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Welcome back to Throwback Thursday, where we’re digging into the 3SchemeQueens archives and revisiting some of our older conspiracy and mystery episodes that included medical discussions.  This week, we’re going back to one of history’s most persistent conspiracy theories: Did Adolf Hitler really die in his Berlin bunker in 1945, or did he somehow escape to Argentina?  Was Hitler even physically capable of pulling off an escape?  By the end of the war, his health was reportedly deteriorating, he had a tremor, significant gastrointestinal problems, and was being given a truly impressive pharmaceutical cocktail by his personal physician...

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In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike committed the brutal murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a crime that would put Pike on Tennessee’s death row for three decades.  On September 30, 2026, the state attempted to carry out her sentence using lethal injection.  Two doses of pentobarbital later, Pike was still alive, ultimately leaving the prison in an ambulance rather than a hearse.

But Christa Pike is far from the first condemned prisoner whose execution did not go according to plan.  In this episode, we examine Pike’s case alongside some of the most infamous failed and bot...

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On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and more than 60 years later, the JFK assassination remains one of the most debated mysteries in American history.  In this Throwback Thursday episode, we dive into the assassination of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, the Warren Commission, the single-bullet theory, the Zapruder film, and some of the most enduring JFK conspiracy theories.  With our healthcare backgrounds, we're also taking a closer look at the medical and forensic evidence surrounding JFK's death.  What do we know about Kennedy's gunshot wounds?  What happened at Parkland Hospital?  What...

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In 1994, Gloria Ramirez arrived at Riverside General Hospital in California critically ill.  During her treatment, 23 healthcare workers suddenly developed symptoms including dizziness, nausea, difficulty breathing, muscle spasms, and fainting.  Even stranger, some reported unusual odors and mysterious substances associated with Ramirez’s body.  As more people became sick, the emergency department was evacuated and the case quickly became one of the most unusual medical mysteries in modern history.

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Have you ever wondered if madness could be contagious?  We usually think of pathogens and viruses spreading from person to person, but what about a delusion?  This week, we are opening up the vault to bring you a re-release of one of the most mind-bending medical mysteries we've ever covered. We are diving back into the harrowing and truly bizarre case of the Eriksson twins.

Ursula and Sabina Eriksson were identical twins whose sudden, explosive shared psychosis on a busy British motorway left police, medics, and the public completely stunned. It is a...

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In 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, something bizarre began happening.  One woman reportedly started dancing in the street, and within days, dozens of other people had joined her.  Soon, the dancing had spread through the city, with some people reportedly dancing for days on end.  Some collapsed from exhaustion.  Others may have died.  So what was happening to these people?  This week we’re talking about the Dancing Plague of 1518.  We’re digging into what actually happened, what theories have been proposed, and whether modern medicine can help us make sense of an epidemic that left a...

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Located just off the coast of Long Island, New York, Plum Island has been home to a government animal disease research facility for decades.  Officially established to study infectious diseases affecting livestock, the island has also become the center of decades of speculation about biological warfare, government experiments, biological weapons research, and accidental releases of dangerous pathogens.  This week, we're re-releasing one of our first episodes, in which we explore the documented history of Plum Island and examine the conspiracy theories that have made this mysterious island famous.  One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Plu...

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Picture this: You’re standing on a tiny island in the middle of San Francisco Bay.  The city skyline is just over one mile away.  You can see it.  At night, you can see the lights.  If the wind is right, you can even hear the sounds of people living their normal, free lives across the water.  But between you and them is freezing water, brutal currents, and a prison specifically designed to make sure you never leave.  Welcome to Alcatraz.  From 1934-1962 the former military fortress became the home of some of America’s most noto...

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You know that feeling when you rewatch a movie you loved as a kid and suddenly realize… wait a minute. This is actually kind of messed up.  What if some of the movies we know and love aren’t actually about what we think they’re about?

What if Sandy didn’t survive the beginning of Grease, and the entire movie is actually her dying fantasy?

What if Ferris Bueller doesn’t actually exist, and he’s just the fearless, charismatic alter ego Cameron created to cope with his miserable life?

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This week, we’re throwing research out the window and letting TikTok and Instagram take the wheel.  In this chaotic rapid-fire episode, we dive into some of the wildest conspiracy theories currently making the rounds on social media, and judge them based on absolutely nothing but the evidence presented in the videos. Is Stevie Wonder really blind? Did Sony kill Michael Jackson?  Is botox contributing to the future Zombie apocalypse?  Are giants and Himalayan sea salt somehow part of a much bigger story?  We watch, we debate, we ask way too many questions, and then w...

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There are some cases where the facts are so horrifying that we instinctively want the answer to be simple.  Someone did something terrible, they knew what they were doing, and they should be held responsible.  But what happens when the person accused of doing something unimaginable may also have been profoundly, catastrophically mentally ill?  That is the question at the center of the Lindsay Clancy trial.  In January of 2023, three siblings, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan were killed inside their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.  Their mother, Lindsay Clancy, survived an apparent suicide attem...

In this minisode, we investigate the conspiracy theory that the cookies sold at Dollar Tree are essentially Girl Scout cookies, just sold under a different brand and at a fraction of the price.  We’re digging into the companies behind Girl Scout cookies, the surprisingly similar cookies that show up on dollar-store shelves, and why some people swear that their favorite Girl Scout flavors have a suspiciously affordable doppelgänger.
Is this a legitimate cookie-industry connection, a brilliant Girl Scout marketing strategy, or simply a case of two cookies being really freaking similar?  We follow the crumbs, compare the e...

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The blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth.  They are larger than any dinosaur, with hearts the size of small cars and voices so powerful they can travel across entire ocean basins.  Despite this, blue whales remain surprisingly mysterious.

This week we’re diving into the hidden world of these ocean giants.  How can an animal that grows longer than a basketball court is wide still manage to disappear into the vastness of the ocean?  How did they evolve to a point t...

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For years, the human race has tried to answer the infamous question, 'what is at the bottom of the ocean?'  The great deep blue sea, a part of our planet we have barely explored, continues to be just out of our grasp.  Something once unattainable is slowly becoming anything but.  What started as an exploration of the ocean floor in search for shipwrecks and treasure, for the deep sea exploration team Ocean X led to the discovery of the Baltic Sea Anomaly.  Is this hidden object on the ocean floor an alien space ship...

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Have you ever thought to yourself, can we live forever?  Besides the Cullens, is anything truly immortal in this world?  If you’ve ever participated in any treatment to reverse aging you’re going to like today’s subject.  Today we will be diving deep and floating with the jellyfish, a creature that is currently helping today’s scientist answer the question, 'can we stop death?'   Now seen world-wide in tropical oceans you may see a tiny little see-through blob with a red core floating around… This is the Turritopsis dohrnii, also referred to as the Immo...

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Picture a ship drifting silently across the Atlantic Ocean.  Its sails are raised.  It's cargo is untouched.  There are no signs of violence, no evidence of a struggle, and yet every single person on board has vanished without a trace.  In December of 1872, the merchant brigantine Mary Celeste was discovered adrift between the Azores and Portugal.  The ship itself appeared remarkably seaworthy.  Food and water were still stocked.  Personal belongings remained behind.  Even the crew's valuables were untouched.  But Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, his young daughter, and the rest of the crew were nowhere t...

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Picture this... you are a lone fisherman setting sale for your next trip.  You’re currently resting on the back deck watching the sun set in the horizon.  You are the only soul within hundreds of miles, just you, the ocean and creatures below.  It's dark now, the sun has set and you notice the water around you start to change… It’s as if the sea is now suddenly glowing.  This milky glow stretches as far as you can see, shimmering as each wave passes.  You start to panic, you fear this is a sign of y...

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On a remote cluster of windswept islands off the coast of Scotland, three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace.  No bodies.  No signs of a struggle.  Just an abandoned lighthouse, a stopped clock, and a mystery that has haunted the sea for more than a century.  This week, we’re heading to the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, where in December of 1900, keepers James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur disappeared from the isolated island of Eilean Mòr.  When the relief ship finally arrived after days of storms, something felt wrong immediately.  The lighthouse was dark.  Th...

Before you dive into SEA-son 2026, we’re taking one last detour into the deep.  This week’s episode is a special supercut of some of our favorite ocean-animal mysteries from past SEA-son episodes featuring creatures that are somehow equal parts fascinating, terrifying, and probably smarter than all of us combined.  From dolphins that may be way more manipulative than their cute reputation suggests, to octopuses that seem suspiciously alien, to the impossible life cycle of eels,  we’re revisiting the strangest stories the ocean has to offer.  So whether you’re new here or ready for a refresher before we launch in...

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In this chaotic rapid-fire episode, we put the deep dives aside and let the conspiracy theories fly.  This week we're discussing viral internet theories, and with only two minutes on the clock, listen to the 3SQ react, debate, and dissect them in real time.  We dive into a number of theories, including claims that Mountain Dew can predict the future, that Timothée Chalamet might secretly have an alter ego, the parallels between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and even asked whether the Rubik's Cube could somehow unlock the secret to time travel.  Some...

This conspiracy is called Operation Sideswipe, so get ready to get wrecked.  In New Orleans, on Interstate 10,  there was a string of crashes over a period of ten years that looked random at first glance until insurance investigators noticed a pattern.  What started as a routine insurance claim exploded into one of the most shocking fraud conspiracies in Louisiana history.  Staged car wrecks, fake victims, corrupt lawsuits, and millions of dollars allegedly drained from trucking companies and their insurers.  Federal investigators say participants intentionally caused crashes with eighteen wheeler trucks, then filed fraudulent injury claims designed to look legitimate.  But th...

Between 1918 and 1920, the Spanish Flu killed 50 million people worldwide.  This pandemic, arrived on the heels of WW1, and between the two events, nearly 5% of the world’s population was killed.  But there was another pandemic occurring, one that is less well known and less frequently talked about, that remains a mystery to this day.  In the winter of 1916 in Europe, people were seeking medical attention for general malaise.  At first, it looked like a mild case of the flu with fever, headaches, and fatigue.  Many would recover, but some would begin exhibiting tremors and many slowed down mentally and physica...

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A few weeks ago, we told you about the strange connection between missing and dead scientists in the United States.  The researchers all had ties to aerospace, nuclear science, and advanced technology.  Since that episode, the number has grown.  Some missing.  Some dead.  All connected, at least on the surface, to some of the most sensitive research in the United States.  Today we’re going to update you on the more recent connected cases, and give you overall updates on the investigations.

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In the late 1970s, the peaceful, small town community of Circleville, OH, was shaken when individuals began receiving strange letters.  They all came in the mail with absent or fake return addresses, and were postmarked from Columbus, OH, 25 miles north of Circleville.  The letters were handwritten in strange block letters and contained details about the recipients.  Over 1000 letters were sent, accusing neighbors of affairs, exposing private lives, and threatening violence if confessions weren’t made.  And whoever was behind them seemed to know everything including intimate details no outsider should have known.  Then, things escalat...

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What if the brightest minds in science were being erased?  Over the past few years, a quiet pattern has begun to emerge.  Names that once lived in research papers, conference panels, and classified briefings are now showing up somewhere else entirely: missing persons reports, obituaries, and unanswered questions. Today we’re talking about nine scientists:
William McCasland.
Monica Reza.
Carl Grillmair.
Melissa Casias.
Anthony Chavez.
Frank Maiwald. 
Micheal David Hicks. 
Nuno Loureiro.
Jason Thomas.
Different fields.  Different backgrounds.  And yet their stories seem to echo eac...

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Alpine Divorce: Ending a relationship by murdering one’s significant other during a mountain trip and passing it off as an accident, or more specifically, abandoning a partner in a remote outdoor setting.  

The phrase originates from an 1893 short story by Scottish-Canadian author Robert Barr, titled An Alpine Divorce.  In the grim tale, an unhappy husband plots to kill his wife during a trip to the Swiss Alps, only for her to turn the tables on him, having already framed him for her murder before leaping herself.  Several high profile cases over the l...

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In the late 1950s, a quiet family in the English town of Hexham experienced a tragedy that would forever change their lives, and eventually become one of the most famous alleged cases of reincarnation in modern history.  In 1957, two young sisters, Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock, were killed in a car accident while walking to church with a friend.  Their parents, devastated by the loss, tried to rebuild their lives while carrying unimaginable grief.  But about a year later, something extraordinary happened.  Their mother gave birth to twin girls: Jennifer and Gillian. Almost immediately, their fath...

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In late 2016, American diplomats stationed in Havana began reporting something strange.  It often started with a sound, followed by the symptoms: dizziness, nausea, migraines, memory problems, and in some cases, lasting brain injuries.  What began as a handful of mysterious health complaints soon spiraled into an international mystery.   Reports spread from Cuba to embassies and government posts around the world, affecting diplomats, intelligence officers, and their families.  Some experts believe the victims may have been targeted by a secret energy weapon.  Others argue the symptoms could be the result of environmental factors, stress, or even...

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This week, we’re diving into one of the stranger corners of celebrity conspiracy theories: cloning.  From Selena Gomez to Jim Carrey, some claim that these stars have been replaced by replicas engineered in secret labs to take over their lives, their fame, and even their art.  Could Hollywood really be hiding a shadowy cloning program?  Is it science run amok?  A Hollywood PR nightmare?  Or is this just another viral rumor blown out of proportion?  Over the next hour, we’ll trace the origins of these theories, examine the so-called “evidence,” and separate fact from fict...

What if you could simply declare yourself immune to the law?
No driver’s license.
No taxes.
No court jurisdiction.
No government authority over you.
That’s the promise of the Sovereign Citizen movement that claims modern governments are illegitimate corporations, that courts secretly operate under admiralty law, and that there’s a hidden version of you  (a corporate “strawman”) being traded on financial markets without your consent.  It sounds like satire.  But it isn’t.  Across the United States and beyond, people have attempted to use Sovereign Citizen arguments in courtrooms, traffic stops, foreclosure case...

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We're jumping into part two of our deep dive into the Epstein Files.  Last week, we unpacked the timeline, his suspicious death, pizzagate connections, and allegations of cannibalism.   But this week, we’re pulling the lens back even further. How did Epstein actually build his fortune? Where did the money come from, and how did he leverage it into influence at the highest levels of politics, academia, business, and royalty?  We’ll also examine who is currently facing charges or civil consequences in connection with the document releases and clarify what the files say about o...

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In this episode, we lay the groundwork on who Jeffrey Epstein was and how he rose from relative obscurity to the center of one of the most disturbing criminal cases of the modern era.  We walk through the criminal charges he faced in 2008, the controversial plea deal that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution, and the renewed scrutiny that led to his 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges.  From there, we unpack the final days of Epstein’s life and the official ruling of suicide, while acknowledging why the circumstances of his death continue to f...

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There is a viral social media tale circulating that claims Mr Whatsit from Stranger Things was inspired by the real life tale of a shared imaginary friend in small town Wyoming.  Netfllix Updates posted:  ‘The Duffer Brothers were reportedly inspired by a strange real-life school incident from 1962 when creating Mr. Whatsit. That year, reports claimed that 37 children who had never met or spoken to each other all drew the same imaginary friend a tall, faceless man with a top hat. Psychologists later suggested it may have been a rare case of shared imagery, where chil...

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The Olympic Games originated in 776 BC in Greece.  Back then, religious and athletic festivals were held every 4 years in Olympia at the sanctuary of Zeus.  It took place almost exclusively in late August/early September, because the midpoint always took place during the second full moon after the summer solstice (after the annual harvest but before the picking of the olives).  The first 13 games included only a foot race, and were only open to “legitimate sons of free-born Greek parents”.  After Rome took over Greece, the games evolved to feature any man who spoke Greek, a...

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On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.  Over the next 12 days he traveled 73 miles through the forests and swamps heading toward Virginia.  On April 26, the government said Booth was dead after being shot in a burning barn by a Union soldier and buried without much fanfare. Case closed… right?  Not so fast.  This week, we’re diving into the conspiracy theories that claim America’s most infamous assassin didn’t die in 1865 at all.  From questionable body identifications and missing diary pages to secret government cover-ups and alleged sightings years later, Booth’s death has bee...

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What if I told you one of the world’s happiest, most peaceful countries… doesn’t actually exist?  I’m talking about the happiest country on earth, Finland.  Land of saunas, coffee, Nokia phones, and endless lakes and forests.   But what if this so-called nation was nothing more than a convenient illusion created to fuel Japan’s love of Sushi and avoid any regulatory oversight?  Today, we’re diving into one of the internet’s strangest conspiracy theories, the claim that Finland… isn’t real.  The lan...

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Today we’re discussing one of the most infamous unsolved murders in American history.  In 1947, a young mother and her child out for a walk, stumbled upon the mutilated body of a young female.  She was quickly identified as 22 year old Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the Black Dahlia by regulars at a drug store she frequented - a reference to her dark hair and clothing and the Noir film the Blue Dahlia. The brutality of the crime, as well as the frenzied media coverage has led to a persistent fascination eve now, nearly 80 years later.  We’ll...

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In the late 1990s, Mexican Channel 5 would cut into cartoons and late night shows,  with a solemn voice and grainy black and white photos of missing people who had vanished without a trace.  One of these missing women was Selene Delgado, Lopez.  But decades later, nobody can agree on whether she ever existed.  Was Selene a real 18 year old who disappeared in Mexico City and whose case slipped through the cracks?  Or was she a media fabrication?  After all these years there are no official records, not family testimony, and no confirmed sightings.  And she's n...

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Welcome back, Foil Heads!  This week we are wrapping up our holiday break with a re-release of one of our most popular episodes of season 3. We’re revisiting the mysterious story of Rafael Pacheco Pérez, the pilot who claims to have encountered alien beings while on a solo training flight.  In this episode, we retrace the flight, the reported communications, and the puzzling details that led some to believe Pérez may have crossed paths with something not of this world. Was it extraterrestrial contact? A technical failure? Or a made up story all to...

We’re officially two years in, and this week we're celebrating!  After the cake and toasts, we dive into updates we had to talk about: Kait's thoughts on Stranger Things, Megan's reactions to the new Puff Daddy documentary produced by 50 Cent, new developments and unanswered questions surrounding the infamous Louvre Heist, Mangione legal updates, and the ongoing search for MH370.  It’s a birthday episode with big updates, familiar mysteries, and plenty of off-the-rails conversation, because nothing says “anniversary” like revisiting conspiracies that refuse to stay buried. Thanks for two incredible years… and here’s to many more. 🥂🛸

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