U.S. Navy Technical Report, “Project Chatter” (Declassified, 1975)
CIA Reading Room: “Project Chatter Summary Report, 1947–1953”
The Church Committee Reports (U.S. Senate, 1976)
John Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate” (1979)
Smithsonian Magazine – “The CIA’s Secret Quest for Mind Control” (2019)
National Security Archive – Declassified MKUltra and precursor projects

Diet Culture

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9294402/

https://dieteticallyspeaking.com/a-brief-history-of-ridiculous-fad-diets/

https://sahrc.org/2022/04/diet-culture-a-brief-history/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20695743

https://www.history.com/articles/weight-loss-drugs-america

“History of Obesity Treatments.” American Board of Obesity Medicine.

American Association of Poison Control Centers — Reports on foreign-body ingestion.

National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) — “Extreme Dieting Practices”.

ABC News, 2013 — Investigative piece on the trend among models and teens.

Aphramor, L. “The Dangers of Dieting.” Nutrition Journal, 2010.

Stearns, P. Fat History: Bodies & Beauty in the Modern West (NYU Press).

Schwartz, H. Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies, and Fat.

Satanic Panic

Orkney child abuse scandal - Wikipedia

British Society of Criminology — The Devil Goes Abroad: The Export of the Ritual Abuse Moral Panic

Clyde Inquiry Report — Orkney (1992)

RCMP Review — Martensville (mid-1990s)

Jeffrey Victor — Satanic Panic

Richard Ofshe & Ethan Watters — Making Monsters

Philip Jenkins — Moral Panic

FBI Behavioral Science Unit — Kenneth Lanning report on ritual abuse allegations

Microsoft Word - 004

List of satanic ritual abuse allegations - Wikipedia

https://www.history.com/articles/what-was-satanic-panic-1980s

https://cei.org/blog/the-origins-and-lessons-of-satanic-panic-of-the-1980s/

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/abuse-innocence-mcmartin-preschool-trial

https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2024/schedule/34/

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/return-of-satanic-panic-in-online-conspiracy-theories/104301698

Missing Murdered Indigenous Women

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - Wikipedia

The murders of Aboriginal women are too often ignored. Is now the moment for real change? - ABC News

Death of Tina Fontaine - Wikipedia

Murder of Loretta Saunders - Wikipedia

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - Wikipedia

Highway of Tears - Wikipedia

https://csvanw.org/focus-areas/trainings-and-education/land-body-violence/mmiwg2s/

https://www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awareness

https://www.wernative.org/articles/what-is-the-mmiw-movement

https://matriarchmovement.ca/lorelei-williams-advocacy-for-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-girls/

https://www.bia.gov/service/mmu/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people-crisis

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/06/1121082

https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2013/5/breaking-the-silence-on-violence-against-indigenous-girls

Real Monsters of Hollywood

True Lies Director James Cameron on Eliza Dushku’s “Heartbreaking” Allegation of Molestation | Vanity Fair

Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism | Movies | The Guardian

Victor Salva - Wikipedia

Marc Collins-Rector - Wikipedia

www.deadline.com

www.imdb.com

“UN TOUCHABLE” D OC UMENTARY STI LL NEED CITE

Casting-Couch Tactics Plagued Hollywood Before Harvey Weinstein https://share.google/I6VLTqftVdMhPFu0v

Exploring the cas ting couch c ulture of LA - BBC News https://share.google/SME6hnw7tlDyJSNwe

Me Too

m etoo mvmt.org

ht tps://www.te d.com/talks/tarana_burke_me_too_what_i t_really_means_and_where_we_go_from_he re

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/how-meto o-became-global-movement

https://data .unwomen.org/global-database-on-violence-against-women

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/violence/sexual-violence/

https://home.watson.brown.edu/news/2018-02-20/metoo-movement-caught-fire-uniquely-21st-century-moment

Urban Legends

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36764163/

https://www.today.com/popculture/rule-of-three-celebrity-deaths-rcna223502

https://templeofmiriam.com/blog/scrying-with-mirrors?srsltid=AfmBOoqghwqFdHWPH87RZJKUzswfB0mkkyE2lLn2bx4GRev4KVN2UbA5

https://totallyhistoric.com/vintage-halloween-postcards/

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/10/la-llorona-roots-branches-and-the-missing-link-from-spain/

https://chronicle.iaia.edu/the-folklore-behind-la-llorona/

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/undergraduate/crossschool/ln305/biblio/beardsley__hankey_the_vanishing_hitchhiker.pdf

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/drone/8-in-the-air/hills-that-defy-gravity-explaining-the-viral-and-weird-phenomenon/526-7177d468-41c5-4f4e-925d-bb623598cf3a

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/slender-man-case-release-psychiatric-hospital

https://www.prindleinstitute.org/2017/09/mental-health-information-literacy-slenderman-stabbing-case/

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12172

https://doaj.org/article/e0c7d8e08b6e45ad9de1d49e00cef121

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-682X.2007.00181.x

Tsarichina Excavation

https://grokipedia.com/page/ministry_of_defence_bulgaria

https://bulgaria-infoguide.com/sofia/ministry-of-defense/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Bulgaria)

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.vagabond.bg/land-fake-mysteries-1809

Cursed Films

https://www.historicmysteries.com/myths-legends/superman-curse/1711/

https://famousmonsters.com/the-atuk-curse/

https://movieaccidents.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/the-passion-of-the-christ-a-cursed-film/

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roman-polanski-horror-curse-rosemarys-baby/

https://dangerousminds.net/movies/forever-young-the-cursed-leads-of-rebel-without-a-cause/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304702008_Apocalypse_Now_Redux_and_the_Curse_of_Vietnam

https://collider.com/the-conqueror-john-wayne-movie-radiation/

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls003927414/

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls563490458/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/cursed-movies

https://crimereads.com/most-haunted-movies-in-hollywood-history/

https://collider.com/movies-with-worst-productions/

Area 51

https://www.space.com/area-51-what-is-it

https://www.military.com/base-guide/area-51

https://www.britannica.com/place/Area-51

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/area-51

https://mapscaping.com/interactive-map-of-area-51/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49667295

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/jan/30/officials-identify-man-shot-killed-after-breaching/

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1860871_1860876_1861006,00.html

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2023/01/26/how-area-51-became-a-hotbed-for-conspiracy-theories/

https://www.britannica.com/question/Why-has-Area-51-been-the-focus-of-conspiracy-theories

https://www.rachel-nevada.com/rachel.html

Brainwashing Brazil

Brazil’s Polarizing New President, Jair Bolsonaro, in His Own Words - The New York Times

'There is no crime': Brazil's ex-president keeps faith in party and justice system | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian

Brazil's Workers Party out of touch with society, says likely new leader | Reuters

Controversies surrounding Jair Bolsonaro - Wikipedia

What is Left of Bolsonarism: The Many Faces of the Brazilian Far-Right

When it Comes to Corruption, Lula is Toxic, but Bolsonaro is Lethal | GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog

Jair Bolsonaro's rise and fall - and why he may not be done yet

Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil's new president has said many offensive things]

https://www.gov.br/planalto/en/composition/biography-president-of-the-republic

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luiz-Inacio-Lula-da-Silva https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/world/video/brazils-president-lula-responds-to-trumps-surprise-tariff-threat-digvid-christiane-amanpour

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jair-Bolsonaro

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-government/jair-bolsonaro

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-sentenced-27-years-after-landmark-coup-plot-conviction-2025-09-12/

Hun Sen of Cambodia

https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/01/12/30-years-hun-sen/violence-repression-and-corruption-cambodia

https://www.cfr.org/hun-sen

https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/cambodia/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hun-Sen

https://www.eria.org/news-and-views/lessons-from-hun-sens-cambodia

https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/south-east-asia-and-the-pacific/cambodia/report-cambodia/

Lobotomies

Egas Moniz, Tentatives Opératoires dans le Traitement de Certaines Psychoses (1936)
El-Hai, Jack. The Lobotomist (2005)
Valenstein, Elliot. Great and Desperate Cures (1986)
Freeman, Walter & Watts, James. Psychosurgery (1942)
Diefenbach et al. (1999), “The History of Lobotomy and Its Relevance to Contemporary Neurosurgery,” Neurosurgical Focus
66 Trepanning Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images | TrepanationSource: Ballantine et al., Journal of Neurosurgery, 1987; Rauch et al., Archives of General Psychiatry, 2000

Ten Days in a Mad-House : Nellie Bly 1887

Titicut Follies : Frederick Wiseman 1967

“Goltz, Friedrich Leopold.” Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com. 5 May, 2025

https://www.encyclopedia.com

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "psychosurgery". Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Jan. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/science/psychosurgery.

Kucharski A. History of frontal lobotomy in the United States, 1935-1955. Neurosurgery. 1984 Jun;14(6):765-72. doi: 10.1227/00006123-198406000-00022. PMID: 6379496.

Treatment in mental disorders Page, James D. (James Daniel), 1910-1984.;University of Rochester

http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8700838A

https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey

Caruso JP, Sheehan JP. Psychosurgery, ethics, and media: a history of Walter Freeman and the lobotomy. Neurosurg Focus. 2017 Sep;43(3):E6. doi: 10.3171/2017.6.FOCUS17257. PMID: 28859561

Bazzano LA, Durant J, Brantley PR. A Modern History of Informed Consent and the Role of Key Information. Ochsner J. 2021 Spring;21(1):81-85. doi: 10.31486/toj.19.0105. PMID: 33828429; PMCID: PMC7993430.

Conversion Therapy

Gay Conversion Therapy's Disturbing 19th-Century Origins

Ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus - Wikipedia

Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

Orchiectomy - Wikipedia

Eugen Steinach - Wikipedia

Criminal law | Definition, Types, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

"Corrective Rape: An Extreme Manifestation of Discrimination and the St" by Sarah Doan-Minh

Corrective rape - Wikipedia

Legality of conversion therapy - Wikipedia

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say | US supreme court | The Guardian

https://www.bps.org.uk/blog/aversion-therapy-1950s-and-1960s

https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy

https://www.nami.org/advocacy/policy-priorities/stopping-harmful-practices/conversion-therapy/

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/conversion-therapy-report/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/ministries-key-ex-gay-groups/

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1022837295/former-ex-gay-leaders-denounce-conversion-therapy-in-a-new-documentary

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2407068

Women’s History Months Bonus Episodes

The Night Witches:

Wikipedia — Night Witches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

• The National WWII Museum — Night Witches: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/night-witches-soviet-women-pilots-who-terrified-nazi-soldiers

• HISTORY.com — Meet the Night Witches: https://www.history.com/articles/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night

• Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review: https://vtuhr.org/articles/10.21061/vtuhr.v14i1.279

• Wright Museum of World War II — The Soviet Night Witches: https://wrightmuseum.org/the-soviet-night-witches/

• War History Online — Night Witches: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/night-witches.html

• EBSCO Research Starters — Night Witches: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/military-history-and-science/night-witches

Noor Inayat Khan

Britannica — Noor Inayat Khan: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noor-Inayat-Khan

• Wikipedia — Noor Inayat Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan

• The National Archives (UK) — Who Was Noor Khan?: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/who-was-noor-khan/

• Al Jazeera — The Forgotten Muslim Princess Who Fought Nazis: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/10/28/noor-inayat-khan

• South Asian Heritage Trust — The Sufi Spy Who Defied the Nazis: https://southasianheritage.org.uk/royal-british-legion/the-sufi-spy-who-defied-the-nazis-noor-inayat-khan/

• SWWEC — Noor Inayat Khan SOE: https://war-experience.org/lives/noor-inayat-khan-soe/

• Historic UK — The Bravery of Noor Inayat Khan: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Bravery-Of-Noor-Inayat-Khan/

• Feminism and Religion — Herstory Profile: https://feminismandreligion.com/2023/11/26/herstory-profiles-the-unknown-female-spy-of-wwii-noor-inayat-khan-by-anjeanette-leboeuf/

Nellie Bly

• Wikipedia — Nellie Bly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

• Wikipedia — Ten Days in a Mad-House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_in_a_Mad-House

• National Women's History Museum — Nellie Bly: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/nellie-bly-0

• Library of Congress — Behind Asylum Bars: Nellie Bly: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/

• The Marginalian — Ten Days at the Mad-House: https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/05/ten-days-at-the-mad-house-nellie-bly/

• Biography.com — Inside Nellie Bly's 10 Days in a Madhouse: https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/inside-nelly-bly-10-days-madhouse

• Prison Policy Initiative — Nellie Bly's Legacy: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/09/26/nelliebly/

• PBS NewsHour Extra — Nellie Bly Case Study: https://www.journalisminaction.org/case/nellie-bly

• Full Text — Ten Days in a Mad-House (Public Domain): https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/the-night-witches

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/noor-inayat-khan

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/nellie-bly

Westboro Baptist Church

Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011) — Supreme Court opinion

NPR, SCOTUSblog analysis of the case

Maryland funeral protest legislation (post-2011)

Albert Snyder interviews (CNN, 2011)

Patriot Guard Riders historical accounts

CNN, MSNBC, and AP coverage (2005–2010 funeral protests)

Southern Poverty Law Center — WBC protest database

WBC’s own archived protest logs (public records)

https://time.com/archive/6617212/religion-repentance-in-pasadena/

https://www.godhatesfags.com/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/westboro-baptist-church/

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768894901/how-twitter-helped-change-the-mind-of-a-westboro-baptist-church-member

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Westboro-Baptist-Church

https://vault.fbi.gov/fred-phelps/Fred%20W.%20Phelps%2C%20Sr%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/view

https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/nate-phelps-westboro-church-exclusive/story?id=10555603

The Golden Dawn

https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/HRF-Golden-Dawn-1.pdf

https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/golden-dawn

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-fuhrer-of-greeces-golden-dawn/

https://greekreporter.com/2013/09/28/profile-of-an-greek-extremist-nikolaos-michaloliakos/

https://grokipedia.com/page/Nikolaos_Michaloliakos

Athens Court of Appeals Decision No. 2644/2020

Ellinas, Antonis A. The Rise of Golden Dawn (2013)

Amnesty International, October 2020 statement on verdict

Human Rights Watch reporting on Golden Dawn violence

Reuters, AP, and BBC coverage of 2013 arrests and 2020 conviction

Counter Extremism Project profile on Golden Dawn

The Grey Wolves

https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/grey-wolves

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-006101_EN.html

https://reactionary.international/database/alparslan-trke/en/

https://www.bicakhukuk.com/en/how-organized-crime-shapes-the-turkish-state/

U.S. Library of Congress – Country Study: Turkey

Gareth Jenkins, Political Islam in Turkey

Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey

BBC News – Coverage of Turkish politics and nationalist movements

Reuters reporting on Grey Wolves and European bans

European Parliament reports on ultranationalist movements

Stanford University Hoover Institution – Turkish political history archives

Counter Extremism Project: Grey Wolves profile

Human Rights Watch reports on Turkish political violence

The KKK

Southern Poverty Law Center. "Ku Klux Klan." SPLC Extremist Files. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/ku-klux-klan/ (Updated May 2025)

History.com Editors. "Ku Klux Klan: Origin, Members & Facts." HISTORY. https://www.history.com/articles/ku-klux-klan (Updated November 2025)

PBS American Experience. "Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK." PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-kkk/

NCpedia. "Ku Klux Klan." North Carolina Encyclopedia. https://www.ncpedia.org/ku-klux-klan

School History. "Ku Klux Klan Facts, Worksheets, Origin & KKK as Perpetrators of Violence." https://schoolhistory.co.uk/modern/kkk-ku-klux-klan/ (Updated March 2023)

Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Ku Klux Klan." https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ku-Klux-Klan (Updated 2026)

EBSCO Research Starters. "Birth of the Ku Klux Klan." https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/birth-ku-klux-klan

Southern Poverty Law Center. "Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism and Violence." SPLC (PDF). https://www.splcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/files/Ku-Klux-Klan-A-History-of-Racism.pdf

History Atlas. "KKK – Ku Klux Klan." https://historyatlas.com/groups/kkk-ku-klux-klan/

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/kkk-series

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/ku-klux-klan/

https://labs.library.vcu.edu/klan/learn

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/klan-overseas/

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/civil-rights-in-america/ku-klux-klan/

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-twentieth-century/

https://rmpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ush22-soc-klanformrevival/the-formation-and-second-revitalization-of-the-ku-klux-klan/