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⚡ TESLA: The World's Fair Genius & FBI's Most Secret File ⚡

🏛️ In 1893, Tesla showed 27 million people wireless power at the Chicago World's Fair. Tonight: his complete story from Croatian village to FBI seizure.

🔬 DISCOVER: ⚡ How Tesla's AC system beat Edison & still powers your home 🥚 The mysterious spinning egg that defied physics
💰 Why he tore up a billion-dollar contract 🌩️ Colorado Springs: 135-foot lightning bolts 🗼 Wardenclyffe Tower & free worldwide electricity plan 💣 Why the government dynamited his tower (1917) 📁 FBI seized 80 trunks when he died—20 never arrived

Part of the White City Series exploring World's Fair conspiracies.

🏠 Kansas angle: How Tesla's suppressed wireless power could have transformed rural America decades before power lines reached isolated farmsteads.

From lighting the World's Fair to dying alone while FBI agents seized his papers—this is Tesla's real story, not the mythology.

Perfect for fans of: True crime, conspiracy theories, Tesla documentaries, history mysteries, science podcasts

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⚡ He designed the electrical system that powers everything you own. He died alone. The FBI took his papers. ⚡

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🚜🏔️ EPISODE 13 — "THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN MUFFLER SHOP" — The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer, the Killdozer, and the Town of Granby, Colorado 🏔️🚜

🏪 1992. A man named Marvin Heemeyer buys two acres in a small Colorado mountain town for $42,000 and opens a muffler shop. He is, by every account, the best welder in the area. For a few years, things are good. 🔧

Then a concrete plant goes up next door. The access road is cut off. The dust blows in. The city fines him $2,500 for not connecting to a sewer line he can only reach by crossing land owned by the family that operates the concrete plant — the same family he is actively suing. He pays the fine. He writes one word in the memo line of the check.

That word is: COWARDS. 🚨

⚙️ For the next 18 months, alone, in a rented shed, Marvin Heemeyer builds something extraordinary. A Komatsu D355A bulldozer covered in two layers of half-inch tool steel with a foot of 5,000-PSI concrete poured between them. Bulletproof Lexan over the cameras. Three gun ports. A Barrett .50 caliber anti-materiel rifle. Air conditioning. Food and water. And no door — he seals himself inside with a remote-controlled crane lowering the final armor plate into place. There is no way out. ⚡

🏛️ June 4, 2004. 3:00 PM. The engine turns over. The Killdozer drives through 13 buildings in 2 hours and 7 minutes. The town hall, the bank, the newspaper office, the former mayor's home, the propane tanks, the homes of people who served on the zoning board. Police fire 200 rounds. They use grenades. The governor of Colorado considers calling in an Apache attack helicopter. NOTHING WORKS. The armor holds. The bullets bounce off. ⚰️

The only person who died was Marvin Heemeyer.

Tonight: 👇
🔧 The dispute that lit the fuse — the negotiations, the zoning, the sewer
💰 The Docheff family's account — what the folk hero version leaves out
🎙️ The seven tapes Heemeyer mailed to his brother before he climbed in
🚜 18 months building a war machine in a small town where nobody noticed
🏛️ The rampage — chronologically, methodically, with the planning that made law enforcement's skin crawl
📺 How Ronald Reagan's death the next day washed the story off the front page
🔥 The town's decision to cut the Killdozer into pieces and scatter them
⚖️ The folk hero question that the internet has been fighting about for 20 years
⚖️ This is not a story about a hero. It is also not a story about a monster. It is the story of a real grievance that grew past every boundary — and a man who was right about some things and catastrophically wrong about what to do about them.

⚠️ A note on care: this episode discusses mental health crisis, paranoia, and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You are not alone. ❤️

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. ☕
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📍 Recorded in Derby, Kansas
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✈️🌲 EPISODE 12 — "SKY KINGS: STOLEN PLANES, BROKEN MINDS, AND THE MAN NAMED BEEBO" 🌲✈️

This episode is dedicated to my father, Fred Harvey — the best father a daughter could ever have. 💙

🛩️ On November 12, 1982, my dad went to work at the Cessna Aircraft Company facility in Wichita, Kansas — and one of his coworkers stole a brand new Citation I jet. The mechanic had no flight training. He flew a proper traffic pattern. He touched down 557 feet short of the runway and walked away. There is no Wikipedia page. No documentary. The story basically vanished — until I called my dad and asked him to tell me what really happened. 🔧

📅 Thirty-six years later, on August 10, 2018, it happened again.

A 29-year-old ground crew employee at Sea-Tac Airport named Richard Russell — friends called him kind, funny, thoughtful — used his authorized access to climb into a 70-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprop. He had never flown a plane in his life. He took off without clearance. He spent 75 minutes in the air over Puget Sound, talking to one extraordinary air traffic controller who tried to talk him home. ✈️

The internet called him Beebo. 💕

Tonight: 👇 🛩️ The 1982 Wichita Cessna theft — a story that vanished from history 👨‍💼 Who Richard Russell actually was — kind, married, struggling 🎙️ The 75-minute ATC conversation that still haunts people 🔄 The impossible question both stories ask 📋 The NTSB investigation and what it found 🔓 The security failure that wasn't malicious — it was a blind spot

⚖️ This is not a story about a folk hero. It is also not a story about a villain. It is a story about what happens when a person crosses an invisible line that nobody saw coming until it was already gone. The system failed Richard Russell — and the same system failed a Cessna mechanic in Wichita 36 years earlier. The question of why is bigger than either case.

⚠️ A note on care: this episode discusses mental health crisis and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988. You are not alone. ❤️

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. ☕

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💋🌹 EPISODE 11 — "THE PINK PALACE AND THE BLACK HOUSE" — The Life, Death, and Enduring Mysteries of Jayne Mansfield 🌹💋

🚗 At 2:25 a.m. on June 29, 1967, a 1966 Buick Electra slid underneath a tractor-trailer on US Highway 90. The most photographed woman in America died in the front seat. Her boyfriend — who had been publicly cursed by Anton LaVey to die in a car accident within a year — died beside her. Her three-year-old daughter, asleep in the back seat, somehow survived. 🌟

You know that daughter as Captain Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU. ⚖️

Tonight: 👇 🧠 The genius behind the bombshell — IQ of 163, five languages, concert violinist 🏰 The Pink Palace and 2,500 newspaper photographs in nine months 💪 Mickey Hargitay, the great love of her life 🦁 The lion attack and the mountaintop ritual that saved her son 🕯️ Anton LaVey, the Black House, and the High Priestess title ⚡ The curse — and the seven car accidents that followed 🚛 The crash, the decapitation myth that wasn't true, and the steel bar that bears her name 👮‍♀️ Mariska Hargitay, the May 2025 revelation, and the documentary that changed everything

⚖️ Jayne Mansfield was not a dumb blonde. She was not a Satanist. She was not a cautionary tale. She was a smart, driven, complicated woman who never got the credit she deserved while she was alive — and who is finally getting it now.

Every truck on every American highway today carries a steel bar named for her. The Mansfield Bar. Saving lives, quietly, every single day. 🛞

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. ☕

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🚀 EPISODE 10 — "We Choose to Go" — THE SPACE SERIES FINALE 🚀

In 1962, the U.S. military fired nuclear weapons at the sky. They called the operation Fishbowl. Several tests failed mid-flight. After 1962, we never tried again. One year later, Kennedy promised the moon.

Tonight, the biggest question this series has been building toward: Did we really go to the moon?

Across 140 minutes, I lay out the case — Apollo 1, the Van Allen radiation belts, the astronauts who don't act like heroes, the deliberately erased original tapes, the technology a current NASA astronaut says "we destroyed," the 6.2 million gallon pool in Houston where they practice "spacewalks," the Hollywood Artemis 2 rollout, the T-minus mystery (NASA = SATAN minus T), and a single Bible verse on Wernher von Braun's gravestone that should stop you cold.

I'm not telling you what to believe. I'm laying out what's documented and asking where YOU stand.

This is the end of the Space Series. Episodes 7 through 10. Operation Paperclip. Walt Disney. Jack Parsons. And now Apollo.

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me.

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🚀🔥 EPISODE 9 — "Babalon Working" — PART 3 OF THE SPACE SERIES 🔥🚀

🎃 Halloween night, 1936. A canyon outside Pasadena, California. A 22-year-old self-taught chemist named Jack Parsons leads a group of Caltech graduate students into a riverbed to test a primitive rocket engine. He calls his team the Suicide Squad. He chose that exact location because he genuinely believed it was a portal to Hell. 🔥

The test works. ✅

That moment is the founding of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA's largest robotic space exploration center. And the man who started it — Jack Parsons — would spend the rest of his short life building the rockets that took America to the moon, while running an occult lodge out of a Pasadena mansion, performing sex magic rituals in the California desert with a former Navy officer named L. Ron Hubbard. 📿

Yes — the same L. Ron Hubbard who would later steal Parsons' girlfriend, his life savings, and start the Church of Scientology. ⚓

Tonight: 👇

🎭 The wickedest man in the world — Aleister Crowley and the religion of Thelema.

🏛️ The Parsonage — naked rituals on Millionaire's Row.

📿 The Babalon Working — what really happened in the desert.

🐀 The con Crowley spotted from across the Atlantic.

🚨 The FBI files. The revoked security clearance. The Israeli rocket job.

⚰️ The 1952 explosion in Parsons' home laboratory. Last words: "But I'm not finished yet."

🌑 A crater on the dark side of the moon, named after a man whose name JPL tour guides reportedly are told not to bring up.

⚖️ Every fact in this episode is documented. Three serious biographies, declassified FBI files, peer-reviewed religious studies scholarship, NASA's own archives. The government didn't hide Jack Parsons. They just stopped talking about him.

This is Part 3 of the Space Series. Episodes 7 through 10. Operation Paperclip, Walt Disney, Jack Parsons, and Apollo. 🚀

I'm Elizabeth Stanton. Thanks for killing time with me. ☕

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📍 Recorded in Derby, Kansas

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In March 1955, Walt Disney put a former SS officer on prime-time TV — and 42 million Americans believed every word.

His name was Wernher von Braun. His war crimes file had been falsified by the U.S. government under Operation Paperclip. And the man holding the microphone — Walt Disney — had been an FBI informant since 1940, a fact only confirmed when his 570-page FBI file was declassified under FOIA.

This is Episode 8 of Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton — Part 2 of the Space Series — and it's the story of the most successful propaganda operation in American television history. Three Disney space specials. President Eisenhower screening them at the Pentagon. Operation Mockingbird quietly running in the background. And one Tuesday night in 1955 that quietly rewired what an entire generation of Americans believed about space.

Then we go to July 1969 — and we look honestly at the Stanley Kubrick / Apollo 11 moon landing theory, the documented NASA-Kubrick connections, and the 2002 French mockumentary "Opération Lune" that fooled millions of viewers worldwide.

We end where every Just Killing Time episode ends — in Kansas. At the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, one hour from Derby, standing in front of a lunar rover replica with wheels woven from zinc-coated piano wire. Go look at it. Ask the question. In this episode:

• Walt Disney's declassified FBI file (1940–1966)
• Wernher von Braun, Operation Paperclip, and the Disney specials
• "Man in Space" (1955), "Man and the Moon" (1955), "Mars and Beyond" (1957)
• Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee
• Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the moon landing theory
• "Opération Lune" — the mockumentary that blurred the line
• The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle, up close, in Hutchinson, Kansas
• Eisenhower, the Pentagon, and the propaganda loop that worked

New episodes weekly. True crime, Cold War conspiracy, declassified history, and the Kansas stories you were never told. 
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Hosted from Derby, Kansas, by Elizabeth Stanton. We don't claim the moon landing was faked. We document who built the story you were told — and let you decide.

🚀 In March 1955, Walt Disney put a former SS officer on prime-time TV — and 42 million Americans believed every word.

His name was Wernher von Braun. His war crimes file had been falsified by the U.S. government under Operation Paperclip. And the man holding the microphone — Walt Disney — had been an FBI informant since 1940, a fact only confirmed when his 570-page FBI file was declassified under FOIA.

This is Episode 8 of Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton — Part 2 of the Space Series — and it's the story of the most successful propaganda operation in American television history. Three Disney space specials. President Eisenhower screening them at the Pentagon. Operation Mockingbird quietly running in the background. And one Tuesday night in 1955 that quietly rewired what an entire generation of Americans believed about space.

Then we go to July 1969 — and we look honestly at the Stanley Kubrick / Apollo 11 moon landing theory, the documented NASA-Kubrick connections, and the 2002 French mockumentary "Opération Lune" that fooled millions of viewers worldwide.

We end where every Just Killing Time episode ends — in Kansas. At the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, one hour from Derby, standing in front of a lunar rover replica with wheels woven from zinc-coated piano wire. Go look at it. Ask the question.

🔍 In this episode:

• Walt Disney's declassified FBI file (1940–1966)
• Wernher von Braun, Operation Paperclip, and the Disney specials
• "Man in Space" (1955), "Man and the Moon" (1955), "Mars and Beyond" (1957)
• Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee
• Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the moon landing theory
• "Opération Lune" — the mockumentary that blurred the line
• The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle, up close, in Hutchinson, Kansas
• Eisenhower, the Pentagon, and the propaganda loop that worked

🎧 New episodes weekly. True crime, Cold War conspiracy, declassified history, and the Kansas stories you were never told. 👻 Join the Time Killers. Send your Time Killer Files to [email protected]. 🌽 Hosted from Derby, Kansas, by Elizabeth Stanton.

⚠️ We don't claim the moon landing was faked. We document who built the story you were told — and let you decide.

In 1945 we hanged the Nazis we caught. Then — quietly, with forged paperwork — we hired the rest.
Operation Paperclip brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II. One of them — Wernher von Braun — wore an SS uniform while 20,000 concentration camp prisoners died building his rockets in a tunnel in Germany. Thirteen years later he was running NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. One of his slide rules now sits in a glass case at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas — an hour from Derby.
This is Part 1 of the Space Series. I walk you from Peenemünde to the Mittelwerk tunnels, through the falsified war-crime dossiers that got Nazi scientists onto American soil in direct defiance of President Truman’s orders, to a Kansas thread that runs through Goddard, Abilene, Hutchinson, and Lenexa. More people died building the V-2 than were killed by it. I want that number in your head before we talk about the moon.
Content warning: concentration camps, forced labor, and Holocaust atrocities.
If the official story has always felt thin to you — good. Let’s go into the tunnel together.

— Elizabeth Stanton, your host
Coming next: Episode 8 — “The Man Who Built the Moon Rocket Loved Mickey Mouse.”

For 30 years, the United States government maintained a fully operational secret nuclear bunker beneath the most famous luxury resort in America — and the entire town of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia agreed to pretend it wasn’t there.
In Episode 6 of Just Killing Time, we go 720 feet underground into Project Greek Island — a 112,544 square foot Cold War relocation facility built to house every single member of Congress while the rest of the country burned. Behind a door marked “Danger: High Voltage Keep Out,” a 28-ton blast door. Beyond that: 1,100 assigned beds, 18 dormitories, a 400-seat cafeteria with fake windows, a decontamination shower, a TV studio with a seasonal Capitol backdrop, and a “pathological waste incinerator” that was in fact a crematorium.
We trace the story from a Kansas boy stuck in Nebraska quicksand in 1919 — a young Dwight Eisenhower on the Transcontinental Motor Convoy — through the Interstate Highway System (whose first completed section was, of course, in Kansas) and into the hillside behind The Greenbrier. We meet Forsythe Associates, the fake TV repair company staffed by Pentagon-cleared intelligence operatives who maintained the bunker for three decades. We sit with the moment the bunker was completed — six days before the Cuban Missile Crisis — and was deemed too dangerous to use. And we follow reporter Ted Gup’s tape recorder onto the hotel manager’s desk in 1992, and Katharine Graham’s response when the White House asked her not to publish: “Don’t worry. We’ll do what we believe is right.”
Somewhere in America right now, there is almost certainly another one. A normal member of Congress, as the Washington Post’s Bill Arkin put it, “knows nothing.”
This is a standalone episode. A boy from Abilene. A grid of Kansas roads running to the horizon. And a bunker under a ballroom that was built for a war that never came.
Sources include: The Nuclear Museum, Civil Defense Museum, The Washington Post, National Archives, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Federal Highway Administration, and Kansas Geological Survey. Full citations on YouTube.
Runtime: approximately 65 minutes   •   Category: True Crime / History / Conspiracy   •   Explicit: Clean
If you’ve ever felt like the official story just doesn’t add up, you’re in the right place. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton unravels true crime cases and the conspiracies lurking beneath them — one uncomfortable truth at a time.