Terrifying Historical Fact/Event

WARNING: my lord this is disturbing...

“Carried out by John Watson, the Little Albert Experiment aimed to find out if fear was inherently ingrained or culturally taught. To find out, he essentially repeatedly traumatised a sick baby that he kidnapped every day from the on-campus daycare facility without its mother’s knowledge by presenting it with soft, fluffy things while slamming a gong with a hammer from behind a curtain to scare the child. The baby developed a phobia of white, fluffy things, and the experiment ended because Albert’s mother found out and moved them away. According to relatives, Little Albert never learned to walk or talk, and eventually died at the age of six.”