Every week the three of us pick a conspiracy apart on the show. These are the questions people actually type into Google about them, answered from the record: what is documented, what is disputed, and where we land after reading it all.

28 questions so far, each one linked to the full episode it came from.

Famous deaths

The cases where the official cause of death never settled the argument.

What really happened to Bruce Lee?
Cerebral edema at 32, ruled death by misadventure. The fittest man alive took a headache pill and never woke up.

How did Marilyn Monroe die?
Acute barbiturate poisoning, probable suicide. Five hours of that night are still unaccounted for.

How did Princess Diana die?
A 2008 jury called it unlawful killing: grossly negligent driving, and the paparazzi in pursuit.

How did Michael Jackson die?
Acute propofol intoxication, ruled a homicide. His doctor was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

How did Kurt Cobain die?
Ruled a suicide in April 1994. Police have never revised the finding, and the questions have never stopped.

Who killed JFK?
Oswald was charged and never stood trial. Sixty years on, even our three hosts do not agree.

People who vanished

Disappearances where the search itself became the story.

What happened to Amelia Earhart?
Gone over the Pacific in 1937 with her navigator. No confirmed wreckage has ever been found.

Who was DB Cooper?
Hijacked a plane in 1971, took 200,000 dollars, jumped into the dark. Still unidentified.

What happened to Flight MH370?
239 people aboard, a sharp turn back, then seven silent hours into the Indian Ocean.

What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
115 colonists gone, CROATOAN carved into a post. Most historians read that as a forwarding address.

What happened at Dyatlov Pass?
Nine hikers cut their way out of their own tent into subzero cold. Russia now blames a slab avalanche.

What the government actually did

Some of these were declassified. One of them is not a theory at all.

What was Project MK Ultra?
A real CIA mind-control program, 1953 to 1973. Declassified records confirm it. It happened.

What is really inside Area 51?
A genuine Air Force flight-test site. The U-2 and the SR-71 were born there. The aliens were not.

What really happened at Roswell?
The Army announced a flying disc, retracted it hours later, and named Project Mogul in 1994.

What is the Denver airport conspiracy?
A demon horse, apocalyptic murals, a Masonic capstone and abandoned tunnels. And a very over-budget build.

Crimes and dark chapters

Cases where the record is uglier than the legend built on top of it.

Who was Jack the Ripper?
At least five women killed in Whitechapel in 1888. No forensics, no conviction, and far too many suspects.

What caused the Salem witch trials?
Twenty people executed on spectral evidence, testimony about a vision that no defence could disprove.

Why is Lake Lanier so dangerous?
Submerged roads and buildings, heavy boat traffic, and a flooded town with a violent history underneath.

Lost places and legendary creatures

Where the evidence runs out and the searching keeps going.

Is the Loch Ness Monster real?
A DNA survey of the entire loch found no unknown large animal. The famous photo was a confessed hoax.

Was Atlantis a real place?
One source, Plato, around 360 BC. Most historians read it as philosophy, not geography.

Who built Stonehenge and why?
Neolithic Britons, over 1,500 years, hauling bluestones 150 miles. The why is still open.

What is the Oak Island money pit?
Two centuries of digging, fortunes spent, at least six lives lost, and no treasure recovered.

What is Skinwalker Ranch?
512 acres of Utah desert that went from a family ranch to a billionaire’s laboratory to a TV franchise.

How we know what is real

The questions that are really about who you trust.

Was the moon landing faked?
No. Six crewed landings, returned lunar samples, and mirrors observatories still bounce lasers off today.

Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
Because they stopped trusting the institutions, not because they found new evidence.

What is the Mandela Effect?
Thousands of people remembering the same thing wrong. It says more about memory than about the multiverse.

Are we living in a simulation?
Nobody knows. The serious argument does not even claim we are; it offers three options and picks none.

Is the Bermuda Triangle real?
Not as a danger zone. The Coast Guard and insurers find no unusual loss rate there at all.

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