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194: URBAN LEGEND ORIGINS | 22 True Scary Stories | EP 182

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The Alice Killings

Over 300 healthy females were injected with the cells without being properly informed of the potential health effects. Doctors knew very well that the introduction of such cells might cause cancer in those experimented on. In May of 1955, US military scientists conducted what was known as Operation Big Buzz, which involved air dropping over 300,000 mosquitoes over parts of Georgia. The goal of the experiment was to determine if enough mosquitoes could survive being deployed from the air in order to feed on the humans below. If the experiment was successful, it would prove that such mosquitoes could be deliberately infected with a variety of deadly diseases and pass them onto others.

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