Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Oh! It's behind the bastards! A podcast that is opened in a radically different way pretty much every week,

but usually one that involves me making sounds with my mouth.

I don't understand how you're this successful of a podcast.

No one does, Garrison. Nobody does.

But they can't stop it. They can't stop the signal.

I'm like the rolling stones of podcasting.

The Andrew Tate of podcasting.

Thank you, Margaret. Thank you for that.

That's what everyone's saying.

For that unalloyed compliment.

We have started this episode by talking about Adam Vaishopt and the Bavarian Illuminati,

which started out as a nerdy kid trying to find a way to smuggle cool books into Bavaria that were banned.

In doing so he created a fake religion so that rich people would feel like wizards.

He could use their money to buy more books.

It ended up with him funding illegal abortions until a lightning strike exposed to society to the cops.

Then he had to flee and spend the rest of his life having the equivalent of an extended Twitter argument.

This sounds so fake. This sounds like such a fake story.

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