Williams : What’s behind this rather odd phenomenon? Heath: You know, it was in most people’s newspapers, and it was on TV all over the place. ( A low, intense, bumbling melody plays, like a much darker “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”)ĪBC6 host Rick Williams: It has been happening all across the nation, including right here in our area.
Longoria: In the summer of 2020, writer Chris Heath noticed a strange national news story. Um, where should we start?Ĭhris Heath: Last summer-people might be aware-there was a story that bubbled in the media for a couple of weeks. Julia Longoria: Just start from the very, very beginning. This week on The Experiment, the host Julia Longoria speaks with the writer Chris Heath about his investigation of mystery seeds for The Atlantic, the byzantine world of international e-commerce, and the dangers of both panic and reason.įurther reading: “ The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds.” This article is part of “ Shadowland,” a project about conspiracy thinking in America.Ī transcript of this episode is presented below: Despite large-scale USDA testing of the packages, the mystery remained: Who sent the seeds and why?
Recipients reported the packages to local police, news stations, and agriculture departments searched message boards for explanations and theorized about conspiracies including election interference and biowarfare. Last summer, an unexplained phenomenon gripped nightly newscasts and Facebook groups across America: Unsolicited deliveries of obscurely labeled seed packages, seemingly from China, were being sent to Americans’ homes.
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