Analytical Eye
Welcome to Analytical Eye, a podcast that evaluates conspiracy theories using techniques from intelligence analysis.
This podcast is brought to you by the Office of Rational Assessments, a non-government agency that researches conspiracy theories for its own mysterious purposes.
If you've ever wondered who started a particular conspiracy theory, or if some of them might actually hold up, this podcast is for you.
Episodes
14 episodes
Minisode: Ted Holiday, the Loch Ness Monster hunter who ended up in a goblin universe
Through our time on the podcast to date, we've talked about a number of different conspiracy theorists, monster hunters and UFOlogists. In this minisode we deep dive into Ted Holiday, my favourite Loch Ness Monster hunter and one who displayed ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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37:02
Minisode: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
In spring 1954, Washington state experienced a truly peculiar epidemic. Something mysterious was pitting their windscreens even as they watched. What was the cause of this phenomenon? And what does it tell us about human nature?<...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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31:39
Och Aye Loch Eye: The Loch Ness Monster
What lurks in the dark waters of Loch Ness? When did people begin to believe there was a monster in this Scottish loch, and why? In this episode of Analytical Eye, we look at the history of the Loch Ness Monster.This episode i...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:30:11
Paul is Dead - But Congruence Bias is Alive and Well
Was Beatle Paul McCartney killed and replaced with a talented impostor in the 1960s? Did the surviving Beatles hide clues to his death in their subsequent albums? Or was the whole idea a mirage – and if so, where did it come from? In this episo...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:01:42
The Hammaspeikko
HEY OCCAM I had to use your computer for something. Mine still hasn't been replaced after that fire - totally not my fault this time either! Anyway you were still logged in and I saw you had an episode ready to go so I u...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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2:39
Pixielated Evidence: The Cottingley Fairies
In 1917, two young girls in Yorkshire took photographs of fairies in their very own backyard. To skeptics, the photos seemed like obvious fakes - but to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, they were proof of a wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:01:29
Eye on the Horizon: Flat Earth
Why did some people in the Victorian period argue that the earth was flat? Were they flat-out wrong - or is there something in their argument, once you get around to assessing it? In this episode of Analytical Eye, we conside...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:09:07
Coming a Cropper: Crop Circles
In this episode, we dig into the history of crop circles. Who or what was behind the flattened swirled crops phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s? Was it something out of this world? An unusual meteorological phenomenon? Or just a corny prank?...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:07:05
Eye in the New Mexico Sky Part 2: The Roswell Bodies
In this second part of our first two-part special, we assess the conspiracy theory that alien bodies were recovered from a crashed alien spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:30:06
Eye in the New Mexico Sky Part 1: The Roswell Crash
Something crashed into the New Mexico desert in July 1947. But what was it? Just a weather balloon, as the authorities claimed? Or was it an alien spacecraft, as a first-hand witness insisted? In this first part of a special two-episode assessm...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:15:30
Bigfoot's Many Daddies
In August 1958, Jerry Crew discovered something had been walking around his excavator... something with unusually big feet. In this episode, we look at the arguments for and against Bigfoot and his Canadian cousin Sasquatch, and the first gener...
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Episode 3
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1:17:30
When The Moon Hits Your Eye: The Moon Landing Hoax
In July 1969, two men stepped onto the moon and made history... or did they? In this episode, we examine the moon landing hoax conspiracy theory.
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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48:47
Don't Hit the Mute Button: Cattle Mutilation
In 1970s North America, someone or something was killing and mutilating cattle. Was it cryptids? Government experiments? Aliens? Or something else? In the first episode of Analytical Eye, we assess the theories around cattle mutilation.
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Episode 1
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