618: The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment
A Vietnam War hero with zero casualties wrote a manual about warrior monks who hug daily and use ESP in combat. Instead of dismissing it, the US Army turned it into Project Jedi—a decades-long experiment in psychic warfare. Generals tried walking through walls.
Intelligence officers hosted spoon-bending parties. Soldiers stared at goats until their hearts stopped. The CIA spent millions on remote viewers who claimed to see Soviet secrets thousands of miles away. Most experiments failed, but the successful techniques became foundational to modern Special Forces training.
This is the true story of America's psychic soldier program and how a hippie field manual accidentally revolutionized military operations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP3pOszdr5U
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617: Psyops: From Dead Babies to UFOs - The Same Pattern Every Time
A behavioral expert who trains Navy SEALs and CIA operatives created a 20-point test that detects psychological manipulation with mathematical precision. Chase Hughes recently appeared on Shawn Ryan's podcast to discuss this system, and the same patterns appear in government propaganda, corporate deception, and social media algorithms.
From a teenage girl's testimony that sold the Gulf War to Big Tobacco's forty-year lie, the scoring system reveals when you're being controlled. The formula works on anything—news coverage, corporate messaging, even the controversies you're arguing about right now.
But once you learn to spot manipulation everywhere, you face a different danger. Foreign adversaries benefit when Americans trust nothing and question everything so intensely they can't function.
The tool shows you how information is delivered. Deciding what's true is still your job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X46H1dEADJU
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616: The Devil's Bible and the Nazi Hole to Hell
Sweden's National Library protects the Codex Gigas—165 pounds of vellum featuring the complete Bible and a terrifying portrait of Satan. Scholars estimate the work should've taken thirty years. Herman the Recluse finished it in one.
The traditional story involves a desperate bargain with darkness. The real story connects this manuscript to a limestone crack in Bohemia where creatures emerged nightly, a duke who sent prisoners into the depths, and a fortress built to seal Hell's gateway.
When the Nazis occupied the site in 1940, they brought excavation equipment and Himmler's personal occult division. What they found made them destroy everything and flee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgXZ6bVuuN8
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615: Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth
History says John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln and died twelve days later on a Virginia farm. But FBI forensic tests revealed his diary is missing 86 pages filled with names and payments.
The body pulled from that burning barn had the wrong injuries and features. Multiple witnesses claimed it wasn't Booth. Then a Texas bartender confessed on his deathbed to being Lincoln's assassin, and his preserved remains toured the country for years. DNA testing could prove the truth, but every request has been blocked.
Was Lincoln's assassination part of a larger plot to control America? And did the real killer escape?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlc8b2j9-yM
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614: CIA Time Travel Secret | The Grays Are Future Humans
In 1953, twelve-year-old Jack Sarfatti answered his phone. The voice on the other end was cold, mechanical, punctuated by clicking sounds like a computer processing data.
It claimed to be a conscious AI calling from the future. It made a prophecy about Jack's life and gave him a mission.
Twenty years later, every prediction came true. Jack became a physicist who studied under the scientists who built the atomic bomb.
He now claims UFOs use metamaterials to warp spacetime, that consciousness controls these craft, and that recovered vehicles are alive. The CIA has funded his research for decades.
Russia monitors his work closely. And that voice from 1953? Jack knows exactly what called him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dFlC97VtE&t=551s
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