In 1139 The Pope of the Catholic Church, Innocent II, issued a landmark order that would create a fundamental shift in power throughout Europe and the Middle East. The mandate would establish an order of highly trained knights that would answer to no one but the Pope. The order of knights would be formally charged with the safeguarding of pilgrims traveling to the holy land of Jerusalem and the defense of the lands which had been taken during the Crusades. For their service, they were afforded a multitude of privileges. They were given the first choice of spoils of wars fought in the holy lands. They were made exempt from the local taxes of kings and lords. All donations of things like money and land were to be put under the protection of the Pope himself. This order of knights would quickly go on to accrue vast amounts of wealth and resources. Unfortunately, that wealth and goodwill that they amassed for nearly two hundred years could not save them from a violent purge by one of the most powerful monarchs of the time in 1307. Why was the King of France so eager to persecute these holy warriors? What role did the Pope play in their downfall? What legends and stories about this mysterious order have survived to modern-day? This case file, join the Theorists and polish off your ale while in chainmail in...The Knights Templar.
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On the evening of August 21, 1955, a family raced into the Hopkinsville, Kentucky police station to report that their house was under attack by a group of alien creatures. These creatures had appeared to try and gain entry to the family’s home and were seemingly fended off by two of the men who opened fire on the creatures. This event is one of the most harrowing tales of an extraterrestrial encounter within the UFO world. The idea that otherworldly visitors would apparently choose to terrorize a family is chilling. In January of 1998, a TV special aired that claimed to be clear documentation of another family being assaulted by extraterrestrials within their own home. The video, seemingly recorded on a handheld camcorder, was said to have captured the disturbing final hours of the McPherson family who disappeared after the night of November 27, 1997. This case file, the Theorists fall into some freaky found footage in...The Incident in Lake County
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Throughout the world, there are places that have long been thought to be entrances to the underworld. Openings that linked the mortal world to the terrifying domains of demons and devils. In Fengdu, China it’s rumored that two court officials during the Han dynasty had forsaken their posts to seek eternal life and their city became a gateway to the afterlife. In Iceland the prison of Judas is said to be Mount Hekla after its eruption in 1104 A.D. and that the birds that seemed to flock to its eruptions were actually souls of the damned. In ancient Rome, an area where one could broker deals with gods and speak with the dead were often referred to as a Mundus and one of these was a pit near the very heart of Rome known as Lacus Curtius. Not far from the modern-day city of Prague in the Czech republic sits one of these legendary gateways. A place where winged demons were said to take to the skies in search of victims during the night. A place so demonic that it could only be sealed with the construction of an entire castle directly on top of it. This case file, the Theorists “Czech” all the boxes for a demonic haunting in...Houska Castle
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In the early hours of Jan 12, 1975, in Braddock Park in North Bergen, New Jersey local store owner George O’Barski was in his car when the radio suddenly filled with static. Around the same time, a doorman from the nearby Stonehenge Apartments reported seeing strange floating lights. O’Barski would later go on to describe the fantastic encounter he had that night in an interview with known UFO investigator Bud Hopkins. O’Barski recounted how he had seen an object seemingly 30 feet long and floating only 6 feet above the ground. The object landed and humanoid figures emerged from the craft and seemed to collect samples of soil from the ground of the park and then re-embark on the craft lifted back into the air. O’Barski said he returned to the site hours later and was amazed to find holes exactly where the creatures had been. New Jersey is no stranger to UFO sightings and almost exactly, to the day, 6 years prior to Mr. O'barski’s encounter it would seem UFOs had visited in search of something else besides earth just over 20 miles to the northwest over the Wanaque, New Jersey Reservoir. This case file, join the Theorists as they garble some Garden State accents in...The Wanaque UFO Incident.
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To this day, the Roswell UFO incident remains one of the most intriguing cases of an alleged UFO crash and subsequent recovery. The U.S. Military’s explanation and documents that support the claim of a secret military project to monitor atmospheric radiation from nuclear testing are seen, by many in the world of Ufology, as an attempt to continue the 70-year cover-up of what was really recovered on that New Mexico ranch in July of 1947. The common consensus within the UFO world is that some type of alien craft was recovered. What condition it was in and exactly what else was transported to the military base located in Ft. Worth, Texas is still a matter of some dispute. One account, from a firefighter who claimed to have responded to the call of smoking debris, mentioned that not only had he seen military personnel recovering objects from the supposed crash site but also he had witnessed at least 3 unmoving bodies and one still upright and walking around the crash site. In 1995 a 17-minute long film was presented as proof of at least one of those bodies being examined and dissected by military pathologists. While the world at large remained skeptical, this single piece of film has remained controversial and as recently as 2019 continued to maintain its relevance as a piece of modern UFO history. This case file, join the Theorists as they drink up and cut up on the...Alien Autopsy.
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In 1692 the Puritan colonies of North America had fallen on dark times. The colonists had suffered through two devastating wars with Native American and French neighbors which had left much of the Maine frontier a scorched ruin and produced a refugee crisis. The colonies had their charter revoked and a military governor installed. These circumstances had a visible impact on the towns which inhabited the Massachusetts coast. Towns that had seen growing prosperity and had begun to move away from their austere and devout origins. Numerous religious leaders began to see these unfortunate events as an encroaching darkness which signaled God’s displeasure at the colonists' departures from tradition and purity. There was a call for religious and moral reformation, supporters began to search for any way to prove their devotion and regain the favor of their deity. For hundreds of years, there was one well-known way to thin the ranks of the Devil, to identify those who consorted with the Lord of Lies and cast them out. To regain the grace of God it was necessary to find those who were labeled witches and carry out God’s justice. This case file, join the Theorists as they take a peek at the Devil’s little black book in...The Salem Witch Trials.
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On May 24, 2006 Mark Whistler, Steven King, and George Rayburn had run into each other on the eighth day after the disappearance of their mutual friend Rey Rivera. Prior to the 24th, the men had been active in handing out missing person flyers and putting up posters in the downtown Baltimore area. The group decided to check out the parking garage adjacent to the historic Belvedere hotel near where Ray’s vehicle had been found abandoned days earlier. From the top of the seven-level parking structure, Steven and George, looking out onto the roof of the three-floor attachment of the Belvedere Hotel, would see two brown flip flops that would lead them to the discovery of Ray’s body and bring the search for their friend to a tragic close. This case file, join the Theorists as they raise more questions than answers in...The Curious Case of Rey Rivera.
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Thanks for following us over to Spotify! We appreciate it. While we are with Spotify, Afterhours will be included with the regular Case Files In 1906 an American astronomer, by the name of Percival Lowell, began his search for a planet beyond Neptune. Based on calculations from the believed irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, Lowell and his team pursued the possible trans-Neptunian planet that he was convinced lurked on the edge of our solar system.  Unfortunately, Lowell would die before he was able to discover the object of his search was the dwarf planet known as Pluto. In recent years the possibility of another orbiting body has been raised by groups of scientists around the world. Some astronomers believe this object, that could possibly be as large as Neptune, may be orbiting through the Kuiper Belt where the leftovers of our solar system's formation lay. The existence of this shadowy planet is not doubted by those who believe that we will be able to observe it moving through our sky as it will one day pass close enough to Earth to trigger a global cataclysm. This case file, join the Theorists as first they rock, then they roll, then they let it pop, and then they let it go in... Planet X

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In 1957 the U.S. Chemical Corps of Engineers had been producing chemical munitions, using the deadly sarin nerve gas, to fulfill their stockpile requirements set by the U.S. Department of Defense. After filling these quotas, the Chemical Corps pivoted their means of production of VX nerve gas. VX had the sinister reputation of being three times as toxic as sarin when inhaled and almost one thousand times more toxic when absorbed through the skin. With one liter having the theoretical capacity for killing one million people. Many of the men who helped in the development and production of these weapons of unparalleled lethality were former Nazis who, just a little more than a decade before, were building weapons that were intended to be used on Allied soldiers during WWII. But even before Berlin had fallen, many of these scientists who were captured by advancing Allied froces had thrown away their allegiance to the Nazi ideology and professed innocence and ignorance of the multitude of war crimes that happened at the weapons testing and production facilities in Nazi Germany. Each country of the Allies was eager to deal with these devils in order to obtain the secrets of the wonder weapons of the Third Reich. This case file, join the Theorists as they follow the paper trail from Nazi Reichs to Stars and Stripes in...Operation Paperclip
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