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EPISODE 48 | Ice Ice Baby: Songs of Ice & Snow Baby, it’s cold outside. That sentiment is not just part of a kind of rapey Xmas song, but a fact brought about by the ROUND Earth orbiting the sun in the way that it does and tilting on its axis. To mangle a phrase – winter has come. And with winter comes ice and snow, at least at the latitudes closer to the poles. And even here, in this brittle...

EPISODE 47 | What Lies Beneath: The Hollow Earth (Big 'Uns 4) Is our world hollow, possibly inhabited by evil descendants of the Yeti, or malevolent Detrimental Robots, or aliens, or dinosaurs, or Bigfoot, or Atlanteans, or Tarzan, or Neanderthal Batman? Maybe the Arctic has a giant hole leading into the interior, or is really Atlantis or Eden or Avalon or Mt. Meru or Hyperborea, or part of Yggdra...

EPISODE 46 | Fakespiracies: Anyone Can Play! As another holiday season rolls around, there's the looming threat of dealing family & friends who subscribe to this conspiracy theory or that one. Here's a collection of some fake conspiracy theories, #fakespiracy, that you can use to confound those folks, as well as entertain and maybe even educate a bit. From hidden messages about 9/11 in the fil...

EPISODE 45 | Rumours & CTs in the Workplace (Because Reasons 5) Guest: Andrew Brown, co-founder of the Academy of Business Communications Watercooler talk has moved online, so the speed and spread of rumours and conspiracy theories is growing every day, and it's not just inter-office gossip. How do such things take root in a work environment and what can organizations do to address them?  Andrew B...

EPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision It's 78 years since one of the most storied military experiments in history, wherein a whole ship vanished and/or teleported and/or moved through time. And this dovetails with another famous military project at the tip of Long Island that's a grab bag of elements: virus labs, monster animals, Nikola Tesla, Ian Flem...

EPISODE 43 | Conspiracy U with Scott Shay Guest: Scott Shay, author of Conspiracy U , In Good Faith & Getting Our Groove Back ; President of Chai Mitzvah , Chairman of the Board & Co-founder of Signature Bank The academic world is supposed to be a place to open and expand minds, but some professors actively promote conspiracy theories about Israel and the Jewish people that do the exact opposite....

EPISODE 42 | J.K. Rowling & the Gauntlet of Hysteria A secretary got an idea on a train and some years later had created an international entertainment sensation, gaining fame and fortune. A feel good story? Or is she a witch? A Satanist? A spendthrift? A TERF? A transphobe? A spendthrift Satanist TERF transphobe witch? Or maybe she doesn't really exist at all. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer...

EPISODE 41 | Critical Race Theory: Re-examining "Normal" A loose framework for thinking about how America's racist roots permeate many social, legal and political systems has become a flashpoint for the far right. And so a war on ideas has started in the country that holds itself up as the beacon of freedom in the world, led by white, heteronormative cis people, mainly men.  Like what we do? Then...

EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack: Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies A short late night chat in an elevator becomes a flashpoint in a storm of online misogyny; a woman has to hide because she dares critique the depiction of women; a relationship ends, sparking off a campaign of hate against women that lasts for years, and not even the venerable Hugo Awards are safe from the spreading #onlines...

EPISODE 39 | A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques Mystery is all around us - we just need to seek it out. Here are a few offbeat and weird places in the US to go see: some henges, some tiles and some plaques. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee https://www.buymeacoffee.c...

EPISODE 38 | The Dirty Dozen: Medical Misinformation Miscreants For a more visual experience, see the video and dedicated playlist on our YouTube channel . Just 12 people are responsible for the vast bulk of misinformation about COVID vaccines on social media. 12. Are they cuckoo banana pants true believers or just modern day snake oil hucksters endangering people to make a buck? We'll take a look...

EPISODE 37 | Magnificent Desolation: The Moon Landing Was a Hoax (Big 'Uns 3) For images and many videos, check this episode and its dedicated playlist on our  YouTube channel . Yesterday was the anniversary of humans landing on the moon. Or was it? A surprisingly large number of people have their doubts, and they also have all sorts of "proof" as to why the whole thing is hooey. We'll look at som...

EPISODE 36 | The Georgia Guidestones: An NWO Billboard For images and many videos, check this episode and its dedicated playlist on our  YouTube channel . 40 years ago, an anonymous group paid a lot of money to have an odd structure erected in a field in Northern Georgia - a series of stone megaliths with carved inscriptions in several languages. What the heck was it? A message for the survivors o...

EPISODE 35 | A Field Guide to Aliens For images and many videos, check this episode and its dedicated playlist on our  YouTube channel . "The aliens" are not one group, but many, often with competing goals and motivations. Starting back in 1946, the Russians compiled a handbook for elite KGB and SMERSH agents on 58 separate alien races that visit our planet. Some are nice and some are not very nic...

EPISODE 34 | Magic Carpet Ride: UFOs & the New Age For images and many videos, check this episode and its dedicated playlist on our YouTube channel . Many supposed abductees report scary experiences, but some have a counter-narrative: the aliens are friendly and very attractive and really, really into sex. A close encounter of the groovy kind often spawns a lucrative business and/or cult with...

EPISODE 33 |  Kaspar Hauser:The Boy, The Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5) 193 years ago today, a boy stumbled into the Bavarian city of Nuremberg. He was carrying two letters, could barely speak and no one knew where he had come from. Speculations flew about the mysterious young man. Was he of royal blood? Had he been raised by wolves? And was he telling the truth when he said someone wanted to kil...

EPISODE 32 | A View to Vril Did a 19th century novelist accidentally tap into a long hidden truth about an underground race of godlike beings who control an electrical fluid called the Vril? Of course not. But that hasn't stopped plenty of folks from claiming it as fact, including Theosophists, Nazis, New Agers, a race car journalist turned UFO church guru and psychologist Wilhelm Reich (kind of)....

EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc.: MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo Sometimes the crap piles up so high in the UFO world you'd need a flying saucer to stay above it all. And yet, man, these are some good stories! We look at three key events from the 1980s: the Majestic 12 claims, Project Serpo, and the sad & infuriating Bennewitz Affair. And some of the people who might be behind it all. Like what we do...

EPISODE 30 | UFOs in Czecho Guest: Sam Beckwith, editor of Prague Pig Today Conspiracy Clearinghouse celebrates one year of delving into the weird, so we thought we'd celebrate by doing a crossover episode with our sister podcast Prague Times. The UFO thing is not exclusively an American phenomenon, and even here in the Czech Republic, where we're based, there have been plenty of reports and react...

EPISODE 29 | The Notorious M.I.B. One of the most sinister UFO-related phenomena - the Men in Black. Sure, they dress like the Blues Brothers, but they are super creepy and often menacing. And also pretty ineffective. And while they may have been created wholesale by a hoaxer, people have been reporting, and even photographing, them for years. We're releasing this episode a day early to confound t...

EPISODE 28 | Back in Black: BEKs, Black Helicopters, Black Knight & More Black is the new black. We in the West sure seem to have an issue with this darkest of dark shades. It often symbolizes nefarious things, especially in the conspiracy world. Black is the colour of my true love's hair, but it's also the colour of evil black-eyed children, Soviet cars, sinister black helicopters, mysterious sec...

EPISODE 27 | Walk Into My Parlour: Early UFO Abductions For several decades, people have been claiming that they've not only seen aliens in spaceships, they've been taken by them. And the aliens...did things to them. We'll look at some notable cases as well as false memory syndrome, sleep paralysis and alien abduction insurance. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a...

EPISODE 26 | Come On Vaccine! Vaccine Hesitancy & You Science marches on, eradicating debilitating diseases (among other things). However, there have always been some who are skeptical, or even downright hostile, to this. There are lots of reasons: maybe God wants your kid to get sick, the ingredients used are harmful and/or weird, or they have terrible side effects, like giving children autism; t...

EPISODE 25 | The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story (The World Is Weird 4) People love mysteries but also hate them. Unanswered questions drive us crazy, especially when the stakes are high. Like when someone dies. Or when nine people die on the side of a mountain in the dead of winter, found in various states on undress, with unexplainable wounds and missing body parts. The strange and...

EPISODE 24 | Agenda 21: This Land Is My Land A secret international elite plans to depopulate much of the earth, and enslave the rest of it. We know because they keep publishing papers about it. Like Agenda 21, a set of environmental goals created in 1992 and pretty much ignored ever since. This is really a declaration of war against freedom and the first step in the global takeover. And it starts...