Ep. 88 - The Bad Trip

The Conspirators Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode I tell you the strange history of the drug LSD, from it's origins involving a deadly fungus that may have caused a bizarre dancing plague in 1518, all the way up until the CIA began experimenting with it in their top secret program known as Project MK-Ultra. Did the CIA really murder one of its own scientists? And how does the man's death tie into a bizarre outbreak of mass hallucinations in a tiny French village. Notes: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/was-scientist-frank-olsons-death-an-lsd-induced-suicide-or-cia-cover-up/ https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/errol-morris-wormwood-netflix-interview https://www.bbc.com/news/world-10996838 http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/LECT12.HTM https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518 Music: Dexter Britain, The Tea Party http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/ Chris Zabriskie, I Need to Start Writing Things Down, John Stockton Slow Drag, There's Probably No Time, Undercover Vampire Policeman, I Am a Man Who Will Fight For Your Honor http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. On a warm July day in 1518, a woman named Frau Trofea was walking along the narrow
0:31.0	cobbled street outside her home in Strasbourg, France, when a strange
0:36.2	urge overcame her.
0:39.3	Although there was no music, nor any other discernible reason, she might have begun doing so.
0:45.0	Frau Trofea stopped right there in the middle of the street and began to dance.
0:51.0	A number of people stopped to gawk at this peculiar sight.
0:55.0	After a while, Frau Trofea's husband began to wonder why everyone was gathering just outside his front door.
1:02.0	He peered out and was stunned to see that they were gathering just outside his front door.
1:03.2	He peered out and was stunned to see that they were all staring at his wife.
1:08.4	The man ran out and tried to convince his wife to stop and come inside, but Frau Trofea ignored him.
1:15.8	She just kept moving rhythmically to a song that no one else could hear, and she never stopped.
1:22.4	She kept this up all through the night and the next night after that and the next.
1:28.4	This reportedly went on for somewhere between four to six days and what was worse, over time soon others began to join her.
1:37.0	By the end of the week 30 more people had gathered along the narrow street and had begun to dance with her.
1:42.0	Within a month more than 400 people were dancing together.
1:46.1	The town didn't know what to do.
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