Havana Syndrome: The Truth Revealed | History's Greatest Mysteries (Season 4)

November 2016 Havana Cuba As the sun sets on the island, an American diplomat and his wife are relaxing with friends. This couple just moved to Cuba and their names have been kept anonymous in reports, but the diplomat and his wife live in an exclusive development called the Country Club. They are inviting the neighbors over for drinks and suddenly they hear this sound and it fills the room. air and sounds like cicadas only it is a more piercing metallic sound the noise persists during dinner the couple's requests maintenance workers check the property for insects and look for any electrical problems that may be causing the noise, but do not find nothing, the sound persists for three months, during which time the couple becomes ill, he and his wife have been feeling unwell since shortly after the sounds began.

A little cloudy with difficulty concentrating. After a while, the Diplomat shares his experience with his co-workers at the US Embassy experiencing health problems and plays an audio he recorded of the incident. It's the same noise the diplomat has been hearing for months, days after the Diplomat and his wife. are examined by doctors in Miami and diagnosed with concussion-like symptoms headache fatigue disorientation and balance problems more diplomats and others begin reporting the exact same set of symptoms over the next two months more than two dozen officials in Havana are diagnosed with the strange condition that is Even worse is that some of these victims enter a second phase of the disease where they have even greater cognitive difficulties and problems hearing or seeing.

It's really horrible. These symptoms have just appeared and there seems to be no treatment for what can cause this in so many different people. people to try to find out why the US government opens an investigation in January 2017. The first group of Embassy employees is thoroughly examined in the United States and a report is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2018. Perhaps most seriously and In particular, the study concluded that patients had suffered widespread lesions in brain networks. There is a clear physical change that has occurred in the brains of these patients. It's visible on MRIs, but those changes are minor compared to the results of several neurological tests that point to executive memory. functioning and spatial orientation according to the study, these same serious effects would occur after a devastating car accident or explosion, but none of these victims have experienced that type of trauma with loss, doctors called the mysterious illness Havana

syndrome

initially the mysterious Havana

syndrome

only affects US diplomats in Cuba, but in March 2018, diplomats from another embassy in Havana are victims, it begins to happen to Canadian embassy staff.

The SE is very strange because the Canadian embassy is about three miles from the US embassy, ​​so it's not like they are adjacent. or whatever, Canadian diplomats and their families start reporting exactly the same types of symptoms that US embassy staff had reported disorientation nausea dizziness finally 40 Canadian diplomats get sick and that's why the Canadian government ends up pulling their diplomats out of Cuba from very early on the United States has believed that Cuba is behind the Havana syndrome in some way, I mean, you give it that name, the president appears on live television to blame the Cubans, this is a very bad image for They, some in the White House are actually calling this an act of war, so the Cubans are very eager to clear their name, the Cuban government interviews about 300 verses of these dips that went to the homes of the Embassy staff , who analyzed air and oil samples and conducted dozens of medical tests to see if people in the surrounding area were affected and say they found nothing.

Cubans say there is simply no known form of energy that can selectively damage the brain as doctors describe. They even doubt that a syndrome exists. Instead, they offer an alternative explanation for both sounds. and the symptoms that the Cuban government in its report theorized that this was not caused by sonic weapons and the chirping heard by everyone were crickets the rest of the symptoms that the Cuban government says could be caused by stress after all the Hours investigating the evacuation of diplomats conducting extensive medical tests suggest that perhaps people were simply exhausted by the sound of crickets, which feels like an insult.

Two biologists Alexander Stubbs of UC Berkeley and Fernando Monte Alegre Zapata of Lincoln University are investigating Cuba's claim that the metallic screech recorded in Havana sounds vague. Familiar, these biologists had a massive database of the sounds of different types of insects in their mating calls and what they discovered is that the sounds that were recorded in Havana coincided precisely with those of a particular type of insect, the cricket. of the Indies, and also with this particular Indian cricket. is a resident of Cuba to confirm that they use the latest generation audio technology. Forensic audio analysis can be incredibly specific these days.

Sound wave patterns can be like fingerprints and can even be used to convict murderers. So the interesting thing is that when applying some of these acoustic forensic techniques to what was recorded in Cuba is an exact match of the cricket's mating call, obviously crickets are not as threatening as a sonic weapon or a deadly neurotoxin Cricket Arden variety, the Indy Cricket can screech at a hundred decibels the same volume as the subway train, you can imagine that if you had a partner in your residence, it could be a very hard night, especially if you are not used to those sounds, if you are from another country and this is the first time I have ever heard it, that could be extremely disturbing according to the Cuban report.

Crickets may be magnifying the stress diplomats are already experiencing. Havana syndrome has some classic telltale signs of psychogenic illnesses. There are studies that show that people who have been exposed for a long time. -Long-term stress has brain scans similar to those of the Havana victims. Stress could be self-perpetuating after news of a possible weapon hits the media. Diplomats are put on alert. They are told that someone could be watching them at home. do not sleep or stand near their windows and report any strange symptoms they fear for their families they will never be able to feel safe but those who suffer from Havana syndrome disagree several people got sick before there was an alert before it made the headlines and people went into panic mode the first four cases were CIA officers these are people trained to deal with massive amounts of stress with divided opinions on cricket theory the US government calls in a scientific team of elite to conduct its own analysis the federal government has a The semi-secret Advisory Council known as Jason was formed after the launch of the Soviet Sputnik in 1960.

Jason attracts the country's most elite scientists to advise them on defense matters, something like what We saw in World War II with the Manhattan Project when Einstein and Oppenheimer were researching nuclear energy and weapons, today there are between 30 and 60 of our country's best scientists involved in Jason and they only become active when a task can happen. particularly difficult and at this point the United States government sees the Havana syndrome as such. It's a difficult issue that they then turn to Jason through a Freedom of Information Act request. Jason's top-secret 2018 report becomes public and, although much of it is redacted, Json scientists agree that the noises in the Havana recordings are crickets, while they agree on the source of the sound and disagree.

Regarding the source of the illness, the report goes on to say that it cannot be ruled out that the perceived sounds, although not harmful, are introduced by an adversary as a deception to mask a way of causing illness in diplomatic personnel. They are basically saying that these crickets could be an anguish and suddenly the Cubans blaming the crickets seems very convenient maybe the Cubans are involved maybe not anyway once again we are left with no idea what makes our people sick