EPISODE 158 | Nasty NASA: The Challenger and Other Spacespiracies

At 11:38 am  on January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on its 10th mission and 73 seconds later exploded, killing everyone on board. This was seen live on television by millions of people because a civilian teacher was one of the crew. 

At first, it was thought an external fuel tank had exploded. But after a thorough investigation, the real culprit turned out to be a faulty O-ring.

Over the years, more digging would uncover behind the scenes drama, some of which may have led to the disaster. And for some folks, conspiracy narratives started to circulate that the whole thing was fake, the crew was still alive, that it was aliens, that they slipped into a parallel dimension and so on.

Plus, NASA is often the target of conspironauts who think they know what’s “really” going on.

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EPISODE 157 | Bohemian Books: Gigas, Voynich & Soyga

Some very old books have an air of mystery and intrigue about them. Partly, that’s because they are literally hundreds of years old, and partly because of the weird things they contain. 

Today, we’ll take a look at three, all of which have a connection to the Czech Republic and Prague: the biggest book in the world, the Codex Gigas (also known as the Devil’s Bible and which features heavily [no pun intended] in Dan Brown’s latest schlock fest), the utterly baffling Voynich Manuscript, which is not written in any recognizable language; and the mysterious Book of Soyga, which disappeared for nearly 400 years, and some say that if you can decipher the final puzzles in the book, you will die.

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EPISODE 156 | The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters

People have been talking about a supposed water creature in the Scottish Highlands for at least 93 years, possible much longer. Everyone has heard of the Loch Ness Monster, and Nessie is one of the OGs of the cryptid world. But there are plenty of other, similar reports from around the world as well, like Ogopogo, Manipogo, Cressie, Kushii, Nahuelito and even one named Larry.

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EPISODE 155 | Mummy Mia: King Tut's Tomb

Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series

Since its discovery in 1922, the tomb of King Tut has captivated people, with research simply leading to more questions? How did he die? Was he murdered? Was he really born in Arizona and later moved to Babylonia? And is there a curse?

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Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Tomb (2022)

Tut's Toxic Tomb (2022)

Cleopatra: Sex, Lies and Secrets (2020) 

Tut's Final Secrets (2020)

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)

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EPISODE 154 | Forgotten Languages (FL): The Most Interesting Site on the Web?

While researching a previous episode about internet rabbit holes, I came across one that was some big, so complicated, that the entry soon grew into its very own episode. It's called Forgotten Languages, and at first it seems like it's all about ancient languages. But these turn out to be ciphers which, when decoded, reveal a series of interlocking narratives involving transdimensional beings, UAPs, aliens, secretive cabals working at cross purposes, the odd revelation that all humans are gone by the year 3100, and more. 

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EPISODE 153 | Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (World Is Weird 16)

One reason conspiracy theories flourish is that sometimes there really are secrets kept back from the public, only revealed later. Take Broken Arrows - accidents involving nuclear weapons, near-misses that could have become incredibly serious but, fortunately, didn’t. 

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EPISODE 152 | Internet Rabbit Holes (1)

Once in a while, someone comes across a website that creeps them out, or confuses them so much they start to ask others about it and, before you know it, an internet rabbit hole has formed. 

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EPISODE 151 | Global Warming Is Real

Guest: Thomas Schueneman, environmental journalist, founder of the PlanetWatch Group, TDS Environmental Media and GlobalWarmingisReal.com

A chat about some of the more pervasive and commonplace climate change skepticism claims and just some general kvetching about where we are in this conversation these days. 

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EPISODE 150 | Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File

Very often sheer naked greed is hidden behind a glossy finish of virtue, something we can plainly see in the stories of two Gemstones from the conspiracy world – G. Gordon Liddy’s whacked out Operation Gemstone plans to help Richard Nixon get reelected, and the outlandish and complicated Gemstone File, which might be the very first mega-conspiracy.

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EPISODE 149 | Russian Dolls: Rasputin and Blavatsky

Russians are practical, artistic and deeply mystical. And they tend to fall under the sway of strong personalities. Like two people from the past - Rasputin, the so-called Mad Monk, and Helena Blavatsky, founded of Theosophy, which itself is the very root of the modern New Age movement.

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