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Sinisterhood

Episode 394: Missing and Dead Scientists – Part 1

Sinisterhood

Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

What happened to some of the brightest minds in the United States working at the top of their fields? Several have been found dead; others have vanished without a trace. Are they being targeted by a foreign adversary, their own government, or something out of this world? This week’s episode is Missing and Dead Scientists – Part 1.

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0:00.0

What happened to some of the brightest minds in the United States working at the top of their fields?

0:04.9

Several have been found dead.

0:06.4

Others have vanished without a trace.

0:08.1

Are they being targeted by a foreign adversary, their own government, or something out of this world?

0:14.6

This week's episode is Missing and Dead Scientists, Part 1.

0:26.1

A... Scientists, Part 1 A bump in the night.

0:28.0

Your heart fills with dread.

0:31.6

Probably a murder of who wants you dead.

0:35.2

It could be a ghost, a demon or worse.

0:38.3

Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse It's hopeless, you're doomed

0:40.3

You'd call a priest if you could

0:42.3

You'd rather just listen to who

0:45.3

Sinisterhood

0:53.3

That's gonna kill you Oh That really didn't go as smoothly as I thought it was going to go. With editing, it was a crisp start.

1:02.5

I'm afraid of breaking a nail. No, you can't, but you got to crack into a cold one. I had to.

1:07.5

Cold can of Coke for this one, my friend.

1:10.4

This is a wild ride that is current, topical happening as we speak. Yeah. Heads up. What's going on? Not at all. Heads up. It's going to feel like drinking from a fire hose because it is just like, here's a person you meet. Here's what they do. And this is why they're gone. Here's another person. Here's what they do. And also now they're gone. So prepare yourself. And also what they do is confusing.

1:30.4

Yes. And's another person. Here's what they do. And also now they're gone. So, uh, prepare yourself. And also what they do is confusing. And we are not, um, scientists and don't work at NASA yet. Yes. So it's, uh, you know, some of this stuff I'm just like, you can tell me all day long that your job description is it's kind of like chanler from friends like nobody

1:45.0

really understands he's transpondering all of these people are transponsters so we'll find out what

1:50.6

transponsting means today but it is quite uh quite a journey through as not to sound like i just fell

1:58.4

off the turnip truck but god damn there's just a lot of shit going on.

2:01.3

We don't know nothing about.

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