The Uncover Up Conspiracy Cast

In 1803 and 1804, a terrifying menace was stalking the small London district of Hammersmith. In this episode of The Strange Machine, Nathan wanders through the darkened back alleys of history to try to make some sense of it.

That's a wrap! After nine years, the Uncover Up is coming to an end. Thanks to everyone who listened, and keep an eye on this space for a new project

On this episode Lee looks back at the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, and it turns out it's a very human story rather than an alien one.

This is a recording of the talk Lee and Nathan did at the launch party to celebrate "Uncover Up: How to Think Clearly in an Age of Conspiracies". Because it's a live recording, the sound quality isn't totally perfect, and people keep erupting into applause, but it was a fun time.

On this junk drawer episode, Lee looks at the theory that our universe is a hologram and a dancing sickness that swept medieval Germany, and Nathan asks the question: what if there was an American president that couldn't be trusted with nukes?

In the heart of the Cold War, a Soviet spy was woking was way into British intelligence. How far did he get, how much damage was done, and how was he caught? Lee examines the story of Kim Philby, and the infamous Cambridge Five.

On this episode of The Uncover Up, Lee and Nathan discuss the mad (and MAD) logic of the Cold War, and how that internal logic led to some truly bizarre secret schemes and plans. This episode is also available as a video podcast on YouTube (just search for "uncover up conspiracy".

Many of the true conspiracies in history have something in common - they took place amongst the combatants of the Cold War. On this episode, Dr. Shelly Lesher (of the podcast "My Nuclear Life") talks about the mushroom cloud that hung over the head of the world during the conflict, and what a nuclear war would actually look like.

Play ball! On this episode, Nathan and Lee look at the 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal, and talk about the dangers gambling pose to their love of sports.

On this orb-themed episode, Lee and Nathan talk about orbs. They look back at the foo fighter phenomenon from World War II, examine Air Force files from the 1950s about orbs over sensitive nuclear sites, and then look at some of the odd revelations from the recent tranche of files released by the American government.

The American government has released a giant pile of UFO files, and Nathan and Lee and diving in like a couple of hooded mergansers.* On this first of several episodes, they open up FBI files from the 1940s to the 1960s, and encounter pranks, hoaxes, monkeys, sinister plots, panic, and hundreds and hundreds of pages of internal memos.

On this sea-faring episode, Lee and Nathan examine some of the conspiracies surrounding the sinking of the Titanic, and as a bonus look into the Titan submersible implosion.

On this episode, Lee looks at a classic conspiracy involving an American president, wire tapping, dirty tricks, and accountability - the story of the Watergate scandal.

On this clip from David Cooper's "The Last Show", Nathan and David talk about the dystopian future depicted in Black Mirror, and also in our actual lives. They also discuss the dangers of placing bets on real life events.

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the human cost of the scammers who try to sell us false conspiracies.

On this episode, Lee and David discuss the findings of the recent Canadian 2025 UFO report. Also, Lee talks about his own experience with a UFO.

In the summer of 1952, the skies over Washington DC were filled with USAF fighter jets chasing strange radar contacts and weird sightings. On this episode, Lee and Nathan look back the early 1950s, and the complicated relationship the Air Force had with the idea of flying saucers.

If you do a search on eBay for "haunted doll", you'll get an array of glassy-eyed monstrosities and stories promising that you will ruin your life if you buy one. What's going on here? On this episode, Nathan and David Cooper look into the strange economy of buying spirits trapped in children's toys.

On this episode, Lee discusses the shocking war crimes that were revealed by Wikileaks, and what happened to Julian Assange afterwards.

On this interview from The Last Show with David Cooper, Lee talks about how difficult it is to try to fake your own death, particularly when you're a celebrity.

Our information ecosystem is crawling with Ai slop and videos. On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine some of the dangers this poses, as well as some tips to try to keep ourselves from getting fooled and manipulated by them.

We're trying something new! In addition to posting our usual episodes every other week, we're going to start posting some of our radio interviews. This episode on the dangers of gaslighting is from "The Last Show With David Cooper", and you can find David's show anywhere you find podcasts.

Edward Snowden blew the whistle on a program of terrifying overreach by the NSA. Lee is of the opinion that people aren't as worked up by these revelations as they should be, and so on this episode he gets worked up about them..

In December of 1980, something strange happened outside of a Royal Air Force base near Rendlesham Forest. On this episode, Lee and Nathan try to figure out the odd event, in the hopes that they've finally come across proof of alien visitation.

Humans in power try to control other humans, and in turn those humans find ingenious ways to resist and escape. On this episode, Lee looks back at a specific time and place in history - East Berlin during the Cold War - and discussed some of the ways people were able to escape oppression and captivity.