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A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.
For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War...........
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I'd say let's wait and see how even more horrifying this becomes, because Occam's Razor would suggest the ergot theory as the likelier candidate -- actually I find it surprising that they would call it a mystery when this kind of thing is well-documented back to the Middle Ages.
But of course the sociopaths of the CIA, clever historians that they are, would have chosen rural southern France for this very reason. Just another outbreak of St Anthony's Fire, you know...
i'm praying it's the ergot (well, you know what i mean)
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