The Conspiracy Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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?

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast The Conspiracy Podcast continues its deep dive into the September 11th attacks with the second half of its conspiracy theory breakdown. Eric, Jorge, and Sean pick up where the last episode left off, digging into the claims and questions that still surround that day nearly a quarter-century later.This episode touches on the Odigo warning, the August 6th Presidential Daily Briefing, the Silverstein breakfast, the Saudi and bin Laden family flights, the Flight 93 debris field and shootdown theory, the E-Team and Gelitin art residencies, William Rodriguez's story, President Bush at Booker Elementary, and the "Dancing Israelis."As always, the hosts weigh the evidence, question the official narrative, and let listeners decide what to believe.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastThe Conspiracy Podcast begins its deep dive into the unanswered questions of September 11th with the first half of a two-part conspiracy special. Eric, Sean, and Jorge move past the official timeline of the attacks and into the evidence that has fueled two decades of public suspicion — starting with the unusually large put option trades placed against United and American Airlines in the days before the attacks, and what the 9/11 Commission, the SEC, and independent academic research actually found when they investigated.From there, the guys break down the military's posture that morning, including the live NORAD exercises running in real time, the fighter jets pulled toward Alaska, and a coincidentally-timed drill at the National Reconnaissance Office. They dig into the Project for the New American Century's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report and its now-infamous reference to a "new Pearl Harbor," the wave of foreign intelligence warnings that went unheeded that summer, the FBI's missed opportunities with agent Kenneth Williams' Phoenix memo and the Zacarias Moussaoui arrest, and the CIA's handling of hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi in the eighteen months before the attacks.It's a night of following the money, the paper trail, and the chain of command — with the guys openly debating where negligence ends and something else begins.

An off-duty firefighter was on his way to spend the day with his brothers when he heard the news that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. What he chose to do next became one of the most enduring stories of that entire day.Sponsored and Produced by The Conspiracy PodcastYour Host, Eric RacheffTo Donate to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, please visit www.t2t.orgDirect Channel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5A3YsZkbstxMfUHHk4zb9tDirect Channel Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-11-stories/id6811119815

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastJoin the boys as they trace Al-Qaeda's origins from the Soviet-Afghan War to the eve of September 11th, 2001. Hosts unpack how Osama bin Laden and Palestinian scholar Abdullah Azzam built Maktab al-Khidamat, the recruitment network that seeded al-Qaeda's formal founding in a Peshawar house in August 1988 — with just fifteen men on its original roster.The episode connects the dots most true crime and history podcasts miss: how the 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef's uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, quietly financed that attack before becoming the architect of 9/11 himself. Listeners get the full arc — bin Laden's betrayal by the Saudi monarchy during the Gulf War, his exile in Sudan, the alliance with the Taliban, the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole attack — plus a deep dive into the unsettling human details rarely covered elsewhere: the hijackers' bizarre flight school behavior (including an abandoned Cessna left on a Miami taxiway), documented drinking and strip club visits that contradict their professed extremism, and two eerie traffic stops — including one just two days before the attacks — that could have changed everything.The episode closes on the edge of history: September 10th, 2001, with nineteen men in place and no one yet knowing what the next morning would bring.This is essential setup for the show's upcoming four-part 9/11 25th anniversary series, launching later this month.