In Irish folklore there's a story about a creature known as a changeling. This is a kind of fairy who replaces a human child and takes over its life. Throughout history there have been real cases where a child goes missing, only for the parents to get the wrong child back. In this episode I'll tell you about three of those stories. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://web.archive.org/web/20180213025539/https://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-terrifying-disappearance-of-little-pauline-picard/81719 https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/historical-strangeness/pauline-picar ..read more

In October 1979, a riot broke out at a private military school in Miami experienced . The school was vandalized and several students were injured. The strangest part of the story though are the number of students who claimed that the devil made them do it.  Notes: https://jeffmaysh.medium.com/hysteria-high-how-demons-destroyed-the-miami-aerospace-academy-jeff-maysh-5a31b4770f29 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/terror/etc/synopsis.html https://gizmodo.com/in-1979-an-entire-science-class-went-berserk-after-b-1726793143 https://www.grunge.com/32284/bizarre-instances-kids-suffe ..read more

Perhaps it’s not the best-known cryptid, but the Michigan Dogman has crept across the Midwest’s imagination—and embedded itself in the region’s nightmares—largely thanks to a single event in 1987. Was it an attack? A sighting? A mysterious footprint? No, strangers, it was something even more powerful: a voice drifting out, over the radio waves.  Special Thanks: Alvin WIlliams of Affirmative Murder for his vocal talents!  Hosted, written, and researched by Laurah Norton Additional research by Michael Morrill  Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder  Sour ..read more

During the 1950s and 1960s the United States Air Force ran a secret program to investigate the growing number of reports of unidentified flying objects. This is the story of Project Blue Book.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Man-World-Believe/dp/0062484176 https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos https://vault.fbi.gov/Project%20Blue%20Book%20%28UFO%29%20 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/arts/television/project-blue-book-history-true-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentago ..read more

In January 1937, the badly mutilated body of a young English woman named Pamela Werner was discovered near the Fox Tower in old Peking. Her murder would shock the city's residents. And afterwards, nothing would ever be the same in China.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.pamelawernermurderpeking.com/ https://www.amazon.com/s?k=midnight+peking&hvadid=241590146597&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9058221&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=10781687911523190948&hvtargid=kwd-36626949300&hydadcr=15274_10334797&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_8r ..read more

In 1989, a man named Ken Webster released a book titled "The Vertical Plane" in which he made a remarkable claim. He said that just a few years earlier, while living in the quaint English village of Dodleston, he began receiving messages on his BBC Micro computer. What's so strange about that you might ask? Well according to Ken, those messages were coming from a man living on the same property in the 16th century. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.amazon.com/Vertical-Plane-Mystery-Dodleston-Messages/dp/0955983150 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2 ..read more

Thomas Edison has gone down in history as one of our greatest inventors. But toward the end of his life he created one last invention that if it worked, would have changed the world forever. That was when Edison built a device that he hoped could help him talk to ghosts. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristintablang/2019/10/25/thomas-edison-bc-forbes-mystery-spirit-phone/?sh=19fcd629addb https://weirdnj.com/stories/unexplained-phenomena/thomas-edisons-spirit-phone/ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/602456/thomas-edison-nikola-tesl ..read more

There are few names more legendary in the history of science than that of Nikola Tesla. The inventions he created are still in use today. He helped change and power our modern world. Yet he was also a deeply troubled individual, who may have created some inventions that could have destroyed the world as well. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_warcur.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/tesla/ https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Times-Nikola-Biography-Genius/dp/0806539968/ref=asc_df_0806539968/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode ..read more

Listeners, I can hardly believe it, but this is my 200th episode of The Conspirators. So to honor the occasion, I'm providing you some updates in three of the biggest stories I've covered about mysterious individuals whose identities have remained a secret...until now. Recent developments in DNA testing and good old fashioned detective work have revealed the names of these individuals to the world, and I'm going to tell you who they were.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/have-scholars-finally-identified-the-mysteri ..read more

Leap Castle in Ireland is considered by many paranormal investigators to be the most haunted castle in the world, and it's easy to see why. In this episode I tell you all about Leap Castle's bloody history, and about the terrifying discovery that was made in its walls.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.livinginireland.ie/culture-society/a-brief-history-of-ireland/ https://the-line-up.com/leap-castle https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/10-most-haunted-castles-in-ireland/ http://leapcastle.net https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/leap-castle-histor ..read more