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Everyone’s favorite formally dressed creepypasta, Slender Man, is a truly malevolent creature. So, I sat down with Dhyan Thacker, Alex Galbraith, and first time guest Michael Buck to talk about the mysterious man with no face.

This episode is marked as explicit due to violent themes. However, it is relatively PG other than that.

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In SEASON 2, EPISODE 2, GHOSTS 2, I talk with Jacob Stewart and Nick Mero about those spooky, chill-inducing, sometimes transparent things lazy people dress as for Halloween: Ghosts. 

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Ballard, Jamie. “Many Americans Believe Ghosts and Demons Exist | YouGov.” YouGov | What the World Thinks, YouGov, 21 Oct. 2019, https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2019/10/21/paranormal-beliefs-ghosts-demons-poll.

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Welcome back to Conspiracy Mind! This is SEASON 2, EPISODE 1! In this episode we talk about the blood sucking monsters of myth: Vampires. I'm joined by Alex Galbraith and Dhyan Thacker as we tackle one of the most infamous undead creatures of all time.

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Oh. By the way. We started including a Bibliography. You can find all the resources from this episode below:

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In this final episode of S1 of Conspiracy Mind, with Dhyan Thacker and Sam Childers, we talk about Time Travel. Strap in, this episode is a long and wild one.

The fate of Flight 19 and their pilots remains a mystery to this day. In this episode, with Jacob Stewart and Nick Mero, we talk about The Bermuda Triangle, aka The Devil’s Triangle, aka that vaguely defined region of the Atlantic Ocean that ships, planes and submarines keep mysteriously vanishing in.

President John F. Kennedy made an appeal to Congress in 1961 stating that he believed the United States should land a man on the moon and bring him back to Earth safely by the end of the decade. In this episode, with Alex Galbraith and Dhyan Thacker, we talk about the Moon Landing. More specifically, the conspiracy revolving around the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that put man on the moon being fake.

Though the notion seems ridiculous, very many people believe, at the very least, that the Earth is indeed flat. In this episode, with Dhyan Thacker and Alex Galbraith, we talk about Flat Earth.

And even though it would eventually fall apart, and even become banned, it would never truly end; for as long as there is someone willing to carry it, its legacy remains. With Dhyan Thacker and Alex Galbraith, in this episode we talk about The Illuminati, The New World Order, the secret society of people controlling the world, however you wish to refer to them.

As they cruise along they come to a stop, as something crosses the road in front of their car. It was what they described as “a most extraordinary form of animal." With Alex Galbraith and Dhyan Thacker, in this episode we talk about the Loch Ness Monster, or as the community may know her: Nessie.

It was a tall, hairy biped just walking through the forest. In that moment, the hairy creature turned its head, facing directly at him. With Alex Galbraith, Dhyan Thacker, and Will Burrow, in this episode we talk about Sasquatch, The Ape Man, Yowie, The Yeti, and any other names you can think of for the Bigfoot.

We dive deep into the paranormal apparitions that haunt our apartment at night, learn a little more about ghostly happenings, hear some ghost stories, and tell a few of our own. With Alex Galbraith and Dhyan Thacker, in this episode we talk about Ghosts, Apparitions, poltergeists, haunted houses, you name it.

1947. Summertime. The US Army Air Forces send out a press release saying they recovered a “flying disc” from a ranch close to Roswell, New Mexico. With Alex Galbraith and Dhyan Thacker, in this episode we talk about Aliens, UFOs, EXTRA TERRESTRIALS, close encounters, whatever you want to call them.

This is the trailer for Conspiracy Mind: The Conspiracy Theory Discussion Podcast. Each episode of this podcast is a light-hearted and humorous discussion on a different conspiracy theory. We cover different opinions, events, and our overarching thoughts on some of the biggest theories of our time. This podcast is presented in collaboration with the Audio Production II class in the School of Media and Journalism at Arkansas State University.