CRIME: Griselda Blanco the Cocaine Godmother
By her early 30s, Griselda Blanco had transformed herself from a poverty-stricken Colombian girl into one of the wealthiest and most feared drug lords in history, architecting a cocaine empire that fl...
19 Jun 39min
CULTS: Colonia Dignidad
In the Chilean wilderness, German preacher Paul Schaefer ran Colonia Dignidad, a walled commune where 300 followers lived under surveillance, forced labor, and daily abuse for decades. In this episode...
17 Jun 41min
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Lemuria the Lost Continent
In the mid-1800s, a British naturalist named Philip Sclater proposed the existence of a vast sunken continent called Lemuria to explain a gap in the fossil record. What began as a genuine scientific h...
15 Jun 36min
CRIME: Black Bart the Outlaw Poet
In 1875, a mild-mannered Civil War veteran named Charles Boles began robbing Wells Fargo stagecoaches across Northern California. He was always polite, never harmed passengers, and occasionally left h...
12 Jun 38min
CULT: The I AM Movement
In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, Vanessa traces how Guy and Edna Ballard built the I AM Movement, a Depression-era spiritual empire claiming contact with immortal "Ascended M...
10 Jun 41min
CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Bridgewater Triangle
In southeastern Massachusetts, a stretch of land known as the Bridgewater Triangle has been a magnet for paranormal activity for centuries: cryptid sightings, UFO encounters, ghostly apparitions, and ...
8 Jun 35min
CRIME: The Great Maple Syrup Heist featuring Ashley & Ricky from Crime Salad
In 2011 and 2012, a small crew of men systematically drained nearly $19 million worth of maple syrup from the world's only strategic reserve, barrel by barrel, night by night, and replaced it with wat...
5 Jun 41min
CULT: The Breatharians
In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, host Vanessa Richardson traces Breatharianism from its fringe origins to a worldwide movement that has been linked to at least six deaths. Be...
3 Jun 41min
