Podcasts on Jonestown: A Compendium – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple

[Note: These podcasts are listed in reverse chronological order. Reviews of most of them can be found in the annual reviews, listed here.]

• American Loser (09/25/2025)

• Conspirashy (09/17/2025)

• The Supernaturals (8/20, 8/27/2025)

• The Paranormal Lovers (08/24, 08/27/2025)

• Why We Do What We Do (7/16, 7/23/2025)

• Drink about Something (7/11, 7/18, 7/25, 08/01/2025)

• Dawn of Mantis (14 episodes running from 4/11 – 7/11/2025)

• Graveyard Grumbler (04/28, 5/19/2024)

• Borrowed Bones (04/01/2025)

• History Dweebs (04/07/2025)

• Red Handed (12/12, 12/19/2024)

• American Scandal: Jonestown (09/12, 09/19, 09/26, 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, all 2023)

• What’s Wrong with Us (7/13/2023)

• Eyewitness History (06/20/2023)

• Remember that Time (05/22/2023)

• Escape from Jonestown n.d. only available through Audible

• Leaving Eden (1/02/2023)

• Programmed to Chill (11/04, 11/11, 11/18, all 2022)

• History Buffs (05/31/2022)

• Morning Cup of Murder (May 13, 2022)

• Weird Darkness
May 10, 2022: “Did the CIA orchestrate the Jonestown Massacre?”
July 8, 2022: “Issues caused to First Responders”

• The Return of the Repressed (May 11, May 18, May 25, June 1, 2022)

• Szürke Zóna Podcast (“Grey Area Podcast”), Hungarian (Magyarországról), “A jonestowni tömeges szektaöngyilkosság” (“The Jonestown mass cult-suicide”) (2022)
Part 1
Part 2

• The Alarmist (April 5, 2022)

• Profiling Payne (08/02/2021 & 12/14/2021)

• The Worldview Clash Clash (February & March 2021)

A six-part series that looks at “the Peoples Temple Movement from a biblical Worldview,” by Jason Burger (22 minutes)

• Cultish (08/24, 08/31, 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28, all 2021)

• Dying to Know (August 20, 2021)

• Paranoid Planet (March & April 2021)

Episode 3.4: “The Cultic Culture Club” (part 4), an interview with Jonestown Institute co-director Fielding McGehee by Michel Gagne (111 minutes)

• Give Us Morgue (04/15/2021)

• What’s Wrong with Them? (March 8, 2021)

• Conservations to Die For (02/23/2021)

• Promised Land (02/15, 02/23, 03/03, 03/10, 03/18, 03/26, 04/03, 04/11, 04/19, 05/02, 05/18, 07/13/, 10/23, all 2021)

• BBC Heart & Soul: Jonestown: From Socialism to Slaughter (December 2020)

Part 1, 12/4, 2020 (27 minutes)) & Part 2, 12/11 2020 (27 minutes), by Erin Martin
Originally broadcast on BBC World Service, this two-part program explores “intimate questions of faith and spirituality” from around the world. The basic Peoples Temple story is presented along with warning signs, which are paired with segments of interviews with Tim Carter, Leslie Wagner-Wilson, Jordan Vilchez, Stephan Jones, Vera Washington, and Fielding McGehee, and recordings from the Peoples Temple archives.

• Sofa Spuds (01/04/2021)

• Silent Command (November 2020)

Hurry, My Children: A Jonestown and Peoples Temple Audio History, by Mike Appelstein (114 minutes)
The podcaster’s discussion of the program and his listing of sources appears here.

• Let’s Start a Cult (10/06/2020)

• Stranger Than Podcast (07/02/2020)

• Martyr Made (03/04/2019, 04/15/2019, 06/23/2019, 02/10/2020, 06/14/2020, 06/15/2020, 10/17/2020)

• Mr. Bunker’s Conspiracy Time (March 4, 2020)

• Vice Extremes (February 27, 2020)

Escaping a Cult, an interview with Vernon Gosney (45 minutes)

• Something Was Wrong (01/31, 02/07, 02/14, 02/22, 02/29, 03/07, 03/21, all 2020)

• Even the Podcast is Afraid (formerly known as “Storytime”) (January 20, February 2, February 10, & February 24, 2020)

• Oversight: Jonestown (November-December 2019)

Introducing Oversight: Jonestown (2 minutes)
24 Hours (31 minutes)
Descent Into Madness (30 minutes)
The Cover Up (19 minutes)
Final Warnings (36 minutes)
Who’s To Blame (34 minutes)
Epilogue: Shattered Lives (30 minutes)

Additional online articles from CQ Roll Call Magazine appear at https://www.rollcall.com/jonestown/

• Historic.ly (October 18, 2019)

A People’s History of Jonestown with Fielding McGehee (110 minutes)

• Anthology of Horror (June 27, July 3, July 6, July 11, 2019)

• Necromipod (April 2019)

Jonestown Part 1: The Ends Justify the Means (97 minutes)
Jonestown Part 2: Consequences of Absolute Power (82 minutes)
Jonestown Part 3: The Last Year (106 minutes)

• Midnight Writer News (April 9, 2018 & July 31, 2018)

• Infamous Indy (03/18/2019 & 03/25 /2019)
• The Truth about True Crime with Amanda Knox (2018-2019)

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
Part 1: Making a Monster (25 minutes)
Part 2: Rainbow Family (21 minutes)
Part 3: California Dreaming (27 minutes)
Part 4: Losing Control (25 minutes)
Part 5: Promised Land (26 minutes)
Part 6: No Escape (34 minutes)
Part 7: Life After Jonestown (25 minutes)

• AllOutAttack (February 14, 2019)

Conversation with Jonestown survivor Laura Johnston Kohl (55 minutes)

• Transmissions from Jonestown (2017-2018) (Article by Shannon Howard, podcast creator)

Episode 1: The Peoples Temple (45 minutes)
Episode 2: Life In The Promised Land (46 minutes)
Episode 3: Revolutionary Suicide (48 minutes)
Episode 4: The Death Tape (56 minutes)
Episode 5: The Consequences Of Apathy (62 minutes)
Episode 6: Apostolic Socialism (55 minutes)
Episode 7: The Electric Koolaid Acid Tests (62 minutes)
Episode 8: The Psychodelic Elephant (66 minutes)
Episode 9: Q875, Is It Too Late For Russia? (60 minutes)
Episode 10: Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself (65 minutes)
Episode 11: Ockham’s Razor, Solving The Mystery Of Q875 (63 minutes) (also available on Youtube

• Bloody Classic (January 7, 2019)

“Episode 35. The People’s Cult in Jonestown (AKA Do Not Drink The Kool Aid)” (29 minutes)

• Criminal Broads: The Podcast (November 14, 2018)

“Episode 14: Jim Jones’ Right-Hand Woman: Carolyn Layton” (35 minutes)

• Open Minds on Air (July 28, 2018)

Episode 5 – Brainwashing and Cult Apologists (97 minutes)

• Murder Made Me Famous (July 27, 2018)

Jim Jones (49 minutes)

• RadioJustice.org (March 2018)

The Breakdown (59 minutes)
An interview with Jonestown survivor Leslie Wagner Wilson and writer Sikivu Hutchinson

• The Last Podcast on the Left (2018) [2023 note: The links below are through the Wayback Machine.]

Episode 300: Jonestown Part I – Everyone in the World Is My Friend (96 minutes)
Episode 301: Jonestown Part II – Sidestep and Bullshit (117 minutes)
Episode 302: Jonestown Part III – Check Please (121 minutes)
Episode 303: Jonestown Part IV – The Box (110 minutes)
Episode 304: Jonestown Part V – The Last Year (2 hours, 22 minutes)

• Cults (2017 – 2018)

Part 1: “The Peoples Temple” – Jim Jones (58 minutes)
Part 2: “The Peoples Temple” Pt. 2 – Jim Jones (63 minutes)

• The After Midnight Podcast (2017)

Jim Jones, The People’s Temple & The Jonestown Massacre (121 minutes)

• Casefile True Crime (2017) (Reviewed by Jason Dikes)

Jonestown (Part 1) (83 minutes)
Jonestown (Part 2) (59 minutes)
Jonestown (Part 3) (58 minutes)

• Dark History Podcast (2017) (Reviewed by Jason Dikes)

Episode 05: The Rise of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple (Part 1) (91 minutes)
Episode 06: The Jonestown Massacre (Part 2) (88 minutes) [Editor’s note: The URL for this podcast edition is defunct.]
Minisode 01: Jonestown Conspiracy Theories (Part 3) (40 minutes) [Editor’s note: The URL for this podcast edition is defunct.]

• History Untold (2017)

Jonestown Massacre (13 minutes)

• Jim Harold’s Crime Scene (2017)

The Road To Jonestown and Jim Jones – Crime Scene 122 (43 minutes)

• Secret Transmission Podcast (2017)

Episode 65 Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre (89 minutes)

• Killers, Cults & Nutjobs (2016) (Reviewed by Jason Dikes)

Tradgety at Jonestown – Jim Jones (67 minutes)

• Unpopular Culture (2016)

Cults: The Jonestown Massacre (47 Minutes)

• Ask Historians (2015) (Reviews by Jason Dikes and Ailsa Lung)

AskHistorians Podcast 052 – The People’s Temple and Jonestown (83 minutes)