Dark Matters: Twisted But True

John Noble hosts explorations into Charles Lindbergh's plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides, and science wants one man's body while he's still alive.

John Noble hosts explorations into Egas Moniz, who invented the lobotomy to treat and control mental patients. Then a geneticist attempts to prove that human kindness is an illusion, and it drives him to suicide.

John Noble hosts an exploration into a method for cheating death. The CIA pays psychiatrist Dr. Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing, and Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.

John Noble hosts explorations into brain surgery that creates a perfect amnesiac. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives, and a slip while testing the core of an atomic bomb releases a blast of radiation.

John Noble hosts an exploration into contaminated heroin that freezes addicts like statues, and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress foresees cellphones and Wi-Fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.

John Noble hosts an exploration into the Stanford Prison Experiment. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment, and a dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.

John Noble hosts an exploration of government experiments on black men with syphilis, and nine skiers found dead with strange injuries raise questions of whether it was the result of a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon or a yeti.

John Noble hosts an exploration into how to electronically control the mind. A doctor in Edinburgh doesn't ask questions when men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers, and a scientist leads a vendetta against Einstein.

John Noble hosts an exploration of a musical genius forced to create spy technology, Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, and Dr. John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.

John Noble hosts an exploration of a chemical for soybeans that turns into a weapon during the Vietnam War. Ben Franklin investigates Mesmer's cure for animal magnetism, and Dr. Albert Geyser invents a deadly new beauty treatment.

Host John Noble explores an experiment in which students are mocked for their beliefs. Leaded gasoline poisons more people than anything else, and Russian scientists protect their work from Nazis at all costs.

John Noble examines the case of a Pavlov student repeating an experiment on orphans. A curious red rain falls in India in 2001, and glow-in-the-dark paint used during WWI contains a deadly ingredient.

Host John Noble explores how a skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where humans came from, and Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.