Episode Details

The Angry Episode (Project MKUltra)

Published 5 years, 5 months ago

Description

Are you ready to hear a tale that’s even stranger than Stranger Things? Then buckle up for this week’s episode, in which we dive headfirst into the horrific nightmarescape that was Project MKUltra. CREEPED OUT: Bear nose boop heroism. STRANGER THAN FICTION: Kathryn relays the horrors of the CIA’s secretive MKUltra project. BUMP IN THE NIGHT: Straws in the Sand, Pt II. BONUS: MKUltra hot, BBQ balance beams, purple spotted tarantulas, and secret-secret glass.

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Artwork by Blake Anderson

Theme Music by Luca Francini

This Week’s Sources:

Intro:

Learn more about organ, eye, & tissue donation at Donate Life America:
https://www.donatelife.net/

“Can you be an organ donor and donate your body to science?” by the Lankenau Medical Center via Main Line Health
https://www.mainlinehealth.org/blog/whole-body-donation

“Body donation at Mayo Clinic” via Mayo Clinic
https://www.mayoclinic.org/body-donation/making-donation

Creeped Out:

“California teen who shoved bear to save dogs: ‘I didn’t know I had it in me’” by Sajina Shrestha via The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/02/california-teen-pushed-bear-fence-hailey-morincino

Stranger Than Fiction:

Wikipedia entry on Project MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

Wikipedia entry on Central Intelligence Agency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency

“‘Their lives were ruined’: Families of MK Ultra survivors planning class-action suit” by Lindsay Richardson via CTV News
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/their-lives-were-ruined-families-of-mk-ultra-survivors-planning-class-action-suit-1.3938447

“Brainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA” by Michelle Shephard, Lisa Ellenwood and Chris Oke via CBC
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/brainwashed-mkultra

“What We Know About the CIA’s Midcentury Mind-Control Project” by Kat Eschner via Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-know-about-cias-midcentury-mind-control-project-180962836/

“The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'” by Terry Gross via NPR
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

Sidney Gottlieb obituary by Godfrey Hodgson via The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/mar/11/guardianobituaries2

“MK-Ultra” via History.com
https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra

“CIA Mind Control | CIA Secret Experiments” by National Geographic via YouTube