Ep. 112 - The Institute

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Back in the 1930s, North Carolina's Duke University became home to the United States' first Department of Parapsychology. This group of scientists studied all sorts of paranormal phenomena, including Ghosts, Extra Sensory Perception and even demonic possession. They were, in many ways, the very real Ghostbusters. Episode Sponsor: Mack Weldon For 20% off your first order, visit mackweldon.com AND ENTER PROMO CODE: CONSPIRATORS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UFP6H6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1http://archived.parapsych.org/members/jb_rhine.htmlhttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/weight-of-the-soul/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/11/03/weight-of-the-soul/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lodge Music: Dexter Britain, "The Tea Party" http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/ Kevin MacLeod “Impromptu 01" "Impromptu 02" "Impromptu 03" "March of the Mind" "Awkward Meeting" "Nervous" "Colorless Aura" "Measured Paces" "Snow Drop" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You escaped the war?
0:01.2	A hand the whip.
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0:26.2	Currently 699 per month, new and eligible former subscribers only, 18 plus, Tees and sees apply. Back in 1906
0:38.4	1906, Dr. Duncan McDougal of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.
0:45.0	Became interested in answering a question that had confounded scientists and theologians alike
0:49.5	since practically the beginning of recorded history.
0:53.0	Namely, do people have a soul, and does that soul leave the body after death?
1:00.0	Dr. McDougal believed the soul was a real physical thing and therefore must have mass.
1:05.7	Ergo this would mean the human body would show a measurable drop in weight at the moment of death.
1:12.3	In order to conduct his experiment he constructed a special bed in his office built in a powerful scale that was sensitive to within two-tenths of an ounce.
1:20.0	He then tested his scale on six different patients in the final stages of different terminal
1:26.0	illnesses, four of the patients were dying of tuberculosis, one from diabetes and one
1:32.4	from unspecified causes.
1:34.0	When each of these patients' times were near,
1:38.0	he placed them in his experimental bed and waited for them to expire.
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