Skeptoid #179: The Scole Experiment
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Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2009
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Said to be the best evidence yet for the afterlife, the Scole Experiments were actually just a hackneyed performance.
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| 0:00.0 | In the 1990s, a group of paranormalists were determined to prove that seances can indeed |
| 0:10.3 | make it possible to communicate with the dead. |
| 0:13.2 | Unfortunately, they didn't go about it very wisely. |
| 0:17.0 | They hired some professional mediums who fooled them with essentially the same tricks they |
| 0:21.9 | would use in any normal seance performance to fool the general public. |
| 0:27.0 | The Skull Experiment is today on Skeptoid. |
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| 1:24.6 | A Skull Experiment. |
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