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What is a ghost: some kind of physical substance or something intangible, existing only within the sensitivity of the living people?
Autumn 1972 Community of Parapsychological Researchers from Toronto decided to conduct a unique experience and artificially create phantom. Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? In his experiment Canadians were guided by the judgment that thought is material, and when much desire can materialize even a ghost. results turned out to be truly stunning.
On an unusual project, a team of two psychologists, unemployed with a brilliant level of intelligence, industrial designer, housewife, accountant, sociologist and writer.
Artificial Ghost Biography
To start, the researchers decided to come up with a fictional person, whose phantom should appear in our world. He became Philip Aylesford – aristocrat, catholic and supporter of the monarchy, who lived in the middle seventeenth century in England. Like any other restless spirit, Philip had his own life tragedy. He married without love on the daughter of neighbor Dorothea, but later met a gypsy camp and inflamed with feelings for the young Margot.
The pair began secretly dating in the city gatekeeper’s house, however, they soon learned of their romance. Dorothea stated that Margot – the witch who bewitched her husband and the gypsy were thrown into prison. Philip tried to redeem the girl from prison, but to no avail. Held court during which Margot was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to burning at the stake. After the death of sweetheart Aylesford a few days was hard at the tragedy, and then jumped out of his window the castle.
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Canadians have not only detailed biography never existing man, but also painted his portrait.
Ghost contact
After that, the authors of the experiment began to devote everything to Philip. your free time. They constantly thought about the Englishman, discussed it with each other. After some time, the researchers were already ready to make contact with the ghost.
They held a spiritualistic session, during which they turned off light and sat down at a round table on which various items reminding parapsychologists of Philip. And the ghost really appeared.
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During one of these sessions, the group heard a soft knock on to the table. A few minutes later, Canadians found out that Aylesford decided chat with them using one hit on the tree as yes and two – like no. Despite the fact that such communication was enough limited, the experimenters learned a lot about Philip. Replying to questions of people, he told the spiritualists about the details of his character, about your passions and antipathies. At a certain moment the spirit even managed to move the table a few centimeters!
Why Canadians Become Afraid of Their Ghost
Obviously, this was a real supernatural phenomenon, however, the astonishment and enthusiasm of the authors of the experiment quickly began to fade not. An invisible ghost appearing almost every evening called Philip himself and claimed to be three and a half centuries ago an English aristocrat, however for some reason he could not talk about themselves and their era something that researchers did not know themselves. Canadians began to suspect that this entity is either happening solely from their collective consciousness, or is an impostor from somewhere else.
Meanwhile, the influence of the spirit on reality became stronger. In during the seances, Philip began to lift the table into the air, toss objects, turn on and off the light in the room. All group members unanimously claimed that once in a room a thick fog formed, while the poltergeist suddenly refused Comment on your actions.
After some time, an industrial designer who was one from the authors of the experiment, reported that he had seen late at night in his the house is a distinct human silhouette, although he lived alone. Canadians doubted the safety of the experience, but decided to hold finally, the largest and most crowded spiritualistic session.
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The culmination of the experiment was an event in which fifty strangers were present, including journalists. Philip lived up to his expectations and demonstrated those present all their pranks, including moving the table, levitation of objects and the appearance of a mysterious fog. About session with many Canadian publications have written an artificial ghost. Not less spiritualists then stopped communicating with their a fictional ghost so as not to tempt fate.
Artificial Ghost Followers
This phenomenon has been studied by many parapsychologists and researchers paranormal phenomena. On the wave of Canadians’ success in many parts of the world have conducted similar experiments, some of which were successful.
Perhaps the most interesting was implemented in 1973 the experience of calling a fictional person from the future named Axel. American enthusiasts came up with a personality that supposedly will be live in the United States after a thousand years, and get involved with her spirit. An invisible supernatural power appeared, but soon the same disappointed researchers with the scarcity of their answers. Seemed Axel existed only in the imagination of the people who created it and not could name a single detail of his life that would not be invented by the spiritualists themselves.
Does this not happen with the call of other spirits, albeit realistically living and dead people? No wonder that spiritualists always striking the scarcity and inaccuracy of the answers evoked from the other world ghosts, while for realism the external side of such sessions, that is, knocks, moving the saucer on the table, and so Further. But the same thing happens with invented ghosts the most …
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