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The Russian Sleep Experiment aka The Most Horrifying Human Experiment In History · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: It turned out that he had physically torn his vocal
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  Speaker 1: cords from screaming incessantly. In the height of World War two,
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  Speaker 1: Russian scientists wanted to find a way to keep their
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  Speaker 1: soldiers awake longer, and so they devised this experiment, this
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  Speaker 1: human experiment, to test the effects of extreme sleep deprivation.
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  Speaker 1: And so what they did is they rounded up five
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  Speaker 1: prisoners of war and offered them their freedom if they
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  Speaker 1: went through this experiment, which I can tell you went sideways.
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  Speaker 1: And so the way it worked is they were going
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  Speaker 1: to be put inside of this sealed gas chamber that
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  Speaker 1: continuously was going to administer this stimulant gas.
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  Speaker 2: It was an experimental stimulant gas.
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  Speaker 1: This is not something they knew much about, but they
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  Speaker 1: were fairly confident that it wouldn't kill them and that
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  Speaker 1: it would keep them awake, and so they put them
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  Speaker 1: inside chamber and they started ministering the gas. This was
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  Speaker 1: not at a time where they had closed circuit cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Those weren't around at the time. All they had was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they put microphones in there, and they had
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  Speaker 1: these five inch thick little porthole windows. They had one
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  Speaker 1: porthole window where the researchers could look into the chamber itself.
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  Speaker 1: So the experiment begins, and really for the first three
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  Speaker 1: four days everything was pretty normal. At about the day
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  Speaker 1: for Mark, the researchers started to notice a change in
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  Speaker 1: what they were discussing the subjects. It went from kind
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  Speaker 1: of small talk over those first few days to fairly dark.
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  Speaker 1: They started talking almost exclusively about traumatic events that had.
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  Speaker 2: Happened to them in their life.
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  Speaker 1: And around the day for Mark is when they started
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  Speaker 1: the subjects started complaining about being in this test at all.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The first few days was filled with some optimism that
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  Speaker 1: this was their ticket out of the terrible situation they
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  Speaker 1: were in.
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  Speaker 2: And then it really turned into this is a terrible situation.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was around the day six Mark, these
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  Speaker 1: subjects stopped talking to each other completely. They became paranoid
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  Speaker 1: of the other subjects, and they went to their own
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  Speaker 1: sections of the chamber, you know, and in the chamber
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  Speaker 1: they had places to sit, there was food, there was water,
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  Speaker 1: there was a bathroom, there was books in.
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  Speaker 2: There to read. They kind of took up space inside
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  Speaker 2: of the chamber. They began to believe that they.
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  Speaker 1: Could kind of like sell out their comrades in exchange
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  Speaker 1: for getting out of this experiment.
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  Speaker 2: So they would, you know, one by one, come up
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  Speaker 2: to the porthole or go over to one of.
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  Speaker 1: The microphones that was obviously placed inside the chamber and
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  Speaker 1: start whispering these kind of imagined defenses.
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  Speaker 2: Of the other.
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  Speaker 1: Subjects to try to get them in trouble in exchange
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  Speaker 1: for being released from this experiment, which you know that
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the researchers, they didn't care what they said.
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  Speaker 2: They just listened and watched.
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  Speaker 1: After nine days, the experiment took a significant.
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  Speaker 2: Turn for the worst. It was the.
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  Speaker 1: Morning of the I think it was the tenth day
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  Speaker 1: where the screaming began. One of the test subjects began screaming.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point everybody is totally like segregated. They're
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  Speaker 1: not talking to each other, they're muttering and whispering, and
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  Speaker 1: one of them just starts screaming.
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  Speaker 2: And so for three hours they watch him scream at
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  Speaker 2: the top of his lungs and run back and forth
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  Speaker 2: across this little chamber until he stopped screaming.
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  Speaker 1: But he's still running, and they could kind of pick
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  Speaker 1: up on the microphone that he was still making sound.
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  Speaker 2: But it was like these little squeaks.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out that he had physically torn his vocal
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  Speaker 1: chords from screaming incessantly. The other subjects didn't react to
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  Speaker 1: the screaming at all.
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  Speaker 2: It was like it wasn't happening.
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  Speaker 1: But they're in this confined space, right, it's like so
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  Speaker 1: loud in there, and all that happened is as he's screaming,
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  Speaker 1: the other subjects began ripping out pages of the book,
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  Speaker 1: soaking them and then pushing them up against the poorhole glass,
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  Speaker 1: obscuring the view. So by the time the subject who
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  Speaker 1: had torn his vocal cords stopped, By the time he
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  Speaker 1: tore his vocal cords and it went quiet, the researchers
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  Speaker 1: couldn't actually see into the chamber anymore. And once the
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  Speaker 1: guy had torn his vocal cords, there was no more
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  Speaker 1: sound in the room.
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  Speaker 2: So their view is obscured. And now it's gone silent.
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  Speaker 1: After three days of talking about what they're going to do,
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  Speaker 1: of complete silence in the room, like they can't see
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  Speaker 1: in they can't it's silent. They're monitoring the oxygen levels
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  Speaker 1: in the room, and based on.
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  Speaker 2: Oxygen consumption in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently they could tell that there were people in there,
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  Speaker 1: probably at least four or five that were breathing oxygen
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  Speaker 1: because it was being consumed, so they believed they were alive.
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  Speaker 1: But after three days of silence, which really didn't make
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  Speaker 1: any sense, they determined, well, either our microphones are broken
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  Speaker 1: and that's a problem, or there's something wrong with the
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  Speaker 1: subjects themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So they decide that.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to use the intercom to reach out to
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  Speaker 1: the subjects and basically tell them that they're gonna come
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  Speaker 1: into the room, like, hey, you know, we're gonna test
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  Speaker 1: the microphones. We're gonna be coming into the chamber. You
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  Speaker 1: need to lay on the ground and not interact with us.
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  Speaker 1: If you comply, we will offer one of you immediate
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  Speaker 1: release and freedom. So there's silence. Doctor they use the intercom,
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  Speaker 1: they decide to do that. They talk to the intercom
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  Speaker 1: and one of the subjects now to this point again,
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  Speaker 1: for three days it's been silent, and one of the subjects,
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  Speaker 1: clear as can be, talks into the microphone and just says,
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  Speaker 1: we no longer want to be freed, And so the
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  Speaker 1: researchers were like, Okay, I guess they're alive and.
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  Speaker 2: Our microphones work. So they don't go in. They stay
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  Speaker 2: out of the chamber silent.
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  Speaker 1: It's continues all the way up until the fifteenth day,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the window's still obscured. The subjects are
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  Speaker 1: not speaking, they're not muttering, they're not whispering. It's just silence.
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  Speaker 1: And on the fifteenth day, at midnight on the fifteenth day,
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  Speaker 1: they decide that their well the experiment was over, and
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  Speaker 1: so what they did is they flushed the room of
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  Speaker 1: the stimulant that had been continuously pouring into the room.
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  Speaker 1: They'd turn that off and they replaced it with fresh air.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when they started hearing the streaming from the
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  Speaker 1: subjects inside.
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  Speaker 2: Of the chamber.
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  Speaker 1: They were begging them, the researchers, to turn the gas
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  Speaker 1: back on, pleading with them like begging, please turn it
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  Speaker 1: back on, as if they were dying.
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  Speaker 2: And then they opened the chamber and now they're laying
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  Speaker 2: eyes on the chamber for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Since like the tenth days, it's been like five days,
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  Speaker 1: when they're seeing the chamber with their own eyes for
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  Speaker 1: the first time, and it's straight out of a horror scene.
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  Speaker 1: Four of the five subjects were still alive. The fifth subject,
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  Speaker 1: who had perished at some point. There was chunks of
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  Speaker 1: flesh that had been taken off of his chest and
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  Speaker 1: his leg and had been jammed into the drain in
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  Speaker 1: the center of the room. And they had turned on
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  Speaker 1: the water in the bathroom and had flooded the room.
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  Speaker 1: There was almost four inches of water on the ground
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  Speaker 1: like murky, stagnant, like you know, lots of gross stuff
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  Speaker 1: in their water all over the ground. And there's this
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  Speaker 1: dead subject and all four of them have Also there's
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  Speaker 1: chunks of their own flesh that's been ripped off of
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  Speaker 1: their body, and it was later determined that it was
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  Speaker 1: self inflicted. These chunks of meat had been pulled off
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 2: And it was not by teeth either, it was by hand.
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  Speaker 1: And also they were eating it, So they were ripping
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  Speaker 1: off pieces of their body and eating it.
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  Speaker 2: The food storage that was down there hadn't been touched
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  Speaker 2: in days.
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  Speaker 1: It was like they had all completely lost their mind
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  Speaker 1: and began eating themselves.
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  Speaker 2: These subjects did not want to leave the chamber.
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  Speaker 1: They just continued to beg for the gas to be
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  Speaker 1: turned back on, and so finally they brought in some
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  Speaker 1: soldiers to actually extract the living subjects out of the chamber.
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  Speaker 2: But they thought so aggressively to stay there, and.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, one of the subjects jumped up and bit
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  Speaker 1: the neck of one of.
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  Speaker 2: The soldiers and he actually bled to death.
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  Speaker 1: Also, one of the subjects in the struggle has spleen
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  Speaker 1: ruptured and he bled to death. So now you have
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  Speaker 1: two casualties just getting them out of the room. They
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  Speaker 1: finally get the three remaining subjects, living subjects, out of
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  Speaker 1: the room, and they heavily restrain them. They bring them
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  Speaker 1: to a medical facility because they need to go under
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  Speaker 1: surgery because they've had chunks of their own flesh ripped off.
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  Speaker 1: They are totally emaciated, and the most injured of the
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  Speaker 1: three is immediately brought into surgery, while the other two
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  Speaker 1: were just kind of held in a holding room and
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  Speaker 1: they try to give him a sedative in order to
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  Speaker 1: prepare him for surgery.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the anesthetic. This is just the sedative,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like he's immune to it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: They give him a sedative, it does nothing, and he's
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  Speaker 1: just like resisting them, and he keeps begging to go
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  Speaker 1: back under the gas. And then finally they say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well we're just going to give him the anesthetic now.
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  Speaker 1: And when they bring it out, and they tell him
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  Speaker 1: we're going to give you an anesthetic and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to give you the surgery.
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  Speaker 2: He starts viciously fighting back. He does not want the anesthetic.
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  Speaker 1: He's pleading for them not to give him the anesthetic,
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  Speaker 1: that he must remain away, he needs to remain awake.
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  Speaker 1: Put me back under the gas, and in his struggle
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  Speaker 1: to not have the anesthetic given to him, he manages
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  Speaker 1: to tear one of the leather straps was holding him
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  Speaker 1: down so like an extreme.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of force.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally when they give him the anesthetic made
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  Speaker 1: to give him like ten times the dosage or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: just to get him to calm down.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as he fell asleep, he died. Jeffrey passes away.
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  Speaker 1: They move on to the next worst off subject, the
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  Speaker 1: guy who had torn his.
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  Speaker 2: Vocal cords and couldn't speak. They bring him in.
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  Speaker 1: For surgery, and he can't speak, but he's shaking his
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  Speaker 1: head because he.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't want the anesthetic.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want to go under surgery, and he's fighting
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  Speaker 1: with them, and he she just passes out from exhaustion,
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  Speaker 1: and he too. Once he falls asleep or I guess
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  Speaker 1: falls unconscious, he dies as well. So now there's only
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  Speaker 1: one subject left. The other two that has lived to
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  Speaker 1: be pulled out of the chamber, I've now died as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they fell asleep, And the scientists don't have
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  Speaker 1: any idea why. Instead of bringing the last survivor into surgery,
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  Speaker 1: because now they've witnessed two surgeries and in death, they decide,
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  Speaker 1: let's put this guy back in the chamber and turn
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  Speaker 1: the gas back on because apparently.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one thing that's keeping these guys alive.
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  Speaker 1: And so in preparation for being put back into the chamber,
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  Speaker 1: they hooked him up with an EEG that basically measures
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  Speaker 1: your brain waves, which I guess they hadn't done to
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  Speaker 1: this point in the experiment. So they put him in there,
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  Speaker 1: and the scientists are watching the readout of the EEG,
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  Speaker 1: and they noticed that like his lines would just you know,
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  Speaker 1: inexplicably flat.
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  Speaker 2: Line and then go back to you know, up and
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  Speaker 2: down and then flatline again.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them and had the wherewithal to look
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  Speaker 1: at the subject as it's flatlining, and they could see
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  Speaker 1: that every time he closed his eyes, it was like
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  Speaker 1: this micro sleeping, like these little blades.
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  Speaker 2: Basically every time he fell asleep. Now fraction of the second.
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  Speaker 1: It was like he was suffering a brain death, over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again. And as they're monitoring this
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  Speaker 1: and they know what just happened to the other two.
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  Speaker 1: They died when they fell asleep. They're trying to rush
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  Speaker 1: to get the gas turned back on to keep this
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  Speaker 1: guy alive, but they didn't do it in time, and
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  Speaker 1: he eventually succumbs and falls asleep, and they can see
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  Speaker 1: before he ultimately dies that initially, when he finally fell asleep,
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  Speaker 1: the EEG showed that he had fallen into a deep sleep.
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  Speaker 2: And then he flat lined and his heart stopped and
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  Speaker 2: he died.
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  Speaker 1: All of the subjects died, and no one really knows
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  Speaker 1: what killed them. Was that the sleep deprivation wasn't the gas.
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  Speaker 1: It could be a mixture of the two, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: never know. But either way, all of them died. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is actually just a story, and there's there's no
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  Speaker 1: evidence to suggest that is even true.
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  Speaker 2: But during that timeframe, in the forties.
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  Speaker 1: During World War Two, there were known cases of horrific,
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  Speaker 1: unethical human experimentation happening, like you know in the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: that that awful Unit seven thirty one.
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  Speaker 3: I would not suggest googling that unless you've got a
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  Speaker 3: really strong stomach, you had in the concentration camps, the
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  Speaker 3: German concentration camps, human experimentation was definitely happening.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously Germany and you know Japan are not Russia,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, it was just in this era where.
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  Speaker 2: Human experimentation was definitely happening.
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  Speaker 1: So even if this particular story, the Russian sleep experiment,
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  Speaker 1: is not true, I wouldn't be shocked in the least
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  Speaker 1: if there wasn't a similar study done somewhere. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: results could vary dramatically, but I do think that it's
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  Speaker 1: certainly possible that something.
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  Speaker 2: Like this could have happened.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we continue to study sleep and sleep deprivation,
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  Speaker 1: and really there's not much known about it. We don't
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  Speaker 1: even really know why we sleep, but we do know
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  Speaker 1: that you will die if you go without sleep. I
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  Speaker 1: think the longest any human went without sleep was like
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  Speaker 1: eighteen days.
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  Speaker 2: And I can actually speak from my own experience.
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  Speaker 1: I was in Avy seal for seven years and we
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  Speaker 1: go through something called hell week in initial training, where
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  Speaker 1: over a period of five and a half days, you
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  Speaker 1: sleep for a total of four hours, not every night,
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  Speaker 1: four hours but a grand total of four hours, and
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  Speaker 1: it's split up into two little chunks two hours and
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  Speaker 1: two hours, and then there's like.
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  Speaker 2: A fifteen minute and fifteen minute and a half thrown in.
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  Speaker 1: There too, and you really just lose your mind after
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  Speaker 1: seventy two hours. I remember I was constantly hallucinating that
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  Speaker 1: when I was around my classmates their head would turn
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  Speaker 1: into a big rubiks cube and start flipping around. And
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  Speaker 1: even when I got right next to them, their head
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  Speaker 1: would still be flopping around like a rubikscube. And that's
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  Speaker 1: only seventy two hours in. I can only imagine what
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  Speaker 1: would happen at fifteen. So that's going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed my version of the Russian Sleep Experiment.
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  Speaker 1: Go check it out on previpasta or just google Russian
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  Speaker 1: Sleep Experiment.
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