#16 - MK-Ultra Victim: "My Own Father Brainwashed Me" | Dr. Juliette Engel

#16 - MK-Ultra Victim: "My Own Father Brainwashed Me" | Dr. Juliette Engel

Get Dr. Juliette Engel's book, Sparky, here: https://amzn.to/4fpmHtb Dr. Juliette Engel discusses the personal account in her memoir, Sparky, saying she was placed in MK-Ultra as a child and escaped in 1966. She describes the recovered memories, family connections she believes tied her to the program, and why she decided to speak publicly. In the interview, Engel also recounts becoming a physician and later working to protect vulnerable children in the former Soviet Union. She explains how those experiences shaped her anti-trafficking work and why she believes the story still matters.

#15 - "Kurt Cobain Did NOT Take His Own Life" (New Evidence) | Richard Syrett

Richard Syrett joins Tim Blane to examine why some of rock's most famous deaths still leave hard questions behind. The main focus is Kurt Cobain, including the disputed drug-level timeline, the shotgun mechanics, the clean weapon, the final note, and the renewed push from independent researchers who want the case reopened. Syrett also digs into Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix, connecting both stories to rushed official conclusions, powerful people around the artists, and details that never fit neatly into the public version. His book, Tales from the Rock and Roll Twilight Zone, looks at these cases as mysteries worth revisiting, not rumors to accept blindly.

#14 - JFK Witness Can Prove that Oswald Wasn't the Shooter | Tosh Plumlee & Ralph Pezzullo

Get the book "Deep Cover, Shallow Graves" by Tosh Plumlee & Ralph Pezzullo here: https://amzn.to/4eE9cp6 Robert “Tosh” Plumlee and Ralph Pezzullo, co-authors of Deep Cover Shallow Graves, walk through Plumlee’s alleged life inside Cold War covert operations, from running guns into Castro’s Cuba to training in “illusionary warfare” and flying secret missions tied to CIA-linked front companies. But the interview turns on Dallas: Plumlee says he was sent as a co-pilot on an “abort team” after warnings that President Kennedy would be hit, then watched the assassination unfold from Dealey Plaza. Plumlee claims Lee Harvey Oswald was standing in the doorway, not shooting from upstairs, and says the fatal shots came from the south side of the triple underpass rather than the grassy knoll. Pezzullo adds context from their research into alleged fake Secret Service credentials, mob and intelligence ties, hidden photos, Vietnam, KENCON, and why they believe the Warren Commission story left out the most important evidence.

#13 - Eddie Van Halen's Biographer Reveals What He Was Like in Private | Steve Rosen

Get Steve Rosen's Eddie Van Halen biography, Tonechaser, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4v0WXtz Journalist Steve Rosen spent nearly a decade as one of Eddie Van Halen's closest confidants, and the stories he tells here reveal a side of the guitar god almost no one saw. Eddie personally sanctioned Rosen to write his authorized biography, handing over phone numbers and telling him to carry a microphone and record anything he wanted. But the book collapsed when Eddie kept stalling with the same excuse: "If we sit down now, the next album won't be part of the book." The two had a bitter falling out in 2003, and the project sat dead until 2020, when Rosen rediscovered what he calls the "Twilight Tapes" and began writing again, just six weeks before Eddie passed away. In this conversation, Rosen shares the intimate moments that defined the real Edward: the night Eddie cried talking about his father's death, the chain-smoking that Rosen believes ultimately killed him, the time Eddie drove his Lamborghini to Guitar Center and had to borrow ten dollars for strings, and the painful end of a friendship Rosen still doesn't fully understand. He explains Eddie's "brown sound," his admission late in life that he was a "tone chaser" who never found the sound he was after, and why he lied about his own age to build the legend. It's an unguarded portrait of the most influential guitarist who ever lived, from the man who knew him when the cameras were off.

#12 - Marilyn Monroe's Biographer Uncovers the TRUTH About Her Last Days Alive | Imogen Edwards-Jones

Imogen's book, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, is available to purchase on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4dqnTvi Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Imogen Edwards-Jones joins the Facts Verse podcast to reveal the shocking discoveries she made while co-writing The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe with James Patterson. In this conversation, Imogen uncovers the hidden contents of Marilyn's secret "red book" where she recorded classified government secrets shared by Bobby Kennedy, including details about the Bay of Pigs, nuclear testing in Nevada, and CIA plots to assassinate Castro. Imogen also details the terrifying "lost weekend" at the Cal-Neva Lodge just days before Marilyn died, the CIA surveillance operation that bugged her home, the role of her psychiatrist who was secretly a Soviet asset, and the explosive evidence surrounding Bobby Kennedy's visit to Marilyn's house on the day of her death. From her troubled childhood and first marriage at sixteen to her relationships with JFK, DiMaggio, and Arthur Miller, this is the definitive account of the forces that converged in Marilyn Monroe's final days.