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Project Mind Control

Project Mind Control

By: Always True Crime
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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 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.


In Project Mind Control, criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw follows Lana’s story into a shadow world of covert CIA involvement, missing Indigenous children, and allegations that orphaned and vulnerable kids were supplied for experimentation. What emerges is a disturbing pattern: an international effort to weaponize psychology and control human behaviour. The truth may never be complete but the crimes demand to be uncovered.

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  • Introducing Project Mind Control
    Mar 4 2026

    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 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.


    In Project Mind Control, criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw follows Lana’s story into a shadow world of covert CIA involvement, missing Indigenous children, and allegations that orphaned and vulnerable kids were supplied for experimentation. What emerges is a disturbing pattern: an international effort to weaponize psychology and control human behaviour. The truth may never be complete but the crimes demand to be uncovered.


    Launching March 17th

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    2 mins
  • Typical Rebellious Teenager
    Mar 17 2026

    In the late 1950s, teenage runaway Lana Ponting finds herself in a notorious psychiatric institute, where she becomes the subject of a series of experiments that fundamentally alter her memory. And change her life forever.


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    27 mins
  • The Puppeteer
    Mar 24 2026

    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 discoveries.


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    25 mins
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