An occult history of post-war politics, deep state intrigue, true crime, and the spooks, gangsters, politicians and outright monsters who've shaped our unnerving reality.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 3 hours 22 minutes
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episode 16: Episode 15 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 2: Yankees and Cowboys
Soaked in DMT and armed only with scissors and tape, we dive into a pile of newsreels and microfilm to piece together a gutter-level account of deep state intrigue in 1930s Amerikkka. FDR contends with a fascist coup to his right and a firebrand popu...
episode 15: Episode 14 - Amerikan Tabloid pt 1: Assimilation
The mafia spread from Sicily to the US in the latter half of the 19th century. Thereafter it began a slow and patient accumulation of power as it carved out a niche for itself in the multi-ethnic underbelly of the New World, until Prohibition turbo-c...
episode 14: Episode 13 - Hollywood Ghost Stories: The Wonderland Massacre
The first entry in our Hollywood Ghost Stories series. We look at the Wonderland Murders and the psychorealm of LA in the early 80s, taking in drugs, Laurel Canyon, porno, Scientology, and the strange, sad death of the 60s counterculture. Com...
episode 13: Episode 12 - Allen Dulles' America and the Early Years of the CIA
We have crash landed in Haunted Amerika and the pale horses are saddled. It is time to ride them into the heart of the psychosphere, to meet the Great $atan face to face. We're kicking off this odyssey with a look at Allen Dulles and the early years ...
episode 12: Episode 11 - Tales From the Graveyard Bunker: Halloween Special
It's the season of the witch baby, so I've set up a mobile truth bunker in the graveyard and I'm in the mood for some tales o' deep state darkness. Let's do it. First we check out the mothman flap in West Virginia, before looking at the Son of Sam ca...
episode 11: Episode 10 - The Years of Lead 2: Peppino Impastato and The 20 Days of Turin
One last visit to Italy before we journey to the USA. Here we consider two stories, one real and one fictional: the life and times of Peppino Impastato, and Giorgio De Maria's work of occult, visionary genius, The 20 Days of Turin. I haven't been abl...
episode 10: Episode 9 - GLADIO ADDENDUM: Britain, the Circle, Spooks, and Subversion
A freewheeling look at the dark heart of the British Establishment, examining the Le Cercle Complex, MI5/6, and the overlapping worlds of spooks and media, politics and business. By no means exhaustive, this is us propping open the door marked "Brita...
episode 8: Episode 8 - God's Banker, the Vatican, and P2 Masonic Lodge
The final episode of the Italy quartet, and the one that's been a long time coming - we look at the dark tale of Roberto Calvi, the Bank of God, corruption in high finance, and a neofascist Masonic lodge. It's a story that will blast your third eye c...
episode 7: Episode 7 - Heroin, the Corleones, the Mattanza
Here it is, the Second Mafia War. In this monster-length outing, we talk mafia politics, heroin trafficking, the real Corleone family, the CIA, Luciano, Lansky, terrorist bombings, massacres, murders, and more. It’s a blood soaked journey through one...
episode 6: Episode 6 - Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta, Camorra
What do we mean when we talk about "the mafia"? In this episode, we go back over 200 years to offer a brief history of Italy's three crime syndicates, touching on politics, economics, Freemasonry and more! **WE HAVE A SHINY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS TOO** gh...