Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes

About Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes

Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes explores true stories of belief taken too far: murderous cults, criminal cover-ups, mass manipulation, and the conspiracies that still won't die. Hosted by Vanessa Richardson, three weekly episodes dig into cases like Jonestown, Heaven's Gate, CIA mind control experiments, and presidential assassinations. This is true crime at the intersection of faith, fear and manipulation.Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Follow us on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to @crimehousestudios on YouTube and follow us @crimehouse on Instagram.

Publisher

Crime House

Category

history · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Jul 2025

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

133 of 138 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   CULT: The Rosicrucians

   Host Vanessa Richardson investigates the historical enigma of the Rosicrucians, exploring their alleged hidden knowledge and the enduring mystery of their existence.

2. 

   21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   CONSPIRACY: The Mad Monk Who Controlled the Romanovs

   Host Vanessa Richardson investigates the mysterious life, death, and enduring myths of Grigori Rasputin, the mystic who wielded immense influence over Russia's Romanov family.

3. 

   18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   CRIME: The Murder That Started World War I: Franz Ferdinand

   Vanessa Richardson explores how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ignited World War I and reshaped global history.

Inside a recent episode

CULT: The Rosicrucians

Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The movement peaked in the years after Frederick's marriage to an English princess, Elizabeth Stuart, a match many Protestants read as a sign of their rising power. Some historians think Yates took the idea too far, but nearly everyone agrees on what came next. Once Frederick fell, the public obsession with the Brotherhood faded away. The Rosicrucians should have become a historical footnote, a weird pamphlet craze that burned hot and died. Instead, they came back. And the second time, they came for real power. In 1710, almost a century after the manifestos, a book appeared in Germany laying out the rituals and secret hierarchy of an order it called the Golden and Rosy Cross. […]

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