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Suspect Zero and the Real Government Program Behind Remote Viewing

In Suspect Zero (2004), a former FBI agent uses remote viewing to help track a serial killer who abducts children while driving a refrigerated truck across the country. The disappearances look like separate cases until freezer burns give investigators a clue that connects them. (spoiler?)

The movie’s fictional Project Icarus echoes Project Stargate, a real U.S. intelligence program that tested whether people could describe distant or hidden targets using mental impressions alone. Retired Army Major Ed Dames worked in the government’s remote-viewing program, coached Ben Kingsley, and appears in the film as an instructor. CIA account · Ed Dames’s film role

The truck also brings to mind a real story from Jalisco, Mexico. In 2018, authorities used a refrigerated trailer to store 273 bodies after local morgues ran out of room. Reuters report · La Jornada’s corrected count

or so they say…