Theories of the Third Kind

In 1934, a self proclaimed Baroness and her lover vanished from Floreana Island in the Galapagos, supposedly aboard a yacht nobody could verify. Within months, three other men were dead, and the surviving settlers told conflicting stories. We investigate the Galapagos Affair, from a bitter love triangle and mysterious deaths to Dr. Friedrich Ritter's ominous letter and the evidence behind one unanswered question: did the missing pair escape, or were they murdered?

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In 1992, researchers reported finding cocaine, nicotine, and THC inside ancient Egyptian mummies, chemicals that shouldn’t have been there. We investigate the controversial tests and the theories behind the Cocaine Mummies mystery, from contamination and unknown plants to ancient trade and possible contact between the Old and New Worlds.

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Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, known as the “Doomsday Glacier,” is destabilizing, while asteroid 99942 Apophis will make an incredibly close pass by Earth in 2029. We break down what a Thwaites collapse, an Apophis impact, and a Carrington-level solar storm could actually do before exploring an undetected black hole traveling through our Solar System and ending with a bonus scenario: full-scale nuclear war.

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In September 1982, seven people around Chicago suddenly died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been secretly filled with cyanide. The killer was never caught, and more than four decades later, the Chicago Tylenol Murders remain one of America's most infamous unsolved crimes.

Then, only a few months after the poisonings, a mysterious man was found dead from cyanide inside a Catholic church in Boise, Idaho. He carried no identification, left behind $1,900 and a note signed with a fake name, and successfully hid his identity for more than 40 years.

He became known as the Unknown Wanderer.

Now, investigators have finally identified him as Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski, an organic chemist whose history with cyanide, pharmaceuticals and the Chicago area has raised new questions about whether the two mysteries could somehow be connected.

In this episode, we go back through the entire Chicago Tylenol Murders investigation, the victims, poisoned capsules, stores, suspects and theories before diving into the strange life and death of the Unknown Wanderer and the new evidence investigators uncovered after finally learning who he was.

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Eight Ecuadorian fishermen vanished. Two other fishing boats were hit by explosive drones. Survivors say armed men hooded and detained them before they were taken toward El Salvador. Then investigators uncovered a mysterious surveillance aircraft, and reporting linked the attacks to a covert CIA operation. We trace what happened to the Fiorella, the men who survived, and the secret operation unfolding near the Galapagos.

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On September 11, 2001, five Israeli nationals were detained after witnesses reported seeing them photographing the burning World Trade Center and behaving strangely. We investigate the men later known as the “Dancing Israelis,” Urban Moving Systems, the FBI counterintelligence investigation, alleged intelligence connections, their controversial TV interview, and what the FBI ultimately discovered about whether they had prior knowledge of 9/11.

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Flock Safety cameras are scanning license plates across America, recording where and when vehicles are seen and allowing law enforcement agencies to search a massive shared network.

In this episode, we investigate how Flock's automated license plate readers (ALPRs) work, what information they collect, how agencies share and search that data, and reported cases of the technology being misused.

Flock says its cameras help police solve crimes and find missing people. Critics warn the same technology could create something far more powerful: a nationwide surveillance system capable of reconstructing where vehicles have traveled.

So how much can Flock really see, who can access that information, and could police track your car across America?

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Using phone records, Apple Watch data, and trial testimony, we reconstruct Patrick and Lindsay Clancy’s timeline on January 24, 2023, including the unanswered questions fueling viral theories about the case. We examine Patrick’s testimony and actions before and after the killings, Lindsay’s postpartum psychosis defense, the 911 call, and the medical and psychiatric evidence surrounding the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

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We go deeper inside the human remains trafficking network uncovered through the Jeremy Pauley investigation. In Part 2 of The Body Trade, we follow additional buyers and sellers, including James Nott and Andrew Ensanian while examining the underground market for human skulls, bones, body parts, and other remains. As the federal cases come to an end, we investigate what happened to the larger community buying and selling human remains, and whether the body trade ever really disappeared.

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Jeremy Pauley’s basement discovery exposed a nationwide human remains trafficking network involving stolen body parts, an Arkansas mortuary, and the morgue at Harvard Medical School. In Part 1 of The Body Trade, we follow the investigation from Pauley to Candace Chapman Scott, Matthew Lampi, Katrina Maclean, Joshua Taylor, Denise Lodge, and Harvard morgue manager Cedric Lodge, uncovering how donated human remains were stolen, bought, sold, and shipped across the country, and how the investigation ultimately led to federal convictions.

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