This week we're delving into what sounds like conspiracy but is all true. Hear about the CIA and their trip into mind control territory (pun intended) and how it all came out.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CHATTER

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann

https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/lsd/lsd.htm

https://www.wired.com/2010/04/0413mk-ultra-authorized/

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/24_Meier_02.pdf

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD

https://www.britannica.com/topic/MK-ULTRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/20/archives/abuses-in-testing-of-drugs-by-cia-to-be-panel-focus.html

https://www.thecollector.com/project-mk-ultra-cia-secret-experiments/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/after-learning-of-whitey-bulger-lsd-tests-juror-has-regrets

We're back! And we are full of our usual nonsense so apologies in advance. This week we're talking about the tragic life and mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe.

REFERENCES

The mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The unheard tapes – Netflix documentary

https://www.anthonysummers.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dougherty_(police_officer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000054/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_in_0_q_maril

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator

https://www.vogue.com/article/marilyn-monroe-six-things-you-didnt-know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Marilyn_Monroe

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hyde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Greenson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Feury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Marilyn_Monroe:_The_Unheard_Tapes

This week we're talking about the infamous Amityville Horror. There's demons, murder and our old friends, Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror

The AmityvilleHorror House And Its True Story Of Terror

https://thetruthaboutamityville.amityvillenow.com/

https://collider.com/the-amityville-horror-true-story/

https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/amityville-horror-house.htm

Amityville: An Origin Story – BBC

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-17/amityville-anniversary-1974-defeo-murders/104590164

This week it's Steph's birthday so we've both come armed with some phenomenal phenomena. And beers! We really did chat a lot of shit on this one so prepare yourselves for spontaneous human combustion, the globby boys, a sheep panic and a healthy dose of ALIENS!

Sources

https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/great-sheep-panic/38480/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/22236/quick-7-seven-cases-spontaneous-human-combustion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion

This week we're switching things up and each telling a spooky story to celebrate our favourite time of the year!

Sources

https://medium.com/never-stop-writing/countess-elizabeth-bathory-real-life-vampire-or-scapegoat-of-history-dd70322adb03

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331911064_Elisabeth_Bathory_-_a_true_story

Join us this week as we ascend to the Next Level and talk about the wild Heaven's Gate cult!

Sources:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-26/heavens-gate-cult-members-found-dead

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/12/heavens-gate-cult-of-cults-docuseries-hbo-max?srsltid=AfmBOorcvApNDP1NaalJexNTlB1eMPRvcjs9d-0DgM1ec64eyi7nenWC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_witnesses

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Marshall-Applewhite-heavens-gate-cult-17184301.php

https://daily.jstor.org/behind-the-curtain-of-the-heavens-gate-cult/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Nettles

Trust Me: Frank Lyford – Heaven’s Gate: Part 1: The NomadicLifestyle

Trust Me: Frank Lyford – Heaven’s Gate: Part 2: BreakingAway

Finally, after weeks of promising, it's here! The Radium Girls! Hear all about the corporate greed that led to the dissolving of the jaws of women working with radium in the 1920s. Are we any better off now? Let us know!

This week we're talking about Belle Gunness, Midwestern murderess, also known as Hell's Belle. Belle Gunness lured suitors with promises of love and farmland… only for them tovanish without a trace. Was she a grieving widow, a savvy businesswoman—or something far more sinister?

Sources

Belle Gunness: The disturbing life of the lady Bluebeard

Belle Gunness: The Untold Story of America’s Most Notorious Female Serial Killer – True Crime Archives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/belle-gunness/