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Dark Matters: Twisted but True Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer?, Price of Beauty
Wed, Nov 21, 2012 45 mins
A chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.
Episode 2
Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation
Wed, Nov 28, 2012 60 mins
Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II.
Episode 3
Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge
Wed, Dec 5, 2012 60 mins
Included: electronic mind control; human corpses for sale; a vendetta against Albert Einstein.
Episode 4
Pavlov's Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 60 mins
Pavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.
Episode 5
Theremin; The Monster Study; 'Roid Rage
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 60 mins
A look at a piece of spy technology created by Russian inventor Léon Theremin. Also: a stuttering experiment conducted on orphans; the first use of anabolic steroids in American sports.
Episode 6
Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary
Wed, Dec 26, 2012 60 mins
Included: a combination of sorcery and rocket science; a skull found in 1912 that provided clues to human evolution; the story of Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, who was the first known asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever.
