Welcome to Sleep Theories — a Podcast where entertainment meets mystery. Here, we explore some of the most fascinating and controversial conspiracy theories …
1:34:35808 views · 2h ago · 1:34:35
Guests: Conspiracy Theories, Sigmund Freud’s Abandoned Theory
Sigmund Freud’s abandoned seduction theory and a dark Vienna conspiracy, told as a calm, atmospheric sleep story for falling asleep to history. In eighteen ninety-six, Freud told Vienna’s top doctors that his patients’ symptoms came from childhood abuse. A year later, he gave up the theory. Tonight’s story imagines why.
1:41:153.4K views · 1d ago · 1:41:15
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
The secret bankers who financed World War II, and the hidden money that outlived the Third Reich. This dark history sleep story follows the MEFO bills, Hjalmar Schacht, and Nazi Germany’s concealed rearmament through a quiet auditor named Lorenz Brandauer. One autumn he finds a small black circle in a ledger margin, and it leads him to Swiss bank accounts, a secret financial network, and a plan built to survive no matter who won the war.
1:32:4512K views · 6d ago · 1:32:45
Guest: Conspriracy Theories
The Lost Labyrinth of Hawara, an ancient Egyptian mystery sleep story. Herodotus said this building surpassed the pyramids: twelve courts and three thousand chambers, with an underground level he was forbidden to enter. Tonight, an archaeologist uncovers a hidden pattern linking Hawara to the lost libraries of Nineveh, Hattusa, and Dunhuang, and an ancient network built so that no single empire could ever hold its secret.
1:34:3711K views · 1w ago · 1:34:37
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
Zodiac Killer sleep story: a retired detective reopens a fifty-year-old Sacramento murder once blamed on the Zodiac, and finds a killer who hid behind America’s most infamous unsolved case. This calm, slow-paced true crime story for sleep covers the Lake Herman Road, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa and Paul Stine attacks, the Zodiac letters and ciphers, and the 340 cipher solved in 2020.
2:56:1413K views · 2w ago · 2:56:14
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
Settle in for a calm, atmospheric story about séances, collective imagination, and the unsettling possibility that something learned to live inside a story. It’s perfect for falling asleep to, or for listening in the dark.
2:13:3926K views · 2w ago · 2:13:39
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
The Gemstone Files conspiracy explained as a calm sleep story. Bruce Roberts’ secret manuscript tied Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, and the Kennedys into one hidden web of power, and decades later one historian finds a single overlooked page that changes everything.
1:26:4525K views · 3w ago · 1:26:45
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
Cosmic Web conspiracy sleep story: astronomers discover a hidden mathematical pattern in the universe’s largest structure, and a secret international group moves to bury it. This calm, slow-burning sci-fi mystery for sleep follows scientists across five continents as they uncover prime numbers in the galaxies, a signal that seems to answer back, and a final truth about what the universe really is.
1:30:5124K views · 3w ago · 1:30:51
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
Eisenhower’s alien treaty, the 1954 Palm Springs UFO legend, told as a calm sleep story. On February 20, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower vanished for one night during a vacation in California. The official explanation was an emergency dentist visit. According to the legend, he was taken to a desert airbase to meet visitors from another world. Drift off to a slow, atmospheric retelling of the Eisenhower UFO meeting.
2:00:0814K views · 3w ago · 2:00:08
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
Drift off to the true story of the Great Depression, the Bonus Army, the McCormack–Dickstein Committee and the author of War Is a Racket, woven with a fictional thread that asks what happened after the general said no.
2:08:5020K views · 4w ago · 2:08:50
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
The unsolved assassination of Gerald Bull, the Canadian engineer behind Iraq's Project Babylon supergun, told as a calm, dramatized sleep story for relaxing, insomnia, and drifting off to history and conspiracy. In March 1990, Dr. Gerald Bull was shot five times outside his Brussels apartment. Twenty thousand dollars was left in his pocket, and no one has ever been charged. Bull spent his life chasing one idea: a gun big enough to launch satellites into space.
3:16:5797K views · 1mo ago · 3:16:57
Guests: Conspiracy Theories, Peach Mountain
Peach Mountain, Ohio's Area 51, is the subject of tonight's sleep story. It explores the secret history of GE's Peebles test site in Adams County and the conspiracy of what may be buried beneath it. In 1954, General Electric quietly bought thousands of acres of remote Ohio forest to test rocket engines.
2:42:1435K views · 1mo ago · 2:42:14
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
1896 mystery airship sightings, a secret inventor, and a breakaway civilization, told as a calm conspiracy sleep story for deep, relaxing sleep. On November 17, 1896, hundreds of people in Sacramento watched a bright light move deliberately across the sky, and some swore they heard men's voices calling down from it. Seven years before the Wright brothers, a San Francisco attorney claimed his secret client had built a working airship.
2:10:4676K views · 1mo ago · 2:10:46
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
Bob Lazar, Area 51, and the hidden S-4 facility near Papoose Lake: a relaxing sleep story about the most famous UFO whistleblower in history. In nineteen eighty-nine, Lazar told reporter George Knapp that he'd reverse-engineered alien spacecraft, the Sport Model, powered by Element 115. Tonight's story follows his account into the Nevada desert, then wanders deeper into an original theory.
2:18:5747K views · 1mo ago · 2:18:57
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
The Three City-States conspiracy claims the City of London, Washington, D.C., and Vatican City secretly rule the world through money, military power, and religion. Tonight's sleep story follows Elias Harrow, a London archivist who sets out to debunk the theory. Instead he finds a nineteenth-century bank ledger with three columns: Treasury, Sword, and Temple. His search leads from the vaults of the City of London to a Georgetown townhouse and the archives of Rome.
1:21:5119K views · 1mo ago · 1:21:51
Guest: Conspiracy Theories
Cleopatra's lost tomb is one of history's greatest unsolved mysteries. This relaxing sleep story explores ancient Egypt, Mark Antony, Taposiris Magna, and the sunken city of Alexandria. Drift off as we follow a hidden burial, a secret royal archive, and a queen who may never have wanted to be found. It runs about eighty-five minutes of calm, slow narration, perfect for sleep, relaxation, or unwinding after a long day.
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