Mass Psychogenic Illness: Havana Syndrome
Warfare
History Hit
4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
‘Brain-fog’, dizziness, ringing in the ears, fatigue: everyday symptoms of attacks by a possibly extraordinary weapon. In 2016, a number of CIA agents began to report these symptoms, alongside a possible cause of an unusual sound. Now over 200 Americans and Canadians have reported symptoms, and Kamala Harris, America’s vice president, this August delayed a flight to Vietnam because of suspected cases in Hanoi. But what causes Havana Syndrome? Is it the result of attacks by microwave weapons, or is it something more banal? Robert Bartholomew is on the podcast today to talk to James about reports of Havana Syndrome, and the veracity of the microwave weapon and Frey effect theories. Robert discusses the results of experimentation over the years, and the support for a theory of Mass Psychogenic Illness. Alongside Robert Baloh, Robert Bartholomew is a co-author of ‘Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria’.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone this is the history hit warfare podcast and I'm your host |
| 0:04.0 | James Rogers as you know every week I bring you brand new original military |
| 0:08.4 | histories and this one is a slightly bit different I feel like we're |
| 0:11.2 | investigating something that's unfolding here. |
| 0:13.9 | We're looking at a mysterious phenomenon, the Havana Syndrome. |
| 0:17.6 | It's like something out of a Cold War spy film. |
| 0:20.3 | U.S. diplomats around the world are currently being struck down by a mystery sickness. |
| 0:25.0 | Doctors, scientists, intelligence agents are all clubbing together and they don't know what is causing this. |
| 0:30.0 | But those that are afflicted are describing it as a buzzing, a grinding metal, a directed sound of piercing |
| 0:37.2 | squeals that pressure the brain. It first started in Havana, Cuba in 2016, but it's since been reported in Berlin, Colombia, Russia, Uzbekistan, Austria, |
| 0:46.5 | so what is causing this? Well, it's not uncommon, as we know, through the Cold War for diplomats to be targeted. So is this a renewed case of perhaps |
| 0:55.6 | Russian microwave weapons or Chinese acoustic weapons? Is this great power politics in action in its darkest forms or is it as our guest today |
| 1:06.0 | Dr Robert Bartholomew argues an age-old case of mass psychogenic illness this is when people in groups start to feel sick at the same time Mass Psychogenic Illness. |
| 1:12.6 | This is when people in groups start to feel sick at the same time, |
| 1:15.2 | even though there's no physical or environmental reason |
| 1:18.2 | for them to be sick. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm going to leave you to decide if you agree with Robert, |
| 1:22.0 | but either way, he takes us through an eye-opening, mind-opening history of everything from false sightings of Cold War ghost rockets all the way through to that famous story of a War of the World style alien invasion. |
| 1:35.7 | Enjoy. Hi Robert, welcome to the history hit Warfare Podcast and thanks for joining us all the way from New Zealand. |
| 1:57.4 | Whereabouts in New Zealand are you? |
| 1:59.0 | I am in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 2:01.2 | Wonderful. Well, it is getting dark and dreary here and I pretty much suspect that winter seasonal depression |
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