The Conspiracy Podcast

www.incogni.com/conspiracyMore than three years after their first episode on the case, Eric, Sean, and Jorge come back to the most famous unsolved skyjacking in American history. On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 and collected $200,000 and four parachutes in Seattle. Then he jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 into the night over southwest Washington and was never seen again.The hosts start with a quick recap of the hijacking, the ransom money found at Tena Bar, and the JCPenney clip-on tie Cooper left behind. Then they get into what has happened since. Researcher Eric Ulis sued the FBI for access to the tie and lost when a federal judge ruled that a necktie isn’t an “agency record.” YouTuber Dan Gryder found a modified parachute rig and a skydiving logbook on suspect Richard McCoy Jr.’s family property in North Carolina. The FBI kept the rig for two years and then handed it back without explanation. New FBI file releases brought up decades-old suspects and showed that Boeing tested the 727 with its rear stairs open in flight back in 1964.The guys rank the leading theories and argue over whether Cooper died in the woods or made it to Mexico. They also react to just how many people have claimed to be D.B. Cooper. With CooperCon this week and the 55th anniversary on November 24, the case is back in the news.For After Hours episodes and bonus minis, join the Patreon at patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast.

https://incogni.com/conspiracywww.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastMount Shasta stands alone in Northern California, a 14,000-foot volcano that has drawn more strange stories than almost any mountain in America. In this VIP request episode from longtime Patreon supporter Anna M., Eric, Sean and Jorge trace the legend of Mount Shasta from the beginning. That starts with the massive landslide that once tore the mountain apart and the Native creation stories of the Sky Spirit and the grizzly bears.From there, the hosts dig into the Lemurians, a tall, robed lost race said to live in a hidden city called Telos inside the mountain and to come down into town paying in gold. They follow the trail of a channeled 1880s book, a mysterious prospector who vanished in 1934 and a self-proclaimed Lemurian princess. Then comes the “I AM” Activity, a crew born from Guy Ballard’s claimed meeting with Saint Germain on the mountain that ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court.The episode also covers UFO sightings and the viral “flying saucer” cloud of 2020, Bigfoot and the Patterson-Gimlin film, climbers who go missing on the mountain and the Emerald Triangle’s Murder Mountain next door. Is Mount Shasta a portal, a lost civilization’s last refuge, or the greatest legend ever written one article at a time?Hear the after-hours conversation and request your own episode at patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastIn 1893, the World’s Fair turned Chicago into a city of electric light, and on 63rd Street a man calling himself Dr. H.H. Holmes was building something very different. In this Halloween special of The Conspiracy Podcast, Eric, Sean and Jorge tell the true story of Herman Webster Mudgett, the New Hampshire farm boy who became a con man, a bigamist and one of the most notorious killers in American history.Eric, Sean and Jorge follow Holmes from medical school, where he learned to cash in on corpses, to the maze-like “Murder Castle” in Englewood. They cover the women who disappeared from his building, the insurance scheme that turned deadly in Philadelphia, and the three children he took across the Midwest and into Canada. They also follow Frank Geyer, the Philadelphia detective who went city to city with the children’s photographs in his pocket until he found what Holmes had done.Then come the conspiracies. Was H.H. Holmes really Jack the Ripper, as his own descendant claims? Did he escape the gallows and flee to South America? Who set fire to the Murder Castle while he sat in a jail cell? Where did the legend of 200 victims come from? And did a curse follow everyone connected to the case? Eric, Sean and Jorge separate the documented crimes from the tabloid legend in a story that’s dark, strange and true.

Direct Channel Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5A3YsZkbstxMfUHHk4zb9tDirect Channel Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-11-stories/id6811119815You spent six years on the Fort Pierce police force, working your way up to detective. Then you became a flight attendant, the job you’d always wanted. On the morning of September 11th, you board United Flight 93 in Newark, bound for San Francisco, with a husband and four boys at home.This is 9/11 Stories, real accounts of the people who lived it, so they’re never forgotten.This is the last 9/11 story on the main channel.Sponsored and Produced by The Conspiracy PodcastYour Host, Eric Racheff

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastNine and a half years after President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden “dead or alive,” Navy SEALs entered a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Thirty-eight minutes later, the most wanted man in the world was dead, and his body was gone within a day. In this final chapter of The Conspiracy Podcast’s 9/11 series, Eric, Sean and Jorge follow the hunt from start to finish, as the War on Terror unfolds around it.The story starts at Tora Bora in 2001, where bin Laden was within reach and walked away. It moves through the Iraq detour, the black sites and the courier whose nickname finally led investigators to a three-story compound with no phone line, no internet and a tall man who paced the courtyard but never let a camera see his face. Then the hosts walk through the raid minute by minute, from the helicopter crash in the courtyard to the competing accounts of who fired the shots, and the White House story that changed in three days.Then come the questions the government never answered. Where is the proof? Why were no photos released? Why did no sailors watch the burial? The hosts rank the theories from believable to far-fetched and open the files from the compound itself, including the details that were never meant to become public.Whatever you believe happened that night, there’s one thing nobody has been shown.

Direct Channel Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5A3YsZkbstxMfUHHk4zb9tDirect Channel Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-11-stories/id6811119815You’re running late. A phone call has put you half an hour behind, and you’re hurrying up Washington Street, trying to hail a cab. You’re forty years old, with a ten-month-old son at home and nearly ten years at Cantor Fitzgerald behind you. Your husband, Greg, is on the 84th floor of the South Tower.You push through the revolving doors of the North Tower and turn toward the elevators. Then the floor jolts beneath you.This is 9/11 Stories, real accounts of the people who lived it, so they’re never forgotten.Sponsored and Produced by The Conspiracy Podcast Your Host, Eric Racheff

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastEight parts. Ten hours. Thousands of documents, hearings, missed warnings and unanswered questions. Now it's time for the hosts to make the call.In the finale, Sean, Jorge and Eric each give an uninterrupted summation of everything the series covered, from the Cold War roots of Al-Qaeda to the morning the towers fell and the years of questions that followed. Patreon members voted on the speaking order. There's no banter and no tangents, just three hosts laying out what they believe happened on September 11th and why.They've spent months in the same evidence, and they've each landed somewhere. Do they agree? Where do they split? And whose case will make you rethink your own?If you haven't heard the rest of the series, go back to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and The Rise of Al-Qaeda, then start at Part 1. The summations build on everything that came before.You decide: Once you've heard all three, join the hosts in the After Hours and vote in the Spotify poll for the one you agree with most.Coming up: The War on Terror and The Hunt for Bin Laden.

Direct Channel Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5A3YsZkbstxMfUHHk4zb9tDirect Channel Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-11-stories/id6811119815Jason Thomas had been off active duty in the Marine Corps for only a few weeks when the morning of September 11th began, and his uniform was still in the back of his truck. By the time the North Tower fell, he had put it on and driven into Manhattan with no orders and no plan, just his training and a city in trouble. Before the day was over, he and another Marine in uniform would walk into a section of the site that rescue crews had been pulled out of, calling into the smoke and listening for an answer.This is the story of Sergeant Jason Thomas.Sponsored and Produced by The Conspiracy PodcastYour Host, Eric Racheff

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastThe Fifth Plane? On the morning of September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 23 sat in a line of jets at JFK, waiting to take off for Los Angeles. It was a fully fueled Boeing 767, the same aircraft type as two of the hijacked planes. Then the ground stop came, and it never left the ground.In Part 7 of the 9/11 series, Eric, Sean, and Jorge dig into the "fifth plane" theory. After a cockpit-intrusion warning came through, Captain Tom Mannello grabbed the crash ax and First Officer Carol Timmons barricaded the cockpit door with their own luggage. Flight attendants reported four passengers in first class who refused food and kept demanding to take off, along with a figure in a burqa they believed was a man in disguise. After the plane returned to the gate and emptied out, a flight attendant says she ran into two men hiding on board. Box cutters turned up on the 767 parked right next to it. The 9/11 Commission Report never mentions Flight 23. More than 20 years later, the FBI still refuses to release its files, citing a pending law enforcement proceeding.The guys also break down the strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. civilian court in connection with 9/11. He was arrested weeks before the attacks while training on a 747 simulator. He pleaded guilty, then took the stand and claimed he was meant to fly a fifth plane into the White House, then called his own testimony a fabrication.Was Flight 23 the fifth plane, or is this hindsight filling in the gaps?

Direct Channel Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5A3YsZkbstxMfUHHk4zb9tDirect Channel Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-11-stories/id6811119815On the morning of September 11th, Genelle Guzman was sixty-four floors up in the North Tower, moving down the stairwell with everyone else, counting floors like everyone else. She made it to the 13th before the tower came down around her. What happened in the twenty-seven hours after that — the dark, the silence, and the voice that stayed with her through it — became a story she's spent twenty-five years trying to explain. This year, for the first time, the rest of the world is hearing it too.