Dark Matters: Twisted But True (2011)
Hosted by actor John Noble of Fringe and Lord of the Rings, the show takes the viewer inside the laboratory to profile strange science and expose some of history's most bizarre experiments. This show uses narration and reenactments to portray the stories in this show. A new season of episodes, under the title Dark Matters: Extra Twisted, premiered on January 23, 2013. The episodes revisit previous stories with "deeper insight and new information."
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Episodes
- 1 1. Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor2012-07-14 · 43mCharles 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
- 2 2. Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette2012-07-21 · 43mRobert 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 creat
- 3 3. Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness2012-07-28 · 43mEgas 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 kindne
- 4 4. Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation2012-08-04 · 43mBrain 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
- 5 5. Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains2012-08-11 · 43mFritz 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-p
- 6 6. Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb2012-08-18 · 43mThe 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
- 7 7. Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case2012-08-25 · 43mUS 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 injur
- 8 8. Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty2012-11-21 · 43mA 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.
- 9 9. Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation2012-11-28 · 43mExamining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who p
- 10 10. Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge2012-12-05 · 43mJose 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
- 11 11. Pavlovs Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls2012-12-12 · 43mPavlovian 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
- 12 12. Theremin, The Monster Study, Roid Rage2012-12-19 · 43mA 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 e
- 13 13. Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary2012-12-26 · 43mOne 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 ca
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