The Conspirators is a dark history podcast that takes you deep into the stories your teacher never told you. In each episode your host, Nate Hale, an entirely fictional identity, tells you a story about the darkest and most mysterious moments from history.

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  • Ep. 227 - The Men in Black

    One of the most enduring pieces of UFO folklore involves a group of mysterious dark suited agents who show up to intimidate witnesses into silence. Who are the mysterious Men in Black?

  • Ep. 226 - The Director

    In 1922, Hollywood was rocked by the still unsolved murder of one of its most famous directors, William Desmond Taylor. It’s a story that contains all the elements of a Hollywood thriller: sex, drugs, secret identities and of course, murder.

  • Ep. 225 - The Dead Mountain

    In 1959, a group of nine hikers set off into the Ural Mountains on a winter expedition. Their bizarre deaths would go on to become known as the greatest unsolved mystery in Russian history. For more than sixty years this has remained a mystery, that is until recently when some scientists believe they may have solved it.

  • Ep. 224 - The Walk of Death

    Although we tend to think of mass shooters as a modern day phenomenon, in truth these deranged individuals have been around for a lot longer than you think. In this episode I tell you the story of Howard Unruh, who in 1949 strolled through his Camden, New Jersey neighborhood and murdered 13 people in just as many minutes.scription goes here

  • Ep. 223 - The Matrix

    Are we living in the Matrix? What is reality? Many scientists, philosophers and mathematicians believe in the simulation theory, the idea that everything you see, hear, touch, smell and feel is all just a computer generated simulation of what you think is real life. In this episode we explore the evidence and try to figure out if everything is real...isn't. Hear the story of the tech company executive who died mysteriously and her disturbing final words. Hear the stories about glitches in the matrix, the Mandela Effect, and the mathematical evidence that points to us all being part of some massive computer generated illusion.

  • Ep. 222 - The Bell Witch

    The story of the Bell Witch has been called the greatest ghost story in American history. During the 1800s the Bell family moved to a farm in Tennessee, and were soon terrorized by an invisible entity. In this episode we delve into the legend and try to figure out how much we should believe.

  • Ep. 221 - The Pied Piper

    In 1936, an English schoolteacher led a group of 27 boys on a hiking tour of Germany. What happened next was a horrible tragedy, that turned into a public relations coup for the Nazi regime.

  • Ep. 220 - The Skyjacker - Pt. 2

    In part 2 of this 2-part series, I tell you about some of the most popular suspects in the D.B. Cooper mystery. I also bring you up to date on the latest developments in the case.

  • Ep. 219 - The Skyjacker - Pt. 1

    In part 1 of this 2-part series I take you through the most daring unsolved skyjacking in history, the story of the man everyone came to know as D.B. Cooper.

  • Ep. 218 - The Halloween Anthology

    In this episode I bring you four ghostly urban legends from around the world, including the true story behind Candyman, and the most haunted house in America.

  • Ep. 217 - The Half-Hanged

    The stories of the extreme measures people took to punish witches, including the story of the Salem Witch Trials.

  • Ep. 216 - The Mesa (Part 2)

    Did the U.S. government gaslight a man into believing aliens were invading earth?

  • Ep. 215 - The Mesa (Part 1)

    Is there a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico where aliens perform horrific experiments on people?

  • Ep. 214 - The Last Pirate

    Meet Albert W. Hicks, the vicious murderer who became the last man publicly executed for piracy in America.

  • Ep. 213 - The Second Sight

    The murders of John and Nancy Bosco. Did psychic visions help solve the crime?

  • Ep. 212 - The Alaska Triangle

    In this episode we dive deep into the mysterious region of Alaska where thousands of people have gone missing.

  • Ep. 211 - The Curse of the Dragon

    The mysterious death of Bruce Lee.

  • Ep. 210 - The Reverend, the Choir Girl and the Pig Woman

    The sordid and twisted story of the Hall-Mills murders.

  • The Illuminati

    Ep. 209 - The Illuminati

    The true story behind the most infamous secret society in history.

  • The Hope Diamond

    Ep. 208 - The Hope Diamond

    The bloody story behind the most infamous cursed gem in the world.

  • Ep 207 - The Wrong Child

    Ep. 207 - The Wrong Child

    Three stories of parents whose children went missing, only to receive the wrong child back.

  • Ep. 206 - The Miami Ouija Riot

    Ep. 206 - The Miami Ouija Riot

    The bizarre story of a riot that broke out in a Miami military academy in 1979. Students and teachers who were there that day claim that the Devil made them do it.

  • Ep. 205 - The Real X-Files

    Ep. 205 - The Real X-Files

    The true story of Project Blue Book, the first official U.S. Air Force investigation into the UFO phenomenon.

  • Ep. 204 - The Last Murder in Old Peking

    Ep. 204 - The Last Murder in Old Peking

    In January 1937, the badly mutilated body of a young English woman was found near the Fox Tower in old Peking. Her murder would shock the city, and afterwards, nothing would ever be the same again in China.

  • Ep. 203 - The Dodleston Messages

    Ep. 203 - The Dodleston Messages

    In 1989, a man named Ken Webster released a book titled “The Vertical Plane” in which he made the remarkable claim that a few years earlier, he was able to communicate with a man living in the 16th century through an old BBC Micro computer.

  • Ep. 202 - The Ghost Phone

    Ep. 202 - The Ghost Phone

    Toward the end of his life, Thomas Edison began working on one last invention that would have changed the world forever, a device that would let him talk to ghosts.

  • Ep. 201 - The Magician

    Ep. 201 - The Magician

    There are few names more legendary in the history of science than Nikola Tesla. The inventions he created are still in use today. His work has had a profound effect on our everyday lives. Some people claim that some of his inventions could have destroyed the world.

  • Ep. 200 - The Answers

    Ep. 200 - The Answers

    In this special 200th episode, I revisit three stories I previously covered about mysterious individuals whose identities we don’t know, until now. In this episode, I’m going to tell you who they were.

About the Host

Nate Hale is the entirely fictional identity of a long-time history fan who grew up on a steady diet of horror movies, Sci Fi, Stephen King books, true crime and all things dark and creepy. It was his love of shows like “In Search Of” and “Unsolved Mysteries” that inspired him to create “The Conspirators”.