Just Killing Time

Elizabeth Stanton

 If you've ever felt like the official story just doesn't add up, you're in the right place. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton unravels true crime cases and the conspiracies lurking beneath them — one uncomfortable truth at a time. 

  1. 1d ago

    WHAT LIES BENEATH - The True & Terrible History of Lake Lanier, Georgia

    🌊 It's one of the most beautiful lakes in America. It's also one of the deadliest. More than 700 people have died at Lake Lanier — and the reason why is hiding at the bottom. 💀 In this deep dive, I tell the documented, fully-sourced story of Lake Lanier, Georgia: the town that was flooded to create it, the graves the government admits it never moved, the woman in the blue dress who was seen for 30 years before anyone learned her name, and the 1912 racial cleansing of Forsyth County that was never punished. If you've only heard the viral version of this story, this is the part it gets wrong — and the part that's far more disturbing than the myth. 🎙️ WHAT YOU'LL HEAR 🛶 Why one lake accounts for roughly HALF of all drowning deaths in Georgia 👻 The Lady of the Lake — the true story of Delia Young, Susie Roberts, and a 32-year mystery 🔥 Forsyth County, 1912: 1,098 Black residents driven out at gunpoint, and not one arrest 🪦 The unmarked graves the Army Corps of Engineers admits remain on the lakebed 🏁 The racetrack that rises out of the water during droughts 🏞️ Cherokee removal, eminent domain, and the land that was stolen twice ✊🏾 The 1987 Brotherhood March: 20,000 people, the Klan on the courthouse steps 🦠 The antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the mud — one more way the lake can hurt you ❓ QUESTIONS THIS EPISODE ANSWERS • Why is Lake Lanier so dangerous? — A flooded valley full of submerged roads, buildings, standing trees, and sudden drop-offs, plus 11+ million visitors a year, makes it Georgia's deadliest lake. • Is there a town under Lake Lanier? — Yes: Oscarville and parts of Forsyth and Hall counties were flooded in 1956, and not every structure or grave was moved. • Who is the Lady of the Lake? — Delia Mae Parker Young, drowned in 1958, found in a blue dress with both hands missing, unidentified for 30+ years until her friend's car surfaced in 1990. • How many people have died at Lake Lanier? — More than 700 since 1956, with roughly two dozen bodies still unrecovered. • What happened in Forsyth County in 1912? — A racial cleansing that expelled all 1,098 Black residents in three months, with no one ever charged. 🎧 ABOUT THE SHOW Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton is a true crime and conspiracy podcast that pairs documented, deeply-researched history with one Kansas host's take on the stories the official version leaves out. Every fact is sourced. Every theory is labeled. You decide what it means. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio. 📩 THE TIME KILLER FILES Got a Lake Lanier story or a Forsyth County family history? A true crime or conspiracy from your own community? Email 👉 JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com — Subject line: TIME KILLER FILES. I read every single one. 🔔 Follow the show so you never miss an episode. Thanks for killing time with me. 🖤💛

    1 hr

  2. 6d ago

    THE WORLD OF TOMORROW - General Motors, Monsanto, & the 1939 New York World's Fair

    🌼 In 1942, twenty million American families grew their own food, and let the dandelions grow because everyone's grandmother knew they were medicine. By 1955, the dandelion was a weed — a thing you paid a chemical company to kill. In thirteen years, self-sufficiency went from patriotic duty to a sign of a bad neighborhood. What happened in between? It started at the 1939 New York World's Fair, where forty-five million people walked through a gorgeous, hopeful blueprint for the future — and never realized they were looking at a plan to turn free Americans into permanent customers. 🏛️ In the finale of the White City Series, Elizabeth Stanton follows the documents, names the names, and traces the most successful theft in American history: your great-grandparents' ability to feed and heal themselves, sold back to you one lawn treatment, one car payment, and one prescription at a time. 🧵 IN THIS EPISODE: 🚗 GM's Futurama — the most expensive exhibit at the fair — and the secret plan to tear out America's streetcars 🚎 National City Lines: how GM, Standard Oil, and Firestone dismantled the electric rail of 45 cities 🧪 DuPont's "loony gas" — the tetraethyl lead plant that drove workers insane — and "Better Living Through Chemistry" ☠️ Monsanto's 2,4-D: a herbicide built as a weapon to starve enemy nations, then sold to kill your dandelions 🪖 Operation Pink Rose, Agent Orange, and the dioxin Monsanto knew about 🥕 How the same government that begged you to plant Victory Gardens then outlawed them from the front yard 🏡 FHA Section 4.17: grow food in your front yard, lose your federally-backed mortgage 🌱 The dandelion: a thousand-year medicine (Taraxacum officinale — "official medicine") rebranded as a noxious weed 💊 JAMA, Dr. Morris Fishbein, and the campaign to scrub plant medicine from American medical schools 🛣️ Robert Moses, the 1956 Highway Act, and the deliberate engineering of car dependency 🧠 Edward Bernays again — the 400 campaigns, and the three clients at the center of it all: GM, DuPont, Monsanto 💸 The $180-to-kill-it, $120-to-replace-it household budget that exposes the entire scheme They told us the future would set us free from the past. Instead it locked us into their marketplace. This is how. — Elizabeth ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 🎬 Cold Open — From Victory Gardens to chemical lawns 00:00 🚗 The blueprint: Futurama and the war on the streetcar 00:00 🧪 The poison partnership: DuPont, Monsanto, chemistry as a weapon 00:00 🥕 The government betrayal: Victory Gardens to mandatory grass 00:00 🌱 The dandelion conspiracy: turning medicine into a weed 00:00 🧠 The playbook: a word about Edward Bernays 00:00 🏘️ The suburban prison: engineering car dependency 00:00 🧾 The perfect crime — and the bill we're still paying 00:00 📬 Time Killer Files 📩 Got a Victory Garden memory or a fight with your HOA over a front-yard garden? Send your Time Killer File to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com 🔔 This is the finale of the White City Series. Subscribe and start from Episode 1 if you're new. 📚 Sources include: United States v. National City Lines (1949) • DuPont Company Archives (Hagley Museum) • Monsanto / Agent Orange litigation records • USDA Victory Garden publications • FHA Property Standards manuals • JAMA archives • Federal Highway Act of 1956 records • Robert Bogdan and contemporary reporting #truecrime #conspiracy #history #1939worldsfair #monsanto #dandelion #victorygarden #suburbs #carculture #bigpharma #podcast #JustKillingTime

    37 min

  3. Jun 10

    THE GREAT LIE - 1915 San Francisco World's Fair & The Panama Canal

    🔥 At 5:12 in the morning on April 18, 1906, the San Andreas Fault tore open and San Francisco came down in under a minute. Then the fires came. And before the smoke had even cleared, the most powerful men in the city had quietly agreed on a story — that it was the fire that did it. Not the earthquake. The fire. Because fire was insured. Earthquakes were not. That was the first lie. Nine years later, the city threw the biggest party on Earth to celebrate two great American triumphs — rising from the ashes, and finishing the Panama Canal. Both were sitting on top of bodies and lies that powerful people spent a fortune making sure you would never count. 🏛️ This is the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition — a world's fair built on two enormous lies. In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton follows the documents, names the names, and introduces the man who took these grubby cover-ups and turned them into a science you are still living inside today: Edward Bernays. 🧵 IN THIS EPISODE: 🔥 The 80% the USGS later confirmed — how much of the destruction the earthquake actually caused, and why the city buried it 📨 The telegram sent just six hours after the quake that set the "fire" narrative in motion 🎩 Mayor Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, and the railroad's hired photographer 📄 The earthquake exclusion clause — and how Hartford paid investigators bonuses to reclassify claims as "earthquake" so they could deny them 🕵️ The Pacific Coast Adjustment Bureau: a written cartel agreement to pay the powerful and deny the poor ⚖️ Margaret Sullivan, the widow who beat Hartford in the California Supreme Court — and still died in poverty 💰 Bailey Willis, the geologist paid $25,000 (over $750k today) to say the ground was safe ✍️ The building-inspection reports physically rewritten in different ink to erase the earthquake ⚒️ "Gold roll" vs "silver roll": how the Panama Canal hid more than 19,000 deaths 🧨 The Culebra Cut explosion that killed 23 men — and was officially recorded as 6 🚬 Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew: "Torches of Freedom," the United Fruit coup in Guatemala, and the birth of manufactured consent 🌉 How the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake collected the bill — in the exact neighborhood they built on the lie. They rewrote a disaster while a quarter of a million witnesses were still alive. This is the story of how they pulled it off — and who paid for it. — Elizabeth  📬 Time Killer Files ⚠️ A note: this episode discusses mass death and the deliberate erasure of thousands of Caribbean canal workers. Told with care, but please listen accordingly. 📩 Got a family story or a modern cover-up that fits? Send your Time Killer File to JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com 🔔 Subscribe for the full White City Series and new true-crime-and-conspiracy episodes every week. 📚 Sources include: USGS Professional Paper 1515 • National Archives (Pacific Coast Adjustment Bureau; Panama Canal Zone records) • Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley • Stanford University Archives • Charles Evans Hughes, Report on Insurance Practices (1907) • Edward Bernays, "Propaganda" (1928) • Mary Comerio, "Disaster Hits Home" (1998) #truecrime #conspiracy #history #1906earthquake #panamacanal #edwardbernays #worldsfair #sanfrancisco #propaganda #podcast #JustKillingTime

    44 min

  4. Jun 4

    THE IMPERIAL SPECTACLE - 1904 St Louis World's Fair, 1st American Olympics, & the Largest Human Zoo

    In 1904, the St. Louis World's Fair displayed over 1,200 human beings as living specimens in what became the largest "human zoo" in American history. Nineteen million visitors paid to see people from around the world exhibited as examples of "primitive" human development. In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton exposes the systematic dehumanization that occurred at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. This wasn't fringe entertainment—it was mainstream American science, supported by the Smithsonian Institution, major universities, and the U.S. government. THE ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS: On August 12-13, 1904, the fair held athletic competitions between ethnic groups being displayed as specimens. These "Special Olympics" were designed to prove scientifically that white Americans were physically superior to what organizers called "primitive peoples." The same stadium hosted both the official Olympics and these racist competitions. OTA BENGA'S TRAGIC STORY: One of the most heartbreaking cases involves Ota Benga, a Pygmy brought from the Congo. After the fair, he was literally displayed in the monkey house at the Bronx Zoo. When African-American ministers protested, it took weeks to secure his release. He eventually died by suicide in Virginia in 1916, age 32. GERONIMO'S FINAL IMPRISONMENT: At 75 years old, Geronimo was still a prisoner of war, displayed in the Apache village selling photographs for 25 cents. This was his fourth World's Fair exhibition. He died in 1909 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, never having seen his Arizona homeland again. THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE: The Bureau of Insular Affairs transported over 600 Filipinos to be displayed. The Bureau of Indian Affairs facilitated Native American participation. At least 11 Filipino workers died during the fair from diseases and inadequate living conditions—deaths that were recorded but not publicized. SCIENTIFIC LEGITIMACY: The fair's Department of Anthropology, led by W.J. McGee from the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted extensive physical measurements and intelligence tests on the village residents. These "scientific" results were published in academic journals and cited in Congressional debates about immigration and colonial policy for decades. LASTING IMPACT: The methodologies developed at the 1904 fair became standard practice in American anthropology and influenced everything from immigration restrictions to forced sterilization laws. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History opened in 1910 with exhibits based directly on the racial classification system developed at this fair. SERIES CONNECTION: This episode builds on Elizabeth's previous coverage of the eugenics movement and shows how the same "scientific" approaches used to rank ethnic groups at World's Fairs were later applied to American families through Better Babies contests and forced sterilization programs. Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of scientific racism, human exhibitions, and historical trauma. The subject matter addresses systematic dehumanization and its lasting impact on communities and families. WHAT MAKES THIS EPISODE ESSENTIAL: Elizabeth clearly distinguishes between documented historical facts and her analysis throughout. She honors the memory of the individuals who were exploited while exposing the systems that enabled their dehumanization. This isn't just history—it's a crucial examination of how "scientific education" can mask systematic oppression. The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was the largest and most influential international exposition in American history to that point. Understanding what happened there helps explain how American racial ideology was exported globally and how "science" was weaponized to justify empire and oppression. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton explores true crime, conspiracy, and the stories that keep us up at night—with rigorous attention to documented evidence and the human impact of historical events. end your Time Killer Files to: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

    22 min

  5. Jun 2

    THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Nikola Tesla & the FBI Raid That May Have Stolen Free Energy From the World

    Nikola Tesla demonstrated wireless power to 27 million people at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Then J.P. Morgan pulled his funding, Tesla died broke, and the FBI seized his papers within hours of his death. In this episode of Just Killing Time, Elizabeth Stanton separates documented history from conspiracy theory in the Tesla story. What really happened at Wardenclyffe? Why was Tesla's work classified as "Most Secret"? And how does a Kansas farmhouse connect to the greatest suppressed technology in electrical history? This isn't about free energy conspiracy theories—it's about documented suppression, the War of Currents that shaped our electrical grid, and the FBI raid that happened before Tesla was even buried. Elizabeth digs into declassified documents, patent records, and newspaper archives to tell the real story of what we lost when Tesla's wireless power system was abandoned. THE KANSAS CONNECTION: Growing up in Derby, Kansas, Elizabeth explores how rural electrification timelines connect to Tesla's vision of wireless power distribution—and why the documented history is more compelling than any conspiracy theory. KEY TOPICS: • Tesla's 1893 World's Fair wireless power demonstration • The documented War of Currents: Tesla vs. Edison • Wardenclyffe Tower and J.P. Morgan's funding decision • FBI seizure of Tesla's papers and the "Most Secret" classification • Rural Kansas electrification and the "farmhouse question" • Patent suppression and the electrical utility industry • What Tesla's "World System" would actually have accomplished This episode is part of The White City Series, exploring the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the systematic suppression of technologies, ideas, and people that could have changed the trajectory of the 20th century. HISTORICAL ACCURACY: Elizabeth clearly distinguishes between documented facts and speculation throughout, because the real story of Tesla's suppression is remarkable enough without embellishment. Content Note: This episode discusses historical suppression of technology and includes discussion of FBI surveillance and patent control by industrial interests. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton explores true crime, conspiracy, and the stories that keep us up at night—with a focus on documented evidence and Kansas connections to national mysteries. Send your Time Killer Files to: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

    58 min

  6. May 28

    THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW - A President Dies While Babies Live & The Movement That Wanted Them Dead

    👶 THE BABIES IN THE SIDESHOW: When Power Failed & Love Worked 💔 🏛️ Buffalo, September 6, 1901. President McKinley shot at 4:07 PM. 300 yards away: Martin Couney saving premature babies in glass incubators. The president dies. The babies live. 🔍 TONIGHT: 👶 Martin Couney: saved 6,500 babies over 40 years (may not have been a real doctor) 🔫 McKinley assassination complete story + the X-ray machine nobody used 🧬 Eugenics movement at the SAME fairs arguing "weakling" babies should die 🏆 First Fitter Families contest: Topeka, Kansas, 1920 (judging humans like livestock) ⚖️ Buck v. Bell: Supreme Court legalized forced sterilization (never overturned) 💕 Lucille Horn: 2 pounds at birth, lived to 96, five children Part of White City Series exploring World's Fair dark secrets. 🏠 Kansas connection: First eugenics contest held at Kansas State Fair. Bronze medals for "genetic worth." From presidential assassination to babies fighting for life—this is about who gets to live and who decides. Perfect for fans of: True crime, medical history, presidential assassinations, hidden American history, disability rights #JustKillingTime #MartinCouney #McKinleyAssassination #Eugenics #KansasHistory #IncubatorBabies #Buffalo1901 #ElizabethStanton 👶 Same fairground. Same day. Power failed. Love worked. 💔 🎧 Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

    43 min

  7. May 26

    THE MURDER CASTLE - America's First Serial Killer & The Building That Became a Legend

    🏰 THE MURDER CASTLE: H.H. Holmes - Myth vs. Reality 💀 🎪 Three miles from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Herman Mudgett built a hotel. The newspapers called it the Murder Castle. The legend says 200 victims. The truth: 9 confirmed deaths. 🔍 TONIGHT WE COVER: 💀 Holmes' real background vs. the mythology 🏨 What he actually built (acid vats were real, "100 rooms" weren't) 👥 The 9 confirmed victims by name—including the Pitezel children 🕵️ Detective Frank Geyer's 3-month hunt across North America ⚖️ Holmes' $7,500 confession to Hearst papers & gallows recantation 🏢 The post office that stands there now (employees won't go to basement) Part of the White City Series exploring the dark side of the 1893 World's Fair. 🏠 Kansas connection: The Bloody Benders family killed travelers on the Kansas prairie 20 years before Holmes—they were never caught. From medical school body-snatcher to America's first documented serial killer—this is Holmes' real story, told with respect for his actual victims. Perfect for fans of: True crime, serial killer documentaries, Chicago history, The Devil in the White City, detective stories #JustKillingTime #HHHolmes #MurderCastle #TrueCrime #SerialKiller #Chicago1893 #WorldsFair #ElizabethStanton #DetectiveFrankGeyer 💀 Alice. Nellie. Howard. Pearl. Julia. Emeline. Minnie. Nannie. Remember their names. 💀 🎧 Send Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

    41 min

  8. May 21

    THE WHITE CITY - 1893 World's Fair, Nikola Tesla, & Papst Blue Ribbon Beer

    ⚡ TESLA: The World's Fair Genius & FBI's Most Secret File ⚡ 🏛️ In 1893, Tesla showed 27 million people wireless power at the Chicago World's Fair. Tonight: his complete story from Croatian village to FBI seizure. 🔬 DISCOVER: ⚡ How Tesla's AC system beat Edison & still powers your home 🥚 The mysterious spinning egg that defied physics 💰 Why he tore up a billion-dollar contract 🌩️ Colorado Springs: 135-foot lightning bolts 🗼 Wardenclyffe Tower & free worldwide electricity plan 💣 Why the government dynamited his tower (1917) 📁 FBI seized 80 trunks when he died—20 never arrived Part of the White City Series exploring World's Fair conspiracies. 🏠 Kansas angle: How Tesla's suppressed wireless power could have transformed rural America decades before power lines reached isolated farmsteads. From lighting the World's Fair to dying alone while FBI agents seized his papers—this is Tesla's real story, not the mythology. Perfect for fans of: True crime, conspiracy theories, Tesla documentaries, history mysteries, science podcasts #JustKillingTime #Tesla #TrueCrime #Conspiracy #WorldsFair #Chicago1893 #FBIFiles #WirelessPower #ElizabethStanton ⚡ He designed the electrical system that powers everything you own. He died alone. The FBI took his papers. ⚡ 🎧 Send Time Killer Files: JustKillingTimePodcast@gmail.com

    45 min
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 If you've ever felt like the official story just doesn't add up, you're in the right place. Just Killing Time with Elizabeth Stanton unravels true crime cases and the conspiracies lurking beneath them — one uncomfortable truth at a time. 

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    Elizabeth Stanton
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