For 30 years, the United States government maintained a fully operational secret nuclear bunker beneath the most famous luxury resort in America — and the entire town of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia agreed to pretend it wasn’t there.
In Episode 6 of Just Killing Time, we go 720 feet underground into Project Greek Island — a 112,544 square foot Cold War relocation facility built to house every single member of Congress while the rest of the country burned. Behind a door marked “Danger: High Voltage Keep Out,” a 28-ton blast door. Beyond that: 1,100 assigned beds, 18 dormitories, a 400-seat cafeteria with fake windows, a decontamination shower, a TV studio with a seasonal Capitol backdrop, and a “pathological waste incinerator” that was in fact a crematorium.
We trace the story from a Kansas boy stuck in Nebraska quicksand in 1919 — a young Dwight Eisenhower on the Transcontinental Motor Convoy — through the Interstate Highway System (whose first completed section was, of course, in Kansas) and into the hillside behind The Greenbrier. We meet Forsythe Associates, the fake TV repair company staffed by Pentagon-cleared intelligence operatives who maintained the bunker for three decades. We sit with the moment the bunker was completed — six days before the Cuban Missile Crisis — and was deemed too dangerous to use. And we follow reporter Ted Gup’s tape recorder onto the hotel manager’s desk in 1992, and Katharine Graham’s response when the White House asked her not to publish: “Don’t worry. We’ll do what we believe is right.”
Somewhere in America right now, there is almost certainly another one. A normal member of Congress, as the Washington Post’s Bill Arkin put it, “knows nothing.”
This is a standalone episode. A boy from Abilene. A grid of Kansas roads running to the horizon. And a bunker under a ballroom that was built for a war that never came.
Sources include: The Nuclear Museum, Civil Defense Museum, The Washington Post, National Archives, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Federal Highway Administration, and Kansas Geological Survey. Full citations on YouTube.
Runtime: approximately 65 minutes • Category: True Crime / History / Conspiracy • Explicit: Clean
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.

In 1971, a shy folk artist in Louisville, Kentucky began making soft-sculpture dolls she called Doll Babies. She gave them birth certificates. Adoption papers. A personalized letter from the doll itself. She called herself Momma Martha. Her name was Martha Nelson Thomas — and you have almost certainly never heard it.

Five years later, a 21-year-old art student from Georgia named Xavier Roberts walked into her craft fair booth. What happened next built a two-billion-dollar empire, sparked the most violent toy riot in American history, and stamped one man's signature on the backside of every Cabbage Patch Kid ever made.

This is the finale of Angel Makers. A four-part investigation into the hidden system that processed America's most vulnerable children across a hundred years — and somehow ended up in a mass-produced doll with a Georgia birth certificate.

In this episode:

• The real inventor of the Cabbage Patch Kid — and the funeral where her dolls filled the front pew

• Babyland General Hospital — the "Imagicillin" birth ritual, the preemie ward, and the signature branded on every baby's body

• The 1983 Cabbage Patch Riots — the Wilkes-Barre baseball bat, the pregnant woman trampled in New Jersey, and the adults ripping dolls from children's hands

• The names on the birth certificates — real children, real 1938 Georgia birth records, assigned to dolls

• The full reveal — baby farms, orphan trains, asylums, Cabbage Patch Kids. Same bones. Different clothes.

• A final tribute to Nancy Shoemaker, the nine-year-old girl who started this show

The language of institutional child transfer had been woven into American culture for a hundred years before a young artist in the Appalachian foothills built a hospital out of an old medical clinic and told children they were adopting a nameless baby. He wasn't thinking about Amelia Dyer. He wasn't thinking about the orphan trains. He wasn't thinking about Elizabeth Packard. But the ritual he created came from somewhere — and a generation of children recognized it in their bones.

Receive the nameless baby. Give it a name. Promise to love it. Mean it.

This is Angel Makers, Part 4. The series finale. Born in a Cabbage Patch.

If you've ever felt like the official story just doesn't add up, you're in the right place.

For Nancy. For Martha. For the nameless ones.

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Explicit content. Listener discretion advised.

Novel reading. Hard study. Laziness. Desertion by husband. Menstrual derangement. Grief.

Those are the official, government-recorded reasons human beings were committed to the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane between 1864 and 1889. Not symptoms. Not diagnoses. Reasons.

This is the episode where the Angel Makers machine comes into full view. Baby farms needed a supply of infants. Orphan trains needed a supply of children. And to get that supply — somebody had to remove the mothers first. The asylum was how they did it.

In Part 3, we cover the real archived admission log from the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane, the Illinois law that allowed a husband to commit his wife with his signature alone and zero evidence of insanity, Elizabeth Packard — locked away for disagreeing with her husband's theology and who changed commitment laws in four states, Nellie Bly — who faked insanity to get herself committed to Blackwell's Island and came out weeping that she couldn't bring everyone with her, and Rosemary Kennedy — lobotomized without her consent at 23, hidden from her own family for twenty years, and whose stolen voice became the foundation of the Special Olympics.

One historian called the Victorian asylum "a museum for the collection of the unwanted." By the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly who was being collected — and what happened to the children they left behind.

Next time: Angel Makers Part 4 — Born in a Cabbage Patch. The finale. The full reveal. Every thread pulled to the end.

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.

⚠️ This episode contains discussion of forced institutionalization, lobotomy, child separation, and historical abuse. Listener discretion advised.