The Morbid History Podcast

MM#9 How Not To Train A Dolphin


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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 tale is a haunting reminder that intelligence doesn’t equal consent.

 

This isn’t just weird science.

It’s the moment science stopped asking if it even should.

 

🎧 Take a bite of this Morbid Morsel.


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The Morbid History PodcastBy Thomas Gloom