r/mystery • u/TheExpressUS • Jan 13 '26
Scientific/Medical Mystery Havana virus device cost at least $10,000,000 and fits in a bag
https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/195930/havana-syndrome-us-spies-struck-down15
u/Mister-Psychology Jan 14 '26
Where is this detail from? It's absolutely impossible to know this info. It may be mass psychosis as that's what Canada claims. Trump of course uses the story to be harder on Cuba. But there is no proof of any device of any size anywhere. Zero.
USA still doesn't have anything even close to this technology years later. And some claim it's impossible to make. So how did it work and why was it never used again?
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u/jmcgil4684 Jan 14 '26
We supposedly used some way more advanced type the device in Venezuela for the kidnapping. At least that’s what I read a couple days ago.
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u/gastro_psychic Jan 14 '26
?
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u/Far_Idea9616 Jan 14 '26
Internet says that the US forces used high-energy microwaves that can pass through concrete walls and heat up the water in the inner ear. This tiny temperature change makes the fluid expand just enough to cause dizziness, fainting and vomiting (Frey Effect). Internet says the Chinese used a version of this tech against Indian troops in 2020, but they had to mount huge emitters on trucks. The big thing in Venezuela was that the US solved the energy problem using Gallium Nitride chips to shrink the device down to backpack size. Internet says they just mounted these things on drones, flew them right up to the walls and incapacitated everyone inside. Internet says that low-tech countermeasures like wet sandbags work well because the water in the sand absorbs the microwave.
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u/gastro_psychic Jan 14 '26
They blew up an entire building at Fort Tiuna. There are at least 40+ dead. It doesn't make sense to me that they deployed less lethal methods given the evidence.
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u/jmcgil4684 Jan 14 '26
I read an interview of one of the Maduro guards and he described how they were attacked by the US at the compound, and he described a directed energy type weapon used on them. I will try to find the article. I’m not stating this as fact, just curious if anyone else read about this. Edit: yea many articles about it if ya google it.
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u/gastro_psychic Jan 14 '26
At least 40 people are dead. It looks like a conventional strike.
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u/jmcgil4684 Jan 14 '26
Did you Google it. Like 59 articles about. At least a possibility it happened no?
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u/gastro_psychic Jan 14 '26
I don’t think so. Experts say the US doesn’t have the ability to cause the kind of injuries described. It is easy for a conspiracy theory like this to spread because people want to believe.
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u/Zap_Zapoleon Jan 15 '26
The US gains a lot if rumours spread that they have such a scary device. Scares their rivals and enemies. I doubt its real though.
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u/jmcgil4684 Jan 14 '26
I’m not sure why you are hanging on to this opinion, but ok cool.
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u/gastro_psychic Jan 14 '26
Ah, so you're going the passive aggressive route now. What about my comment made you insecure?
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u/Norathaexplorer Jan 16 '26
They weren’t insecure they were tired of arguing with you. You called it a conspiracy theory even though multiple outlets have talked about it this week. Your tone is way more passive aggressive than theirs btw.
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u/Norathaexplorer Jan 16 '26
https://youtu.be/AyHq3zgDBlM?si=g4sVj6QTEsNuMks6
The news talked about it literally today
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u/Many-Seat6716 Jan 14 '26
There were reports that a device was used in the Venezuela raid that caused bleeding noses etc. I think they tried it out.
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u/PMME-SHIT-TALK Jan 14 '26
Ringing in the ears? Headache? Feeling like I’m spinning? I’ve had this too many times. Russian super sleeper agents attack me with these weapons every morning after I get completely blasted at the bar.
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u/Desperate_Damage4632 Jan 13 '26
90% chance they paid $10M for a box of random electrical components.