The U.S. government holds real patents for putting voices in people’s heads — and thousands say it’s happening to them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli separate the real physics from psychiatry, internet lore, and outright fraud.

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Links for this episode:

• Auditory Effects of Microwave Radiation by James C. Lin (Springer, 2021)
• The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden (Morrow, 1985)
• A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America by John Hall (Strategic Book Publishing, 2009)
• Mike McPhate, “United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers,” The New York Times, June 10, 2016
• Sharon Weinberger, “Mind Games,” The Washington Post Magazine, January 14, 2007
• Allan H. Frey, “Human Auditory System Response to Modulated Electromagnetic Energy,” Journal of Applied Physiology 17 (1962)
• Kenneth R. Foster, David C. Garrett & Marvin C. Ziskin, “Can the Microwave Auditory Effect Be ‘Weaponized’?” Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021): 788613
• U.S. Army, Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons (1998; declassified 2006)
• Federation of American Scientists archive, “Voice to Skull Devices” (CALL thesaurus entry)
• U.S. Patent 4,877,027, Wayne B. Brunkan, “Hearing System” (1989)
• U.S. Patent 6,587,729, O’Loughlin and Loree, “Apparatus for Audibly Communicating Speech Using the Radio Frequency Hearing Effect” (2003)
• U.S. Patent 5,159,703, Oliver M. Lowery, “Silent Subliminal Presentation System” (1992)
• National Security Archive, “The Moscow Signals Declassified: Microwave Mysteries, Projects Pandora and Bizarre”
• Lorraine Sheridan and David V. James, “Complaints of Group-Stalking,” Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 26 (2015)
• U.S. Senate, Project MKULTRA, Joint Hearing, August 3, 1977

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Chapters:

• 0:00 – MYS425
• 0:43 – Hook: what if the voice in your head is real?
• 1:39 – The real origin of the tinfoil hat (Julian Huxley’s "The Tissue Culture King")
• 3:25 – Meet the targeted individuals (TIs)
• 4:31 – Case study: Timothy Trespas (*New York Times*, 2016)
• 6:02 – Case study: Harlan Girard and "the voices" (*Washington Post Magazine*, 2007)
• 10:54 – More TI accounts: a Phoenix mother and Dr. John Hall
• 12:54 – What is V2K, and where does the name come from?
• 14:22 – Related terms: microwave auditory effect, synthetic telepathy, silent sound, LRAD
• 15:59 – The Frey effect: Allan Frey’s 1962 discovery
• 18:13 – From clicks to speech: the 1973 Walter Reed demonstration
• 19:41 – The Moscow Signal and Project Pandora
• 23:08 – MKUltra and the precedent for non-consensual research
• 25:16 – Three key patents: Brunkan, O’Loughlin/Loree, and Lowery
• 30:02 – The Army’s own "voice to skull" thesaurus entry
• 32:00 – Other programs: BioEffects, Medusa, Active Denial System, and LRAD
• 34:20 – "Voice of God" operations and the Waco proposal
• 36:14 – Can the microwave auditory effect be weaponized? (Foster et al., 2021)
• 38:16 – Thank you to Patrons
• 38:47 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 40:08 – Reason Perspective: five theories of what’s really happening
• 41:17 – …what the physics actually permits
• 43:22 – …what the documentary record does and doesn’t establish
• 44:44 – …could silent sound technology explain it?
• 45:56 – …could LRAD explain it?
• 47:22 – …conventional medical and psychiatric explanations
• 49:51 – …gang stalking and the Sheridan and James study
• 52:08 – …when belief turns to violence: Aaron Alexis and Myron May
• 54:14 – …how widespread is this really?
• 57:23 – …why so many people believe it’s happening to them
• 59:53 – Faith Perspective: is it ever moral to use V2K?
• 1:03:14 – …how to respond when someone says they’re hearing voices
• 1:04:44 – ★ – Bottom Line
• 1:06:27 – ★ – Further Resources
• 1:07:21 – ★ – Mysterious Feedback: #414 Ancient Christian Ghosts
• 1:14:43 – ★ – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:15:18 – ★ – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:15:32 – ★ – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:16:19 – ★ – Next Time: Mark Twain, Super Psychic
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• 1:17:38 – ★ – Outro

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