112 - The Russian Sleep Experiment

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Did Russian Scientists seal five prisoners in an airtight chamber and dosed them with an experimental stimulant gas to test the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation in the 1940s? Did these prisoners lose their minds, scream until they'd torn their vocal chords, start eating their own flesh, attack guards who tried to release them, and die soon after the gas was turned off? Or, is this just an urban legend? And if it is an urban legend, where and when did it start? And why do people believe it? The Russian Sleep Experiment and the creation of modern web horror lore explored, today, on Timesuck! Watch the Suck on Youtube! https://youtu.be/NRRbUFZ5oBA Steven Watson's Hurricane Michael Go Fund Me! https://www.gofundme.com/69exxeo?pc_code=fb_co_postupdate_a&rcid=a707a4f2e8cb473c948a7c8b8368aed1 TedEd talk on Critical Thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dItUGF8GdTw Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	The 1940s were full of human experimentation.
0:03.4	There were the Nazi experiments on unwilling Jewish Romani,
0:07.0	Polish disabled German people, and more.
0:09.1	Dr. Joseph Mengele's horrific experiments on twins,
0:12.4	nearly 1500 imprisoned twins had dies injected into their eyes
0:16.1	to determine if the color could be changed.
0:18.6	Twins were sewn together in an attempt to create
0:21.2	conjoined twins, one twin would often be tortured,
0:23.8	while the other would be left alone as a control group.
0:26.8	Horrific transplants were conducted,
0:28.3	a sections of bone, muscle, and nerves
0:30.8	would be taken from one patient without anesthesia
0:34.2	and attached to another patient, my god.
0:38.0	Monsters things were done in the name of war
0:40.1	and cold scientific curiosity.
0:42.5	The Japanese conducted horrific human experiments
0:45.6	in the 1940s as well, the Unit 731 experiments,
0:48.8	a subject we already sucked, bonus episode 13.
0:52.1	Allied forces, POWs, Chinese and Russian civilians
0:55.2	had limbs amputated to study the effect of blood loss.
0:58.8	Test subjects would be saved only to have another limb removed
1:02.1	later until there were no limbs left to remove,
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