The horrifying search for secret graves of ‘stolen’ children buried at CIA ‘mind control’ hospital

THE stench hit her before she even saw the earth move.

As excavators tore open the soil at the former Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada, a brave grandmother stood on the perimeter – hoping to finally get answers to her community’s concerns that stolen children were buried there.

Kahentinetha, 87, a member of the Mohawk Mothers group, which is fighting to uncover the horrifying truth buried beneath the site, said: “There was putrid smells. It was evident.”

She watched in horror as dirt and bones – and even a child’s shoe – were moved from what she and her community believe is a clandestine burial ground containing the bodies of stolen Indigenous children who were taken from their families and subjected to the CIA’s terrifying MKUltra experiments.

Kwetiio, 54, another member of the group, said: “They were finding pieces of bones.

“The archaeologists who were there were just throwing them in a paper bag, and saying, ‘oh, we’re going to take them to the lab and we’re going to test them. But these are animal bones that we’re seeing’.

“But they do not have the ability to look at something and say that it’s an animal bone or not.

“This was in 2023. And we still we don’t know where those bones are. We don’t know if they’ve been tested.”

The group has also made these claims in court papers in the case.

For decades, terrifying rumours swept through local Indigenous communities that children disappeared into the Allan Memorial Institute on the hospital site.

This was where the CIA ran its notorious Project MKUltra – a series of terrifying mind-control experiments which inspired Netflix show Stranger Things.

Others would return “a shadow of themselves” after spending years in the institution.

Now, groundbreaking forensic searches and eyewitness accounts suggest the rumours may be true.

The site – currently slated for an $850million campus redevelopment by McGill University – was home to Dr. D. Ewen Cameron’s infamous “Montreal Experiments” between 1948 and 1964.

Covertly funded by the CIA and the Canadian government, Cameron subjected psychiatric patients to horrific “depatterning” procedures designed to wipe human memory completely clean.

Subjects were drugged into comas for up to 86 days, blasted with high-voltage electroshock therapy multiple times a day, and forced to listen to looped tape messages playing half a million times through helmets clamped to their heads.

While official records were burned by CIA bosses in 1973, survivors recall seeing Indigenous children walking the hallways like “literal zombies” before vanishing forever.

When historic human remains detection dogs were brought to the site, they alerted handlers immediately.

Karonhiate, a 25-year-old Indigenous archaeology student who served as an official cultural monitor on the digs, said: “It was almost immediate that they signalled that they smelled something.

“Hearing this very loud bark echoing through the entire parking lot.

“Something about that was a moment where I knew that all of the testimony… about people who went to this hospital and either had a really bad experience or didn’t come back, was true.”

Karonhiate said scans and probes that detect acids left by decaying bodies confirmed massive soil disturbances.

Diggers even uncovered the physical remains of a child’s shoe dating back to the era of the experiments, alongside hairballs and strange chemical layers in the earth.

Asked how certain he is that unmarked graves lie beneath the soil, Karonhiate says: “100 per cent certain.”

According to the Mohawk Mothers, there was a direct pipeline connecting Canada’s infamous Indian Residential Schools program – where thousands of Indigenous children were ripped from their families – and MKUltra.

“There’s a correlation between residential schools and MKUltra,” Kwetiio explains.

“In residential schools, they were trying to get rid of our people.

“And when you have children that are being sent to different schools and families losing track of children and what their original names are, then you have MKUltra.

“This is where they were getting all of their specimens from.”

Declassified records reveal that on June 1, 1951, top officials from the CIA, British intelligence, and the Canadian Defence Research Board met secretly at Montreal’s Ritz-Carlton hotel to map out joint psychological warfare research.

Following that meeting, Canadian military panels authorised intelligence and psychological tests on Indigenous children across the country – including 92 children tested in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake alone.

Kwetiio said: “They were testing how do we survive in these environments, how can you break through… what deaths can these people endure.

“Some were taken away and then we didn’t see them again… some disappeared completely.”

Survivor Lana Ponting was just 15-years-old when she was admitted to the Allan Memorial Institute, part of the Royal Victoria Hospital, in 1958.

She has revealed her experience in court papers.

Pumped with LSD and electroshock, she recalls in the documents seeing other young patients walking like “zombies” in the corridors, including an Indigenous girl named Morning Star who suddenly vanished.

Lana says she was gang-raped by unknown men inside the hospital, woke up bleeding on an operating table, and was forced to give birth at an institution for unwed mothers before her baby was taken for adoption, according to court filings.

Another Canadian woman named Julie Tanny has previously told The Sun and stated in court papers that her father Charles was taken into the hospital after suffering jaw pain and came back a different person.

She said he was put into an induced coma, subjected to extreme electric shocks and brainwashed with sinister tapes playing for 23 hours a day under his pillow.

Both women are part of a class action lawsuit against the Royal Victoria Hospital, which housed the Allan Memorial Institute; McGill University, which ran the institute; and the Attorney General of Canada.

The three defendants have denied legal liability and wrongdoing, although the government did offer $100,000 compensation to victims for “compassionate and humanitarian reasons”.

The Mohawk Mothers says they have collected similar testimony from survivors and family members from their communities but most are too afraid to go public with their stories.

Despite the evidence uncovered on the site of the hospital, the Mohawk Mothers claim developers and authorities have engaged in a cover-up to protect their multi-million-dollar building project.

In October 2022, the Mothers won a historic Quebec Superior Court injunction halting excavation until proper archaeological searches could take place.

But they say contractors routinely undermined the search.

Legal researcher Philippe Blouin, who is part of the Mohawk Mothers group, said: “When the panel of archaeologists was asking too much scrutiny into what was going on, they were just fired unilaterally.

“The piles got moved to another place. They used mechanical sifters used for mining, not archaeology.”

Kwetiio describes watching workers pour concrete slabs directly over flagged areas of interest.

He said: “They put an electrical box over it. It’s like the intention is to hide this because if we find something, then they can’t do any construction.”

Despite a lack of legal funding, the Mohawk Mothers refuse to back down.

Kwetiio said: “Our duty is to make sure that those remains, those souls that are there, have a proper respectful send-off.

“We want to stop this denialism. That’s what I would like – for these entities to take accountability for what was done.”

She wants US, Canadian and UK governments to take full accountability for the crimes that were committed.

Kwetiio said: “Ultimately, this means restitution for what they have taken from us. Restitution of our land so we can take care of it. Restitution of our freedom to live in our own way, and live in peace.

“And we need them to listen to us once and for all, so we can spread our message of peace to the world.”

When approached by The Sun, the Quebec Infrastructure Corporation, which is leading the redevelopment of the site, said: “The SQI reiterates its commitment to shedding light, in a spirit of collaboration, on the allegations of the presence of burial sites.

“The SQI and its partners have pledged, in good faith and with rigor, to conduct archaeological investigations in the company of experts in the field.

“Given that the matter is the subject of legal proceedings, which are currently suspended until February 2027, the SQI will limit its comments.”

It said the “archaeological verification process was overseen by a panel of archaeologists appointed under an agreement reached with the Mohawk Mothers in April 2023”.

The statement added that it had respected the agreement, complied with the panel’s recommendations and kept the Mohawk Mothers “regularly informed”.

It said they had used detection dogs, ground-penetrating radar, spectroscopy and archaeological excavations but to date “no burial sites have been identified during the searches.”

McGill University Health said: “As this case is currently before the courts, we will not be commenting on the matter.”

A spokesperson for McGill University said it was restoring the former site of the hospital to build the McGill Sustainability Park, which will be used for teaching and research in sustainability science.

They added: “McGill’s commitment to reconciliation has guided the development of the Sustainability Park.

“Over 50 internal and external Indigenous community members, including elders and members of the longhouse community, have been engaged in activities, ranging from bilateral meetings to co-developing proposals for Indigenous physical representation.

“Indigenous cultural monitors have also been invited to observe the excavation work of the project, in full respect of the
2023 Settlement Agreement that was reached with the Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera / Mohawk Mothers, in the context of legal proceedings initiated by them.

“Despite many searches undertaken by qualified experts, which occurred periodically over a period of three years starting in 2023, no human remains or unmarked grave indicators were found in the area surrounding the Sustainability Park site.”