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Empire of the Wheel: San Bernardino 1915 deaths (Bosley on Danny Jones, Sept 2026)

Walter Bosley (ex-AFOSI; Empire of the Wheel, with historian Richard Spence) ties seven 1915 San Bernardino deaths to WWI espionage and an occult ritual.

Claims in this source

Each claim is graded on its own; this source is not graded.

Claim	Verdict	At	Relation
Bosley claims San Bernardino was a rail hub for this arms traffic	Unproven		reports
Bosley claims Sundance was an undercover government agent who never shot anyone	Unproven		reports
Bosley identifies the unidentified 1915 lake woman ('Cora Stanton') as Etta Place	Unproven		reports
Bosley maps the seven 1915 San Bernardino deaths and the Zodiac attacks onto 'telluric currents'	Smoke, no fire		reports
Bosley says a CIA mentor (an Angleton protege) confirmed the lake woman was Etta Place	Unproven		reports
Bosley says pulling the 1915 coroner record in 2009 triggered surveillance and a warning	Unproven		reports
Houdini was murdered by spiritualists	Unproven		reports
Houdini worked as a Secret Service/British intelligence asset	Unproven		reports
In the Hindu-German Conspiracy, a German official arranged arms for revolutionaries in India, shipped from San Diego on the Annie Larsen	Documented · occurred		reports
Walter Franklin Prince moved from Episcopal ministry to leading psychical research and working against fraudulent mediums	Documented · occurred		reports

Ties

To	Role	Years	Verdict	Source
AFOSI Office of Special Projects	Bosley's former agency	—	—
Leak prosecutions compared	contrast: documented retaliation vs. perceived surveillance	—	—

Tied from

From	Role	Years	Verdict	Source
Bosley on Danny Jones - airships, Paperclip, breakaway (2026)	same guest, earlier episode	1915	—	youtube.com

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