Project Mind Control podcast artwork
True Crime

Project Mind Control

by Always True Crime
Share this ranking Claiming needs an RSS feed. Contact us.

Chart positions today · United States

Not on the United States charts we track today.

If you like Project Mind Control, try…

Latest episodes

  • Introducing... The Surgeon of St Helena

    June 29, 2026 · 32 min

    From the team behind Project Mind Control comes a new series, The Surgeon of St Helena. Join journalist Luke Jones as he investigates the arrival of a rogue surgeon on one of the world's most remote islands. St Helena is a small British…

  • Introducing... Strangely

    April 24, 2026 · 19 min

    Explore the overlooked oddities that deserve a deep dive and the downright bizarre gems buried in the notebooks of journalists and friends Poppy Damon and Luke Jones. From each side of the Atlantic, Poppy in New York and Luke in London…

  • Nuns and Orphans

    April 21, 2026 · 30 min

    Hervé Bertrand was sold for $10 to be experimented on. His story leads us deep into Quebec's darkest secret: the Duplessis orphans, thousands of healthy children reclassified overnight as mentally ill. And will the Mohawk Mothers uncover…

  • Reckless Doses

    April 14, 2026 · 27 min

    A self portrait triggers a young woman to be sent for psychiatric treatment, forever changing her life. Alyssa Ryvers tells the story of her mother Carol — a patient of Dr. Heinz Lehmann, the man who revolutionised psychiatry with a drug…

  • The CIA

    April 7, 2026 · 30 min

    The work of Dr Ewen Cameron caught the attention of the American intelligence agency, the CIA…but did he ever know who was bankrolling his work? And what other projects were the CIA funding?  To listen to all episodes right now and ad-free…

Show 4 more episodesShow fewer episodes
  • Morningstar

    March 31, 2026 · 32 min

    Lana’s revelations about a friend she made at The Allan open an entirely new investigation. One spearheaded by a group of indigenous women called the Mohawk Mothers, who believe there are bodies buried under The Allan. To listen to all…

  • The Puppeteer

    March 24, 2026 · 25 min

    Dr Ewen Cameron is the man behind mind control experiments, and the person Lana Ponting holds responsible for her fractured memories. As Lana tries to piece together what happened to her at The Allan, she makes some shocking…

  • Typical Rebellious Teenager

    March 17, 2026 · 27 min

    Dr Julia Shaw meets Lana Ponting, in the 1950s she was a teenage runaway. That rebellion led her to be admitted into the notorious psychiatric institute, where she becomes the subject of a series of experiments that fundamentally alter her…

  • Introducing Project Mind Control

    March 4, 2026 · 2 min

    In 1958, teenage runaway Lana Ponting was sent to one of Canada’s most notorious psychiatric institutions: The Allan Institute. There, she became part of a series of secretive and controversial experiments designed to break down and…

Full episode archive on Apple Podcasts →

About the show

Criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw follows the story of one teenage runaway in 1958 into a shadow world of experiments on children, covert CIA involvement, and vanished indigenous children. In Project Mind Control, we hear a story of an international effort to weaponise psychology and control human behaviour. The truth may never be fully revealed, but the crimes demand to be uncovered. In 1958, teenage runaway Lana Ponting was sent to one of Canada’s most notorious psychiatric institutions: The Allan Institute. Now Dr Julia Shaw speaks to her about the experiments she endured there, designed to break down and rebuild the human mind through electroshocks, drugs, and barbaric treatments. Decades later, Lana is one of the last known survivors. Her memories are fractured but what she remembers is enough to expose something far bigger than one hospital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.