Jeez, dude. Howard Hughes is a fascinating man at the heart of many conspiracies. Watergate? Nixon wanted to see if Hughes was funding the DNC. My favorite is the GloMar explorer.
In my opinion, he never "went crazy". That was more or less a hit-piece put out against him by Rockefeller and enabled by Time and Life magazines. Rockefeller and Luce? Not jooz. Rockefeller orchestrated a class action suit against Hughes by his own shareholders. Luce provided fuel for the shareholders' ire.
He never "lost his empire" and he died a billionaire. This feeds the conspiracy because he apparently died intestate -- which seems unlikely -- and several fake wills appeared.
I dunno. Hughes had a drug problem, but people noted in thread that his "weirdness" was self-medication. The "tissue boxes on the feet" were a response to an overflowed toilet. He had had syphilis when it was a death sentence and fear transmitting it to others. Hence, his kindness in not shaking hands was recast as a "fear of germs".
He's a pretty admirable guy.
Mormons come out of it looking like real shits, though.
Hughes came to trust very few people. He believed that Mormons were reliable. That is, they couldn't be corrupted. Once bought, they stayed bought. So, he surrounded himself with the "Mormon mafia". In part, this is due to one of his engineers being a Mormon and the fact that, like many marginalized groups, once you let one Mo in, they bring their friends and "take over". Hughes never tried to become Mormon and seemed to think it was dumb.
At any rate, once he was dead, a lot of his personal papers and effects went missing. Like his will. A will showed up. It left everything to the Momo Chuchu. It seems to have been fabricated by some higher-ups in the Momo Chuchu. It was thrown out of court, but no one was prosecuted.
Howard Hughes was in a terrible aircraft crash that left him scarred and damaged for life. As time went on, his injuries became permanently and continuously painful (allodynia), made worse by the copious amounts of painkillers he was given.
Some of his eccentric behaviors were self-treatment to alleviate this pain: for example, sitting in a dark room watching movies, naked, all day.
Most likely, he was drugged with scopolamine by one of his most trusted aids, isolated for years, made ultra paranoid, and kept in a constant state of distracted dislocation until he died in 1973.
I believe a similar process was used to steal the wealth of John du Pont.
It's not schizophrenia exactly, but stimulant induced psychosis. They tend to be similar in most respects, but Cocaine induced Psychosis tends to create tactile hallucinations most frequently.
On the other hand, meth induced psychosis manifests most similarly to paranoid schizophrenia with auditory and olfactory hallucinations the most common symptoms- hearing voices or sounds, smelling suspicious people, etc.
On the other hand, scopolamine, in high enough doses, triggers fugue states with lost time and no memory of activities performed while under the drug's influence. Combined with the paranoia it induces- it is a highly effective tool for black mail... or rape drug. Just say'n. It's likely the people who were extorted out of their wealth were served a cocktail.
History is full of lies, but Wikipedia says he might have suffered from a condition that causes normal stimulus to be painful.
Also that time was really when chemistry boomed. Lots of experimental and damaging drugs were developed, like Meth and Benzodiazopenes, which the wealthy indulged in without a yet-fully-developed skepticism about the competence of corporations to create safe drugs.
shbbougter ago
Surround by human parasites who fed him opiates
JTMTL ago
He died prematurely from addiction to morphine.
shbbougter ago
Sure fire method of controlling anyone is getting them hooked on opiates.
JTMTL ago
Howard Hughes crashed a plane and in his case needed the stuff initially.
SirJiggzalot ago
MORMONS ! Im not joking.
pitenius ago
U DA REEL MVP
pitenius ago
Jeez, dude. Howard Hughes is a fascinating man at the heart of many conspiracies. Watergate? Nixon wanted to see if Hughes was funding the DNC. My favorite is the GloMar explorer.
In my opinion, he never "went crazy". That was more or less a hit-piece put out against him by Rockefeller and enabled by Time and Life magazines. Rockefeller and Luce? Not jooz. Rockefeller orchestrated a class action suit against Hughes by his own shareholders. Luce provided fuel for the shareholders' ire.
He never "lost his empire" and he died a billionaire. This feeds the conspiracy because he apparently died intestate -- which seems unlikely -- and several fake wills appeared.
Have some respect for Hughes.
madhatter67 ago
That sounds about right.....weren't the hairy fungernaily mad recluse Hughes stories just about a drugged up guy on Hughes payroll as a smokescreen?
pitenius ago
I dunno. Hughes had a drug problem, but people noted in thread that his "weirdness" was self-medication. The "tissue boxes on the feet" were a response to an overflowed toilet. He had had syphilis when it was a death sentence and fear transmitting it to others. Hence, his kindness in not shaking hands was recast as a "fear of germs".
He's a pretty admirable guy.
Mormons come out of it looking like real shits, though.
ethtirlomalral ago
I’m unfamiliar with the Mormon thing. What’s the significance there?
pitenius ago
Hughes came to trust very few people. He believed that Mormons were reliable. That is, they couldn't be corrupted. Once bought, they stayed bought. So, he surrounded himself with the "Mormon mafia". In part, this is due to one of his engineers being a Mormon and the fact that, like many marginalized groups, once you let one Mo in, they bring their friends and "take over". Hughes never tried to become Mormon and seemed to think it was dumb.
At any rate, once he was dead, a lot of his personal papers and effects went missing. Like his will. A will showed up. It left everything to the Momo Chuchu. It seems to have been fabricated by some higher-ups in the Momo Chuchu. It was thrown out of court, but no one was prosecuted.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Howard Hughes was in a terrible aircraft crash that left him scarred and damaged for life. As time went on, his injuries became permanently and continuously painful (allodynia), made worse by the copious amounts of painkillers he was given.
Some of his eccentric behaviors were self-treatment to alleviate this pain: for example, sitting in a dark room watching movies, naked, all day.
goatboy ago
Most likely, he was drugged with scopolamine by one of his most trusted aids, isolated for years, made ultra paranoid, and kept in a constant state of distracted dislocation until he died in 1973.
I believe a similar process was used to steal the wealth of John du Pont.
JTMTL ago
He died in 1976.
Conspirologist ago
Paranoid schizophrenia usually starts because of cocaine. No need for more elaborated substances.
EVERYBODYPANIC ago
Scopolamine is awesome and simply derived from a common flower. Used to grow it in my front yard in Tampa. Look it up!
goatboy ago
Kind of.
It's not schizophrenia exactly, but stimulant induced psychosis. They tend to be similar in most respects, but Cocaine induced Psychosis tends to create tactile hallucinations most frequently.
On the other hand, meth induced psychosis manifests most similarly to paranoid schizophrenia with auditory and olfactory hallucinations the most common symptoms- hearing voices or sounds, smelling suspicious people, etc.
On the other hand, scopolamine, in high enough doses, triggers fugue states with lost time and no memory of activities performed while under the drug's influence. Combined with the paranoia it induces- it is a highly effective tool for black mail... or rape drug. Just say'n. It's likely the people who were extorted out of their wealth were served a cocktail.
f4ctco ago
History is full of lies, but Wikipedia says he might have suffered from a condition that causes normal stimulus to be painful.
Also that time was really when chemistry boomed. Lots of experimental and damaging drugs were developed, like Meth and Benzodiazopenes, which the wealthy indulged in without a yet-fully-developed skepticism about the competence of corporations to create safe drugs.