In 1920 American doctors measured skulls at state fairs and gave trophies to the fittest families. By 1927 the Supreme Court had ruled that forced sterilization was constitutional. Sixty thousand Americans were sterilized against their will.

After Nuremberg nobody used the word eugenics anymore. They changed the job titles. The idea didn't go anywhere.

In 2018 a scientist in China edited the DNA of two unborn embryos. He went to prison. Three American companies picked up where he left off. Legally. With investor money. With no federal oversight whatsoever.

This is not a conspiracy theory. These companies have websites. They run subway ads. One of them bought the domain PickYourBaby.com.

This episode follows the line from a county fair in Kansas in 1920 to a Silicon Valley pitch deck in 2025. The science changed. The intention didn't.

Buck v. Bell has never been overturned. It is still valid precedent.

In 1904, a boy was born in the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg. He was the heir to the Russian throne. And his blood wouldn't clot.

That single biological fact set in motion a chain of events that would end a 300-year dynasty, bring Lenin to power, and reshape the 20th century.

Rasputin is barely half the story.

In 1977, a police officer in North London filed a report stating she watched a chair slide four feet across a floor with no one near it. She signed it under oath.

That's where this starts.

This documentary examines four documented cases of poltergeist activity across three countries and five decades — and asks whether science has a better explanation than a ghost.

It does. Partially.

What's left over is the part that's harder to explain.