One of my favourite rabbitholes is the amount of supernatural stuff the US looked for during the cold war. I'm sure most of it is just corruption and burning cash but there's a handful of true believers who would go, 'There's no way anyone would give away the state secrets of our beautiful freedom land, so the Soviets must have telepaths and astral projection'

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I mean, the Soviets were also researching this shit as much as the Americans 🤷‍♂️

It was more like the CIA finding out the Soviets were training psychics and then rushing to do their own experiments, but ending up drugging a bunch of college kids and turning them into mass shooters. “Accidentally” of course.