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Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (WIW 8)

EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (World Is Weird 8)
We're always products of the time and place we live in, so when a Southern group of friends got together in the wake of the American Civil War to start a fun club, it’s really not that big a surprise that it quickly transformed into the largest racist organization in the country. We’re talking about the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist group that has been responsible for literally thousands of deaths and violent acts over the years.
But the Klan is not just one thing. It’s had at least three different incarnations and today is a motley collection of power-hungry criminals and grifters who may or may not believe some of the inflammatory and even outlandish narratives that try to bind the turbulent world of white supremacy into a cohesive whole.
As always, though, they can dress up in white robes with silly pointy hoods all they want, but they can’t stop being who they really are, deep down inside. Very often, their ambitions and appetites end up being their undoing.
We look at the three different incarnations of the Klan, how a movie helped revitalize them, the time Superman made them laughing stocks, when Beulah Mae Donald took them to court, some of their symbols, some of their more egregious crimes, and even a Klan-sponsored effort to take over a Caribbean island. 
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02:27 - The Ku Klux Klan (1865-1871) - Fun turns rotten in the Reconstruction South
07:41 - The Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1915-1944) - "Birth of a Nation" & Stone Mountain, brought to you by the letters "k" and "l"
15:36 - Counter-groups: the Knights of the Flaming Red Circle, the All American League, the Anti-Poke-Noses
17:58 - The sad story of Madge Oberholtzer, Superman takes on the Klan
21:16 - Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1950s - present) - Fractured and violent, a incomplete list of victims
26:10 - Karma's a Bitch - Beulah Mae Donald takes on the United Klans of America
30:12 - Jeff Berry is his own worst enemy
34:08 - The Klan is clacked up
35:05 - Klabels of the Klan - A recap, symbols and acronyms
40:29 - Klonspiracies - Operation Red Dog (Bayou of Pigs)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans
Ku Klux Klan - History
“The Birth of A Nation” opens, glorifying the KKK
Reconstruction: The Birth of a Nation - Rewriting History through Propaganda at PBS
Ku Klux Klan at the Southern Poverty Law center
Murdering Madge Oberholtzer: Rape, poison and the KKK
How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
My Boss Was Tarred And Feathered By The KKK
12 Horrific Crimes Committed By The KKK Between 1921 And 2016 
'The People v. The Klan': Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan
They Killed Her Son. So Michael Donald’s Mother Went After the Klan.
Interview with The Ku Klux Klan: Jeff Berry
Jeff Berry at SPLC
SPLC Sues Jeff Berry
Ku Klux Klan - Active Groups (by state) list at ADL (as of 2006)
Racially or Ethnically Motivated Groups: Symbols Guide from the DOJ
Klan symbols and images at the Granger Historical Picture Archive
Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; 3 are stabbed and 13 arrested - 2016 LA Times article
Operation Red Dog, Or 'The Time The KKK Tried To Take Over A Caribbean Island'
Inside Operation Red Dog, The Bizarre And Disastrous KKK Plot To Take Over A Caribbean Nation
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Org Chart - Insidious Institutions

EPISODE 75 | Org Chart - Insidious Institutions
Men with power meeting behind closed doors - an idea that makes some people pretty suspicious.
Perhaps memories of old star chambers, which carried out extra-judicial proceedings, are what worry people. Or maybe it’s just an inherent distrust of powerful people plotting to influence the world and reshape it to their own benefit, which just might also mean to the detriment of the rest of us, the 99%.
We’ll look at four real gatherings and groups, and one proposed international alliance that already has a few real-world components - the Bohemian Grove, Brookings Institution, the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission and CANZUK, including the Five Eyes & Pine Gap.
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02:29 - The Bohemian Grove - A high-end frat party
11:00 - Belizean Grove, Los Rancheros Visitadores, Roundup Riders of the Rockies (3R)
14:00 - Brookings Institution - A 1959 NASA report raises hackles
18:42 - Scott C. Waring looks at Mars, a lot
21:15 - The Bilderberg Conference - So many theories, Daniel Estulin really hates them
28:39 - The Trilateral Commission - Three is a magic number
38:13 - CANZUK - A good idea or racism in new clothes?
40:08 - Five Eyes & ECHELON
43:42 - Pine Gap is Australia's Area 51
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Bohemian Club website
The Bohemian Club in Encyclopedia Britannica
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats by G. William Domhoff
Masters of the Universe Go to Camp: Inside the Bohemian Grove -Spy Magazine article, Nov. 1989
Bohemian Grove: Where the rich and powerful go to misbehave
The Greatest Men's Party on Earth: Inside the Bohemian Grove by John Van der Zee on Amazon
Bohemian Grove's "Cremation of Care" Transcript
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
Alex Jones - Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove on Skeptic Project
Sonoma County Supervisor To Bohemian Grove: Admit That It's Weird, and Sexist
The Belizean Grove--Old Girls' Club Rising
Sotomayor found friends in elite group
Los Rancheros Visitadores article
It's the Ride that Makes the Fun
Verde Vaqueros website
Roundup Riders of the Rockies website
Roundup Riders of the Rockies article
The Colorado Trail - Formative Years Remembered by Bill Lucas
Brookings website
The so-called "Brookings Report"
Brookings Report forum thread on AboveTopSecret
Brookings webpage about the NASA report
Mars sleuths reckon they’ve found an ‘alien statue’ on the red planet
UFO expert claims to have spotted ‘weird elephant-like creature’ on Mars
Religious Aliens? Old Bible in NASA Photo on Mars
UFO Sightings Daily YouTube channel
Brookings Institution on SourceWatch
Brookings president resigns amid FBI foreign lobbying probe
Bilderberg website
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group on BBC
Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory on BBC
Bilderbergers excite conspiracists on Politico
Bilderberg mystery: Why do people believe in cabals?
Bilderberg: the world’s most secretive conference is as out of touch as ever
Bilderberg articles at The Guardian
Bilderberg on SourceWatch
Chantilly Laced: Holding Bilderberg and the Transnational Policy Elite to Account
The Bilderberg File on DeepBlackLies
Bilderberg.org - a green ink website
Daniel Estulin website
Trilateral Commission website
Trilateral Commission document from Congressional Research Service
Dealing with an Interdependent and Fragmented World: The Origins of the Trilateral Commission by Fulvio Drago
Transnational Corporations and Intergovernmental Organizations: The Trilateral Commission paper
Trilateralism edited by Holly Sklar
Is the Trilateral Commission the secret organization that runs the world?
Beware the Trilateral Commission! on WaPo
Trilateral Commission Finds Itself a Bogeyman to Far Right
Trilateral Commission on SourceWatch
Who's Who of the Elite Members of the: Bilderbergs Council On Foreign Relations & Trilateral Commission by Robert Gayton Ross Sr on Amazon
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Jim Marrs on Amazon
The Trilateral Commission (Satan’s Work Shop) on God's Sword of Truth - The Word
Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship
CANZUK International website
CANZUK: a New Commonwealth Superpower?
Current issues the proposed international CANZUK union is facing
Reimagining the Anglosphere
Why ‘CANZUK’ is an absurd fantasy
Backwards, march! Brexit, CANZUK and the legacy of empire
Australia’s Pine Gap ‘hugely important’ to western monitoring of China, says former British spy chief
50 years of Pine Gap
Pine Gap ‘Spy base’ Alice Springs: What you never knew about top-secret facility
Pine Gap’s new spy role revealed
Pine Gap and Five Eyes: what did they know about COVID-19
Five Eyes on the world on Le Monde
Five Eyes on Privacy International
ECHELON on SourceWatch
Pine Gap - Australia - Its Hidden and Covert Secrets on Biblioteca Playades
‘Pine Gap’ Explores One Of The Most Secretive Places In Australia about TV show
Australia's own Area 51: Pine Gap
Hundreds of alien hunters vow to storm ‘Australia’s Area 51’ in raid on top-secret US base in the Outback
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Red Alert - UFOs as Threat!

EPISODE 74 | Red Alert - UFOs as Threat!
Some think UAPs might be a "threat" and there have been a few incidents that might be indicative of intent to harm. Or at least, encounters that we interpret as maybe not so friendly, though that might say more about us than about any glowing orbs flying around in the sky.
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02:45 - Close Call - James Salandin, the Manises UFO Incident 
09:06 - Things Fall Apart - The 1957 Levelland UFO Encounter, the 1976 Tehran UFO Incident, hot in South Africa
12:42 - Mom, I Got a Owie! - The Bruno Facchini case
14:24 - The Falcon Lake Incident, Monte Musinè
21:04 - The Val Johnson Incident, Valensole
23:33 - The story of Dionisio Llanca
24:49 - The Dechmont Woods Encounter
27:48 - The Cash–Landrum Incident
33:56 - The Colares UFO Flap & Operação Prato
39:20 - It's Not You, It's Me - South Africans shoot, the Arequipa UFO Incident
43:33 - Chorwon in the Korean War, the Blue House Incident in Seoul
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
The 1957 Levelland UFO Encounter
Now You See It, Now You Don't by Captain Henry S. Shitlds, HQ USAFE/IHOMP
The Anomaly Foundation Solves the "Manises" UFO Case
Italian Mysteries: The UFO Case of Bruno Facchini on the Hardcore Italians blog
1950 Alien Encounter at Varese, Italy at UFO Casebook
The Falcon Lake UFO Files
54 Years Since Falcon Lake’s Famous UFO Incident
Il Monte Musiné tra storia, tradizione, UFO e viaggi nel tempo
The Strange And Intriguing Val Johnson Case at UFO Insight
Close Encounter Makes Him Famous
Officer suffers after encounter with UFO
The 1965 Valensole UFO Encounter
Occupant Encounter In Argentina on NOUFORS
La historia de Dionisio Llanca, el camionero abducido a la vera de la Ruta 3
The UFO sighting investigated by the police on BBC
Dechmont UFO Monument and Trail on Atlas Obscura
Texas UFO on Unsolved.com
TRANSCRIPT OF BERGSTROM AFB INTERVIEW OF BETTY CASH, VICKIE & COLBY LANDRUM August 1981
Between a Beer Joint and a Highway Warning Sign: The ‘Classic’ Cash-Landrum Case Unravels in the Skeptical Inquirer
Operation Saucer: The Official Search For UFOs That Attacked Brazilians With ‘Light Beams’ In 1977
1977 Colares UFO Flap / Operação Prato
Operação Prato leaked documents
Extraterrestrial Vampires in the Amazon Region of Brazil book excerpt by Dr. Daniel Rebisso Giese
The only man to ever shoot at a UFO
The Peruvian pilot who shot a UFO
When Dozens of Korean War GIs Claimed a UFO Made Them Sick
"UFO appeared over the Blue House in 1976?"
“Blood on my shoulder” 1976 Blue House UFO Incident
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My Chemtrail Romance

EPISODE 73 | My Chemtrail Romance
Planes go by in the sky and leave white trails behind them. Some of us see this and think, wow, ice crystals. Other think it’s a nefarious evil plot to take away our minds or our virility or something else.
As soon as someone starts talking about chemtrails, you sort of know where you stand with them. They're a conspiracy nut and can be easily dismissed. Especially since there seems to be little consensus about what, exactly, the problem with these lines in the sky is. The only thing they seem to be able to agree upon is that it ain't ice and it ain’t good.
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02:22 - You and Me, Watching the Jets - Chemtrailer logic, Coast to Coast AM, don't trust the guvmint
09:54 - Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Theories as to what's "really" going on
10:43 - Weather control - Projects Stormfury, Cirrus, Cumulus, and Popeye, cloudseeding
17:06 - A Monsanto Monopoly - PCBs, Agent Orange and terminator seeds
23:35 - Mind control - Precious bodily fluids
25:03 - Sterilization
26:13 - Changing human evolution, prevent salvation
28:18 - Spreading disease - Covid-19, Carnicom; also preventing salvation
31:28 - It's aliens - Don't look now, it's Nibiru
32:42 - 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky - Skywriting, black rays, volumetric clouds and other "proofs", plus HAARP
38:40 - Every Time It Rains, You're Here in my Head - Cloudbusting, vinegar as a weapon, Sylphs and other Wingmakers
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Aircraft Contrails Factsheet
Conspiracy theories find menace in contrails in USA Today
A brief explainer on the chemtrails conspiracy theory
Incredible contrail made by Boeing 787 – what causes them, and are they part of a global conspiracy? at The Telegraph
Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? at the BBC
What Are Chemtrails Made Of? in Scientific American
Why Do Some Planes Leave Trails in the Sky? from Interesting Engineering
Hot topic: should I worry about chemtrails? from NatGeo
Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 study
H. R. 2977
Environmental Modification Convention at WikiSource
The ‘Chemtrail Conspiracy’ in Skeptical Inquirer
Aircraft contrails - British government webpage
Contrails - An Introduction at Air Force Links
Contrail Facts - Air Force document
The "Chemtrail" Hoax - US Air Force webpage
How to stop a Hurricane
My month with chemtrails conspiracy theorists in The Guardian
Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program paper
Climates of suspicion: ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy narratives and the international politics of geoengineering from Sussex Research Online
Stolen Skies: The Chemtrail Mystery at Earth Island Journal
About HAARP
Contrail Science - chemtrail debunking site
Metabunk website
Tales from the Rabbit Hole podcast
Drought Inducement by Clifford E. Carnicom
Carnicom Institute
Carnicom articles listing
ChemtrailsNews website
Chemtrails entry on Educate Yourself
Chemtrials in Plain Sight slideshow
Topical Resources: Exposing the Foul and the Befouling at the Lust for Life website
Chemtrails Destroyed ! How to Build A Cloudbuster to disperse Chemtrails and Improve the Weather
Vinegar-Wielding Chemtrails Lady Is The Forgotten Masterpiece Of Net Art (And Conservative Camp)
WHALE - They Fear Those With Knowledge and Control Those Without It
CHEMTRAIL POISONING RACKET (Operation Cloverleaf) from Whale.to
Sylphs on Whale.to
Sylphs in Action on the Whale
 
 
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Everywhere Is Haunted w/Bob LeMent

EPISODE 72 | Everywhere Is Haunted
Guest: Bob LeMent, creator and host of the Static Radio podcast and Everywhere Is Haunted YouTube channel
The unseen world is intriguing to many of us, especially those of us embroiled in pop culture. Plenty of people believe in ghosts, spirits, shades, spectres, shadows, phantoms, eidolons, or whatever you want to call them. We talk with Bob LeMent, who runs the Everywhere Is Haunted YouTube channel about ghost hunting TV shows, equipment, theories and a couple of anomalous events that have actually happened to him, one involving the Shadow People and another with a UFO.
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SECTIONS
02:20 - Static Radio pioneers podcasting
05:22 - Everywhere Is Haunted - a ghost hunting YouTube channel with no results, yet
09:29 - Choosing locations - a haunted Taco Bell, a haunted car wash, we are electric
13:37 - The 13 questions, why don't ghosts speak German?, TriState Ghost Patrol
17:31 - Confirmation bias in realtime, opinions of ghost hunting shows, define your "energy"
22:47 - The tech he uses, just how many Americans believe in ghosts, anyway?, maybe ghosts are recordings or EM affecting the brain
28:10 - Bob's encounter with the Shadow People, cat ghosts
38:35 - Bob's UFO sighting
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
Static Radio
Everywhere Is Haunted
Haunted Maps on Google Play
Haunted Maps on Apple 
The Haunted Map on Google Maps
Haunted Places on Google Earth
Roadside Attractions on Google Play
Roadside America on Apple
TriState Ghost Patrol
The Broken Technology of Ghost Hunting
Paranormal Technology: Gadgets For Ghost-Tracking
7 Ghost-Hunting Tools Recommended by Paranormal Investigators
Ghost hunting equipment and how it works, explained by the paranormal pros
No, you can’t detect ghosts with a gauss meter
Americans Believe in Ghosts
2 in 5 Americans believe ghosts are real and 1 in 5 say they've seen one, survey says
57 Percent of Americans Believe in Ghosts — and Many Think There's Paranormal Activity in Their Home
 
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The Starfighter & the Condor (WIW 7)

EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7)
The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror. 
Because the world is weird.
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02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but...
03:32 - Bug, fixes & features
07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany
08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama
14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out
17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane
21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election
23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions
25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA
29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever
32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig
37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor
38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker"
"Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper
Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine
The Rise and Spread of Japan’s Black Dragon Secret Society
The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea
Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times
Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don
Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star’s kamikaze attack in Tokyo
Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com
Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master’s Degree
The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read
The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime
200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America
Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America
30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking
European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’
The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO
Martín Almada on Right Livelihood
How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC
Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams
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Monster Mash - Vampires

EPISODE 70 | Monster Mash: Vampires
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s natural to start think about the supernatural. While superheroes and characters from TV and movies are increasingly popular costumes, it’s very often the classics we turn to when choosing what to dress up as for All Hallow’s Eve.
Vampire is still a popular choice, and the idea of undead blood-drinking fiends frightens some and titillates others. And some people even say that they are, in fact, vampires.
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02:33 - Bela Legosi's Dead - Jure Grando, the 1st recorded vampire; early vampire lore
06:39 - Arnold Paole and more Slavs, vampire panics
12:48 - Darnesses in Life - Bram Stoker gets inspired, Vlad the Impaler, vamps in cinema
17:28 - Dracula tourism in Romania
19:15 - Vampire Blues - Sleeping sicknees, bubonic plague, rabies, porphyria & Dr. Dolphin
23:02 - Love Song for a Vampire - Lifestyle and real vampires, the vamp community
30:59 - The Highgate Vampire Incident - David Farrant & Seán Manchester: vampire hunters, egotists
Music by Fanette Ronjat
NOTE: In the story of Arnold Paole, I refer to the village as Medveda, though some sources have it as Meduegna.
More Info:
The World’s Most Popular Halloween Costumes (2022)
Jure Grando and The First Documented Case of Vampirism in Europe
Croatian ‘Dracula’ revived to lure tourists
Arnold Paole: Serbia's Most Famous Vampire
The True Story of Arnold Paole, Vampire of Meduegna, Serbia
Vampire Panic on the Science History Institute
Vlad the Impaler: The real Dracula
Vlad the Impaler - The ruthless ruler of Wallachia
Transylvania: A Walk in Dracula's Shadow
In the Footsteps of Dracula in Romania: Main Attractions to Visit
Romania wants to sink its teeth into a new Dracula-themed amusement park
Vampire History
Science Behind Vampire Myths on KQED
3 Real Diseases That Influenced Vampire Folklore
The real-life diseases that spread the vampire myth on BBC Future
Vampire links page
The Vampire Project
The Vampire Subculture
Life Among the Vampires in The Atlantic
Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood
Types of People Within the Vampire Community
VampireWebsite.net
Vampire-friendly bars in the US
Atlanta Vampire Alliance [AVA] - A Real Vampire House
Vampirism Forum
The Highgate Vampire – Did a 1970s Nosferatu Stalk a London Cemetery?
The strange tale of the Highgate vampire
The Bizarre True Story of the Highgate Vampire Feud
David Farrant's website
Bishop Bonkers website
Highgate ‘vampire hunter’ dies half a century after supernatural panic gripped community
Hidden Highgate website
Seán Manchester website
Friends of Bishop Seán Manchester website
The Vampire Research Society - founded by Seán Manchester
Kevin Chesham website
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Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans (WIW 6)

EPISODE 69 | Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other Shenanigans (The World Is Weird 6)
The US midterms are coming up and there's lots of chatter about fraud. Are they legit? Has there been fraud and interference in the past? Yes, but not every time foul has been cried. A look at claims and scandals 1792-1982, plus a thumbnail history of American political parties.
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SECTIONS
03:18 - Hail to the Thief - intro
05:14 - 1792 New York Governor's Race
07:47 - 1824 Presidential Election ("Corrupt Bargain")
10:33 - Nullifiers & Anti-Masons in the 1820s & 30s
13:50 - 1838 – The New Jersey Broad Seal War & Cooping (plus Edgar Allen Poe)
18:17 - 1855 – Bleeding Kansas
24:57 - 1860 Presidential Election - A Nation Divides
27:38 - White League, Red Shirts and the Compromise of 1877
36:18 - 1888 Presidential Election (Packs of Five, the Murchison Letter & the Lodge Bill)
42:12 - 1948 Senate Elections in Texas
44:20 - 1960 Presidential Election
47:15 - Unpledged & faithless electors
49:20 - Illinois in 1982
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
October Surprise: Fact or Fiction?
Compulsory Voting on IDEA
8 Most Contentious US Presidential Elections
Voter Fraud on the Heritage Foundation
Voter fraud used to be rampant. Now it’s an anomaly.
Claims of 'voter fraud' have a long history in America. And they are false
Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth paper from the Brennan Center for Justice
The 1824 Presidential Election and the “Corrupt Bargain”
The Nullifiers on American Heritage
Want to find real election fraud? Look at the history of Kansas, United States in 1800s
Bleeding Kansas at Khan Academy
Compromise of 1877
Why Democrats are donkeys and Republicans are elephants
Election fraud Chicago style: Illinois’ decades-old notoriety for election corruption is legendary
The presidential penalty: Why voters so often punish the president in midterm elections.
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Persistent Illusion: Time Travellers

EPISODE 68 | Persistent Illusion: Time Travellers
We are accustomed to thinking of time as a fourth dimension, though Einstein says space and time are really, when you get down to it, the same thing. As he once said, “The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
This makes us wonder – will it one day be possible to travel in time the same way we do in space? If so, one can only assume that, if time travel exists at some future date, there must be some people from our future walking around today, in our present. There have certainly been plenty of claims to that effect.
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SECTIONS
02:21 - Across the Track Blues - The Zanetti Ghost Train
07:01 - August in Versailles - The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, stone tape theory, retrocognition, time slips
12:06 - Air Marshal Victor Goddard
14:41 - As Time Goes By - Mr. Squirrel, the Simpson-Grisby Incident, Bold Street, in Brugges, Regency theatre, Twidders
20:38 - Let’s Do the Time Warp Again - The Aryayek Time Travelling Machine, Madman Marcum, spam in Woburn
27:08 - Let the Bells Ring - The Time Traveling Hipster & other photos, the Expected One, Chaplin's "The Circus"
30:34 - Die Glocke - a Nazi Wuderwaffe
32:39 - The Chronovisor & the Vatican
36:05 - Traveler in Time - John Titor
42:32 - Andrew Carlssin & "Noah"
Music by Fanette Ronjat
LAPSUS LINGUAE: In the Victor Goddard story, I say he flew over Diem Airfield, but it was, in fact, Drem Airfeild. Perhaps I wasn't wearing my glasses, or perhaps I mistyped it. 
MORE INFO:
The mystery of the Zanetti train that disappeared in 1911 that still travels in space and time
Top 10 People Who Claimed to Be Time Travelers
11 Time Traveler Urban Legends That Pretty Much Debunk Themselves
Four Stories of Alleged Time Travellers
Everything You Should Know About The Moberly-Jourdain Incident
Victor Goddard: His time slip story seems very real! Did he really do it?
Mr. Squirrel's Time-Traveling Coin Envelopes
The Liverpool Time Slips and Mysterious Occurences in Bold Street
Twidders by Anita Holmes
Accidental Tourists: Interdimensional Travellers
Eureka! Iranian scientist claims he's invented 'time machine'
Mike Marcum: The man who created the time machine and mysteriously disappeared
The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision
Time Travel Spam
Turn Back the Spam of Time
Does a Photograph Capture a Time-Traveling Hipster?
The best images of time travellers from throughout history
This Conspiracy Says Hitler Had a Secret Anti-Gravity UFO—and the U.S. Stole It
The Missing Time Machine
The Legend Of The Chronovisor, A ‘Time Machine’ Hidden In The Vatican
John Titor: Who was the time traveler that visited Rochester?
The Oral History of John Titor, the Man Who Traveled Back in Time to Save the Internet
Anyone can be fooler of the world
'Time traveller from 2030' shows video of 'Las Vegas in 2120'
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Pixels & Paranoia – Video Game Conspiracies

EPISODE 67 | Pixels & Paranoia – Video Game Conspiracies
From its humble beginnings, the video game industry has expanded from cabinet arcade games to PCs and home consoles. Two-thirds of adults in the US and three-quarters of children play them. It makes more than the film industry, which got to around $21 bn last year; and music, which made almost $26 billion in 2021. Globally, gaming hit $192 bn in 2021 and is expected to break $200 bn this year.
And it should come as no surprise that there have been rumours, urban legends, controversies and even outright conspiracy theories about video games. Games that kill, or carry a curse, or control people's minds, or contain hidden truths that some would prefer remained hidden. 
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VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/__bLJOkZYgw 
SECTIONS
02:36 - Intruder Alert! - Berzerk kills
06:43 - Lavender Town - Pokemon kills
09:32 - The Madden Curse - Fame carries a price
15:50 - Killswitch - A legendary game from Czechslovakia
19:47 - Polybius - Mind control in Oregon
30:20 - Drowned God - Harry Horse, history and aliens
37: 37 - Omikron: The Nomad Soul - A Big Pharma/NWO playbook
40:48 - Resident Evil's Umbrella Corporation and Covid-19
42:16 - Corrupted Blood - A virus sweeps through the World of Warcraft MMORPG
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Video Game Conspiracy Theories by TheHairyGamer (Michael Carter)
The Best Video Game Urban Legends Ever in IGN Southeast Asia
20 Video Game Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Urban Legends to Celebrate Halloween
10 Video Game Conspiracy Theories You'll Start To Believe
10 Video Games Myths & Conspiracies to Keep You Up at Night
30 Video Game Urban Legends: Are They True Or False? on 80s Kids
How Many People Has the Berzerk Arcade Game Killed?
Berzerk: The Killer Arcade Game? on Little Bits of Gaming
Video Game Related Deaths
Pokémon: What Is Lavender Town Syndrome (& Is It Real?) on ScreenRant
Did the 'Madden' cover curse strike again?
The covers of the Madden video game on NFL.com
Secrets & Lies on GamePro
Computerspiele in der DDR (in German)
The Story Of Killswitch, The Creepy Game No-One Has Ever Played on Kotaku
Gamebusters myth 8: KILLSWITCH on GotGame
Polybius on CoinOp.org
Sinnesloschen webpage
Reinvestigating Polybius on RetroBitch
The Polybius Conspiracy on Vimeo
Polybius mockup by Rogue Synapse
Morava Academy on WWASP Survivors
Polybius Conspiracy podcast
Drowned God page on Harry Horse website
Aliens, conspiracy theories, and a forged diary inspired one of the weirdest games of the '90s on PC Gamer
Drowned God on Hardcore Gaming 101
Bandersnatch IRL: Harry Horse & "Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages" in /blackmirror/ Reddit forum
Gamespot interview with Harry Horse
Reality check: Microsoft, David Bowie, Bill Gates, and a creepy video game called ‘Omikron’
Fact check: 1999 'Omikron' video game has no connection to pandemic, Bill Gates
Plaguelands.. - 2005 article on Corrupted Blood Incident
'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior on NPR
The researchers who once studied WoW's Corrupted Blood plague are now fighting the coronavirus on PC Gamer
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