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It started with a flooded house and a dolphin named Peter. It ended in LSD, obsession, and death.
In the 1960s, a young woman named Margaret Howe Lovatt moved into a house filled with water to teach a dolphin how to speak. Backed by NASA and fueled by fringe science, the experiment soon spiraled into something far more disturbing.
LSD got involved, and what followed was a bizarre and tragic chapter in the history of animal research…
This isn’t just weird science.
It’s the moment science stopped asking if it even should.
🎧 Take a bite of this Morbid Morsel.
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented:
By Thomas GloomIt started with a flooded house and a dolphin named Peter. It ended in LSD, obsession, and death.
In the 1960s, a young woman named Margaret Howe Lovatt moved into a house filled with water to teach a dolphin how to speak. Backed by NASA and fueled by fringe science, the experiment soon spiraled into something far more disturbing.
LSD got involved, and what followed was a bizarre and tragic chapter in the history of animal research…
This isn’t just weird science.
It’s the moment science stopped asking if it even should.
🎧 Take a bite of this Morbid Morsel.
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: