ShortHand: The Men Who Stare at Goats & the Psychic Arms Race

About this episode

This episode explores the US government's attempts to create psychic super soldiers over 30 years, focusing on Jim Channon and the First Earth Battalion.

If someone told you they could read your mind, levitate, walk through walls, or make your heart explode in your chest, you’d probably either say they were crazy or wait to hear the punchline, and you’d be right to do so. But for over 30 years, the US government spent tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money attempting to create psychic super soldiers of the future, with all those skills and more. This is the ShortHand on Jim Channon and the First Earth Battalion. -- Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus Episodes YouTube - Full-length Video Episodes TikTok / Instagram

People in this episode

Host: RedHanded

Topics covered

• psychic abilities
• military experiments
• super soldiers
• government funding
• Jim Channon
• First Earth Battalion

Keywords

• psychic super soldiers
• mind reading
• military
• Jim Channon
• First Earth Battalion
• government experiments
• paranormal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US government, First Earth Battalion

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