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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work.[1] Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, and many others.
In the program, "Randi argues that successful psychics depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe that what they see is the result of psychic powers."[2]
This program is not to be confused with a later UK documentary Secrets of the Psychics, which was transmitted under this title as well as Secrets of the Super Psychics.
Mind Over Metal
By Joe Nickell via The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry – CSI
Can people move or alter physical objects simply by using a hidden power of the mind called psychokinesis? I have encountered many claims of such powers in the course of my work (since 1969) as a paranormal investigator. And I have pretended to have such ability myself—both as a professional stage magician and mentalist (a magician specializing in apparent psychic feats). In the fall of 2012, I attended a workshop that enabled me to investigate the latest popular expression of psychokinetic metal bending.
The term psychokinesis (formerly telekinesis), or PK, derives from the Greek words for "mind" and "motion." Together with extrasensory perception (ESP), it constitutes what parapsychologists refer to as "psi" to describe the two seemingly closely related phenomena. However, the existence of psi has never been proven and, indeed, according to a sympathetic source: "Despite decades of research, psi continues to elude physical and quasi-physical theories of how it functions; it operates outside the bounds of time and space" (Guiley 1991, 468).
PK describes the alleged power of mind over matter, including such "micro-PK" acts as subtly influencing how thrown dice will land, or "macro-PK" feats like levitating a table or producing so-called "poltergeist" effects (actually, typically the tricks of children1). Psychokinetic metal bending is another alleged macro-PK phenomenon.
Geller the PK Marvel
It appears that the first major performer of apparent PK metal bending (PK-MB) was Israeli-born former fashion model and nightclub magician, Uri Geller (b. 1946) (Figure 1). Claiming to be guided by super beings from a distant planet, Geller appeared to read minds, bend keys and cutlery with PK, see while blindfolded, and perform other feats—all of which skilled magicians easily duplicate. (I, for example, have driven a car while blindfolded [Nickell with Fischer 1992, 77].) He typically refused to perform when magicians were observing but, nevertheless, was occasionally caught cheating.
Renowned American magician and psychic investigator James "The Amazing" Randi once observed Geller up close. Posing as an editor when Geller performed in the offices of Time magazine, Randi saw the simple tricks behind Geller's wonderworking. For example, while Geller pretended to cover his eyes as a secretary made a simple drawing, he actually peeked, thus enabling him to appear to read her mind and reproduce the drawing. Again, while supposedly bending a key "by concentration," Geller had instead bent it against a table when he thought he was unobserved. (For more on Geller's methods, see Randi 1982.)
More Benders
Geller was soon imitated by other "psychics" who discovered that they, too, could bend keys and spoons. One was Judy Knowles, who impressed London physics professor and parapsychologist John Hasted with her apparent ability. Hasted invited James Randi to observe tests of Knowles in a lab at Bath. Randi arrived with colleagues and his checkbook, offering Ms. Knowles $10,000 if she successfully passed the test, which was designed by Harry Collins of the University of Bath. Collins had tested other spoon benders, but none had been successful, and some children had been caught cheating.
Briefly, the test involved Knowles holding the spoon in a . . .
Continues Reading @ The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry – CSI
Secrets of the Psychics
Secrets of the Psychics – James Randi
Original broadcast: October 19, 1993
Description via PBS.org:
Can psychics predict the future? Many people seem to think so. Others argue that, in most cases, so-called psychic experiences are really misinterpretations of events. In this episode of NOVA, magician and confirmed skeptic James Randi challenges viewers to weigh the evidence for and against the existence of psychic phenomena.
Randi argues that successful psychics depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe that what they see is the result of psychic powers. The program highlights some of the methods and processes he uses to examine psychics' claims. Using his own expertise in creating deception and illusion, Randi challenges specific psychics' claims by duplicating their performances and "feats," or by applying scientific methods. His goal is to eliminate all possible alternative explanations for the psychic phenomena. He also looks for evidence that they are not merely coincidental. His arguments can motivate your class to discuss the differences between psychic performances and legitimate cases of unexplained phenomena.
Is Telekinesis Possible?
Is psychokinesis real? Can people move objects with their minds or is it even scientifically possible? Explore the history of telekinesis and learn how even some of the greatest psychics in history have been exposed as frauds.
3 Times Psychics Fooled Scientists
How psychics tricked scientists on three separate occasions. Uri Geller, Steve Shaw & Michael Edwards, and Ronny Marcus managed to dupe scientists at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), The McDonnell Laboratory at Washington University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory respectively. Here's how, as well as how skeptics James Randi (magician), Dr. Ray Hyman (psychologist), & Martin Gardner (science communicator) responded to the psychic trickery.
Secrets of the Psychics – James Randi
Secrets of the Psychics – James Randi
Original broadcast: October 19, 1993
Description via PBS.org:
Can psychics predict the future? Many people seem to think so. Others argue that, in most cases, so-called psychic experiences are really misinterpretations of events. In this episode of NOVA, magician and confirmed skeptic James Randi challenges viewers to weigh the evidence for and against the existence of psychic phenomena.
Randi argues that successful psychics depend on the willingness of their audiences to believe that what they see is the result of psychic powers. The program highlights some of the methods and processes he uses to examine psychics' claims. Using his own expertise in creating deception and illusion, Randi challenges specific psychics' claims by duplicating their performances and "feats," or by applying scientific methods. His goal is to eliminate all possible alternative explanations for the psychic phenomena. He also looks for evidence that they are not merely coincidental. His arguments can motivate your class to discuss the differences between psychic performances and legitimate cases of unexplained phenomena.
Uri Geller
via The Skeptic's Dictionary – Skepdic.com
"If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way." —James Randi
"Because a good magician can do something shouldn't make you right away jump to the conclusion that it's a real phenomenon." —Richard Feynman
"Geller is at his ingenious best in laboratories where he is being observed by scientists who believe he has extraordinary ESP ability and think—without justification—that they have ruled out every possibility of fraud." —Milbourne Christopher
Uri Geller is most famous for his claim to be able to bend spoons and keys with his mind. An international star in the psychic circuit, Geller is a Hungarian/Austrian who was born in Israel and lives in England. He claims he's had visions for many years and may get his powers from extraterrestrials. He calls himself a psychic and has sued several people for millions of dollars for saying otherwise. His psychic powers were not sufficient to reveal to him, however, that he would lose all the lawsuits against his critics. His arch critic has been James "The Amazing" Randi, who has written a book and numerous articles aimed at demonstrating that Geller is a fraud, that he has no psychic powers, and that what Geller does amounts to no more than the parlor tricks of a conjurer.
Geller has been performing for many years. The first time I saw him was in 1973 when he appeared on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show. He was supposed to demonstrate his ability to bend spoons with his thoughts and identify hidden objects, but he failed to even try. He squirmed around and said something about how his power can't be turned on and off, and that he didn't feel strong right then. Randi had worked with Carson's producer to change the spoons and metal items Geller planned to use, as there was a suspicion that Geller likes to work (i.e., soften) his metals before his demonstrations, as would any careful conjurer.
View Geller's Tonight Show lack of performance (courtesy of James Randi):
I have always been fascinated and puzzled by the attraction of Uri Geller. I suppose this is because nearly every one of our household spoons is bent and what I would like to see is someone who can straighten them, with his mind or with anything for that matter. Likewise with stopped watches. I have several of those and I would love for someone to use his powers, psychic or otherwise, to make them start running again. Of course, even I can get my stopped watches to run again for a short while by shaking or tapping them, but a permanent fix would be appreciated. There is something mysterious, however, about a person who has built a career out of breaking things.
Continue reading @ The Skeptic's Dictionary . . .
Testing Psychics with Science
Can you test psychic claims with science? Here are a few creative ways that you can test psychic powers scientifically as well as the results of these types of tests that have been performed hundreds of times over the last fifty years. This is part of my Exposing Psychics series.
Psychic Tricks, Fraud and Forer
Forer Effect
via Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking
The Forer effect refers to the tendency of people to rate sets of statements as highly accurate for them personally even though the statements were not made about them personally and could apply to many people.
Psychologist Bertram R. Forer (1914-2000) found that people tend to accept vague and general personality descriptions as uniquely applicable to themselves without realizing that the same description could be applied to many people. Consider the following as if it were given to you as an evaluation of your personality.
You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.
Forer gave a personality test to his students, ignored their answers, and gave each student the above evaluation (taken from a newsstand astrology column). He asked them to evaluate the evaluation from 0 to 5, with "5" meaning the recipient felt the evaluation was an "excellent" assessment and "4" meaning the assessment was "good." The class average evaluation was 4.26. That was in 1948. The test has been repeated hundreds of time with psychology students and the average is still around 4.2 out of 5, or 84% accurate.
In short, Forer convinced people he could successfully read their character. His accuracy amazed his subjects, though his personality analysis was taken from a newsstand astrology column and was presented to people without regard to their sun sign. The Forer effect seems to explain, in part at least, why so many people think that pseudosciences "work". Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy, the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses. Scientific studies of these pseudosciences demonstrate that they are not valid personality assessment tools, yet each has many satisfied customers who are convinced they are accurate.
The most common explanations given to account for the Forer effect are in terms of hope, wishful thinking, vanity, and the tendency to try to make sense out of experience. Forer's own explanation was in terms of human gullibility. People tend to accept claims about themselves in proportion to their desire that the claims be true rather than in proportion to the empirical accuracy of the claims as measured by some non-subjective standard. We tend to accept questionable, even false statements about ourselves, if we deem them positive or flattering enough. We will often give very liberal interpretations to vague or inconsistent claims about ourselves in order to make sense out of the claims. Subjects who seek counseling from psychics, mediums, fortune tellers, mind readers, graphologists, etc., will often ignore false or questionable claims and, in many cases, by their own words or actions, will provide most of the information they erroneously attribute to a pseudoscientific counselor. Many such subjects often feel their counselors have provided them with profound and personal information. Such subjective validation, however, is of little scientific value.
James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud
Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I'll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)
The Tricks
Via http://www.projectbarnum.co.uk (Archived) (Original Link)
• Cold Reading
Making vague statements that will fit most people if they want them to
Cold reading is a series of techniques employed by psychics, mediums and mentalists that are used to manipulate the customer (sitter) into believing that the psychic can read their mind, or that the medium is in contact with a dead relative or friend.
A cold reading will involved things that are called 'Forer Statements' (or or Barnum statements) which are designed to encourage the sitter to fill in the gaps in the information being given. Though these statements may appear to be specific they are really very open-ended and vague and could really apply to anyone. Experiments have shown how similar statements can be taken personally when issued to dozens of people at the same time!
Some examples of such statements would be:
- "I sense that you are sometimes insecure, especially with people you don't know very well."
- "You work with computers"
- "You're having problems with a friend or relative"
Here is 'psychic' James Van Prag demonstrating what appears to be a very embarrassing cold reading:
• Rainbow Ruse
Ticking all potential boxes by making all-encompassing descriptions
Similar to Forer statements is the "rainbow ruse" which involves a statement that covers all possibilities and often describe somebody as being two completely different types of person at the same time. Here are some examples:
- "Most of the time you are positive and cheerful, but there has been a time in the past when you were very upset."
- "You are a very kind and considerate person, but occasionally you feel deep-seated anger."
- "I would say that you are mostly shy and quiet, but when the mood strikes you, you can easily become the centre of attention."
• Hot/warm Reading
Using information gained before the show about the audience
Then there is hot (or warm) reading. This is a form of cheating and happens when a Medium or Psychic secretly gathers information about members of the audience in order that they may use this in their performance but pass it off as being a result of their psychic gift.
Additonally, they may research the location they are performing in, and may even invite those recently bereaved whose details they can extract from local sources (newspapers, websites, discussion groups), and the internet. They might ask people to request readings by filling in cards or forms in the foyer, or they might require people give their names when they book tickets and then use this information to simply google them.
Here is an example of someone using 'hot reading' to fool their audience into thinking they're receiving messages from a supernatural source, when they're not.
• Shotgunning
Making random statements in the hope someone will make them fit
This is another tactic which involves revealing a huge amount of very general information to a whole audience and seeing what sticks. A psychic or medium will likely generate many, many misses when they employ these techniques but because of the way our brains work when we want to believe something very badly, many will leave the performance only remembering apparent 'hits' or correct guesses.
A typical Psychic or Medium will use all of these techniques in the course of a performance and a skilled cold reader will be able to spin out the brief sentences and statements into paragraphs of psychic prose.
It is worth noting that some Mediums or Psychics may be just naturally good cold readers and don't realise that what they're doing isn't the result of a supernatural gift.
Source: http://www.projectbarnum.co.uk (Archived)
Learn how psychics work by reading the Psychic Pamphlet (Via Granit State Skeptics).
Psychic Methods Exposed – Cold Reading (Part 2)
What are Barnum Statements (The Forer Effect)? Let's uncover how psychics use the Rainbow Ruse and psychic number games to fool their victims. We'll examine clips of Theresa Caputo, John Edward, James Van Praagh, Joe Power, Rosemary Altea, and other alleged psychics to expose psychic tricks and cold reading methods just as magicians/skeptics like Derren Brown, Paul Zenon, and James Randi have done before. Don't fall for their tricks, stay skeptical and don't drink the psychic Koolaid!
Related: Psychic Methods Exposed – Cold Reading Tricks (Part 1)
Myles Reviews: Geller's Mind-Power Kit
Uri Geller is an Israeli illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other illusions. In his Mind-Power Kit he claims to to share with the reader the secrets of his extraordinary powers. The kit also contains a crystal that Uri was personally empowered and a tape with instructions.
Psychic Methods Revealed: Hot Reading
Detecting psychic scams & debunking mediums is easier when you know how psychic methods like hot reading work. Don't be fooled by psychic misdirection. Expert mentalists, skeptics, and magicians Penn and Teller, Derren Brown, Paul Zenon, James Randi, and Mark Edward will reveal the secrets of psychics by exposing disgraceful psychic tricks used by psychic Sally Morgan, The Long Island Medium (Theresa Caputo), Rosemary Altea, Peter Popoff, Joe Power, James Van Praagh, and more. Stay skeptical, dare to be curious, but don't fall for this bullshit, and don't drink the koolaid.
The Most Brutal Psychic Fail Compilations
These two videos are absolutely brutal to watch. I love it. I enjoy watching these con artists fail at their con game.
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21st century exorcisms: Examining the psychology of possession
Via James Randi Education Foundation – JREF
A video has surfaced of a reported exorcism as it was taking place last February behind the closed doors of a Roman Catholic church in Vranov nad Dyji, Czech Republic. A 26 year old visitor heard screams and filmed through the keyhole of the door. Not much is visible; there is plenty of screaming and obscenity (in another language) but nothing supernatural happens from this perspective. The drama that unfolded is what we would expect an exorcism to look like from our familiarity with sensational news reports. Only in the movies, in fiction, are there visions of horror that break the bounds of physics or human capabilities. In reality, exorcisms at their most basic, are an interaction between the victim in some disturbed state and the people who are enacting the ritual. Some might say the ritual enables the victim, encouraging the expression of possession. For some afflicted people, they may benefit psychologically from the process.
The Czech priest confronted over the released video says they were asking for God's help to protect the anonymous person in the church. He is quoted as remarking, "Of course it helps." Does it really help, or is this reinforcement of an antiquated belief system harmful? Therein lies a tricky question for religious officials, psychologists, and the skeptically-minded about the value of exorcism. Most rationalists would not condone an exorcism, likely feeling that the potential for harm that could occur is unethical or the endorsement of belief in demons is nonsense. What once was a given fact – evil spirits can possess people, and had been usurped by modern medicinal practice, has recently been re-embraced by the Catholic Church and endorsed through rejuvenation of the exorcism ritual.
On November 11, 2014, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved an English translation of the Rite of Exorcism that was published by the Vatican in 1999. The vote was 179 "yes" to 5 "no." Pope Francis recognized 250 priests across 30 countries who are members of the International Association of Exorcists which many observers saw as a surprising step backwards in time for the church. The church sees exorcism as something of a last resort and repeatedly notes that the cases are carefully evaluated by medical professionals to address medical or psychological problems. Who does these evaluations? Are the psychiatric evaluators Christian? What are their criteria for concluding that, yes, this person can not be helped by Western medicine and must be treated spiritually?
Curiously, as noted in this Catholic news agency piece, exorcism is "not magic. It is the Church imploring God to come to the aid of the person afflicted." This can be interpreted in a secular way – if the troubled person believes that they can be helped with this ritual, then perhaps they really are helped. It is plausible that many cases of deliverance or exorcism have been successful because people have "named" their troubles and outwardly cast them away, like the devil, to be gone and leave them free. Professor Christopher French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit of the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London has studied the psychology of possession. He also thinks that, under certain circumstances, people can benefit from exorcism.
"As I believe that "possession" is a purely psychological phenomenon, any psychosomatic symptoms might be cured by any form of treatment that the victim believes in. Also, adoption of the "possessed" role sometimes allows people to let off steam without being held responsible for their actions."
Dr. French is clear that exorcism will not directly help anyone who has an underlying neurological condition, although, he says, "If the condition was aggravated by stress and the ritual reduced the stress, it might produce temporary relief." This is not to make light of the several downsides to exorcism. There have been several cases of families who subjected "possessed' elders, women, the handicapped, and children to abuse. In some cases, this has resulted in death.
Yet, the popular belief in exorcism is growing.
James Randi: Debunking The Paranormal
By Studio 10 (Australia) via YouTube
Skeptic James Randi joins us on Studio 10, ahead of his tour around Australia in December: http://thinkinc.org.au/jamesrandi
Ghost FAQ, Facts and Fiction
Via randi.org – JREF
It's that time of year…
Fact: Around half of the American population, in survey after survey, say they believe in ghosts and hauntings.
There have been dozens of television shows, books, videos and Internet sites in the past 20 years featuring people who claim to be paranormal investigators who found evidence of the paranormal.
Around Halloween time, the media is dripping with hype about ghost tours, ghost hunts, and local paranormal investigations of the community's historical places with breathless claims of proof of ghosts from these amateur ghost hunters.
What should we think about ghosts? It's a complicated question. Here are some facts and FAQs to help get you square about where we are with our knowledge of ghosts and paranormal evidence.
This is a deceptively tricky question! The answer you get will completely depend on whom you ask. The "ghost" is one of the most popular concepts of the paranormal (beyond normal). Yet, there is not one agreed-upon definition across disciplines of what a ghost is since one has never actually been caught and examined.
Fact: No ghost has ever been confirmed caught and/or examined by anyone or anything. Therefore, we can't determine its actual characteristics with any amount of certainty.
The common features we ascribe to ghosts is what we learn from popular culture where the concept of "ghost" has changed considerably through time.
The most common idea about a ghost is that it is the spirit of a dead person (or animal). This implies there is a "spirit". However, we can't define or measure "spirit," either, because it has not ever been captured or measured. It's more of a faith-based belief, like the soul.
Ghosts are interpreted as being what remains of a person that has not passed to the next realm of existence.
Fact: There is no scientific conclusion that any other realm exists for our "being" to pass to after death.
For reasons that are not consistent through time, paranormalists conclude that some unlucky folks may remain incorporeally stuck here after bodily death. Alternately, some paranormalists say that ghosts could be a form of psychic projection of the human mind.
Early scientific researchers (in the 1800s) who studied the concept in a methodical way, avoided the term "ghost". Instead they used terms like "phantasms of the dead" or "apparitions".
Your neighborhood paranormal investigator is fond of describing a ghost as a manifestation of the "energy" of a former being. "Energy" in this case is also used incorrectly since there is no energy sustained after you die. When bodies decompose, that energy is released into the environment.
Do people still practice magic?
By Stuff They Don't Want You to Know via YouTube
As humanity's understanding of science and technology evolved, magic seemed set to become another historical footnote. Except, that is, for the people that still practice it today.
James Randi: How to Squash a Paranormal Claim
Is 'Long Island Medium' Theresa Caputo A Fake?
Some People Certainly Think So
By Laura Rosenfeld via Bustle
Every show on TLC really knows how to tug at your heartstrings, but The Long Island Medium does it pretty much better than anyone else. That is because the Long Island Medium herself, Theresa Caputo, has an amazing ability to connect strangers with their loved ones who have passed away. By communicating through "spirit," Caputo can learn how someone died, his or her nickname, and even deliver a message to the living. Her readings are so spot-on, it's freaky.
Maybe even a little too freaky for some people. When a person has a supernatural ability like this, there are of course going to be skeptics. Caputo encounters them all the time on her show, like when one self-proclaimed skeptic, Brian, started to believe after Caputo's tape recorder magically stopped without any prompting. Like with most issues in our society, the debate has mainly been alive and well on the Internet, the trolliest of troll-y places, since the show premiered back in 2011. Whether it's through opinion pieces, blog posts, or videos, there are plenty of people online who make it their mission to debunk Caputo's ability. So who are these people, and why do they think Caputo is not for real?
Caputo's main opponent is James Randi, a former magician and escape artist who now spends his days "as the world's most tireless investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims," according to his website. Randi is famous for his "One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge," where anyone who can prove "evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event" will be awarded $1 million.
Randi claims Caputo uses a technique that many mediums employ called "cold reading," where it may look like Caputo is simply chatting with the person, but she's actually picking up information that she'll use to make what she says seem very specific to the person she's reading. He says Caputo's questions about initials and life events are basically just guesses that she hopes turn out to be true. Randi, who has also taken on the famous mediums John Edward and James Van Praagh, awarded Caputo a 2012 Pigasus Award, which is awarded to parapsychological frauds who are most harmful to society.
Inside Edition performed an entire investigation on Caputo in 2012, which found that she was much less accurate in her live readings than she is shown to be on her TV show, as she would "strike out time and again." Inside Edition had former psychic Mark Edward perform the "cold reading" techniques he believed Caputo uses, and the audience believed him.
Also See: The Long Island Medium – Can She Really Communicate with the Dead? – News from InsideEdition.com
Top 10 Paranormal Hoaxes
The world-wide appetite for paranormal stories is a magnet for hoaxes. Some hoaxes are simply light-hearted fun but others have more serious consequences such as contaminating genuine research, wasting public money and destroying careers. Love them or hate them, here is our pick of the top ten paranormal hoaxes of all time […] …
# 10 • King Tut's Curse
When Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered early in the 20th Century, a curse was found inscribed over the entrance: "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king". Before long, stories were being told about unnatural deaths of workers on the site. "King Tut's Curse" eventually found its way into popular culture and set the stage for a whole sub-genre of horror stories and movies.
In 1980 the security officer for the original excavation site admitted that stories had been circulated to scare away thieves. Historical records show that most excavation workers went on to lead long and healthy lives.
# 9 • The Cottingley Fairies
In 1917 and 1920, young English cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffith produced a series of photographs depicting themselves interacting with fairies. In modern times it is hard to imagine how anyone could be fooled by these obvious fakes, but in the early 20th Century they were convincing enough to attract a huge following and dupe such notables as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
It was not until 1981 that Wright and Griffith admitted the hoax, although they continued to claim that they had indeed seen fairies and that one of the photos was genuine.
More info: The Cottingley Fairies
# 8 • The Cardiff Giant
In 1869, workers digging a well in Cardiff, New York, uncovered what appeared to be the petrified remains of a giant 3-metre (10-foot) man. Archaeologists declared the body to be fake but the public reaction was more accepting, especially among those who considered it evidence in support of biblical history. The body became a business asset as crowds paid for a glimpse. Showman P.T. Barnum tried to acquire the body but eventually made his own replica, causing additional controversy over which was the genuine giant.
In December 1869, tobacconist George Hull confessed to the hoax. The body was sculpted from concrete and buried a year prior to the well-digging.
# 7 • Uri Geller's Spoon-Bending
During the 1970s Uri Geller enjoyed huge success with his mentalism acts, based largely on his alleged ability to bend spoons with his mind. Geller staunchly defended his claim to supernatural powers until hard evidence finally caught up with him. A 1982 book by James Randi exposed Geller's tricks, and Geller was caught numerous times on camera manipulating stage props (e.g. pre-bending spoons). He has since earned a reputation for frivolous litigation after a series of failed lawsuits—mostly against people who publish unflattering material about him.
Despite never officially "outing" himself, Geller has tacitly confessed to the hoax. In 2007 he expressed the following change of heart: "I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer….My entire character has changed."
More info: Uri Geller
#6 • The Amityville Horror
In 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr shot and killed six members of his family in Amityville, New York. A year later the Lutz family moved in, only to move out 28 days later claiming they had been terrorized by ghostly presences. Their story became a best-selling book by Jay Anson and the basis of a series of films. The franchise has been highly successful, banking on the claim of being a true, verifiable story.
On closer investigation, however, it seems that not much if any of the story can be verified. Police and other records contradict the book's account and many holes have been found in the story. In 1979, lawyer William Weber claimed: "I know this book is a hoax. We created this horror story over many bottles of wine."

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Well, it looks like anyone who may have believed that Atlanta's second round of snow and ice wouldn't be worse than the first round, was wrong. At least with our first round of snow, I was able to make it down the stairs to walk my dog in the morning. The stairs in my neighborhood are made of metal and concrete and right now they're completely covered in ice. I had the pleasure of slipping and falling down those stairs during my first winter here and it was NOT fun. If you plan to venture out at all during this mess, I urge you to be safe and drive (and walk) VERY slowly.
I've mentioned in previous articles (like THIS ONE) that I am completely in love with Plaid and probably have too much of it in my closet. Well, thanks to another visit to my neighborhood thrift store, I've added something in plaid that I've never had before…a Plaid Blazer! I've always wanted one of these, but could never find one I liked enough to buy. That could have been because I was looking in places like J. Crew where a blazer can easily set you back $150. It's funny how quickly you can stop liking something when you see how much it costs, isn't it? LOL! My vintage plaid blazer only set me back $15…how's that for a price comparison?
Plaid blazers can be tricky to wear. If you're not careful with: 1) The cut of the blazer, 2) The color of the plaid or 3) Which other patterns you pair your blazer with, you may run the risk of either appearing heavier than you really are OR you'll just look tacky altogether. Remember what I said about Print Mixing in this article, you absolutely CAN mix other prints with plaid but they MUST play well together. If you do mix prints with a plaid blazer, be subtle with it so that the mixture isn't overbearing (EX: Pair a plaid blazer with leopard print flats). You can't go wrong with a pair of boyfriend jeans and a solid tank either….which leads me to my look of the day. Oh! My dog Basil decided to make another appearance on the blog today…I swear sometimes I really wonder just WHO the master is. LOL!
Here's my look:
*Photos taken by Richard Glass
NOTE: The first picture in this set is INTERACTIVE and SHOPPABLE
I don't know about you, but I'm really loving plaid blazers right about now. Spring is right around the corner, so if you're going to get one…better hurry!
How would you wear a plaid blazer? Would you rock it with a solid print? Or would you try a Print Mix?
Until next time!


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Try out this scrumptious cake.
250g sugar
250g banana, chopped into 2cm pieces
1 tbsp unsalted butter
2 tsp vanilla extract
175ml sunflower oil
2 large eggs
150g plain flour
75g spelt, rye or wholemeal flour
2 level tsp mixed spice
2 level tsp baking powder
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- Yash6895Asked on December 11, 2016 at 11:01 PM
I have deleted 2 responses from my form which I filled to check that how submission looks. After that when I generated visual report it shows total 3 males and 1 female in pie chart. But there are only two submission after deleting my 2 submission. So I think visual builder is not working properly.
You can try this creating your own form and than delete responses and check in visual report.
- JotForm SupportChriistianAnswered on December 12, 2016 at 01:04 AM
I'm currently checking the visual report on my end. Please allow me time to further investigate. I'll get back soon once there are findings.
- JotForm SupportChriistianAnswered on December 12, 2016 at 01:17 AM
Hi again,
I cloned your form (http://www.jotform.me/form/63456151208452) and tried to check the visual report but I was not able to replicate the issue on my end.
First, I did a test submit with 3 females and 1 male so total of 4.
Then, when I tried to delete 2 submissions (2 females), there are total of 1 female and 1 male remaining, as you can see from the image below:
Can you please try to check again on your end?
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- Yash6895Answered on December 12, 2016 at 02:44 AMBut the problem is occurring with male number.
- JotForm Data ScientistomerorkunAnswered on December 12, 2016 at 03:17 AM
I have tried run a few tests on my end as well with regards to your latest feedback. I ran 6 test submissions, 3 males and 3 females. This is the initial report:
Then I deleted 2 males and 1 female submissions. This is how the visual report looks like now:
As far as I have seen reports are working as expected. I have also checked the visual report on your account for the particular form. You seem to have 1 submission currently. And, it is properly displayed in the report. I guess it was a temporary issue on your end.
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3 European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
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As many of you may already know, October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There is no doubt that in certain populations of women, the death rate from breast cancer is going down due to awareness and early detection.
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Speaking for Silk Therapeutics' co-founder Rebecca (Beck) Horan and myself, it is this giant sense of mission that lights our fire. For Beck, a cancer survivor by the age of 27, her personal experience speaks for itself.
Personally, I am more passionate about Silk Therapeutics and skincare than I have been about any technology I have worked on over the past 20 years. As a father, I am especially driven by the knowledge that my eldest son likely developed food allergies from a combination of eczema and the "all natural" body lotion used to treat his skin as an infant.
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Here is a closeup of the image. I just love the cats expression. "Good grief, she's got me" lol
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And the button. :-) I am happy to say no complications today with my button. :-) And how cool is it that I happened to have a round button with a square inset and then a small square button to fit inside? I guess that's a sign of having too many buttons!
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It's been a fun, but hard and receptionless past few days. Before I left woods hole a few friends pointed out that if we pushed really big miles (30, then 25 the next day) we could make it to the famed homeplace restaurant before they close. The homeplace is generally regarded as one of the best restaurants on the trail, but is only open thursday thru Sunday. I decided it sounded like a fun and worthwhile goal, so agreed to push the big miles. First though I had to make it the ten to Pearisburg, then the 6 miles past to the first shelter.
Once I got to Pearisburg I bumped into a whole group of people who I was hiking with not too long before, but who were going a bit faster. They decided to zero, so I was able to catch up with them. They had independently concocted their own, slightly different, plan to get to homeplace by Sunday, so we decided to wait for them and all hike together.
The company has been great, it's nice hiking with a whole group of people I like a lot. I haven't really hiked with a whole group since the beginning of the trip. But it's definitely been a big change from the solitary hiking of the past weeks. I've been playing leapfrog all day every day.
Anyways, we made it! It took a 23 mile day, then a 27 (my biggest yet), then a 17 (which I did in just over 6 hours, which makes it my fastest stretch yet), but we made it in time. The hard miles were hard, but very rewarding and I'm proud of my distance and pace.
The homeplace started as a mainly arbitrary goal, but oh man was it worth it. The food was incredible. For 15 dollars each it was all you can eat homestyle cooking. Fried chicken (which I never eat in the real world but was delicious), ham, potatoes, greens, biscuits, coleslaw. Each time we emptied a plate it would be quickly refilled. Before I knew it I had eaten four whole plates worth. Then was the all you can eat desert of delicious peach cobbler with icecream. So so good. By the time I was done I actually thought I wouldn't be able to keep it all down I ate so much. Everyone else felt similarly so it took us a good forty minutes to leave the table.
Tonight I'm staying in a donation only hostel that is really just a three car garage. The owner has put a few cots and couches in it, but most of us are sleeping on the floor. He's a really nice guy, very helpful, and it's a great place to spend the night.
Tomorrow is supposed to be miserable, 40 degrees and sleeting, so I might zero, or just do a few miles of slack packing (hiking where a hostel shuttles you up the trail a ways, without a pack, and then you hike back to the hostel).
In other news I just purchased a new summer quilt thanks to a crazy 50% off sale on GoLite.com, which I'm pretty pumped about. It will definitely feel good to shave another pound and a half off. Also got some running shorts to try. Now just to figure out what to do about my pack…
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In a year with an unprecedented number of triple-A titles, Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo 3 may be the most anticipated and important video game of 2011. Building atop a franchise with more than 18.5 million sales, the newest Diablo game will continue the tale of Tristram and its 15-year-old legacy.
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After a disappointing show on Thursday I was hoping that Mitch Gordon and the unleaded band would not disappoint and they certainly did not!
Members include Mitch Gordon Lead Vocals/Rhythm Guitar, Neal Elder Lead Guitar/Vocals, Michael Paul Bass/Vocals, Jeremy Schreifels Drums, and finally the beautiful Jaymi Struthers on Keys/Vocals.
Gordon founded the unleaded band at the age of 16 finding it difficult but not impossible to book venues that were 21 and over.
Gordon is a country music fan's dream, a cross between George Strait classic country and Justin Moore modern music he is sure to appeal to both hard core classic fans and the modern generation country music lovers.
Gordon played music from "The Ride" by David Allen Coe, which I have never heard covered before, to songs of modern day music like "Wagon Wheel" by Darius Rucker.
Going to watch this band play is like traveling in a time machine through the great genera of country music; how it started, what got us here, and of course the modern country you hear on the radio today.
Gordon and the unleaded band don't let you miss out on a single great song in country music history.
It was an absolutely refreshing change of pace to hear songs by Alan Jackson, David Allan Coe, John Michael Montgomery and many more classic artists most band neglect to cover nowadays.
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One he performed for Skooters Friday night was entitled "Small Town" and went a little something like this:
This is the type of country music I as a fan want to promote and want to get the word out about because there can be modern country music without losing that classic country music feel.
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The New Saints boss Scott Ruscoe is crossing his fingers for a home semi-final after his side squeezed through on penalties in the Irn-Bru Cup against Queen of the South.
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"I did enough travelling up to Scotland last season so no, I want a home draw," said a delighted Ruscoe. "It will be down to the luck of the draw or whatever.
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Kramp�s cucky position on race realism is so aggressively untruthful that it compels me to dislike him.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997472)
Bloodacre was MAF about it:
I'd love to talk to JCM about this glib faggot.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997531)
krampusnacht is an almost entirely apolitical poster in his content, who's hilarious, and made a passing political comment. nobody cares, give it a rest, not everyone treats xo as a political forum, do that with your buddies.
idk why i'm responding to a troll, have a nice day(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997495)
If we were talking about actual KKK style racists, it would be one thing. But race realism? It's disgusting.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997509)
I know that your whole schtick is to lament the �prestige� of the past and claim that the XO of the present is indistinguishable from a YouTube comments section, I couldn�t disagree with you more, so we will have trouble finding common ground.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997563)
You are ideologically motivated and lying, trying to defend your indefensible friends.
Your claims of glibness in this context don�t even make any sense.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997593)
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You�ll need to devise another angle to rescue your prestigious friends from the evil Stormfront imports.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997617)
In other words, he�s a noxious cuck, the lowest of the low.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35997441)
So let me ask you, it doesn�t bother you that kramp would describe you as �morally bankrupt� for believing in the objective truth known as race realism?
Ask him point blank and see what he says.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3970192&forum_id=2#35998252)
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"It all came close to never happening. This life came so close to never happening."
This excerpt from the 25th hour has always resonated with me. Whatever is becoming of me through this project, through all of these endless projects, I feel like I need to step back and acknowledge the effort gone into each step.
I don't think I've had a long-term goal as challenging as this one. The moment I set foot in Jersey City in 2005, I knew I wanted to live in Manhattan, but I took my time, paid off my loans, and prepared myself for the big move. Then other things got in the way and I decided this move wasn't important, but saying this aloud several times didn't make it true. Moving back to Boston without completing my Manhattan destination gave me the impression that I failed at my quest and didn't give New York a fair shot. Because the New York I had abandoned wasn't New York at all.
This time I decided that since I've put in enough time and struggle in Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens simply weren't going to be options.
March 1st. I move into my Lower East Side apartment. One month later, I'm still jumping up and down and sporting a lameass Ben Stiller smile curling at each end. I'm finally here, and there are already so many stories to tell building with each day, but I'll share my favorite one.
The two windows in my quaint bedroom look out to other quaint bedroom windows. During my recent past time of people watching, I've managed to label my neighbors, much like a modern day Rear Window scene. There's the jogger, who puts his smelly shoes out on the windowsill every morning. There's the music fan, who thinks he just discovered indie music for the first time, and plays songs repetitively with the boombox speakers facing outward, so I know the music is for our "benefit." There's the Julie Andrews, who belts musicals on hot afternoons. There's the party guy who has annoying sloppy drunk parties on his deck. Oh yeah and there's the freaky couple who happen to live directly across from me...
The weekend of March 13th was a cold and rainy one. Mother nature graces the art of making the temperature just cold enough that the precipitation is still rain, but I swear I've felt much warmer in a blizzard. That Saturday night, I came home, got into the fluffiest pants, sweatshirt and socks I could find and huddled to the heater with my hot cocoa. I soon fell asleep to the sound of the chilling downpour. I woke up in the middle of the night to a flash seeping through my blinds. Must be lightning I thought. I waited for the thunder, but nothing. Then I see multiple flashes as if someone was taking a picture of my window. I brace myself and bend the blinds. A man is standing on the fire escape ladder across from me with a camera, and he's taking photos of his girlfriend, who is rolling around naked on the cold steel fire escape platform...in the freezing cold rain.
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