netherhead. A psychedelic abyss, you might say, where spooks, dirty politicians, killers, crooks, cult leaders and capering grotesques grin with bloody, hungry mouths as the 60s counterculture slams head-on into the nihilistic 70s.

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Episode 28 - This is the Zodiac Speaking pt 1 ft. Brace Belden (PREVIEW/TRAILER) Sep 23, 2021

Obtain access by laundering some money here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd ...or: "Tales From the Golden Age of American Serial Murder" In the first of a two-part US-UK operation, Brace Belden - private investigator, parapolitical expert and one third of the podcasting phenomenon Trueanon - drops by to discuss the serial killer as a social and political subject in 1960s and 1970s America. We use the Zodiac case and the circus surrounding as a window through which to explore the occult, murky depths of California during the Age of Aquarius. Let's just say that these two shows have a little of everything, so saddle the horses and prepare to ride with myself and the Dark Cowboy into the psychosphere.

Episode 27 - Acid Spooks I: MKUltra and the Void Sep 16, 2021

While LSD wasn't the sole cause of "The Sixties", the era would have looked far different without acid. Tonight we explore how LSD and other psychedelics served a political and social function from the earliest days of the CIA, taking in Cold War brinkmanship, MKUltra, and the search for mind control.

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Episode 26 - The American Years of Lead? ft Matt Christman (TEASER) Sep 06, 2021

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We kick off our Season of the Witch miniseries with a look at the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s, and for this one Mr Matt Christman (@cushbomb) of Chapo Trap House kindly stopped by to share some insight about the times. We talk about the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, Vietnam, Dustin Hoffman, and more. It's a tale of paranoia, class, acid fantasies, confused politics, poorly engineered bombs, and the brutal hammer of reality meeting the plate glass of idealism.

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The Chicago Outfit and the People Who Died Aug 25, 2021

In the first half of this week's show, we explore the roots and rise of the Chicago Outfit, analyzing its influence, structure, activities, demographic makeup, and compare it to more traditional mafia syndicates elsewhere in the States. In the second half, we follow Sam Giancana after the JFK assassination and look at examples of people connected to the Outfit and Dallas who died in mysterious ways.

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Episode 24 - James Angleton and the Wilderness of Mirrors Aug 16, 2021

Tonight we look at the life and times of James Angleton. We examine his obsession with the so-called Monster Plot, and the mysterious role he played in the aftermath of a high-profile murder in 1964. It's a moody outing tonight, friends, as we navigate an underworld of poetry, spook intrigue, Cold War paranoia, and the melancholy of the deep state.

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Episode 23 - Cartelworld: Drugs, Banking, Empire and Terrorism Aug 06, 2021

Tonight we look at drugs, high finance, intelligence and terrorism. From South America to the Middle East, we explore how the global drug trade is manipulated by various state and non-state actors, meta-groups, if you will, to serve their own ends. We take in El Chapo, Osama bin Laden, the South American cartels, Nazis, the Soviet-Afghan War, HSBC, Gladio and more. Here we are attempting to create a kind of network map, to better understand how and why drugs are a Hidden Engine of global affairs.

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!REUPLOAD! Episode 22 - Dulce Midnight Radio pt 2 Jul 26, 2021

In our second and final UAP discussion, @bpleasies and myself continue to steer the flying saucer of Truth through the vast darkness of The Man's evil schemes. Join us as we explore a little more of the deep politics behind Tom Delonge's disclosure efforts, and marvel with us over our favourite UFO incidents and, indeed, the nature of reality.

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Episode 21 - Dulce Midnight Radio Part 1 Jul 18, 2021

In part 1 of this effort, UFO private investigator and first ever Ghost Stories... guest, Bradley from Michigan (@bpleasies), will guide us through the latest round of UFO disclosure from the US government. We then explore the history and deep politics of the phenomenon, in an attempt to liberate the Truth, imprisoned as it is in the underground base of the Mind, from the clammy grasp of spooks, hucksters and crackpots.

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!FURTHER READING!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=delonge%7C%22tom+delonge%22%7C%22blink182%22%7C%22blink+182%22%7CUFO&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=200&sort=6#searchresult

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28377/tom-delonges-origin-story-for-to-the-stars-academy-describes-a-government-info-operation

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos

!PATREON EXCLUSIVE! - JARED LETO: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Jul 10, 2021

We go sicko mode on Jared Leto, Laurel Canyon, the deep politics of celebrity, Silicon Valley, and the human rights industrial complex. It's our first Patreon-exclusive episode and it's edgier than Leto Joker making jokes about 9/11 in a platinum Lamborghini, so get some.

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Episode 19 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 6: In Camelot, Waiting For The Screams Jul 06, 2021

Final part of the AT series, looking at JFK's time in the White House and the bitter struggles between various factions in the power elite. We navigate a head maze of deep corruption, organized crime, radical right wing sickos, and nuclear armageddon, leading inexorably towards Dealey Plaza.

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Episode 18 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 5: The Wise Men Jun 26, 2021

This is it - the penultimate episode of Amerikan Tabloid. See the crows alight on telephone poles like emissaries from the underworld as we follow this broken road into the dark heart of post-war Americana, ash in our eyes and smoke in our lungs. First, we dig on shakedown artist, bagman, fixer and private investigator Robert Maheu, tracking his work for the CIA and Howard Hughes, before dropping in on the Kennedys as Bobby launches a crusade against organized crime and Jack contemplates a presidential run. We then look at the mafia war of the 1950s and the Appalachin farce that humiliated J. Edgar Hoover. Shortly afterwards, the Cuban Revolution leaves American mobsters and businessmen alike out of pocket and looking for payback. Meanwhile, some geek with delusions of grandeur splits from the US Marines and fetches up in the USSR. I hear they call him Lee Harvey Oswald. This one goes well with neat Scotch and a fresh pack of Lucky Strikes. You do not want to miss it, so get some.

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Episode 17 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 4: Nut Country Jun 14, 2021

In part 4, we examine the psychology of the deep state, the CIA, fascism, and the anticommunist fervor of the 1950s. We then move to Dallas, tracking the ascendant Cowboy faction of the power elite, the economic heart of the US war machine, and the early career of a young George HW Bush. We conclude with a look at JFK and his entry into politics, and the roots of his conflict with Allen Dulles.

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Episode 16 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 3: Underworld Jun 06, 2021

The return, baby. We land in the 1940s and move into the 1950s with a look at how the Syndicate consolidated in the post-war years, tracking Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel in the expansion westward and into Cuba. We also discuss the rise of the southwest Cowboys as the boom times arrive and the oil tycoons of Dallas and elsewhere spread their money and influence around Washington.

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Episode 15 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 2: Yankees and Cowboys Jan 28, 2021

Soaked in DMT and armed only with scissors and tape, we dive into a pile of newsreels and microfilm to piece together a gutter-level account of deep state intrigue in 1930s Amerikkka. FDR contends with a fascist coup to his right and a firebrand populist to his left, Hoover launches a war on subversives and cracks skulls at home, "Hollywood" Joe Kennedy whistles past the Crash of 29 and continues his climb up the ladder, while Dulles, Bush, and friends cut deals and launder money with the new government in Germany.

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Episode 14 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 1: Assimilation Dec 11, 2020

The mafia spread from Sicily to the US in the latter half of the 19th century. Thereafter it began a slow and patient accumulation of power as it carved out a niche for itself in the multi-ethnic underbelly of the New World, until Prohibition turbo-charged the black market economy and brought killers and hustlers closer than ever to the commanding heights of American politics and big business...and planted the seeds for 100 years of deep intrigue.

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Episode 13 - Hollywood Ghost Stories: The Wonderland Massacre Nov 28, 2020

The first entry in our Hollywood Ghost Stories series. We look at the Wonderland Murders and the psychorealm of LA in the early 80s, taking in drugs, Laurel Canyon, porno, Scientology, and the strange, sad death of the 60s counterculture. Communiques: ghoststoriesend@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Deep state ambiance: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1K5u6jESjv9snQgdiuUTKB

Episode 12 - Allen Dulles' America and the Early Years of the CIA Nov 13, 2020

We have crash landed in Haunted Amerika and the pale horses are saddled. It is time to ride them into the heart of the psychosphere, to meet the Great $atan face to face. We're kicking off this odyssey with a look at Allen Dulles and the early years of the deep state mafia he ran.

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Episode 11 - Tales From the Graveyard Bunker: Halloween Special Oct 31, 2020

It's the season of the witch baby, so I've set up a mobile truth bunker in the graveyard and I'm in the mood for some tales o' deep state darkness. Let's do it. First we check out the mothman flap in West Virginia, before looking at the Son of Sam case in-depth. Many occult vibes are channeled from within the safety of the salt circle. Happy Halloween, friends.

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...and don't get captured.

Episode 10 - The Years of Lead 2: Peppino Impastato and The 20 Days of Turin Oct 09, 2020

One last visit to Italy before we journey to the USA. Here we consider two stories, one real and one fictional: the life and times of Peppino Impastato, and Giorgio De Maria's work of occult, visionary genius, The 20 Days of Turin. I haven't been able to think of one without thinking of the other all year long, and tonight I try to figure out why, exploring the Anno di Piombo, history, terrorism, alienation, paranoia, the mafia, and where we might go from here. It's low-key my favourite episode of everything we've done so far, so I really hope you dig it too.

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...and don't get captured.

Episode 9 - GLADIO ADDENDUM: Britain, the Circle, Spooks, and Subversion Sep 30, 2020

A freewheeling look at the dark heart of the British Establishment, examining the Le Cercle Complex, MI5/6, and the overlapping worlds of spooks and media, politics and business. By no means exhaustive, this is us propping open the door marked "Britain" in the nightmare funhouse of GSFTEOTW, surveying the room and summarizing what we see within, before we journey to the part of the house marked "United $nake$ of Amerikkka". Enjoy!

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Episode 8 - God's Banker, the Vatican, and P2 Masonic Lodge Sep 08, 2020

The final episode of the Italy quartet, and the one that's been a long time coming - we look at the dark tale of Roberto Calvi, the Bank of God, corruption in high finance, and a neofascist Masonic lodge. It's a story that will blast your third eye clean, and seriously shit you up.

(apologies for the weird gaps in the opening 10, my cat was looming)

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...and Don't Get Captured.

Episode 7 - Heroin, the Corleones, the Mattanza Aug 30, 2020

Here it is, the Second Mafia War. In this monster-length outing, we talk mafia politics, heroin trafficking, the real Corleone family, the CIA, Luciano, Lansky, terrorist bombings, massacres, murders, and more. It’s a blood soaked journey through one of the darkest periods of Italy's recent past, and a sorely overlooked part of modern European history to boot.

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Episode 6 - Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta, Camorra Aug 20, 2020

What do we mean when we talk about "the mafia"? In this episode, we go back over 200 years to offer a brief history of Italy's three crime syndicates, touching on politics, economics, Freemasonry and more!

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Apulia - "Camorra Barese"

El Domingo - "'ndrangheta, Camurra e Mafia"

Episode 5 - The Years of Lead: Aldo Moro and the Red Brigades May 28, 2020

We are back with the first of a new quartet of episodes! This time we're looking at the Years of Lead, and the story of Aldo Moro's kidnapping by the Red Brigades. Political idealism, deep intrigue and staggering violence collide in an event that still casts a long shadow today. We cap off with a brief book recommendation too! Apologies for the layoff; hopefully you remain un-captured.

Episode 4 - Operation Gladio Jan 31, 2020

For anyone who ever suspected "They" were out to get you, here it is: Operation Gladio, the notorious secret armies of NATO. We explore the formation and activities of the famous stay-behind networks, taking in terrorism, the CIA and the mafia, while also discussing Italy in the post-war period.

Episode 3 - The Brabant Killers: Reactivation Dec 30, 2019

Concluding our look at the Brabant Killers - what happened when they returned, more violent and unhinged than ever, and what theories developed in the wake of this incredibly bizarre and terrifying murder and robbery spree. This one has everything, folks - spooks, gangsters, dirty cops, arms dealers, VIP orgies and a Spinal Tap-esque death. Listen to it on something strong.

Episode 2 - The Brabant Killers: The First Wave Nov 22, 2019

The first in a multi-episode look at the bizarre story of the Brabant Killers. Gangsters, spooks, dirty cops and more become entangled in one of the strangest crime sprees imaginable, all while Cold War paranoia reaches fever pitch and a wave of conspiracy and terrorist attacks rock Belgium to its foundations. Sorry for the delay folks, the sequel to this episode will be up ASAP.

Episode 1 - The Dutroux Affair Oct 31, 2019

A brief intro to the aims of this project, and a deep dive into the first of our real life ghost stories, the Marc Dutroux affair.

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