Dark Matters: Twisted but True Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Dark Matters: Twisted but True: Season 2 (2012)

• Season 2 Episode 13: Magical Jet Propulsion; Missing Link Mystery; Typhoid Mary

  How 'Typhoid Mary' revealed that asymptomatic carriers can unwittingly spread disease

• Season 2 Episode 12: Pavlovs Children; Raining Aliens; Glow Girls

  A student repeats an experiment on orphans to prove they are nothing more than animals; rain in India seems to be filled with biological cells; glow in the dark paint used during WWI contains a deadly ingredient.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Unabomber; Get the Lead Out; Salvation by Starvation

  In an experiment, students are mocked for their beliefs as researches profile their personalities; leaded gasoline poisons more people.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Agent Orange; Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer; Price of Beauty

  A chemical that speeds up the flowering process in soybeans was also a weapon during Vietnam; Ben Franklin investigates Fraz Mesmer's cure for animal magnetism and it turns out to be hypnotism; Dr. Albert Geyser invents a deadly beauty treatment.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Theremin; The Monster Study; Roid Rage

  Musical genius createss a piece of spy technology; Wendell Johnson turns his stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist when he experiments on orphans; Dr. John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Remote Control Man; cadavers for sale; Einsteins revenge

  John Noble explores the work of neurologist Jose Delgado, and how he used electronics to treat mental illness, and looks at why anatomist Roger Knox bought corpses from a pair of serial killers

• Season 2 Episode 7: Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See, Cold War Cold Case

  Investigating why a government study into the effects of syphilis deliberately held a group of men infected with the disease, and the story of skiers who were slaughtered

• Season 2 Episode 6: Creative Evil; Curiously Killed Dr. Katskee; Bat Bomb.

  John Noble explores how the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed the terrible effects of power play in a prison situation, and why a doctor chose to overdose on cocaine

• Season 2 Episode 5: Positively Poisonious, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains

  Fritz Haber feeds and murders the world with the same technology; contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues; an actress is too beautiful to be taken seriously, as she forsees the future of cell phones and wi-fi.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation

  Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember from day to day; a scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory; a tiny slip during a test of an A-Bomb releases a blast of radiation.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Dr. Lobotomy, voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness

  John Noble explores the strangest and most controversial science stories, including the work of neurologist Egas Moniz, who invented the lobotomy

• Season 2 Episode 2: Resurrection Row; Operation Brainwash; Rabid Roulette

  Resurrection row; operation brainwash; rabid roulette.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Lindbergh; American Nazi; Suicide Song; Living Organ Donor

  John Noble explores the strangest and most controversial science stories, including the fascination surrounding 19th-century scientific guinea pig Alexis St Martin

Dark Matters: Twisted but True: Season 1 (2011)

• Season 1 Episode 6: I Have Einstein's Brain/Unidentified Flying Nazis/Killer Thoughts

  John Noble explores history's strangest and most controversial science stories, including the pathologist who kept Einstein's brain after his death in 1955

• Season 1 Episode 5: 21 Grams/Missing Cosmonauts/Sound of Death

  John Noble explores history's strangest and most controversial science stories, including experiments to prove the existence of the soul, and the research into the power of sound

• Season 1 Episode 4: Sexy Secret Agent/Full Body Transplant/Honey I Nuked the Planet

  John Noble explores history's strangest and most controversial science stories, including head transplant experiments and the explosion of a hydrogen bomb in space

• Season 1 Episode 3: It's Alive!/Tripping With Uncle Sam/My Hand is Killing Me

  An exploration of the scientific experiments that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Plus, a look at mind-control conspiracies and alien hand syndrome

• Season 1 Episode 2: Radio Waves of Death/How to Make a Zombie/Jekyll v Hyde

  John Noble explores strange and controversial scientific experiments, and looks at the science of zombies. Plus, the search for pain relief that ended in madness

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Philadelphia Experiment/Ape-Man Army/Zapped to Death

  John Noble explores strange and controversial scientific experiments, beginning with attempts to crossbreed humans and apes, and the invention of the electric chair