Ep. 79 – The Guilty

Did Dr. Sam Sheppard really murder his wife?

In July, 1954, a young Ohio woman named Marilyn Sheppard was brutally murdered in her home. Her husband Dr. Sam Sheppard was tried and convicted for her murder, but did he do it?

Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Man-Verdict-Sheppard-Murder/dp/0679457194/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530985153&sr=8-1&keywords=the+wrong+man+James+neff&dpID=41mkoY1NXPL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/05/us/dna-test-absolves-sam-sheppard-of-murder-lawyer-says.html

Music:

Kai Engel, In the End Everyone Dies, Deserted City, Difference, Silence, Curtains are Always Drawn, Celestial Plains, Heart and Mind

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

Alex Mason, Against Ghost

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason/

Ep. 68 – The High Priestess of Blood

One of the darker aspects of some religions, is ritual human sacrifice. Mexico is one of those countries that is steeped in tradition, but some of those traditions are drenched in blood. Hear the stories of the Aztec empire, which was centered around human sacrifice. And hear about some modern tales of human sacrifice, including a 20th century self-proclaimed high priestess who began her own Mexican cult, and demanded human blood in return.

 

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast

Notes:

http://serious-science.org/human-sacrifice-in-aztec-culture-6995

https://listverse.com/2016/12/20/10-horrors-of-aztec-ritual-human-sacrifice/

http://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/solis-magdalena.htm

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-believers-19890629

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, Home PON VII, Difference, Moonlight Reprise, Nothing, Morbid Imagination

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Alex Mason and the Minor Emotion, Again Alone

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/

Coldnoise

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coldnoise/

Ep. 49 – The Departed

https://audioboom.com/posts/6125284-ep-49-the-departed

A recent National Geographic poll showed that more than 77 percent of the public believes that aliens from another planet have visited the earth at some point in history. It’s disturbing enough when a person vanishes without a trace. But there have been a few cases of mysterious disappearances that defy logic and make you wonder if the truth might come from beyond the stars.

 

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast

Patreon subscribers get access to all sorts of bonuses, including thank you cards, stickers, magnets, T-shirts and exclusive bonus episodes.

 

Notes:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1018462/pg1

The unexplained mystery of Granger Taylor

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-man-who-went-to-space-and-disappeared-the-story-of-granger-taylor

https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4383030/amp/UFO-enthusiast-mysteriously-vanishes-Brazil.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/weird/803839/Granger-Taylor-missing-UFO-alien-abduction-unsolved-Vancouver-Island-Canada/amp

 

The Mysterious Death of Zigmund Adamski: Alien Abduction or Crime?

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, Oneiri, Somnolence, Harbor, Mist and Clouds, Universe in Hands, Morbid Imagination, Difference, Rejecting the Sirens

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

 

Patreon Minisode 1 – The Sultan’s Palace

In New Orleans in the 1800s, a mysterious Turkish Sultan moved into a lavish mansion in New Orleans’s French Quarter. Legend has it that a bloody massacre occurred  and no one knows who did it.

This is my first bonus mini-episode. In the future, these minisodes will only be available to my Patreon supporters.

 

Support us on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast?alert=2

 

Notes:

The Bloody Truth: The Haunted Tale of the Sultan’s Palace

https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/sultans-palace/

 

Music: 

Myuu, Lost World, Into the Depths, Haunted House

 

Ep. 46 – The Kiss of Death

One common legend that appears over and over in many forms throughout cultures around the world, is the legend of the vampire. Listen to hear some vampire stories from history, including the real unsolved murder involving the Atlas Vampire, the vampire serial killer Bela Kiss, and the mass vampire hysteria that happened in 1969 around London’s Highgate Cemetery.

 

Notes:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theunredacted.com/the-highgate-vampire-horror-of-the-dead/

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/justice-story/killer-murdered-24-pickled-corpses-barrels-article-1.1607445

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/what-vampire-graves-tell-us-about-ancient-superstitions/280879/

https://www.google.com/amp/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2016/10/vampires-europe-new-england-halloween-history

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.livescience.com/24374-vampires-real-history.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/the-legend-of-the-alnwick-castle-vampire/amp/

The Vampire murder mystery of Lilly Lindeström

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

All other music from this episode by the ridiculously talented Myuu.

Ep. 44 – The Phantom

In 1946, the town of Texarkana was terrorized by a serial killer who stalked people parked in lover’s lanes at night. This mysterious madman has been the inspiration for countless songs, movies, books and urban legends. This is the true story, of the Phantom Killer, a murderer who has never been caught, even to this day.

 

Notes:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L5MQW2C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Phantom Killer: The Unsolved Mystery of the Texarkana Murders

 

Music:

Kai Engel, Snowfall Intro, Changing Reality, May, Laceration, Tentative Steps

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Naoya Sakamata, Thought Amber, HorrorPiano

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?quicksearch=dexter+Britain+the+tea+party

Myuu, Moonlight Menschen

 

 

Ep. 42 – The Call

Without a doubt the telephone is one of the greatest inventions in human history. But the invention also has a dark side. Listen to hear several true stories from history of unsolved murders, strange conspiracies and a series of phone calls that appeared to come from beyond the grave.

 

Notes:

PD James claims to have solved 1931 cold case murder | Liz Bury | Books | The Guardian

http://www.cracked.com/article_21794_hello-jfks-about-to-die-6-creepiest-anonymous-calls.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herbert_Wallace

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/deadcall.asp

http://gizmodo.com/5052314/la-train-victim-makes-35-phone-calls-from-beyond-the-grave

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/kupcinet.htm

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-19/news/vw-5724_1_phone-call

 

Music:

Philipp Weigl, Not the Streets You Used to Walk Along

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Philipp_Weigl/

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Lee Rosevere, At the Edges of Sleep

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

Myuu, Down the Rabbit Hole, The End is Always Near, On the Chain

 

 

Ep. 39 – The Evangelist

During the early 20th century, America was caught up in a growing spiritualist movement that swept the nation. One hotspot for seances and new religious movements during the 1920s was Detroit. There, a self-styled “Divine Prophet” named Benny Evangelista met a brutal end. He and his entire family were murdered by an unknown assailant wielding an axe.  Here the true story of this bizarre unsolved murder, as well as the story of a man so determined to prove there was an afterlife, that he set in motion a plan to go there in person.

 

Notes:

http://weirddetroit.blogspot.com/2011/10/hauntings-have-been-part-of-human.html

A Ghost Story From Detroit’s Past You’ve Probably Never Heard

http://coldcaseshardcopy.blogspot.com/2011/07/divine-profetil-author-and-private.html

http://benny.weirdlectures.com

http://www.clickondetroit.com/features/st-aubin-street-massacre-1929-detroit-family-murders-still-unsolved

St. Aubin Street Massacre: The Benny Evangelist Family Murders

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Coldnoise, Tale for Mind, Memories, Who We Are, Malaika, Remember

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coldnoise/

Ep. 37 – The Witch Hunters

Throughout history there have been many self-appointed witch hunters who dedicated themselves to wiping out the minions of Satan. Hear the strange stories of witch hunts throughout history, including Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, the Salem Witch trials, and the unsolved murder of the British man who may have been killed in the 20th century for being a witch.

 

Notes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041671/800-year-old-remains-witch-discovered-graveyard-Tuscany-Italy.html

http://www.sawneybean.com/horrors/matthew.htm

Was the 1945 “Pitchfork Murder” of Charles Walton the Result of Occult Activity?

http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/education/

Hex Murder: Pow-Wow Witchcraft in York County, Pennsylvania

 

Music:

Kai Engel, Curtains are Always Drawn, Take a Look Around You, December, January, Tentative Steps

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Myuu, The End is Always Near

Naoya Sakamata, Chemical Afterimage

 

Ep. 33 – The Hex

Logic tells us curses aren’t real. Yet history is full of instances that make you scratch your head and wonder. Hear some of the strange true stories, including the legend of King Tut’s curse, the serial killer who cast a hex on the courtroom that convicted him and the curse of an ancient warlord that some people think may have killed millions of people.

 

Notes:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread758529/pg1

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tut.htm

http://www.livescience.com/44297-king-tut-curse.html

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-myths-legends/ancient-art-magic-curses-and-supernatural-spells-002253

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910504&slug=1281135

http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/jake_bird_hex

Jake Bird: The Strange Story of a Tacoma Serial Killer and the Hex that Made Him Famous

http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/fears-of-curse-foreshadowed-mystery-death/article_d6e7ef60-918c-5054-a2b9-1eed1beb311e.html

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/curse-of-the-mummy/

The Curse of Ax Murderer Jake Bird

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, Floret

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Two__Mild/Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_Two_-_Mild_-_01_Floret

Daniel Powell, Niji

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Powell/

Ars Sonor, Rgrdlzz

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ars_Sonor/

Chris Zabriskie, Cylinder Seven, Cylinder Eight

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/

Myuu, Danger

 

 

 

Ep. 31 – The Tourist Trap

Back in 1912, on a warm June night in the little Iowa town of Villisca, an unknown madman murdered eight people with an axe. Learn the horrifying true story of the Moore family murders, and about the terrible events that put this town on the map.

 

Notes:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders

http://www.villiscaiowa.com/history.php

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8033156

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gallery/news/2014/11/07/13-photos-inside-the-villisca-axe-murder-house/3898221/

 

Music:

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Owl/Fairy_Forest

 

Ep. 23 – The Secret Agent

Long before the Zodiac Killer terrorized southern California, there was another similar string of murders in which a bizarre killer stalked and murdered people at local lover’s lanes then sent taunting, coded messages to the police and newspapers. Although the 3X killer is almost forgotten today, during the 1930s, the unknown man terrorized the entire city of New York, and launched one of the largest criminal manhunts in the city’s history.

 

Notes:

Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity by Jason Lucky Morrow

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R8U35GQ

http://zeldaandfscott.com/post/140032598477/the-agent-3x-murders-part-1

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/fish-eyes-3x-june-1930-chapter-67-article-1.867342

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, Ouecumene Sleeps

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Better_Way/Kai_Engel_-_Better_Way_-_08_Oecumene_Sleeps

Chris Zabriskie, Cylinders

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/2014010103336111

Ep. 20 – The Wych Elm

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 of evil entirely? Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm remains one of the most enduring unsolved murders in British history.

 

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_put_Bella_in_the_Wych_Elm%3F

https://theunredacted.com/the-hagley-woods-mystery-bella-in-the-wych-elm/

http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/10/the-hagley-woods-mystery-who-put-bella.html

Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?

Witchcraft, Nazi Spies and Unsolved Murder

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Laszlo Harsanyi, Witchcraft

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Harsanyi_Laszlo/Witchcraft/

Kai Engel, Past the Lanterns

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Paradigm_Lost/04_-_Past_The_Lanterns

Peter Rudenko, When it Rains, The Undo Spell, and What Follows Me

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Peter_Rudenko/

 

Ep. 12 – The House Guest

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 Unsolved Murders of Hinterkaifeck Farm

The Hinterkaifeck Murders

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Edward_Coneys

Spider in the Attic

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Bosques de mi Mente, Y de Repented de Curaste

https://bosquesdemimente.bandcamp.com/album/trenes-de-juguete

Kai Engel, Oneiri

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/ICD-10/Kai_Engel_-_ICD-10_-_06_Oneiri

Chris Zabriskie, Undercover Vampire Policeman

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Undercover_Vampire_Policeman/07_-_Undercover_Vampire_Policeman_1990

Ep. 10 – The Untouchable

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Ness

http://www.torsomurders.com/

http://www.prairieghosts.com/torso.html

The Cleveland Torso Murders big on history, small on research

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

All other music from this episode was by The Blue Dot Sessions

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/

 

Ep. 6 – The Book of Secrets

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 Strange Case of the Isdal Woman

Norway’s Greatest Mystery: The Isdal Woman

http://theunredacted.com/mystery-of-somerton-man-the-taman-shud-case/

Sorry, The Unknown Man is (very probably) not H. C. Reynolds…

 

Music:

Blear Moon, Cold Summer Landscape

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon/Town_of_Two_Houses/Cold_Summer_Landscape

Blear Moon, Gean

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon/Town_of_Two_Houses/Gean

Chris Zabriskie, Undercover Vampire Policeman

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Undercover_Vampire_Policeman/07_-_Undercover_Vampire_Policeman_1990

Chris Zabriskie, Vices Inherited, Vices Passed On

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear/07_-_Virtues_Inherited_Vices_Passed_On

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Ep. 4 – The Axeman

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 night of reverie in the Big Easy, for this city-wide concert was meant for an audience of one, an axe-wielding maniac who purported to be a creature straight out of hell.

Show Notes:

The Axeman of New Orleans Murders

When Hell Came to Earth: The Axeman of New Orleans

http://blogs.forteana.org/node/70

The Axeman serial killer of New Orleans (1918-1919)

CREEPYPASTA: Does This 1919 Photograph Reveal an Infamous New Orleans Serial Killer?

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Chris Zabriskie, Cylinder Four

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/2014010103336111/Chris_Zabriskie_-_Cylinders_-_04_-_Cylinder_Four

Kai Engel, Morbid Imagination

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_One__Cold/Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_One_-_Cold_-_06_Morbid_Imagination

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Just Gone

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/King_Olivers_Creole_Jazz_Band/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_02172015/Just_Gone_-_King_Olivers_Creole_Jazz_Band

Mark Neil, 11 strANGE Ls

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mark_Neil/Blue/11_strANGE_Ls

Podington Bear, Dark Matter

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Thoughtful/DarkMatter

Scott Holmes, Something In The Distance

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Film__Documentary/Something_In_The_Distance

Scott Holmes, Abandoned City

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Film__Documentary/Abandoned_City

Spin Day, Who

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Spin_Day/Spin_Day_and_the_Emotional_Godfather/Spin_Day_-_Spin_Day_And_The_Emotional_Godfather_-_02_Who

Stephan Siebert, Cecil

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Stephan_Siebert/Inward/Cecil

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