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In this episode of Haunted Cosmos,

we finally take up a topic that you guys have been relentlessly requesting for more than a year.

That's right, the telepathy tapes.

Also, Brian and Ben are real downers,

and at one point, Brian pretends to be Ben's mom. In 1966, a passenger train tore through a stormy night, somewhere between Moscow and

Novosibirsk in the eastern block. The train, which had departed Moscow the day before,

still had two more days to go before reaching its final destination in Novosibirsk. It whistled

into the wind while its passengers slept fitfully, longing for the

endless journey to end. Yet in those two cities, nearly 2,000 miles apart, something was happening

that those involved hoped might one day render such trains entirely obsolete. In Novozabirsk, a man

sat alone in a dark classroom whose walls and ceiling were draped with iron sheets, a makeshift Faraday cage.

As heavy rain drummed faintly against the windows, the haggard man stared forward in his chair.

Before him sat a strobe light, flickering at random intervals.

Each flash blinded him, forcing him to wince and blink,

a subtle pain ensuring a reaction utterly beyond his control. This went on for hours.

Not once did the scientists outside interrupt. They were too busy. One group,

watching the faint traces of light leaking from under the door, carefully recorded the

exact times of each flash. The other group stationed at the far traces of light leaking from under the door, carefully recorded the exact times

of each flash. The other group, stationed at the far end of the building, kept a telephone

line open with their colleagues far away in Moscow. There in Moscow, researchers worked under

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