The Periphery: Dark History, Hidden Cults & the Edges of the Human Mind

 Episode 7: He Was a Partially Blind Yoga Teacher Who Convinced Doctors and Scientists He Was Jesus. Then He Gave Them a Sarin Lab - Aum Shinrikyo This is Episode 3 — the conclusion — of a 3-part series on what happens when science operates without ethical accountability.  Episode 5: Project Sunshine.  Episode 6: Henrietta Lacks.  Episode 7: Aum Shinrikyo.  Listen from the beginning for the full i...

Episode 6: She Walked Into a Hospital Seeking Help and They Took Her Cells Without Asking. Her Family Couldn't Afford Health Insurance While Corporations Made Billions | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks This is Episode 2 of a 3-part series on what happens when science operates without ethical accountability.  Episode 5: Project Sunshine.  Episode 6: Henrietta Lacks.  Episode 7 airs next w...

Episode 5: The US Government Secretly Harvested Bones From Dead Infants Worldwide Without Consent. They Called It Project Sunshine. In 1953 the United States government launched a secret international program to measure how much radioactive contamination from nuclear weapons testing was accumulating in human bones. They named it Project Sunshine. They established 26 collection sites across six cou...

Episode 4: They Worshipped Christ AND Satan, Allegedly Knew Charles Manson, and Became a Pet Rescue. The Process Church of the Final Judgment. In 1962 two former Scientologists met at the London branch of the Church of Scientology. One was a former call girl connected to one of Britain's biggest political scandals. The other was an upper-class architecture school dropout she would rename and...

 Episode 3: Project Stargate The Government Paid Psychics to Spy on the Soviet Union for 23 Years. Here's What They Found. In 1974 the CIA handed a retired police commissioner named Pat Price a piece of paper with nothing on it but geographic coordinates. He closed his eyes — and described the interior of a secret Soviet weapons laboratory in Siberia with enough accuracy to trigger a formal C...

Episode 2: She Bleached Children's Hair Platinum Blonde, Told Them She Was Jesus, and Nobody Stopped Her for Decades | The Family In 1960s Melbourne, a glamorous yoga teacher named Anne Hamilton-Byrne convinced some of Australia's most educated professionals — doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, and academics — that she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. What followed was one of the mos...

Episode 1: The CIA Ran a Brothel in San Francisco, Dosed Strangers With LSD, and Called It National Security | Operation Midnight Climax In 1955 the CIA rented an apartment in San Francisco, hired sex workers to lure unsuspecting men back to it, secretly dosed them with LSD and other psychoactive substances, and watched through a two-way mirror while agents took notes and drank martinis. They call...