The Conspirators Podcast

In 1943, a group of teenage boys in England’s Hagley Woods discovered a woman’s skeleton inside the trunk of a gnarled old wych elm. Was it a bizarre occult murder? Or was it another type... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

P.T. Barnum was many things in life–a showman, a con artist, a politician, and much more. This is the amazing true story of the man who managed to hoax the world. Notes: www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-p-t-barnum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.T.Barnum... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of what happened to Edgar Allan Poe in his final days has endured for centuries. In his final days, the writer disappeared for days, then mysteriously reappeared delirious and lying in the gutter... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For three years during the mid 18th Century, the Gevaudan region of southern France was terrorized by a real life monster. To this day, no one knows precisely what the creature was, or where it... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For centuries there have been stories of people who were buried alive. These are the macabre true stories of people who were declared dead and buried, even though they really weren’t. Notes: https://www.bizarrepedia.com/joseph-burrus/ Supposed... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1961, millionaire Michael Rockefeller disappeared in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Did he drown as the official stories claim? Or did he suffer a much more grisly fate at the hands of native... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say that revenge is a dish best served cold. History has many tales of people who took the act of revenge to a whole new level. In this episode hear the stories of The... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the mid-1870s two of the most prominent paleontologists in the world, Edward Drinker Cope and O.C. Marsh, waged an epic and often ridiculous war against one another. This is the bizarre true story of The Bone Wars.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever been home alone and felt like you were being watched? Here are two stories of people whose killers may have been living with them unaware victims for months. Notes: http://modernnotion.com/hinterkaifeck-murders/ The Mysterious... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During the 18th century in Britain, there was a thriving business in black market body snatching. An enterprising duo named Burke and Hare took the practice to its next logical conclusion, but murdering multiple people... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The true story of the Cleveland Torso Murders, and legendary lawman Eliot Ness’s investigation into the murders. Although officially the killer was never caught, did Ness actually discover the murderer’s identity? Notes: http://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/case-closed- http://www.ifip.com/ness.html http://www.clevelandpolicemuseum.org/collections/eliotness.html... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The strange true story of Jack Parsons, one of the co-founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and fathers of modern rocket science, as well as the member of a black magic sex cult with ties... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The strange true story of The Galapagos Affair. On a tiny tropical island, a self-described “Baroness” mysteriously vanished after running afoul of a small group of settlers. Was it murder? Notes: http://latinamericacurrentevents.com/headless-gringa-of-the-galapagos-islands/32118/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FloreanaIsland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGalapagos_Affair http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/20thcenturylatinamerica/a/09galaffair.htm... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

http://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2014/10/a-man-dug-up-the-corpses-of-29-girls-turned-them-into-dolls-and-lived-with-them-in-his-bedroom/It’s hard to let your loved ones go after they die. Some people find it so difficult, in fact, that they bring their remains home with them. Hear about the true bizarre story of Carol... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Isdal Woman of Norway and the Somerton Man of Australia are two of the most famous unsolved crimes in history. Who were these mysterious people? No one knows. Here are their stories. Notes: The... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1961, an 11-year-old girl named Terry Jo Dupperault narrowly escaped death at the hands of a clever killer who murdered her entire family. Then she was forced to survive on her own clinging to... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the night of March 19, 1919, all the dance halls and bars and nearly every home in the city of New Orleans was blasting jazz all through the night. But this wasn’t any ordinary... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 3: The Heiress In 1968, a Detroit woman discovered she was adopted. Her quest for the truth about her past would lead her down a path leading to an automotive fortune and dark secrets... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psychologists have been experimenting on humans for as long as the profession has been around. But what happens when the experiment goes too far? Listen here and find out about... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Death has always followed the nuclear industry in one way or another. Usually those deaths are accidents, but in some cases it’s murder. Listen to the stories of murdered Russian spies,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices