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Liar, Liar, Plants on Fire
Episode 132

Liar, Liar, Plants on Fire

True Weird Stuff · Tony Garcia

October 3, 20251h 12m

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<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Liar, Liar, Plants on Fire</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div> <div> <div>In 1966, Cleve Backster, an interrogation specialist for the CIA, claimed to have discovered something shocking: plants seemed to respond to human thoughts and emotions. He came to this conclusion by hooking up plants to a polygraph machine to measure their response. His controversial experiments with polygraphs suggested that living things might share a hidden form of communication, and sparked a wave of fascination and skepticism that still lingers today.</div> </div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div>