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The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators is a show dedicated to the dark and disturbing stories from history your teacher never told you about. On the show I discuss unsolved mysteries, serial killers, survival stories, strange disappearances and other bizarre true events from the past.

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Introducing: Spy Affair Mar 31, 2021

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A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working for? As Maria gets closer to the rich and connected she also attracts the attention of the FBI. In the politically charged world of US-Russia relations, everyone has secrets and almost nothing is what it seems. From Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and Dr. Death comes SPY AFFAIR a story about deception, appearances, and betrayal.
Hosted by Celia Aniskovich.
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Ep. 150 - The Final Flight Mar 22, 2021

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In December 1945, a group of five TBM Avenger bombers carrying 14 crewmen took off from a naval base in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This should have been a normal training flight, but instead things took a bizarre turn when the group of airplanes known as Flight 19 vanished without a trace. And when the Navy sent out a search and rescue mission soon after, so to did one of the rescue planes vanish over the same mysterious stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that has come to be known as The Bermuda Triangle.
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Notes: https://www.history.com/news/bermuda-triangle-uss-cyclops-mystery-world-war-i https://www.history.com/news/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-flight-19 https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-flight-19-sleuths-20140406-story.html https://www.nasflmuseum.com/flight-19.html https://www.navyhistory.org/2013/06/unanswered-loss-uss-cyclops-march-1918/ https://www.physics.smu.edu/~pseudo/BermudaTriangle/vincentgaddis.txt https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B4JFCJQ? https://www.livescience.com/23435-bermuda-triangle.htmlpf_rd_r=CP3W1PPA25QH6WYSPD5W&pf_rd_p=27eb236c-7697-41b0-9dfe-0fdfb96dd235&pd_rd_r=6081e028-c2db-479b-975e-4f75c56ee8c1&pd_rd_w=Vm8Tp&pd_rd_wg=Y2h0P
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Ep. 149 - The Crime of the Century Mar 08, 2021

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Throughout the annals of true crime you'll often hear certain murders being described as "The Crime of the Century". Back in 1924, the press dubbed the kidnapping and murder of a 14 year old boy named Bobby Franks with that title. But what was especially unusual about the crime wasn't the murder itself. But rather, the two suspects the police arrested. They were a couple of wealthy 19 year old college students named Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and when they confessed to the crime they shocked the nation by telling everyone they had done it simply for the thrill of it all.

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Notes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/leopold-and-loebs-criminal-minds-996498/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/perfectcrime/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D23SXA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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Ep. 148 - The Haunting of Girlstown Feb 22, 2021

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Between 2006 and 2007, something strange was happening in a girls school in Mexico. More than 600 students began complaining of phantom pains in their legs and other mysterious ailments. But what was even stranger was the fact that the girls also began to believe their school was cursed by evil spirits.

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Notes: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14117464.flashback-hundreds-blackburn-pupils-hit-fainting-frenzy/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1962-laughter-epidemic-of-tanganyika-was-no-joke https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/21242299/outbreak-girlstown-chalco-world-villages-villa-de-las-ninas https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/world/americas/16mexico.html https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria https://www.vice.com/en/article/exqyzp/how-does-mass-hysteria-take-over-a-school

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Ep. 147 - The Changeling Feb 08, 2021

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During the late 19th century, there still remained a pervasive fear throughout rural Ireland about fairy changelings, who were said to steal your loved ones, and replace them with inhuman duplicates. It was this sort of fear that would drive a man named Michael Cleary to commit a truly horrible crime against his own wife, Bridget.

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Notes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CJ8QCO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.amazon.com/Coopers-Wife-Missing-Trials-Bridget/dp/0465030882 https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/s-not-my-child-case-capgras-syndrome https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/10/assorted-bizarre-tales-of-people-abducted-by-fairies/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/08/scary-encounters-with-evil-fairies/

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Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3863-heartbreaking License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3568-cryptic-sorrow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Ep. 146 - The Detective in Black Jan 25, 2021

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In the early 1900s there lived one of the most remarkable detectives in history that you've likely never heard of. Her name was Grace Humiston, although back then newspapers began singing her praises, and dubbed her Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.

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Notes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H03I7KE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://narratively.com/they-called-her-mrs-sherlock-holmes/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mrs-sherlock-holmes-takes-on-the-nypd-60624549/https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/what-happened-mrs-sherlock-holmes-mystery-ruth-cruger-disappearance-murder-grace-humiston/

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Wondery Presents: The Apology Line Jan 19, 2021

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If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of the line, and the man at the other end who became consumed by his own creation. He was known as “Mr. Apology.” As thousands of callers flooded the line, confessing to everything from shoplifting to infidelity, drug dealing to murder, Mr. Apology realized he couldn’t just listen. He had to do something, even if it meant risking everything. From Wondery the makers of Dr. Death and The Shrink Next Door, comes a story about empathy, deception and obsession. Marissa Bridge, who knew Mr. Apology better than anyone, hosts this six episode series.
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Ep. 145 - The Lost Treasure of Victorio Peak Jan 11, 2021

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In New Mexico's Hembrillo Basin there stands a small mountain called Victorio Peak. Back in the 1930s, a man named Doc Noss claimed to have discovered a secret passage into the mountain leading to an enormous cavern. Inside that cavern, Doc Noss claimed to have discovered a treasure estimated at $2 billion dollars.

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Notes: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/victorio-peak-treasure/https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Victorio_Peak_Treasure https://unsolved.com/gallery/victorios-peak-treasure/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-16-vw-1352-story.html https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VBWSY7L/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/29/us/following-1937-story-of-buried-gold-family-searches-new-mexico-s-sands.html http://www.mcguiresplace.net/the%20treasure%20of%20victorio%20peak/http://culturecrossfire.com/etc/unsolved-mysteries-victorio-peak-part-2/https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjV3Ki_h4_uAhXBU80KHftfBAwQFjADegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsmr.army.mil%2FPAO%2Fvps%2FPages%2FPart2--2990--Howthegoldwasfoundhowitgotthere.aspx&usg=AOvVaw05j634pyxMMxBgiGlX92aF

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Ep. 144 - The Hotel Savoy Jan 04, 2021

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One of the most remarkable stories to come out of World War II is that of Jan Baalsrud. He was a Norwegian saboteur who found himself wounded, barefoot and on the run from German soldiers swarming the country looking for him. Listen as I tell you what happened on the man's harrowing journey.

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Notes: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-fugitive.html https://nordnorge.com/en/artikkel/jan-balsrud-is-the-man-that-never-gave-up/https://www.offgridweb.com/survival/the-wwii-survival-story-of-jan-baalsrud/https://www.amazon.com/We-Die-Alone-David-Howarth/dp/B000JCBCXS https://www.amazon.com/12th-Man-WWII-Escape-Endurance/dp/151071863X/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_2/145-4535570-7808019?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=151071863X&pd_rd_r=0bed382e-5e94-40ec-bc03-5c39c4ca45f6&pd_rd_w=cjAGI&pd_rd_wg=fa63O&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=GY1QNJ9KWH04QEWYFNJB&psc=1&refRID=GY1QNJ9KWH04QEWYFNJB

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Ep. 143 - The Bones of the Saints Dec 21, 2020

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Throughout its long history, the Catholic Church has anointed countless saints. And with all those many, many saints there also come many strange stories. Some of the strangest tales have occurred long after these saints were dead. Listen as I tell you some tales of miracles, of murder, of intrigue and of mysteries that remain unsolved to this day.

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Notes: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/10/28/blessed-carlo-acutis-first-millennial-saint-catholic-church-children-canonization https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Thomas-Becket/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H2MDYCW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/becket_thomas.shtml https://blog.britishmuseum.org/thomas-becket-the-murder-that-shook-the-middle-ages/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-fantastically-bejeweled-skeletons-of-catholicisms-forgotten-martyrs-284882/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/12/131219-santa-claus-origin-history-christmas-facts-st-nicholas/https://www.history.com/news/who-was-st-nicholas

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