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Surcease2.28 Abandon all hope, ye who enter hereThe mysterious tapes continues…. What else to do than to press play -Content warnings: SFX (Lound noises)Mental HospitalMental illnessLoss of a loved oneScreaming/YellingEmetophobiaDeath/MurderSelf harmSuicidePossessionFallingExplosion/FireLoss of selfCrude language/Swearing(Bromance)Transcripts: https://drive.google.com/drivefolders/1Zr2S138lgrtWvSdZtNQocfPBk0nrUOF7?usp=sharingThis episode featured:Alexander Bauner as Ellias ShortHenry Johannessen as Kairo TimorJustJenah as Jack, check out their podcast 400 words a horror & their upcoming podcast from Critshow, no normal life.Fortune Salem as Bas...
2025-09-0951 min
Surcease2.27 Escape roomA mysterious tape appears with no sender…. What else to do than to press play -Content warnings: SFX (Lound noises, Thunder)Mental HospitalMental illnessLoss of a loved oneScreaming/YellingEmetophobiaDeath/MurderFallingCrude language/SwearingTranscripts: https://drive.google.com/drivefolders/1Zr2S138lgrtWvSdZtNQocfPBk0nrUOF7?usp=sharingThis episode featured:Alexander Bauner as Ellias ShortHenry Johannessen as Kairo TimorJustJenah as Jack, check out their podcast 400 words a horror & their upcoming podcast from Critshow, no normal life.Fortune Salem as Basil, che...
2025-08-2744 min
Secret PoliceGerman Secret Police pt. 1 Prussia & The Police UnionWhat happens when a loose collective of states and political entities see a revolution in France and then invasion by Napoleon? Hint: it probably has to do with secret police.
Following the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, the Confederation of German State banned together by common language. The experience of being occupied by a foreign enemy and seeing their neighbors bleed from revolution inspired the German States' first collective police network.
Along with the police network also came the development of an extensive international spy ring. They aimed to protect Germany's many sovereigns and...
2025-07-141h 30
Secret PoliceThe Sovereignty Commission & The State of MississippiIn the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Mississippi's state government felt that segregation was threated by Federal encroachment. Segregation was the legal practice of separating blacks and whites in public life in the Deep South of the United States.
From 1956 to 1973, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission enforced segregation from the shadows. The Commission spied on Mississippi residents, American citizens, and promoted segregation across America. The Ku Klux Klan helped.
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2025-04-072h 25
Secret PoliceChile's DINA & Augusto PinochetIt's said that there were three sources of power in Chile: God, Pinochet, and DINA. The DINA was Chile's secret police from 1973 to 1977 in the early years of the Pinochet dictatorship. They were often compared to the Gestapo or the KGB by American intelligence.
La Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) was the regime’s iron fist that kidnapped, brutalized, butchered, and disappeared thousands of people inside Chile. Under the guidance of director Manuel Contreras, the DINA also launched terror campaigns in the United States, Europe, and Chile’s neighbors. DINA answered to Pinochet only and in many w...
2025-02-282h 38
Secret PoliceCongo's Force Publique & King Leopold IIIf greed were a person he would be Belgian monarch, King Leopold II. In this episode, we will explore the incredibly dark history of the Congo region in Central Africa. Congo has a history of exploitation by European colonizers and extractive industries. The worst of these predators was King Leopold II whose need to secure a colony for Belgium drove the him to deceive the international community for decades.
His deception was a cover for his quest to create wealth for his own fortune and for Belgium at the cost of an estimated many millions of lives...
2025-01-132h 10
The Devil's PlaythingEpisode 7: The Tyranny of Magic ManAfter the studio is trashed and all precious metals are turned into lesser ones, Greg must venture off to the magical land of Fairyland with Dave on a quest! Episode Seven of the Devil’s Plaything was directed by Diego Herrera, written by Diego Herrera and Logan Strahl, Technical direction and audio engineering by Aaron Camacho, Dialogue editing by Diego Herrera with music by Jess Getter and Aaron CamachoGreg was played by Eden Mikey BurnDave by Jayden Mare Samantha by Audrey DonovanGary...
2024-11-2930 min
Secret PoliceIran's SAVAK & Mohammad Reza ShahIn 1921, Reza Khan rose to power with the help of the British government. He led a modernization of Persia, insisting the international community refer to his country as Iran. His son, Mohammad Reza Shah, inherited the throne in 1941.
The Shah expanded his authority using a violent secret police force called SAVAK. They terrorized the Iranian people and preyed on Iranians abroad. They helped enforced the Shah's rule, even as his White Revolution displaced rural communities and alienated Shia clergy. Decades-long economic exploitation and authoritarian repression ignited a series of phases leading to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
2024-10-3101 min
Secret PoliceJapan's Kempeitai & Unit 731We’ve heard about a lot of evil on Secret Police, but the actions of the Kempeitai and the wider Imperial Japanese Army are particularly poignant for their brutality and the extent to which violence prevails if you believe your enemy is inhuman.
Who were the Kempeitai?
How did the Kempeitai develop out of Japan’s long military history?
What were the Kempeitai’s connections to both German and Russian secret police?
What was the level of the Kempeitai’s involvement in various atrocities in China?
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2024-06-251h 41
Secret PoliceNorsefire's Fingermen from V for VendettaBonus Episode! V for Vendetta is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Llyod.
The story shows a bleak future where the United Kingdom is run by a totalitarian government run by a political party called Norsefire. A masked vigilante known simply as "V" is bent on sparking a revolution, driven by a vendetta against those in the government that subjected him and his country to repression and terror. V orchestrates a series of symbolic attacks, picking off government officials in an effort to inspire resistance. Every Hammond gets caught up in V’s...
2023-12-2924 min
Secret PoliceHaiti's Tonton Macoute & Papa DocThe Tonton Macoute was a secret police force established by Haitian physician and dictator, Francois Duvalier, better known as Papa Doc. The Macoute brutalized the Haitian people and hijacked the country’s Vodou traditions to invoke fear of a mythical bogeyman. We’re going to go through the history of Haiti: how it was found by Europeans, the slave trade, the types of crops cultivated in Haiti, slave rebellion, and of course the secret police.
We’re going to find out how Papa Doc got into power. Who led the Tonton Macoute through its years of activity? Why did...
2023-12-181h 44
Secret PoliceThe FSB DOES NOT want you to hear this ft. Kristaps AndrejsonsA conversation with Latvian journalist, and host of the Eastern Border podcast, Kristaps Andrejsons. We recap the Russian secret police series while Kristaps provides his unique perspective on my show, Soviet times, and the future of Russian security services.
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2023-11-081h 17
SurceaseThe Spooky Hour OlympicsWe at Mythhale wish you all a very spooooky (but safe) HalloweenYou are still awake? You are one of the last ones standing so, come on now! Get comfortable and let the stories begin, it’s time for the spooky hour olympicContent warnings:SfxMental illnessMental hospitalNeglectful doctorDeathBodily harmSicknessDollBloodScaresZombie like beingsRitualsDisappearancesAdult languageSexual undertonesTranscript: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zr2S138lgrtWvSdZtNQocfPBk0nrUOF7?usp=sharingToday's episode featured… Alexander Bauner as Ellias Emanuel Short Henry Johannessen as Kairo Metus...
2023-10-3134 minSecret PoliceRussian Secret Police Summary! What Happens Next?Almost 2 years ago, I was inspired by The Dictator's Handbook to start a podcast on secret police. It was a grueling task, much of it self-inflicted because I'm a sucker for detail, but this episode will be light.
This episode starts with a brief summary of each episode part I - XI: the leaders, the secret police, and the history.
Next, I'll share my thoughts and what I've learned on this journey.
We'll end with some behind the scenes and I'll show you what's next for Secret Police podcast.
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2023-09-2920 minSecret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 11 The FSBJust when you thought that Soviet security forces were a thing of the past, the double headed eagle rises from the ashes. The Federal Security Services or FSB are the Russian Federation’s modern day Chekists. Vladimir Putin and the security services have carefully crafted the image they want you to see, and Western journalists are very good at exaggerating the impact and the mystique of Putin. Both these elements have been at play since he took power. They say the first death in war is the truth, and information about Putin can be difficult to decipher what is fa...
2023-09-272h 40Secret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 10 The KGB’s DownfallIn this 10th edition of Russian secret police, we’ll dive into the KGB’s downfall, the unraveling of the Soviet Union, and the atypical leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.
We’ll see how Gorbachev rose from life as a farm boy to the Kremlin’s Communist throne. We’ll discover how the KGB reacted to losing power and the final gasps of this security state in the face of Chernobyl, Glasnost, and Perestroika.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
How did the KGB try to survive?
How did the Soviet Union dissolve?
2023-07-182h 00Secret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 9 Brezhnev’s KGBThe downing of Korean Air Flight 007 demonstrates the level of stupidity and paranoia the Cold War reached. More astounding is this was the second passenger jet the Soviet Union shot down.
The first instance was in 1978 when Korean Air flight 902 was on route from Paris to Seoul with a stop over in Anchorage. This flight took the plane over the North Pole and due to the navigation technology they had at the time and how compasses function when flying over the top of the Earth, the pilots ended up off course. Instead of flying towards Seoul, they e...
2023-05-261h 26Secret PoliceSecret Police Interrogates History Impossible
Bonus Episode! Alex von Sternberg, host of History Impossible, has a ton of experienced in the podcast space and one of the top established shows. He's covered many different topics, most recently the Black Death, as well as Muslim Nazis and a sort of obscure, yet arguably powerful group, called the Professional Managerial Class (PMCs).
On this episode, Jack and Alex discuss COVID, PMCs, erosion of trust in institutions, and much more. We let the conversation flesh itself out. Alex clearly has a passion for history and podcasting. That will become apparent when you hear what he has done in t...
2023-04-018h 15
The Steam GentlemenYour papers please?!!This Week we welcome guest Jack Johannessen from the podcast "Secret Police".Jack is a big fan of our show and an all around great guy. RaShaun was off for some fun in the sun so Jack offered to sit in this week. So Greg and Josh sat down to talk about or favorite films that deal with secret police. Or to be more accurate, a police state. What are the depictions of police states in film and pop culture? And why is such a dark subject matter often depicted in such a humorous way? ...
2023-03-271h 08Secret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 8 KGBrinksmanshipDo you know somebody who was alive during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do they remember how it felt thinking that the world may end in a literal flash? At least one could duck and cover their way into a false sense of safety. In this 8th episode of our Russia series, we are going to wrap up the early years of the KGB and explore some of the cold war tension in Berlin; uprising in Hungary, KGB activities in the US Civil Rights Movement, and the first visit of a Russian leader to the US. Khrushchev toured across the...
2023-03-2445 minSecret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 7 The KGB: SpycraftIn this 7th episode of our Russia series, we will take a deep dive into the KGB itself. We’ll examine its structure, leadership, and most of all, its methods with particular interest in the KGB’s infiltration of governments across the globe. Who were some of the KGB’s most prominent agents? How did one become a KGB agent? All that and more on Secret Police!
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2023-03-1650 minSecret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 6 The KGB: Khrushchev’s RiseMany if not most people have heard of the KGB. Their spy craft is legendary and their presence was menacing. To Americans, they were the illusive boogeymen in the shadows of Cold War events. They're probably the most recognizable Russian spy agency and I’d bet money they’re the most infamous spy agency in history, ever.
In Part 6, we are covering Nikita Khrushchev's steady rise to power and ultimate succession of Joseph Stalin, but Khrushchev took a very different path and actively reversed Stalin's repressive policies to some degree.
Over the next few weeks, we w...
2023-03-0940 min
Secret PoliceGeorge Orwell’s Thought PoliceBonus Episode! George Orwell's famous novel, 1984, can be interpreted in multiple ways by people of varying political identities. They can offer the story as a warning as to why the other side, in their view is dangerous. When the book was published, some viewed it as a warning of what England would turn into if a Stalinist regime took power; others interpreted it as a condemnation of Stalin's Soviet Union; and in recent years, the novel is seen as a warning against totalitarianism. I think at the core of the novel, that's what it is: a warning against giving...
2022-12-3043 minSecret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 5 Beria’s NKVDImagine a state apparatus of terror; they monitor citizens, they kidnap people in the middle of the night, they torture people to extract false confessions. Now imagine that same state apparatus of terror is run by a murderous pedophile. That was the Soviet people's reality with appointment of Lavrenti Beria to the dreaded People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs or the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.
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2022-12-202h 24Secret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 4 The NKVDThe early USSR owes many of its achievements to Stalin's secret police, called the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or the NKVD. These guys really took Russian espionage to a new level. Their reach was global in scale; nearly anybody Stalin wanted dead, the NKVD could get it done. They administered the infamous Gulags and repressed their own people. They blurred the lines between internal police and military force by supporting Leftists during the Spanish Civil War and infiltrating the Manhattan Project.
The NKVD was a secret police force dictators dream of: vast, pervasive, feared, d...
2022-08-312h 15Secret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 3 The ChekaFrom 1917 to 1922, the Cheka terrorized the Russian people into dedicating their lives to the Soviet State. Old institutions were destroyed, people were targeted on the basis of their socio-economic status, and farmers were forced into collectives. Those who disobeyed were likely shot, the most unfortunate were subjected to sadistic torture not seen since the time of Ivan the Terrible.
Under the leadership of Vladimir Ilych Lenin, the Bolsheviks seemed at first to bring real, much needed change to Russia. But it didn’t take long for Lenin’s true intentions to become clear: a dictatorship of the prole...
2022-06-151h 59Secret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 2 The OkhranaImagine for a moment you're an early 20th Century Russian factory worker in Moscow. You do your job everyday to support your family but it's dangerous work. You have moments when you wonder what you're family would do if you were injured or killed on the job. Then you overhear a coworker talking about a movement to petition your Tsar, Nicholas II, for better working hours and pay.
Laborers like you can join a union called the Moscow Mechanical Productions Workers' Mutual Aid Society that will advocate for these better conditions you've been hoping for. P...
2022-04-272h 32Secret PoliceRussian Secret Police Pt. 1 The OprichnikiThey wore black robes and rode black horses like a monastic order of death itself. From 1565 to 1572, the Oprichniki inflicted medieval terror and torture upon the Russian people in the name of Ivan the Terrible. ***Content Warning*** contains descriptions of torture techniques.
This is the first part of a series on Russian secret police and the first episode ever of this new podcast, Secret Police.
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Armies of Ivan the Terrible: Russian Troops 1505–1700 (Men-at-Arms) Paperback – Illustrated, January 31, 2006 by David Nicolle, Viacheslav Shpakovsky, Angus McBride (Illustrator)
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2022-04-1747 minSecret PoliceTrailer: Secret Police***TRAILER!*** Welcome to a new podcast called Secret Police. This show is dedicated to the lap dogs of dictators. Special operatives that employ surveillance and terror upon their own people. We will explore their histories, their brutal methods, and their eventual downfalls. Listen to Secret Police ad free wherever you get podcasts.
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2022-04-0101 min
Garmology - A podcast about clothes, and stuff.For the greater goat - With Jack Millington from Billy Tannery (#52)My guest in this episode is Jack Millington, founder of Billy Tannery, a business that started with the plan of using the otherwise discarded hides of goats. We talk about the inspiration to start a new business, the reality of bringing a crazy idea to fruition, the situation for goats and how collaborations make it possible to create a viable business. You can find Billy Tannery on the web here and on Instagram as @billytannery. Garmology is researched, booked, hosted, edited, published, paid for and everything else by Nick Johannessen. There is no advertising or sp...
2021-05-121h 00
The Long Lost ExplorerThe Long Lost Explorer #2 - Jack Johannessen (Minneapolis, Minnesota)Today we are talking about Minneapolis, Covid-19, George Floyd, Media Deception, and much more! Please follow for future interviews and videos! Jack Johannessen Links: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi7-Je-SuA3zjatKL7A8vDgPlease support me by following or contributing to my Patreon, this will help produce better content in the future! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32cX4Q1oah4Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelonglostexplorerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/t...
2020-07-082h 07
Galley Stories®EP 5 Captain Lloyd Johannessen - 40 yrs in the Bering Sea, I'll Probably Drown in a Bathtub at the HiltonLloyd Johannessen Joins us on the aft Deck of the M/Y Gale, sharing a brief part of his 40 years on the water. Before Lloyd came we had not met, and like me, you'll find you have a new friend. It feels like your favorite shoes by the time he's done. Be Advised, a couple slips on the swear words. The winds raged with waves were slapping the boat the entire recording. But wind and waves become comforting, as his story unfolds.
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2018-02-2754 min
SundanceTV at the Sundance Film FestivalFrom Idea to Deal Panel (SFF 2017)A roundtable discussion exploring legal challenges encountered during the filmmaking process. Presented by LegalZoom. Moderated by Madhu Goel Southworth, SVP Legal & Business Affairs at AMC Networks. Panel includes Thomas Dunlap (Partner, Dunlap, Bennett & Ludwig, LLP), Jack Turner (Producer, "Give Me Future: Major Lazer in Cuba"), Feras Fayyad and Steen Johannessen (Director and Co-Director, "Last Men in Aleppo"), Laura Dunn (Director, "Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry") and Ramona Diaz (Director, "Motherland").
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2017-01-261h 06