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Strange Dark and Mysterious

Watch on Spotify. If you’re subscribed to Spotify Premium, you don’t get any Spotify ads on my video. -- Sign up for your $1-per-month trial today at shopify.com/wartimestories #sponsored -- World-renowned storyteller and retired US Navy SEAL John B. Allen (MrBallen) is well know ... Show More

55m 21s

Apr 17

Strange Things in Museums

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40m 7s

Apr 10

Strange Things on Horno

Camp Horno is a familiar training ground for many West Coast Marines — a place defined by steep terrain, coastal fog, and long nights in the field. But for some who’ve trained there, the experience left behind more than just physical exhaustion. Across multiple accounts from diff ... Show More

37m 8s

Dec 2024

Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 1)

When journalist Tom O’Neill set out to write a simple story on the anniversary of the Manson Family murders in 1999, he was pulled into an investigation that lasted 20 years. In the first part of this two part episode, we explore O’Neill’s findings about Charles Manson's relation ... Show More

40m 38s

Jan 2025

The Mysterious Death of the Manson Family Lawyer

In 1969, the Manson Family disrupted the “Summer of Love” when they murdered multiple people across a two-night span in Los Angeles. After Charles Manson and his followers were caught later that year, one of the strangest and most highly-publicized trials in American history foll ... Show More

30m 11s

Dec 2024

Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 2)

As we dive deeper down the Charles Manson rabbit hole in Part 2, we explore the shocking link between the cult leader, mind control, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As Tom O’Neill concludes his two decade long investigation, we look at the author’s findings th ... Show More

41m 50s

Aug 2024

In The Boys' Club. Life As A Female CIA Operative. Uncut with Brittany Butler

Brittany Butler spent nine years as a targeting officer within the CIA's Directorate of Operations, Counterterrorism Center. Brittany has worked both at Langley and in the Middle East and has first-hand knowledge of how the CIA recruits spies and how intelligence organisations di ... Show More

54m 28s

Sep 2024

Selects: The Manson Family Murders Part 2

Listen in to this classic episode for the conclusion of the story of the Manson Family Murders.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

40m 38s

Jun 2024

Season 3, Episode 8: James & Tom Risen, The Last Honest Man: the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedy's - and one Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

Send a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs in his conversation with authors James and Tom Risen on their important, new book The Last Honest Man, a gripping biography of Idaho Senator, Frank Church. The Risens describe the remarkable events of 1975, when Senator Church almost single ... Show More

52m 20s

Feb 2025

Former CIA Officer: Shocking Email Exposes Identities of UNDERCOVER CIA Operatives | John Kiriakou

John Kiriakou served 15 years in the CIA as a Case Officer and as CIA's Head of Counterterrorism Operations in Pakistan, where he lead the raid that captured Abu Zubaydah. In this interview, we discuss 2 things: the latest on the government buyouts that have been offered to the e ... Show More

19m 35s

Dec 2024

CLASSIC: Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal

Join Ben, Matt and Noel for a Classic conspiracy episode, which only grows more relevant as the years wend on: Across the course of his strange and checkered career, pilot and smuggler Barry Seal was called many things: An informant, a criminal, an asset for America's alphabet so ... Show More

58m 15s

Aug 2024

Selects: The Manson Family Murders Part 1

The '60s ended with a lot of turbulence, not the least of which was the Manson Family Murders. What made Charles Manson so alluring to his family? What makes one person kill for another? And what did The Beatles have to do with it all? Learn all this and more in this first part o ... Show More

46m 37s

Aug 2024

23: The Manson family murders - history of Sharon Tate, Charles Manson + his victims

Sharon Tate was a rising star in Hollywood in the 1960s, but she was also the 26-year-old, pregnant victim of the infamous Manson Murders of 1969. She and seven others were the unlucky random targets of Charles Manson’s murderous escapades. Today on Found Objects, we will explore ... Show More

38m 50s

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