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130: The Horrors of Plum Island | Hybrids, Human Experiments and Weaponized Killer Insects

2023/9/29
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播音员：本期节目探讨了位于长岛普莱姆岛的秘密政府设施，该设施长期以来一直被怀疑进行生物武器研究、动物杂交实验甚至人体实验。蒙托克怪兽等不明生物的出现，以及2010年在普莱姆岛发现的一具疑似进行过人体实验的遗体，都为这些传闻提供了佐证。节目还揭露了普莱姆岛与纳粹科学家埃里希·特劳布的联系，以及其在利用蜱虫进行生物战方面的研究。此外，节目还讨论了古巴猪瘟疫情、莱姆病疫情以及美国疾病控制与预防中心等机构的安全事故，这些事件都与普莱姆岛的秘密活动存在潜在关联。节目最后指出，尽管普莱姆岛即将关闭，但其研究工作将转移到新的地点继续进行，这引发了人们对未来生物安全问题的担忧。

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The Montauk Monster, a mysterious creature found on Long Island, sparked rumors about Plum Island, a nearby top-secret government facility rumored to conduct bioweapons research and human experiments.

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In July 2008, the carcass of an animal washed up on the beach at Montauk Point Long Island. Local beachcombers are used to seeing dead animals. Seagulls, fish, crabs, even the occasional whale. But they had never seen anything like this.

Animal experts were brought in to identify it. They were stumped. It looked like part dog, part reptile and part rodent - with the beak of a bird. This animal, whatever it was, became known as the Montauk Monster.

But where did the Monster come from?

There could be only one answer. Plum Island.

Plum Island is just a few miles from where the monster was found.

Locals had heard rumors that this was a top-secret government facility that created bioweapons, engineered animal hybrids and maybe even experimented on people.

Sounds like a wild theory.

But then another animal washed up on the beach. Again, it couldn't be identified. And then another animal. And then two more.

In 2010, the rumors about Plum Island seemed to be true when something else was found on the beach. This time it wasn't a strange animal. It was a body. A human body.

Well... it was almost human.

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