The U.S. government holds real, searchable patents for beaming voices into a person's skull using microwaves — and for decades, thousands of people calling themselves "targeted individuals" have said it's being done to them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace voice to skull (V2K) technology from Allan Frey's 1962 discovery of the microwave auditory effect through Cold War experiments, MKUltra, and modern military patents, then weigh the real science against the psychiatric and online-community explanations — and ask what faith has to say about ever using a technology like this.

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Further Resources:
• Auditory Effects of Microwave Radiation by James C. Lin (Springer, 2021): https://amzn.to/4gmjSv9
• The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life by Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden (Morrow, 1985): https://amzn.to/4perr9K
• A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America by John Hall (Strategic Book Publishing, 2009): https://amzn.to/4vhwBD6
• Mike McPhate, “United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers,” The New York Times, June 10, 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/health/gang-stalking-targeted-individuals.html
• Sharon Weinberger, “Mind Games,” The Washington Post Magazine, January 14, 2007: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2007/01/14/mind-games/a0d09db6-d7aa-4fcd-a829-2a3ebc56df9d/
• Allan H. Frey, “Human Auditory System Response to Modulated Electromagnetic Energy,” Journal of Applied Physiology 17 (1962): https://journals.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/jappl.1962.17.4.689
• Kenneth R. Foster, David C. Garrett & Marvin C. Ziskin, “Can the Microwave Auditory Effect Be ‘Weaponized’?” Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021): 788613, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.788613
• U.S. Army, Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons (1998; declassified 2006): https://archive.org/details/bioeffects-of-selected-non-lethal-weapons
• Federation of American Scientists archive, “Voice to Skull Devices” (CALL thesaurus entry): https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/dod/vts.html
• U.S. Patent 4,877,027, Wayne B. Brunkan, “Hearing System” (1989): https://patents.google.com/patent/US4877027A/en
• U.S. Patent 6,587,729, O’Loughlin and Loree, “Apparatus for Audibly Communicating Speech Using the Radio Frequency Hearing Effect” (2003): https://patents.google.com/patent/US6587729B2/en
• U.S. Patent 5,159,703, Oliver M. Lowery, “Silent Subliminal Presentation System” (1992): https://patents.google.com/patent/US5159703A/en
• National Security Archive, “The Moscow Signals Declassified: Microwave Mysteries, Projects Pandora and Bizarre”: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2021-09-21/moscow-signals-declassified-microwave-mysteries-projects-pandora-bizarre
• Lorraine Sheridan and David V. James, “Complaints of Group-Stalking,” Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 26 (2015): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14789949.2015.1054857
• U.S. Senate, Project MKULTRA, Joint Hearing, August 3, 1977: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/95mkultra.pdf

Chapters:
0:00:43 - Hook: what if the voice in your head is real?
0:01:39 - The real origin of the tinfoil hat
0:03:25 - Meet the targeted individuals (TIs)
0:04:31 - Case study: Timothy Trespas
0:06:02 - Case study: Harlan Girard and "the voices"
0:10:54 - More TI accounts
0:12:54 - What is V2K, and where does the name come from?
0:14:22 - Related terms
0:15:59 - The Frey effect
0:18:13 - From clicks to speech: the 1973 Walter Reed demonstration
0:19:41 - The Moscow Signal and Project Pandora
0:23:08 - MKUltra and the precedent for non-consensual research
0:25:16 - Three key patents: Brunkan, O'Loughlin/Loree, and Lowery
0:30:02 - The Army's own "voice to skull" thesaurus entry
0:32:00 - Other programs: BioEffects, Medusa, Active Denial System, and LRAD
0:34:20 - "Voice of God" operations and the Waco proposal
0:36:14 - Can the microwave auditory effect be weaponized? (Foster et al., 2021)
0:40:08 - Reason Perspective: five theories of what's really happening
0:41:17 - ...what the physics actually permits
0:43:22 - ...what the documentary record does and doesn't establish
0:44:44 - ...could silent sound technology explain it?
0:45:56 - ...could LRAD explain it?
0:47:22 - ...conventional medical and psychiatric explanations
0:49:51 - ...gang stalking and the Sheridan and James study
0:52:08 - ...when belief turns to violence: Aaron Alexis and Myron May
0:54:14 - ...how widespread is this really?
0:57:23 - ...why so many people believe it's happening to them
0:59:53 - Faith Perspective: is it ever moral to use V2K?
1:03:14 - ...how to respond when someone says they're hearing voices
1:04:44 ★ - Bottom Line

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