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MK-Ultra Part VIII: LSD Prison Experiments

In part eight of our series on MK-Ultra, we are going elbow deep into Gen Pop in cell block WTF with the MK-Ultra prison experiments. Not to be confused with the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. Those involved in the MK-Ultra project dosed…

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MK-Ultra Part VII: Project Stargate

In part seven of our series on MK-Ultra, we bring you The Men Who Stare at Stranger Things on Shutter Island. Both films, The Men Who Stare At Goats and Shutter Island as well as the hit Netflix series Stranger Things all take based-on-true-event…

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MK-Ultra Part VI: ‘Jolly’ West Acid

In part six of our series on MK-Ultra, we take you into the mind of Dr. Louis Jolyon ‘Jolly’ West. “Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West was an American psychiatrist whose work focused particularly on cases where subjects were taken to the limits of human…

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Side Crime: Eel Enema

In this episode of Side Crime, the hosts of Even the Podcast is Afraid discuss several weird stories that have recently been in the news, including: a Canadian man who gets arrested for flying helicopter to Dairy Queen, an Alabama woman goes swimming…

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MK-Ultra Part V: Leary Harvard Unabomber

In part five of our series on MK-Ultra, we discuss Timothy Leary’s unusual and wild life that was soaked with LSD, as he was one of the biggest LSD gurus. His life was strange and eccentric, from Harvard LSD Experiments to possibly helping create the…

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MK-Ultra Part IV: The Poisoner in Chief

In part four of our series on MK-Ultra, we discuss Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, a chemist and spymaster for the CIA and one of the biggest baddies of the whole MK-Ultra project. Occasionally referred to as The Poisoner In Chief, he was a sinister progenitor…

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MK-Ultra Part III: Electric Kool-Aid Acid

In part three of our series on MK-Ultra, we discuss The Merry Pranksters, comrades and followers of American author Ken Kesey in 1964. Who lived communally at Kesey’s homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a…

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MK-Ultra Part II: Steal Your Mind

In part two of our series on MK-Ultra, we discuss ‘The Grateful Dead’. Who are known for their iconic Steal Your Face logo, their equally iconic music and their diehard fans, but their start is actually somewhat linked to MK-Ultra. From underground…

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MK-Ultra Part I: LSD Origins

Project MK-Ultra was the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the CIA some of which were illegal. These experiments on humans were intended to develop procedures and identify drugs such as…

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Side Crime: Cereal Offender

In this episode of Side Crime, the hosts of Even the Podcast is Afraid discuss several weird stories that have recently been in the news, including: a Canadian park has been named ‘Glory Hole Park’, a prison guard smuggles drugs in Rice Krispies…

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