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One of the new promos for Stranger Things season 2, titled “Nosebleed,” consists mostly of cryptic repeated phrases spoken over a slideshow of the same creepy images, flashing over and over again. It’s not clear what the meaning of “450,” “rainbow,” or the directional arrows in the trailer is, but …
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One of the cats involved in the Acoustic Kitty Project was a grey-and-white female. Pixabay Drugs, nukes and animal operatives: Project MK-Ultra, the CIA’s infamous human mind control project, wasn’t the only thing that was going on in the ‘60s. In that decade, writes Tom Vanderbilt for Smithsonian …
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Forty years ago, a Freedom of Information request revealed the terrifying scope of Project MKUltra, a CIA programme which used human subjects to experiment with mind control for more than ten years.Although the majority of documentation relating to the project had been destroyed by 1977, enough …
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John Frankenheimer’s classic The Manchurian Candidate built upon the idea of brainwashed GIs in Korea. Still from The Manchurian Candidate Journalist Edward Hunter was the first to sound the alarm. “Brain-washing Tactics Force Chinese Into Ranks of Communist Party,” blared his headline in the Miami …
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Project MKUltra began on this day in 1953 and continued for years Kat Eschner April 13, 2017 Many of the records from MKUltra have been destroyed, but 8,000 pages of records were discovered in 1977. iStock On this day in 1953, the then-Director of Central Intelligence officially approved project …
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The foundations of what was to become known as “enhanced interrogation” were laid when Kirk Hubbard, the CIA’s director of behavioural research and an APA member, commissioned James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, two ex-US air force psychologists, to deliver a report on possible “countermeasures to …
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Spoiler alert: this article discusses the plot of season one of Stranger Things. With its blend of 1980s nostalgia, pesky kids on BMXs, Stephen King-style small town horror and pulsing synth soundtrack, Stranger Things has been one of the TV hits of the summer. But just as strange as its plot about …
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The hit Netflix series Stranger Things was clearly influenced by Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, with a heaping helping of The X-Files and Twin Peaks thrown in for good measure. But some of its creepiest source material comes from the real world. Past the plot points about the Upside-Down and …
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No one would mistake the recent Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things for being based on a true story. Despite its heavy doses of ’80s nostalgia, the parallel dimensions and flesh-eating monsters and telekinetic little girls don’t exactly lend themselves to an air of realism. So it would be easy to …
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No one would mistake the recent Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things for being based on a true story. Despite its heavy doses of ’80s nostalgia, the parallel dimensions and flesh-eating monsters and telekinetic little girls don’t exactly lend themselves to an air of realism. So it would be easy to …
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