The Conspirators Podcast

In 1957, an odd, soft-spoken man named Ed Gein shocked the nation. What they discovered on his remote farm in rural Wisconsin was the stuff of nightmares, and would go on to inspire many modern horror movies, including Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs. But the true story of Ed Gein, is so much worse.

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For just as long as people were being put on trial for being witches, what is much less known is that people were also being tried and convicted of being werewolves. Hear the stories of these trials, as well as the gruesome tales of some very real murders people believed were caused by werewolves.

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For centuries, there have been people who have believed that the earth is a hollow ball. These stories include practically everything strange and  unusual you can imagine, UFOs, Giants, Atlantis, Bigfoot, Nazis, and government conspiracies. This episode features a special guest appearance by Nathan Lloyd of the Historical Blindness podcast.

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Stories of people who believe they could predict the future have been around for nearly as long as recorded history. Hear the stories of noted prophets, such as the Oracle of Delphi, Nostradamus and the men who may have predicted the sinking of the Titanic and the death of an American pop idol.

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To some people, the Winchester Mystery House is the most haunted house in the world. Was it fear of ghosts that drove Sarah Winchester to build this bizarre sprawling mansion, or was there something else?

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In 1932, Charles Lindbergh's infant son was kidnapped and murdered. To this day there are some people who believe that the man who was convicted of the crime, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, may not have been guilty.

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It's been said that there's a fine line between genius and madness. In 1937, a gifted but mentally disturbed sculptor named Robert Irwin shocked New York City by committing a series of horrific murders. This led to one of the largest manhunts in New York history.

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In 1991, police found the body of 41 year old journalist named Danny Casolaro in a West Virginia hotel room with his wrists slashed. Although investigators were quick to write the man's death off as a suicide, it turns out he was investigating an alleged criminal and covert intelligence organization he called The Octopus.

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The national parks system is sometimes called the greatest idea in the history of America. But there's a dark side to the parks as well. For hundreds of years, people have mysteriously disappeared in the national parks, something that former police officer David Paulides has catalogued in his Missing 411 books. In this episode we discuss some of the creepiest stories, and the legends and history behind those stories.

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Alcatraz. It's the most infamous prison in American history, and it will forever be tied to the most famous prison escape in history as well. In this episode we tell you the complete history of the Rock, from it's early days as a Civil War era military prison, all the way up to the famous 1962 escape by Frank Morris and the Anglin Brothers. Did they drown in San Francisco Bay? Or did they escape until this very day?

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