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Dark Matters: Twisted But True

Season 2 • Episode 9 • Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation

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Dark Matters: Twisted But True Season 2, Episode 9: Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation

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Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II. Watch Dark Matters: Twisted But True Season 2, Episode 9 Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Dark Matters: Twisted But True Season 2, Episode 9 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

13 episodes
1

Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor

Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.

43 min
2

Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette

Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.

43 min
3

Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness

Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.

43 min
4

Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation

Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.

43 min
5

Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains

Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.

43 min
6

Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb

The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.

43 min
7

Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case

US government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years. N-Rays will transform physics in France, if they actually exist. 9 skiers found dead with strange injuries. Was it a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon, or a yeti?

43 min
8

Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty

A chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.

43 min
9

Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation

Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II.

43 min
10

Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge

Jose Delgado begins to discover how to electronically control the mind. A doctor at Edinburgh University doesn't ask any questions when two men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers. Scientist Phillip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.

43 min
11

Pavlovs Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls

Pavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.

43 min
12

Theremin, The Monster Study, Roid Rage

A musical genius is forced to create the most brilliant piece of spy technology ever. Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist in when he experiments on orphans. Dr John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.

43 min
13

Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary

One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.

43 min