Project Alpha Trailer - Season 3 of World's Greatest Con Begins April 10, 2023

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Two boys demonstrate genuine psychic powers in a rigorous academic study in the late 1970s. When the results are revealed, the academics will be at the center of a new field of science coveted by governments, military and Hollywood. The only problem? The boys are frauds, out to debunk the very concept of parapsychology.

For the first time ever, World's Greatest Con interviews the two boys, now men, at the center of the public embarrassment of a study funded for $4 million in today's money.

You may have heard of it, you might even think you know the story but this season everyone will know the truth of Project Alpha.

It all begins, April 10th.

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0:00.0	It's 1981.
0:03.0	Two boys are sitting at a table in St. Louis.
0:06.0	These two are the subject of a scientific study that's going to change the world.
0:11.0	Businesses, governments, and militaries all around the globe
0:14.0	are spending millions of dollars to search for it.
0:19.0	But these boys have it.
0:21.0	When the lab finally publishes what these boys have done,
0:24.0	the staff will forever be remembered for finally capturing the impossible.
0:30.0	Because these boys are psychic.
0:35.0	They could bend metal, stop clocks, short circuit machines,
0:39.0	all with their minds.
0:42.0	They do it on command and they do it under supervision
0:45.0	by some of the smartest people on the planet.
0:48.0	But of course we know,
0:50.0	cons don't fool us because we're stupid.
0:53.0	They thought they were too smart to be full.
0:55.0	We don't want to believe there's real magic.
0:57.0	In 1979, Aircraft, Tycoon, James S. McDonnell gave half a million dollars for a search.
1:03.0	You see these people with the enemy?
1:05.0	You hold the couple Christ.
1:07.0	We don't see them as people.
1:09.0	Hold more paranoia, the arrogance of academia,
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