Dark Matters: Twisted But True - Season 2

Dark Matters: Twisted But True - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes13
DatesJul 14, 2012 - Dec 26, 2012
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Episodes

Lindbergh: American Nazi?, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor
Season 2Episode 160 min

Lindbergh: American Nazi?, 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.

Jul 14, 2012
Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette
Season 2Episode 260 min

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.

Jul 21, 2012
Dr. Lobotomy, Killed by Kindness, Voodoo Rx
Season 2Episode 360 min

Dr. Lobotomy, Killed by Kindness, Voodoo Rx

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

Jul 28, 2012
Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation
Season 2Episode 460 min

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.

Aug 4, 2012
Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains
Season 2Episode 560 min

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.

Aug 11, 2012
Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb
Season 2Episode 660 min

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.

Aug 18, 2012
Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case
Season 2Episode 760 min

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?

Aug 25, 2012
Agent Orange, Benjamin Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty
Season 2Episode 860 min

Agent Orange, Benjamin 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.

Nov 21, 2012
Unabomber, Salvation by Starvation, Get the Lead Out
Season 2Episode 960 min

Unabomber, Salvation by Starvation, Get the Lead Out

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

Nov 28, 2012
Human Puppets, Cadavers for Cash, Einstein's Revenge
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Human Puppets, Cadavers for Cash, 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.

Dec 5, 2012
Pavlov's Children, Alien Rain, Glow Girls
Season 2Episode 1160 min

Pavlov's Children, Alien Rain, 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.

Dec 12, 2012
Instrument of Espionage, Stutter Study, 'Roid Rage
Season 2Episode 1260 min

Instrument of Espionage, Stutter 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.

Dec 19, 2012
Magickal Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary
Season 2Episode 1360 min

Magickal 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.

Dec 26, 2012

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