Ep. 253 - The Kaleidoscope

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Phillip Taylor Kramer was the former bass player for the rock group Iron Butterfly who traded in his guitar and became a scientist. But in 1995 Kramer mysteriously vanished. Some people believe that Kramer was killed because he had managed to unlock the secrets to faster than light travel. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theconspiratorspodcast/videos Notes: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/iron-butterfly-philip-taylor-kramer-found-dead/ https://web.archive.org/web/20040807081111/http://www.mrkabc.com/mrkabc/news/kramer01.html https://web.archive.org/web/20020204114404/http://www.maximonline.com/maximwear/articles/article_2193.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120303004204/https://www.skeptictank.org/kramer.htm https://thedebrief.org/the-strange-death-of-rockstar-and-tech-mogul-philip-taylor-kramer-remains-baffling-almost-three-decades-after-his-disappearance/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-30-vl-48798-story.html https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bizarre-disappearance-iron-butterfly-philip-taylor-kramer/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.7	On May 29, 1999, Walter Lockwood and a friend were out hiking through the Santa Monica Mountains,
0:59.6	along a stretch of Decker Canyon Road.
1:02.9	This winding two-lane streets stretches between Malibu and the upscale neighborhood of Westlake Village.
1:09.2	The place where Walter and his friend were hiking
1:11.7	through wasn't as scenic as you might be imagining. Much of this area was notorious for being
1:17.2	strewn with garbage and rusting wrecked cars. But this was exactly what Walter was looking for.
1:24.1	Walter was an amateur photographer, and his preferred subject matter were pictures of abandoned rocks.
1:30.8	He and his friend had been hiking through the hills for a few hours when they hit the jackpot.
1:35.9	A deep ravine containing several broken vehicles and hunks of rusting, twisted metal.
1:41.5	As Walter climbed down the slope to get a better look, he spotted a particular faded green
1:46.2	aerostar minivan that caught his attention. This van was wrecked. The windshield was smashed out.
1:53.9	The metal frame crumpled and bent. If you traced its path backwards up the hill, you could see how
1:59.5	the vehicle must have creaned off the steep embankment high above and came crashing down into the valley. Walter
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