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The world’s most controversial events, and the complex beliefs behind them. From Bigfoot sightings to bitcoin takeovers, alien landings to assassinations, who’s shaping the narrative — and why? Conspiracy Theories is a Spotify Podcast. New episodes Wednesdays.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Carter Roy turns conspiracy claims into narrative history, tracing the evidence, institutions, and unanswered questions that keep suspicion alive.
Conspiracy Theories starts with a suspicious claim, then reconstructs the history that made it plausible. Carter Roy guides each episode through established events, disputed evidence, and competing explanations, using narrative history to keep the central question clear without…
A teenage queen takes the throne; your inner detective gets three conspiracies to sort through.
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A Cold War portrait of James Angleton, whose hunt for betrayal turns the CIA inward.
James Angleton's story turns on a cold, unsettling contradiction: the CIA counter-intelligence chief hunting enemy infiltration becomes the figure whose mole hunt wounds the agency from within.
A Lusitania theory gains force from Room 40 and the unresolved question of why the ship was not warned.
Conspiracy Theories frames the Lusitania as a flashpoint between a German U-boat attack and America's path toward World War I. The episode is at its best when it sets the sinking against Room 40, the secret British naval operation that broke German military code, read encrypted…
A vanished Chicano activist anchors a tense look at conspiracy, politics, and literary myth.
Oscar Zeta Acosta's disappearance gives this single episode a charged path into Chicano activism, drug use, and the stories that gather around a public figure after he is gone.
A South Pole death tests the limits of Antarctic cooperation and institutional openness.
The episode frames a sudden death at the South Pole as a fight over who had the right to ask questions. Rodney, a scientist whose employer was identified as the National Science Foundation, died at an Antarctic base in 2000, and Stephen Davis follows the uneasy aftermath as a…
A teenage queen caught inside three conspiracies over the crown.
Lady Jane Grey's short reign opens here as the product of a coup shaped by a sick fifteen-year-old king and an adviser trying to hold on to power.
A murder case that keeps widening into surveillance, informants, and official confusion.
The episode begins on February 21, 1965, with Malcolm X being shot, then stays tightly with Officer Gene Roberts, the undercover officer inside the Organization of African American Unity, as he is pressed on what he saw and why he tried to give Malcolm CPR before paramedics…
A grave, patient account of how a public life became hard to separate from danger.
It traces Malcolm X from the white-hooded threat around his family before his birth to the growing political danger that follows his break with the Nation of Islam.
A playful conspiracy setup that turns into a solid science story.
Amy Poehler's octopus joke gives the episode an easy hook, and Carter Roy moves it from a late-night punch line into a steadier look at why octopuses feel so strange.
Phoebe Judge narrates true crime history and interviews the authors who uncovered it.
Dramatized deep dives into American history, from the Galveston hurricane to Harper Lee's Mockingbird.
Dana Schwartz narrates the violent lives of monarchs, warlords, and queens.
Tracy Wilson and Holly Frey narrate overlooked history, from Courbet's realism to IUD regulation.
Mike Duncan narrates Rome's full history solo, from Aeneas to Romulus Augustulus's exile in 476.
This episode explores the history and controversies of fluoride in drinking water, from its origins as a public health achievement to modern debates.
This episode explores the life and assassination of Malcolm X, detailing his early trauma, radicalization with the Nation of Islam, internal conflicts leading to his break, and the conspiracy theories surrounding his murder.
This episode investigates the legend of lost Civil War gold in Dent's Run, Pennsylvania, where treasure hunter Dennis Parada and his son Kem believe they located the treasure.
A crystal can seem harmless.
This episode investigates the 1953 Kinross incident, where a US Air Force jet disappeared over Lake Superior, with UFO theories popularized by Donald Kehoe.
This episode investigates the 1962 Alcatraz escape by Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers, exploring whether they died in the bay or survived with secret lives.
This episode investigates the 1966 mysterious deaths of two electronic specialists found on a Brazilian hill wearing lead eye masks, with clues pointing to UFO sightings, occult rituals, and possible criminal conspiracies.
A pope dies after 33 days.
Fog sat over Lane Cove River.
This episode explores the conspiracy theory that octopuses are aliens, tracing its origins from a celebrity joke to a 2018 scientific paper proposing panspermia.
A murder scene raises the first question.
["Conspiracy Theories profiles James Angleton, the CIA counterintelligence chief who called spycraft \"a wilderness of mirrors.\"", "Carter Roy narrates the episode, and his framing keeps Angleton at the center of the Cold War puzzle.", "The core question is how a Yale poetry editor, orchid grower, and chain-smoking bureaucrat became both a celebrated mole hunter and an institutional brake.", "The story opens in March 1944, when 26-year-old Jim Angleton joins OSS X2 in London during the V2 rocket blitz.", "Angleton's Yale editing work, plus letters with Ezra Pound and E.E.
Conspiracy Theories frames the Lusitania sinking beside Pearl Harbor, the USS Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin, and 9/11 as a possible false-flag pattern.
["Conspiracy Theories examines Oscar Zeta Acosta, the Chicano lawyer and author linked to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and asks who made him disappear.", "Carter Roy hosts the episode, and Anya Cain and Kevin Greenlee appear in a promo segment as the journalist-attorney duo behind The Murder Sheet.", "The episode's job is to separate Oscar Zeta Acosta from Dr.
Stephen Davis argues that Rodney Marks, a 32-year-old Australian astrophysicist at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, died of methanol poisoning in May 2000 and that the National Science Foundation did not properly investigate it.
Conspiracy Theories centers on the 1553 plot to replace Edward VI with Lady Jane Grey, while John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, tries to preserve his power as Mary Tudor approaches the throne.
The episode investigates the destruction of the Georgia Guidestones and the various conspiracy theories surrounding it.
This episode examines the Unabomber case with insights from the FBI agent who helped capture him and a surviving victim.
This episode examines stories of children who grew up isolated from human contact, starting with the controversial memoir of Marina Chapman who claims she was raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle.
An interview exploring the modern UFO disclosure movement, government hearings, and the need to shift from questioning UFO reality to understanding their origin and intent.
The episode investigates the unsolved disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican citizen who vanished in 1983.