The Uncover Up Conspiracy Cast

On this episode, Lee looks at a classic conspiracy involving an American president, wire tapping, dirty tricks, and accountability - the story of the Watergate scandal.

On this clip from David Cooper's "The Last Show", Nathan and David talk about the dystopian future depicted in Black Mirror, and also in our actual lives. They also discuss the dangers of placing bets on real life events.

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the human cost of the scammers who try to sell us false conspiracies.

On this episode, Lee and David discuss the findings of the recent Canadian 2025 UFO report. Also, Lee talks about his own experience with a UFO.

In the summer of 1952, the skies over Washington DC were filled with USAF fighter jets chasing strange radar contacts and weird sightings. On this episode, Lee and Nathan look back the early 1950s, and the complicated relationship the Air Force had with the idea of flying saucers.

If you do a search on eBay for "haunted doll", you'll get an array of glassy-eyed monstrosities and stories promising that you will ruin your life if you buy one. What's going on here? On this episode, Nathan and David Cooper look into the strange economy of buying spirits trapped in children's toys.

On this episode, Lee discusses the shocking war crimes that were revealed by Wikileaks, and what happened to Julian Assange afterwards.

On this interview from The Last Show with David Cooper, Lee talks about how difficult it is to try to fake your own death, particularly when you're a celebrity.

Our information ecosystem is crawling with Ai slop and videos. On this episode, Lee and Nathan examine some of the dangers this poses, as well as some tips to try to keep ourselves from getting fooled and manipulated by them.

We're trying something new! In addition to posting our usual episodes every other week, we're going to start posting some of our radio interviews. This episode on the dangers of gaslighting is from "The Last Show With David Cooper", and you can find David's show anywhere you find podcasts.

Edward Snowden blew the whistle on a program of terrifying overreach by the NSA. Lee is of the opinion that people aren't as worked up by these revelations as they should be, and so on this episode he gets worked up about them..

In December of 1980, something strange happened outside of a Royal Air Force base near Rendlesham Forest. On this episode, Lee and Nathan try to figure out the odd event, in the hopes that they've finally come across proof of alien visitation.

Humans in power try to control other humans, and in turn those humans find ingenious ways to resist and escape. On this episode, Lee looks back at a specific time and place in history - East Berlin during the Cold War - and discussed some of the ways people were able to escape oppression and captivity.

It's the end of another year! Which means it's time for the annual trivia party. Also, thanks to all of you for listening, and sharing your time with us. You guys are the best, and we love hearing from you. Email us at [email protected] to say hello, suggest a topic, or to tell Lee how much you enjoy hearing Nathan talk about airplanes

In the early 1500s, the town of Munster was surrounded by enemy soldiers. But inside the town, things were even stranger. On this episode, Lee finally gets to revisit his PhD work, and he explains the background fumes that led to the explosion of the Münster Rebellion

On this episode, Lee and Nathan go back into the CIA files to look into how effective their mind control projects were. Also, it turns out that they have been experimenting on themselves again...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at the TV show "Stranger Things", and dive into the Upside Down to discuss the real-life experiments and projects that inspired its twisted and disturbing universe

In 1933, the German parliament building is set on fire. In the resulting chaos, Adolf Hitler seizes more power and dismantles the safeguards that help prevent democracies from collapsing into dictatorships. In this episode, Nathan and Lee examine the fire and its consequences, and look for lessons that we should probably learn from history to prevent this sort of thing from happening again...

Is the world going to end in December of 2012? This question is slightly easier to answer than most of the rest of their episodes, but Nathan and Lee are joined by Professor Juliana Ramirez Herrera to examine the truth behind the mass panic.

On this episode, Lee and Nathan discuss the complex relationships between anxiety, depression, and conspiracy theories. Also, special guest pod person Tony 5 talks about his own experiences falling down the rabbit hole...

Lee and Nathan are exhausted, and decided to spend a recording session hanging out and asking each other some questions about conspiracies and their experiences with conspiracy research. They cover movies, UFOs, depression, 9/11, the USAF, and a pile of other things...

In August of 1942, a blimp took off from San Francisco to do a submarine patrol. Later that day, it crash landed back in the city with nobody on board... what happened to the crew? On this episode Nathan talks about blimps, which he enjoys but not as much as he enjoys talking about airplanes.

On this episode, Lee takes a closer look at the classic alien myth of the Roswell crash. Then, Nathan takes a look at another explanation for what happened that day - it's stranger, more disturbing, and even more far-fetched...

Something happened in a rancher's field near Roswell New Mexico in the summer of 1947. This is one of the most famous UFO stories of all time, and Lee does a deep dive into the story behind the story...

It's time to empty out the junk drawer. This time, Lee and Nathan find stories about how it might not actually be the year we think it is, a strange flying jellyfish over Eastern Canada, and how the CIA might be spying on you through your video games.

In 1993, hundreds of believers descended into a bunker to wait for a promised nuclear apocalypse. Like all promised apocalypses at this point, it didn't come true. On this episode, Lee, Nathan, and guest podperson Dr. Shelly Lesher climb into the bunker with them, to try to understand what makes someone want the end of the world. Also, they talk about pennies.

At the beginning of 1954, Guatemala had a functioning democracy. By the time the year was over, they didn't. What role did the CIA play in that? On this episode, Nathan and Lee look at OPERATION SUCCESS and the way that it almost resulted in the destruction of the entire world...

In 1970, a book was published that predicted how the end of the world was going to imminently unfold. Did it come true? If you are reading this sentence, it did not. However, on this episode Lee does a deep dive into the text to see if we can get some truth out of a failed prophecy...

There have been rumours since the 1980s of a super fast, super secret spy plane. This is all Nathan needed to hear to launch into an hour's worth of talking about aircraft, while Lee politely listens and occasionally chips in with something relevant.

Amongst some groups of Christians, there is the belief that an event is coming in which some people will be whisked up into the sky to avoid the horrors that are about to unfold on Earth. But is there any biblical support for this idea? And what effects does a belief system such as this one have on the people that hold it?

Many people have the feeling that they're being lied to about the climate change situation. As it turns out, they're right. But who is lying, what are they lying about, and why are they doing it? On this episode, Lee answers those questions in a blizzard of paperwork.

In Scotland in 1990, two hikers allegedly came across a bizarre diamond-shaped craft hovering above them. They were able to take photographs of the UFO, and one of those photographs has emerged into the light of day. On this episode, Lee, Nathan and special guest pod person Andrew Robinson analyze the story and the photograph to try to figure out what on Earth (or off Earth) is going on...

People have been claiming the world was about to end for thousands of years, and (so far) they've all been wrong. On this episode, Nathan and Lee look at some examples of these belief systems, as well as the social conditions that make them more likely, and the impact they have on the people who believe them (which is rarely beneficial or healthy, and often involves getting set on fire)

People often believe conspiracy theories because they don't want to be manipulated by people in power. But sometimes, the conspiracy theory IS a way for people in power to manipulate the population. on this episode, Lee and Nathan look at some examples, and then cook up a recipe for destroying a democracy...

Social media are full a people who claim that they know the true identity of the antiChrist, or that some world event is heralding the end of the world, or that they have cracked the code and know what modern symbol is actually the "666" of the Beast. But what does the Book of Revelation actually say? On this episode, Nathan and Lee dive into the text...

Stories of crashed UFOs and recovered alien tech and bodies have been circulating for years. On this episode, Lee and Nathan look at an incident in New Mexico that may be the first example of this narrative. But it isn't Roswell, it's somewhere else...

On this episode, Lee and Nathan look back at one of humanity's oldest known apocalypse stories, to see if they can find insight into why we sometimes seem so thirsty to have the world end. Along the way, they discuss monkeys AND hockey twice each somehow.

It's the end of another weird year, and what better way to celebrate than with a conspiracy-themed trivia party?

In 1947, the flying saucer craze was launched when pilot Kenneth Arnold saw something strange in the skies of Washington State. Within a few weeks, Arnold found himself in a terrifying situation involving alien craft, dead Air Force officers, men in black, and paranoia...

Tragically, In 1993, three children were murdered in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Understandably, the people of the town felt that something terrible and sinister was going on. Was it possible that a satanic cult was responsible? What happened next was, and this should not come as any surprise at this point, unfortunate...

In the 1980s, a horrifying story started making the news - that daycare centres were actually just fronts being used by satanic cults. But were the allegations true, or was this an unsupported moral panic?

In the 1970s, several people came forward to claim that they had been high-ranking members of a Satanic cabal - the Illuminati. These stories would become wide-spread, and extremely influential. But was there anything to them, or were these just the lies of scammers and con men looking to make a buck and get famous?

In September of 1983, when the world was one mistake away from complete and utter nuclear devastation, a Korean airliner was headed towards Soviet airspace, and towards disaster. But why did it happen? The answer, as you would no doubt expect at this point, is complicated...

In the late 1960s, a Soviet nuclear missile submarine went missing in the Pacific Ocean. The American government wanted those missiles. But how could they possibly grab a massive submarine from the bottom of the ocean without the Soviets finding out? The answer, as you probably would suspect by now, is complicated and a little ridiculous...

You have something extremely valuable that powerful people are trying to gain access to - your mind. On this episode, Nathan and Lee discuss the nature and dangers of social media manipulation, and Lee interviews an expert on disinformation.

Satan is showing up in more and more conspiracy theories these days, and so Nathan decided it was time for some old-fashioned Bible study. On this episode, special guest pod person Professor Jon Zeyl drops in for a discussion of three books from the Old Testament, and how maybe things are a bit more confusing and complicated than we think (as always).

How do reality and fiction influence each other? On this episode, Lee and Nathan get philosophical as they discuss the importance of stories and the differences between real life and imagination, then they get irritated and angry while talking about the ways in which scammers try to blur fiction and reality in order to rip off vulnerable people.

Time to clean out the junk drawer... this time, Lee picks out a story of an American president using an astrologer to make important decisions during a very dangerous time in history, and Nathan discusses the international scandal of the F-104 Starfighter (aka the "Widowmaker").

In 2022, an attempt was made by a secret group to overthrow the German government and replace it with a new version of the old monarchy. On this episode, Lee examines this event and its implications.

The French Revolution was a violent and shocking rearrangement of an ancient society. Was it the hand of the Illuminati that was pulling the lever of the guillotine? The answer (as you would almost certainly guess) is sort of complicated. Also, it involves a very fancy and expensive necklace. And a volcano.