Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

When you're fighting a certain kind of enemy, it's not always about who has more guns

or more soldiers.

The ability to understand the opposing side and develop a solid strategy can lead to shorter

wars and less bloodshed during and after War 2 when the United States needed help handling

a foreign power as quickly as possible.

They called on one man.

His name was Edward Landsdale and he was a United States Air Force officer.

His specialty was psychological warfare, getting into the heads of his enemies and using

their beliefs against them.

For example, in Vietnam in the 1950s, he helped lead 500,000 Catholic refugees out of

communist-led North Vietnam by spreading religious propaganda.

The pamphlets he helped distribute claimed Christ has gone to the South and insinuated

a nuclear bomb would be dropped on Hanoi at any moment.

The mass migration allowed South Vietnam to take over as the majority half of the country.

However, Landsdale's efforts there were fairly tame compared to some of his other attempts

at military manipulation.

Upon discovering the Vietnamese people's belief in prophecy, he paid local fortune tellers

and astrologers to write predictions for an almanac he was publishing.

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