lhl
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A couple of days ago Michael Prescott wrote on his blog about a British medium by the name of Gary Mannion, who was exposed as a fraud by some hidden infrared camera footage. The videos can be seen here and seem quite damning to me.
Beside a casual interest, I have never seriously looked into the phenomenon of spritistic séances. So I’m curious to hear what people in this forum think about it. Credible or not credible?
As I've never seriously looked into this before, I hope you will forgive me the following obvious question: why it is necessary for the light to be turned off during the séance? This is rather obvious to a sceptic of course, but I’m interested in the explanation that proponent would give. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me: Why would it be light in the visible spectrum that somehow obstructs the process? After all, the room is already full of electromagnetic radiation of all sorts of frequencies – as the above footage shows, there was certainly plenty of infrared light in the room. But somehow light in the visible spectrum needs to be extinguished. Is there any other good explanation other than it is in order to facilitate cheating?
Beside a casual interest, I have never seriously looked into the phenomenon of spritistic séances. So I’m curious to hear what people in this forum think about it. Credible or not credible?
As I've never seriously looked into this before, I hope you will forgive me the following obvious question: why it is necessary for the light to be turned off during the séance? This is rather obvious to a sceptic of course, but I’m interested in the explanation that proponent would give. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me: Why would it be light in the visible spectrum that somehow obstructs the process? After all, the room is already full of electromagnetic radiation of all sorts of frequencies – as the above footage shows, there was certainly plenty of infrared light in the room. But somehow light in the visible spectrum needs to be extinguished. Is there any other good explanation other than it is in order to facilitate cheating?