Podcast The Uncover Up

On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine a mysterious and threatening area of the world in their own backyards. Is there something sinister going on in the Great Lakes that's claiming ships, planes, and lives?Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

At the end of the 17th century, the town of Salem accused dozens of people of being part of a massive witch conspiracy, and many of those accused end up being put to death. How could something like this have happened, and could it happen again?Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

If television and movies have taught us anything, it's that good guys won't break under torture, and bad guys confess the truth under torture. As it turns out, television and movies may have steered us wrong on both counts. Continuing their examination of the Witch Hunt disaster, Lee and Nathan discuss how in order to protect an absurd belief, you …

On this "Junk Drawer" episode, Lee and Nathan look at some odd little stories that were interesting enough to discuss, but not big enough for their own episodes. On this edition, Nathan discusses the world's first mass media panic, Lee examines a time there was a conspiracy that almost an entire country was in on, and then Nathan looks at a UFO sig…

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at how the idea of the "witch" started to form in Europe in the 15th century. In particular, they look at one of the most influential books on how to identify, interrogate, prosecute and punish people accused of witchcraft - the Malleus Maleficarum, or the "Hammer of Witches". Humans are dangerous when they're f…

On this episode, Lee and Nathan attempt to go back in time to investigate the Salem witch trials of the late 17th century, and end up going all the way back to Ancient Greece to debate the nature of knowledge and the problem of evil.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

Starting in 2016, American and Canadian embassy workers began to show strange and alarming symptoms. Could it be evidence of a new secret weapon? Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Shelly Lesher from the "My Nuclear Life" podcast try to figure it out...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee and Nathan hang out in 18th and 19th century Europe, where groups of fancy French people are at strange parties, gathered around a steel tank and collapsing into fits. This episode gets a little weird - listener discretion advised.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Shelly Lesher (from the "My Nuclear Life" podcast) discuss the possibility that microwaves could be weaponized into a mind control apparatus that could cause you to hear voices inside your head. Also, there's some discussion of irradiating monkeys, but no monkeys were harmed in the makin…

Was Rasputin a depraved occultist charlatan who lied his way in to the Russian royal family, or a gifted holy man with the divine power to heal? On this episode Lee and Nathan try to answer that question, and also spend a surprisingly long time trying to establish how Rasputin smelled.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

What if there was a third path, an alternative to official religion and scientific rationality? On this episode, Nathan and Lee start their exploration into the hidden world of the occult, and discuss some of the history and the practices that are associated with the modern occult movement. This topic is only going to get weirder from here...…

One of the most important and interesting conspiracy-themed films ever is John Carpenter's 1988 sci-fi masterpiece "They Live". On this episode, Lee and Nathan summarize the plot of the movie, and along the way get into Slavoj Zizek, Plato, ideology, and epic Greek poetry. They also ask the question: what's the appropriate amount of paranoia?…

On this episode, Lee and Nathan take a look at the belief that the world is secretly controlled by reptiles from space that can mimic humans. Their conclusions aren't as reassuring as you might expect...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee and Nathan check into the reservation desk at the world's most sinister airport, and investigate the conspiracy theory that the artwork on the walls of the DIA is hinting at something sinister in the underground tunnels below...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee and Nathan take an investigative look at a couple of examples of people who claimed to be from the future. Then, they attempt to talk about some physics, before finishing off with a few philosophical paradoxes that time travel creates. Also, they get into a discussion of the multiverse. There is another universe somewhere in wh…

On this episode Lee and Nathan discuss the "Brotherhood of Eternal Love" - a group that decided what the world needed was a massive LSD trip to get itself in the right frame of mind. Along the way we discover that, as much as Nathan enjoys discussing octopus and squids, Lee enjoys discussing hashish smuggling even more.…

It's time for another cryptid hunt! This time, Lee and Nathan dive to the bottom of the deep sea to look for the mythic creature that, legend has it, can pull a ship to its doom. They also spend a bunch of time talking about epistemology and the nature of knowledge, because they're nerds.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee and Nathan turn their eyes to the skies to discuss whether there is anything behind the idea that we are being poisoned from above by those little white lines that come out of jet planes...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee investigates the role of Russian intelligence agencies in the 2016 American election, and explains why you should really think twice before clicking on a link in a strange email...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan exorcises the idea that ghosts are manifestations of mental substance that survive after we shed our mortal coils. Boo!Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

Did the American Navy fight flying saucers from the centre of the earth at the South Pole in 1947? That's a complicated question. And it's going to require a complicated answer...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this nostalgic episode, Lee and Nathan discuss the sinister legend of a mysterious video game that appeared in Portland in 1981. Was it real? Was it part of a CIA mind control experiment? What was Lee's high score on Street Fighter II? Two of those three questions will be answered on this episode...…

On this not-cheerful episode, a world-weary Lee and Nathan look back at the history of biological weapons and examine a month in the fall of 1950 in which the American government carried out a massive germ experiment on the people of San Francisco without their consent or knowledge.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan and Lee examine three historical examples of Soviet disinformation campaigns in order to try to help understand our current situation. And they end the episode very concerned about our current situation...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee and Nathan start by trying to explain a recent Facebook disinformation campaign, but they begin the explanation in 1881, and only get up to 1955 before they realize they had accidentally recorded an episode about the history of the KGB...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode Nathan looks back to 2015, a simpler time when thousands were terrified that the American federal government was about to use the US Army to invade Texas and impose martial law. Did it happen? Listen and find out... Also, no. No it didn't happen.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Dr. Alena Papayanis discuss the recent "Free Britney" movement, as well as the disturbing aspects of fame and celebrity. During the episode, Lee goes from being indifferent to pop culture to getting very worked up about pop culture...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this bonus mini-sode, Nathan goes over the recent UFO report released by the Pentagon to see if there is anything in it that gives us any insight into the situation. Surprisingly, there is...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest podperson and nuclear physicist Dr. Shelly Lesher dive into the terrifying logic of the Cold War, as well as some of the bizarre schemes and plans that DARPA funded to try to tilt the deadly game in America's favour.Also, be sure check out Dr. Lesher's podcast "My Nuclear Life", which examines how nucl…

On this episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan discuss the recent UFO encounters by US Navy pilots, and try to figure out which bizarre hypothesis explaining these incidents is the most likely (or the least unlikely).Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan takes a look at an incident in which two F-4 Phantom fighter jets tangled with UFOs in the skies over Tehran, and also begins our investigation into the recent UFO sightings by the US Navy. Things are getting weird up there...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look into one of the classics as they try to figure out why the USS Cyclops and a flight of navy torpedo bombers disappeared into the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. And be sure to subscribe to our Instagram account @theuncoverup where we have some announcements and contests. Also, once we pass 300 subscribers, Nathan h…

On this episode, Nathan looks at the famed inventor and hipster fashion icon Nikola Tesla, in order to ask the questions: Did Tesla build a death ray weapon? And if so, what happened to the plans for it?Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan discuss the nature of belief and the dangers of mind control by investigating a well-known worldwide organization. Is it a religion? Is it a cult? Is it a corporation? Is it a scam? Is it some combination of all of those? This is the first episode we've ever done that has caused Lee to have a month-long panic …

On this episode, the one thing we've always worried about happens and Nathan totally nerds out about Cold War airplanes. He also investigates an incident in 1953 in which two aircrew and their fighter jet disappear over Lake Superior after being sent after a UFO.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan looks back at a time in 1954 in which an American doomsday group who were preparing to escape the Earth in flying saucers was infiltrated by undercover psychologists, who were curious to see what would happen to the members of the group when the doomsday didn't occur. Even by our standards, that's a wild sentence to write do…

On this pop culture related episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan discuss ancient Greek culture and myths, 16th century France, multiverse theory, and several psychological concepts regarding the nature of memory. Also, they talk about "The Simpsons" and ask whether the future can be found in Springfield...…

On this first in a series of episodes about doomsday cults, Lee and Nathan explore the context and motivations for the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway by Aum Shinrikyo. Typically, they also spend an extended amount of time just trying to figure out a good working definition of "cult".…

On this episode, Lee looks back in history at some of the reactions people have had to past immunization efforts, and Alena compares those reactions to what we are seeing today. They also go through some of the claims that have been made about vaccines, and assess them for accuracy.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan, Lee and Alena take a look at the human immune system and how vaccination works. There's a lot of conversation about many kinds of white blood cells, how we react to different forms of evidence, and how we're not great at risk management. Cannibalism comes up, but only briefly.…

On this episode, Nathan examines the time in 1966 when there was a chase between a few police cars and a flying saucer, followed by an Air Force cover up operation. Seriously. This one wasn't just an owl, for a change...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan look into the disturbing question of whether the beloved "People's Princess" was actually murdered on that August night in 1997 by examining the forensic and eyewitness evidence. Along the way, they explore the nature of fame, discuss true love, and Nathan proposes an offensive and scientifically questionable …

On this episode, Nathan examines the story of William Miller, a man who in the 1830s and 40s predicted the imminent end of the world and convinced tens of thousands of followers.Did the world end? Listen and find out...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Lee, Alena and Nathan examine the phenomenon of "QAnon", going into the beliefs, history, precursors, implications, and meaning behind one of the fastest spreading belief systems on Earth.Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan looks into the possibility that there was almost a fascist coup in the early 1930s that could have ended American democracy and installed a dictatorship. Happy election season!Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan investigates several events during the 1940s and 50s in which US Air Force or Navy planes encountered - and in some cases, fought with - unidentified flying objects. It happens more often than you would think...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan look back at the events of September 11th, 2001 to ask the question: were the attacks of 9/11 an inside job by the Bush administration? To answer this, they dive into historical precedent, realpolitik philosophy, and the forensic evidence from the attacks themselves. In the end, they come up with an answer tha…

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the strange (and largely forgotten) events of the Great Seattle Windshield Epidemic, which is more or less exactly what it sounds like. They do mention aliens a little, but mostly this is a Cold War themed episode...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Nathan turns his attention back to West Virginia to investigate the monster seen by seven witnesses in 1952 and encounters the elusive Gray Barker once more...Bởi Kuhnle, Papayanis, Radke

On this episode, Alena, Lee and Nathan look at what happens when large groups of human beings freak the %$#@ out all at once. They discuss ghosts, bugs, anthrax, English seaside resort towns in the 1960s, and the expression Lee makes when he's about to say something that he thinks will get him into trouble...…