Charles Manson was the evil behind the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and at least eight others — but a new documentary speculates that Manson and his "family" of followers may have been influenced by ...

Is Stranger Things based on a true story? For those who have followed the series through the streets of Hawkins, Indiana, the answer is darker and more unsettling than fiction. The Duffer Brothers’ ...

What if your mind could do more than just think? What if it could manipulate the world around you? That’s the idea behind one of Pop Mech’s most compelling recent stories, “The CIA Watched Him Bend ...

In the late 1950s, the CIA was obsessed with mind control—what it was, how to weaponize it, and how to keep it out of Soviet hands. But instead of toiling in the lab to find the answers, the agency ...

This real covert operation took place during the 1950s and 1960s with some volunteers and quite a few unwilling participants who were subject to testing by the CIA. Several brainwashing techniques, ...