Welcome to this week's Six Secrets where intelligence and mind games are kindred spirits. We poke around the dark corners of psychic espionage where men really do stare at goats, clairvoyants track enemies of the state, and corporate brain hackers are preparing to pounce on your most private thoughts.
Mind control
The US Army once believed soldiers could learn how to become invisible, walk through walls, and even kill goats just by staring at them. Intelligence officers experimented with telepathy, mind control, and several other mind-bending programs in the 1970s and ‘80s that may still leave you bleating.
9/11 rekindled the military’s obsession with psychic power in the US and beyond. Britain’s Ministry of Defense hatched a secret plan using a series of bizarre experiments to determine if psychic powers existed - and whether they could be used to find Osama bin Laden. SPYSCAPE dug deep into the government archives to find out exactly what they were up to.
Dr. Edwin May doesn’t just research psychic phenomena. For decades he ran the US government’s Stargate project, working with psychics who could ‘foresee’ future events like potential terrorist attacks, raising an interesting question: if you can see the future, are you condemned to experience it?
Stranger Things’ creepy Hawkins National Laboratory is inspired by a menacing military camp in Montauk, New York where the US experimented with psychological warfare techniques - at least, that’s what conspiracy theorists believe. But are the tales of kidnapping, shackles, and brainwashing at Camp Hero real or imagined?
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Are your eyes playing tricks? Optical illusions use color, light, and patterns to create images that can deceive or mislead our brains. They can also help us understand how our minds and vision distort reality. Put your brain to the ultimate test with 10 of SPYSCAPE’s top illusions.
A California tech start-up has designed a helmet with a nest of sensors and electronics that can supposedly read your mind - just one of many corporate brain hackers ready to pounce on your deepest, darkest thoughts. Who are they? What do they want? And should you be afraid?
