Speaker
Carter Roy
Appearances over time
7 episodes
Episodes
7
Rewind: Area 51, S4, and the Rise of Bob Lazar
Rewind: The Titanic
The Mind-Bending MK Ultra Experiments of Dr Ewen Cameron
The Simpsons and Predictive Programming
The Guardian Tape: UFO Caught on Camera, or Hoax?
The Marconi Mystery: 22 Scientists Die Mysterious Deaths in Britain
FIFA World Cup Scandal Pt. 1
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Qatar spent $200 million on lavish ceremonies and consultants to lobby for the 2022 World Cup hosting rights, on top of untraceable private funds.
As many as 22 British defense scientists died under mysterious circumstances in the 1980s, all linked to defense contractors working on classified projects.
The US government did not formally acknowledge the existence or location of Area 51 until 2013, decades after it was established.
The Allan Memorial Institute opened in Montreal in 1943, founded with idealistic goals of compassionate, state-of-the-art psychiatric care backed by the Rockefeller family.
The Simpsons has been on air since 1989, producing over 800 episodes and counting across nearly 40 seasons.
The anonymous figure known as Guardian had been mailing documents to UFO organizations, lecturers, and experts at least 4 times before sending the 1992 VHS tape.
A 2025 National Geographic documentary using scans and computer simulations found the iceberg impact lasted only 6.3 seconds, yet pierced 6 watertight compartments — two more than the Titanic could safely lose.
The U-2 spy plane could reach altitudes of 70,000 feet — 13 miles high — enabling it to photograph enemy territory while flying above most Soviet surface-to-air missiles.
Vimal Dajibhai's body was found at the bottom of a nearly 250-foot gorge beneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.
Cameron subjected patients to temperatures as high as 107°F for a full hour in one experiment — concluding that schizophrenic patients respond to heat the same as anyone else.
Guardian's hand-drawn map defined a search area of just over 1 square mile in West Carleton, Ontario — big open fields, farmland, dense vegetation, and swamps.
A University of Albany professor calculated that The Simpsons has made 1,224 predictions that came true.
The generally accepted estimate is that approximately 1,500 people perished when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.
Bob Oeschler estimated the object in Guardian's video was larger than a truck and smaller than a bus — roughly 20 to 30 feet from end to end.
Just 705 people — fewer than one-third of those on board — survived the Titanic sinking by making it into lifeboats.
A disoriented woman in a hospital gown claws her way up Mount Royal, trying to escape the Allan Memorial Institute. She's caught, sedated, and given electroshock therapy again — until she can't remember why she was there in the first place. She is just one of many unwitting subjects in Dr. Cameron's CIA-funded brainwashing experiments.
Founded in 1943 with Rockefeller backing, the Allan Memorial Institute was supposed to revolutionise psychiatric care. Within a decade it was a world leader — but only because the world didn't know what was really happening inside.
Before Cameron ever ran the Allan Memorial Institute, he was subjecting patients to 107°F temperatures for an hour and restricting epileptics to 20 ounces of water a day. One epileptic patient died. The results were obvious and not worth the suffering — yet the CIA gave him money anyway.
Cameron took two ideas — communist brainwashing theory and a novelty language-learning pillow device — and fused them into 'psychic driving.' Patients heard recordings of their own voices attacking their worst traits for up to 20 hours a day, for days on end, until some felt like they were hearing voices.
Val Orlikow came to the Allan for postpartum depression and idolised Cameron. He dosed her with LSD without explaining what it was, then left her alone to navigate a terrifying acid trip while negative recordings looped around her. She described it as falling not into Wonderland but into hell.
Dr. Donald Hebb paid student volunteers $20 a day to lie in a plywood sensory deprivation box. After about 3 days, they began hallucinating — and none lasted more than 6 days. Cameron looked at Hebb's humane, voluntary work and saw an opportunity to go much, much further.
The Sleep Room was so feared that patients would press against the opposite wall just to pass it in the hallway. Inside, patients were kept in drug-induced comas for 21 to 22 hours a day, woken only for meals, bathroom breaks, and repeated high-voltage electroshock — sometimes for two months straight.
While conducting his secret experiments, Cameron simultaneously held the presidencies of the American, Quebec, Canadian, and World Psychiatric Associations. The man at the top of every psychiatric institution in the world was also the most dangerous doctor in a Montreal basement.
When Val Orlikow and her parliamentary husband David learned the truth about MKUltra, they hired famed civil rights attorney Joseph Rauh and gathered 9 plaintiffs. Rauh's strategy: prove the CIA knew the experiments were dangerous and funded them with no oversight — then catch them in a lie about who approached whom.
Just as Rauh's lawsuit was gaining momentum, a journalist revealed that the Canadian government had been funding Cameron even more than the CIA. Canada, which had been helping Rauh, suddenly went silent — terrified of being sued too. The CIA threatened to drag them into court.
In 1963, the CIA published the secret Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation manual, a guide to breaking 'resistant sources.' It recommended sensory deprivation and explicitly cited experiments at McGill University — Cameron's work. Techniques resembling his were later used on detainees in Argentina, Chile, and Northern Ireland.
In a 1963 keynote speech, Cameron publicly admitted that none of his electroshock, psychic driving, or induced-coma treatments ever successfully eliminated unwanted symptoms. MKUltra also never found an effective method of mind control. The experiments destroyed lives for nothing.
Star Trek's eerily prescient communicators weren't pure imagination — the writers consulted a RAND Corporation researcher to brainstorm plausible future technology. RAND is government-funded. The creator of the first mobile phone has even credited Star Trek as inspiration. Art and life don't just imitate each other; sometimes they're built together.
In 1996, The Simpsons introduced Hank Scorpio: a boyish tech billionaire who wielded a flamethrower and dreamed of world domination. Two decades later, Elon Musk sold 20,000 actual flamethrowers. The resemblance is either uncanny coincidence or something more.
Cameron was one of just 10 psychiatrists worldwide asked to evaluate Rudolf Hess at the Nuremberg Trials. He helped found the ethical framework now called the Nuremberg Code — informed consent, no coercion — and then systematically violated every principle of it on his own patients.
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- Society & Culture 30%
- Science 13%
- History 13%
- Government 11%
- Business 9%
- Sports 6%
- Health & Fitness 6%
- TV & Film 5%
- True Crime 5%
- News 1%
- Arts 1%
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