History is digging into unsettling state-sanctioned research in the upcoming episode of Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny, titled “Dark Science.” Hosted by Duchovny, the installment, airing Friday, May 16, 2025, at 10:03 PM ET, examines chilling government experiments pulled from recently opened files.
The episode will investigate some of modern history’s more bizarre and disturbing scientific endeavors executed in the name of national security. Among the declassified stories brought to light are Stalin’s alleged attempts to engineer a human-ape hybrid army, the East German Stasi’s efforts to collect and catalog the scents of dissidents for tracking purposes, and a covert CIA discovery of a secret Soviet island dedicated to developing deadly bioweapons. Duchovny guides viewers through these accounts, as the series continues its exploration of explosive evidence from declassified government records, focusing on bizarre experiments, deadly cover-ups, and nefarious gadgets.
