They Knew Who Wasn’t Real

Inspector Story - A podcast by Inspector Story

Between 1962 and 1977, a group based outside Salt Lake City, Utah, called themselves The True Ones. Dismissed as a paranoid cult at the time, they claimed to have discovered a global pattern: public figures being quietly replaced by something… not human.Their only method of detection? The way these impostors blinked.Government files later revealed surveillance on the group. Members spoke of infiltration at the highest levels—politicians, news anchors, even religious leaders. They believed the world was already being taken, not by war or technology, but by something far more ancient and patient.