Project Mind Control

About Project Mind Control

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 (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Always True Crime

Category

history · news · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Mar 2026

Latest episode

29 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 9 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Introducing... The Surgeon of St Helena

   Journalist Luke Jones interviews retired Met police officers Bernard and Sandra about their investigation into rogue surgeon Dr. Sergio Villatoro Bran on St. Helena.

2. 

   24 Apr 2026

   Introducing... Strangely

   Journalists Poppy Damon and Luke Jones explore bizarre and overlooked stories from true crime to conspiracy theories in this interview.

3. 

   21 Apr 2026

   Nuns and Orphans

   Hervé Bertrand shares his harrowing experience of being experimented on as a Duplessis orphan, revealing Quebec's dark secret and the Mohawk Mothers' quest for truth in this interview.

4. 

   14 Apr 2026

   Reckless Doses

   Alyssa Ryvers shares her mother Carol's story of psychiatric treatment under Dr. Heinz Lehmann, exploring the revolutionary yet questionable methods he employed.

5. 

   7 Apr 2026

   The CIA

   Host [Host Name] interviews Dr. Ewen Cameron about the CIA's funding and involvement in his mind control experiments, revealing hidden projects and their implications.

6. 

   31 Mar 2026

   Morningstar

   Host Lana Del Rey investigates the Mohawk Mothers' claims of buried bodies at The Allan, uncovering new leads in this interview.

7. 

   24 Mar 2026

   The Puppeteer

   Lana Ponting interviews Dr. Ewen Cameron about his mind control experiments and their impact on her fractured memories.

8. 

   17 Mar 2026

   Typical Rebellious Teenager

   Dr. Julia Shaw interviews Lana Ponting about her transformative experiences as a teenage runaway subjected to memory-altering experiments in a 1950s psychiatric institute.

9. 

   4 Mar 2026

   Introducing Project Mind Control

   Criminal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw interviews Lana Ponting about her harrowing experiences and the disturbing experiments at the Allan Institute, revealing a larger conspiracy.

Inside a recent episode

Introducing... The Surgeon of St Helena

Published 29 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Jamestown, which was created as a city by Queen Victoria, does not look like a city. Picture instead a bare, rocky valley with steep sides and a strip of town running all the way along the bottom. The high street has rows of pastel-coloured facades, some with balconies and metal balustrades. […]

Who has been a guest on Project Mind Control

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• Bernard
• Sandra
• Alyssa Ryvers
• Lana Ponting

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

136 ratings

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