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Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes

Crime House

Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes explores true stories of belief taken too far: murderous cults, criminal cover-ups, mass manipulation, and the conspiracies that still won't die. Hosted by Vanessa Richardson, three weekly episodes dig into cases like Jonestown, Heaven's Gate, CIA mind control experiments, and…

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Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes

CRIME: The Jamison Family Disappearance

CULT: Aleister Crowley & the Chamber of Nightmares

CRIME: Ed Gein: Two Murders, Three Horror Films

CRIME: Hex Hollow: The York Witch Trial

CULT: The Process Church: Christ and Satan

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Amityville: Hoax or Haunting?

HAUNTED TAKEOVER: Hidden History | The Voynich Manuscript

CRIME: Danny Rolling: The Killer Who Inspired Scream

CULT: Human Sacrifice: The Wicker Man

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Annabelle: The Warrens' Haunted Doll

CRIME: The Astronaut Love Triangle

CULT: The Family: Australia's LSD Cult

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Mandela Effect

CRIME: Britain's First Female Serial Killer: Mary Ann Cotton

CULT: When Prophecy Fails: The Seekers

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Is Anyone Real Anymore? The Dead Internet Theory

CRIME: Victor Lustig: He Sold the Eiffel Tower Twice

CULT: The Church Universal and Triumphant

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Aviation Industry Whistleblowers

CRIME: MH370

CULT: The Rosicrucians

CONSPIRACY: The Mad Monk Who Controlled the Romanovs

CRIME: The Murder That Started World War I: Franz Ferdinand

CULT: The Thule Society: The Secret Group That Birthed the Nazi Party

CONSPIRACY: What Is Denver Airport Hiding?

CRIME: Who Killed JonBenét?

CULT: Power in the Woods: Bohemian Grove

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Did the CIA Invent Modern Art?

CRIME: LSD & Mind Control: Operation Midnight Climax

CULT: God's Drug Empire: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Brazil's UFO Cover-Up: The Varginha Incident feat. Laurah Norton from One Strange Thing

CRIME: Chico Mendes: Killed for the Trees

CULT: The Ayahuasca Cult: Santo Daime

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Ark of the Covenant

CRIME: The Mysterious Murder of Barry & Honey Sherman

CULT: Secrets of Opus Dei

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Pizza Connection

CRIME: $200,000 and a Parachute: D.B. Cooper

CULT: Lords of Darkness: The Hellfire Club

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Princes in the Tower

CRIME: Never Caught: Jack the Ripper

CULT: Blood and Brotherhood: The Yakuza

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Vanishing Fortune: Lost Confederate Gold

Deadly Destinations: Trip of a Lifetime

CRIME: One Bullet, One Nation: The Lincoln Assassination

CULT: Knights of the Golden Circle

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Thomas Jefferson's Secret Family

Deadly Destinations: Into the Wild

CRIME: The Donner Party

CULT: Free Love, Total Control: The Oneida Community

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The MLK Assassination

Deadly Destinations: Death on the High Seas

CRIME: The FBI's War on Black America: COINTELPRO

CULT: Warren Jeffs & the FLDS

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Happiest Place You Can't Leave: The Disney Machine

Deadly Destinations: Paradise Lost

CRIME: The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe

CULT: Skull & Bones

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

CRIME: The Boston Massacre

CULT: The Freemasons

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Who Drew the Nazca Lines?

CRIME: Captain Phillips & the Maersk Alabama

CULT: Pacific Cargo Cults

CONSPIRACY THEORY: China's Bigfoot featuring Maci and Nadoly from GHOSTEAS

CRIME: Griselda Blanco the Cocaine Godmother

CULTS: Colonia Dignidad

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Lemuria the Lost Continent

CRIME: Black Bart the Outlaw Poet

CULT: The I AM Movement

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Bridgewater Triangle

CRIME: The Great Maple Syrup Heist featuring Ashley & Ricky from Crime Salad

CULT: The Breatharians

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Banana Wars

CRIME: The Vampire of Düsseldorf

CULT: Rod Ferrell & the Vampire Clan Murders

CONSPIRACY THEORY: Mercy Brown & the Vampire Panic featuring Dr. Harini Bhat

CRIME: Chandra Levy, Pt. 2

CRIME: Chandra Levy, Pt. 1