S1 "Escaping NXIVM" E8 Bonus: The Fright Experiments

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CBC

True Crime

4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Kobelt — Sarah Edmondson's former assistant in NXIVM — tells her story of joining NXIVM at a moment of crisis in her life and being involved in the group's so-called "fright study."

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0:00.0	I'm David Rigen, host of the award-winning podcast Someone Know Something.
0:05.4	Each season I investigated different unsolved case from a mysterious bomb hidden in a flashlight
0:11.2	to two teenagers killed by the KKK.
0:14.3	The New York Times calls SKS a consistently rigorous intelligent gem, and Esquire named
0:20.3	the series one of the best true crime podcasts of 2021.
0:24.8	Can someone know something on the CBC Listen app or wherever you get your podcasts?
0:31.9	This is a CBC podcast.
0:47.4	So Brandon starts hooking me up and I'm like, I'm not worried.
0:53.2	It was very obvious that this was not educational forum material.
0:59.4	This was a film and it opened on a dark street and I just heard someone screaming at someone.
1:06.1	Bite the curb!
1:07.7	Bite the curb!
1:09.0	And someone screaming, Daddy, no, and this little boy standing there in the dark and then
1:14.0	I heard some sirens and I'm just like, what the hell is going on?
1:19.4	Jennifer Cobalt is a former member of Nexium, who participated in what has come to be
1:24.2	known as the Fright Studies.
1:26.5	It's a part of Nexium that has received less attention than the Secret Women's Group
1:29.9	DOS and the Branding.
1:33.7	In this bonus episode, I want to tell you more about Jen.
1:37.8	I first interviewed Jen as I was investigating Sarah Edmondson's story, but Jen's story
1:42.9	is harrowing in its own right, including being involved in this strange experiment that
1:48.0	sounds like something out of a clockwork orange.
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