The Tate-LaBianca murders, committed by the Manson Family in the summer of 1969, are among the most famous in the realm of true crime — and just about everything we know about them might be false.

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 ...

The country was shocked — and gripped — when members of a cult known as the Manson Family brutally murdered actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and eight others in the summer of 1969.

Starting in 1953, the US CIA conducted research on mind control using techniques ranging from hypnosis to electroshock, torture, and the administration of LSD to unwitting people. Called MK-Ultra, the ...

Conspiracy beliefs often take hold because it is easier for our brain to comprehend one explanation, one villain, or one horrific theme, rather than a multitude of competing theories, which can be ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. LSD is a powerful illegal psychedelic drug with the ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a man who followed a prostitute into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood received a longer, more intimate encounter ...

In the summer of 2025, a rumor spread that the CIA once ran a "fake" brothel in San Francisco, California, in order to test drugs, including LSD, on its unsuspecting patrons. For example, on July 31, ...