In 1920, a baby was given something no child should ever receive, fear, delivered by design. What began as a scientific curiosity would become one of the most disturbing experiments in psychological history. This is the story of how one man taught a child to be afraid, and why that lesson still unsettles us over a century later.

Fearful is a podcast produced by Media Forge Studios, and releases a new episode here every Wednesday.

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