589: Proving the Afterlife | The Scole Experiments (STRIPPED)

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Speaker 23 Five people sit at a table in a dark basement, hands linked, total silence. They wait.
Then, lights. Small at first, growing brighter, moving with purpose.
Objects appear from nowhere, solid, real.

Speaker 23 Then came the voices. The skull experiments ran for five years, 500 seances.
The group made bold claims, contact with the dead, beings from other dimensions, from beyond time.

Speaker 23 Scientists and professional skeptics were invited to watch. They saw the objects and the lights.
They heard the voices. The beings had a warning.
But the warning wasn't for the scientists.

Speaker 23 The warning was for us.

Speaker 23 In 1993, a small English village called Skull became ground zero for contact with the dead. Robin and Sandra Foy weren't new to the paranormal.
They spent years investigating spirit communication.

Speaker 23 So did Alan and Diana Bennett. Together, they formed the Skull Experimental Group.
Their lab was a simple cellar under a 17th century farmhouse called Street Farmhouse.

Speaker 23 Stone walls, low ceiling, no windows, no light pollution, no outside interference. They always worked in total darkness, not for show, for science.

Speaker 23 They believed spirits would only appear in a perfect isolation chamber. The group didn't use the usual tools to speak to the dead.

Speaker 23 No Ouija boards, no tarot cards, no gimmicks, no props, just a wooden table and an empty room. Everyone wore glowing wristbands so you can always see where their hands were.
No room for tricks.

Speaker 23 In the early sessions, they sat for hours in the dark, waiting, talking, sometimes singing, trying to raise the vibrations. Weeks went by without results.
Then something changed.

Speaker 23 The air became charged. Static electricity tingled their skin.
The temperature dropped suddenly, eight degrees in five seconds. Then a voice spoke directly to them.
The voice called itself Manu.

Speaker 23 But Manu wasn't a human spirit. He was an entity from somewhere else.
Manu said he led a team of communicators, scientists, philosophers, technicians. All had died decades or centuries ago.

Speaker 23 They called themselves the Team of Many Minds, and they had a mission to prove there was an afterlife. They would provide three types of evidence, physical, photographic, and audio.

Speaker 23 Things scientists could check. Evidence experts could study.
But the team of many minds needed to build energy first. Seance after seance, layer upon layer.

Speaker 23 In early sessions, small lights appeared, tiny at first like fireflies, then brighter. They moved with purpose.

Speaker 23 Answered questions with flashes, spelled words with patterns. The group saw what mediums had described for centuries, but this was different.
This was controlled.

Speaker 23 The team of many minds gave specific instructions. Same time, same basement, same four people.
No changes, no visitors. Not yet.
They were building a delicate energy field.

Speaker 23 A disruption could ruin months of work. They needed everyone to follow the rules exactly.
Robin Foy kept detailed notes of everything.

Speaker 23 Time, temperature, air pressure, every light, every sound, every message. The Skull Four weren't just seeing strange things.
They were mapping them carefully. Science needed proof.

Speaker 23 The spirits promised proof. And they delivered.
Session 6. A light appeared above the table.
Session 7. It splits into three.

Speaker 23 By session 12, dozens of lights dancing in the cellar, moving together, responding to thoughts, touching faces, touching hands, witnessed by all four people simultaneously.

Speaker 23 Finally, the team of many minds started sending solid objects to our world. Metal artifacts, ancient coins, small crystals with strange markings.
The skull group wanted more proof.

Speaker 23 The spirits accepted the challenge by ending the session with a simple instruction. They said, Tomorrow, bring a camera.

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Speaker 23 The intelligent dancing lights were just the beginning. The spirit group called the Team of Many Minds started making small objects appear on the table.
Out of thin air, stones, crystals, old coins.

Speaker 23 The group never knew what object would appear next, but each item had a purpose, a message, sometimes written right on the object. During one session, a brass locket appeared.

Speaker 23 Inside seemed to be empty until it was put under a microscope. Three simple words were etched with impossible precision.
It read, Bridging Two Worlds. Then came the pictures.

Speaker 23 The team of many minds told the skull group to bring sealed packs of Polaroid film and keep them sealed. The spirits would provide photographic evidence of the afterlife.

Speaker 23 And here's how it worked. In complete darkness, an empty Polaroid camera was placed on the table.
A few seconds later, the camera levitated several feet into the air.

Speaker 23 Flashes of light would appear around the camera as it slowly floated back down. Then someone loaded it with fresh film and took a picture.
The skull group watched the photographs develop in real time.

Speaker 23 One showed a man nobody knew. The photo came with a message.
Giuseppe Rolls sends his regards. Weeks later, a researcher learned that Giuseppe Rolls was a film pioneer who worked for Polaroid.

Speaker 23 He died in 1926, decades before this experiment. His picture was never published.
The photo matched the only known portrait of him, locked away in Polaroid's private archives.

Speaker 23 Photographs showed people long dead as if they were in the room with the group. Other photos showed Victorian scenes in perfect detail, ancient writing, lost civilizations.

Speaker 23 The images didn't come from light hitting film. They came from inside the film, directly changing the chemicals.

Speaker 23 Experts checked the photos and confirmed these are not double exposures, not camera tricks. The images formed inside the emulsion.
Sounds got weird too.

Speaker 23 In a silent room, the group used a simple tape recorder. They heard voices speaking multiple languages, some modern, some ancient, some unknown on Earth.
Language experts studied the recordings.

Speaker 23 The voices talked about everything from philosophy to quantum physics, but one message kept coming back. We're not alone and death isn't the end.

Speaker 59 This is an apport which arrived during the earliest days of our skull experiment. In fact, it's a very small object.

Speaker 59 And whilst we were sitting here, this object would arrive, just materialize, and arrive on the table.

Speaker 59 As it arrived, that's the sort of noise it would make.

Speaker 23 Objects appeared and began moving on their own. Instruments floated in the air, playing music.
Heavy tables lifted off the ground.

Speaker 23 The group put glowing panels around the room to track the movements better. Everything was locked, every detail.

Speaker 23 One session stood out. A piece of film was sealed inside a locked box.
An image appeared on it anyway. A page from a newspaper that wasn't printed yet.
Three days later, the paper came out.

Speaker 23 The page matched exactly. The spirits weren't just talking from beyond the grave.
They were talking from beyond time. Robin Foy and his team weren't stupid.

Speaker 23 They knew about fake mediums, the long history of fraud. They operated under strict rules.
They worked to eliminate any chance of cheating. Before every session, the room and the people were searched.

Speaker 23 Not only did the strange events continue, they got even stranger. After two years of private sessions, the skull Group was ready for outside witnesses.

Speaker 23 They invited members of the Society for Psychical Research, Britain's oldest, most respected paranormal group. These weren't easy believers.

Speaker 23 The SPR is made of scientists, professors, and professional skeptics. They came expecting to find fraud.
Instead, they found proof.

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Speaker 23 Word about the skull group was spreading. Strange lights, levitating objects, photos from sealed film.
Their claims were getting attention. But not everyone was convinced.

Speaker 23 The Society for Psychical Research, or SPR, decided to investigate. The SPR takes paranormal claims seriously.
They've done it since 1882.

Speaker 23 Members include Nobel Prize winners, Cambridge professors, professional skeptics. These are serious people.

Speaker 23 Three of their best took the skull case.

Speaker 23 Professor Arthur Ellison, an electrical engineer, Mont Euheen, a career skeptic and media expert, and Professor David Fontana, a psychologist who spent years detecting fraud.

Speaker 23 The SPR didn't trust the skull group. They brought their own gear and enforced strict rules.
Sealed the doors with tamper-proof tape. Brought their own unopened film packs.

Speaker 23 The SPR searched everything. The room, the furniture, the people.
The investigators confirmed the skull basement had no hidden spots, no secret doors, nowhere to hide helpers or equipment.

Speaker 23 Once the scientists were satisfied that this was a controlled environment, it was time to begin. 40 minutes, nothing.
The investigators were not surprised.

Speaker 23 They thought, how convenient that once there were actual scientists in the room, the so-called spirit activity stopped. And just as the SPR was ready to claim fraud, the room got extremely cold.

Speaker 23 The familiar lights appeared. This time they responded not to the mediums in the skull group, the lights were reacting to the thoughts from the investigators.

Speaker 23 SPR member Montague Keene thought, in German, make a triangle. The lights did.
Ellison thought, make a zigzag. The lights did.
All this happened without anyone saying a word.

Speaker 23 The skeptics couldn't explain this. Another session, a crystal appeared on the table.
Professor Ellison held it. It was solid and cold to the touch.

Speaker 23 He asked the skull group if he could take it and have it investigated. They agreed.
But after Ellison left the basement, the crystal was gone.

Speaker 23 But in his pocket was a small brass plate engraved with his name, Arthur Ellison. This was shocking because Professor Ellison never mentioned his first name.

Speaker 23 The sealed film tests were also very convincing. The scientists brought their own film.
They marked the packs with invisible UV ink. The film didn't leave their possession.
The images still appeared.

Speaker 23 Faces, landscapes, ancient writing, 20 sessions, stricter rules each time. The scientists had a choice, admit something real was happening, or accuse the Skull 4 of the best hoax in history.

Speaker 23 The investigators found no fraud, no hidden projectors, no helpers, no tricks could explain objects appearing from nowhere. Then, the team of many minds began speaking directly to the scientists.

Speaker 23 Direct voice they called it. Voices from nowhere filled the room.
They called the investigators by name.

Speaker 23 talked about their private research, answered hard questions about quantum physics, about human consciousness. The voices gave real information, stuff nobody in the room knew.

Speaker 23 Keen asked about dead relatives. The voices gave details, names, dates, private family stuff.
All accurate. Ellison asked complex engineering questions.
The voices answered with technical detail.

Speaker 23 The investigators recorded everything. Evidence was piling up.
Something was happening in that cellar. something that needed a scientific explanation, and the scientists didn't have one.

Speaker 23 The weirdest evidence came when the recorders were allowed. A heavy table started floating.
Ellison put his whole weight on it. It stayed up inches off the ground with no visible support.

Speaker 23 Cameras recorded this. A voice from nowhere announced

Speaker 23 We exist in dimensions perpendicular to yours. The recording got the voice.
Clear. Audio Audio experts checked.
It came from the middle of the room away from everyone.

Speaker 23 After two years of tests, the SPR investigators released a report, 300 pages, full of events that broke the rules of science, things they couldn't explain.

Speaker 23 The spirit team promised proof of life after death, and they delivered something stranger. Proof that our universe, our entire reality, isn't what we think it is.

Speaker 23 But most disturbing were the messages, thousands of them, all pointing to the same conclusion. Instructions, predictions, warnings.
And it was time for humanity to listen.

Speaker 23 Over five years, the spirits called the Team of Many Minds sent thousands of messages, some personal, for specific people in the room. But most were for everyone, for all of us.

Speaker 23 A clear story started to form. Our planet is on the verge of a major shift.
The spirits said consciousness consciousness is more than awareness. It's more than neurons firing in your brain.

Speaker 23 Consciousness is reality itself. Because consciousness is reality, there is no such thing as death, at least not as we know it.
We live and we die, but consciousness continues to evolve.

Speaker 23 This is a concept shared by many religions, that we live a short time on Earth, then we take what we learned back to this universal consciousness.

Speaker 23 Our episode about the gateway process revealed that the United States military was studying this concept at the Monroe Institute.

Speaker 23 The military's report was very similar to the message being sent by the team of many minds. The spirit said our awareness has far more potential.
We see three dimensions.

Speaker 23 They talked about at least seven. Their primary message concerned a major change coming to the Earth, a shift in frequency, a new energy level.
They called it the crossing point.

Speaker 23 This change would alter human minds, they claimed. New abilities would wake up.
Telepathy, remote viewing, direct access to knowledge.

Speaker 23 The skull experiments were preparing a few people to lead the way. The spirits gave instructions on how we can handle the change.

Speaker 23 Meditation, ways to match the new frequency, ways to see beyond the physical world. They stressed living in harmony with nature, no more fighting.

Speaker 23 Their messages sounded like old spiritual ideas, but they also incorporated science, advanced mathematics, quantum physics. They even sent plans to create devices to help communication between worlds.

Speaker 23 One design looked like a modified crystal radio. It used uranium, a rare metal, and a semiconductor.

Speaker 23 The idea was to use the crystal to capture spirit voices, then feed the audio straight to a tape recorder. No microphone needed.
Investigators looked at the plans.

Speaker 23 The science seemed interesting, maybe even possible. The idea of inventors trying to talk to the dead isn't new.

Speaker 23 Both Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla worked on devices to try to communicate with the other side. Tesla was convinced his spirit radio worked.
But the most disturbing messages were the warnings.

Speaker 23 The spirits predicted political chaos, social collapse, climate catastrophe. Humanity wasn't in sync with Earth's energy.
We can avoid the disaster if we change course, but time is running out.

Speaker 23 In 1996, the spirit team mentioned something new.

Speaker 23 Contact with non-human intelligences without physical form. Entities who are interested in humanity's development, but exist in dimensions beyond our comprehension.

Speaker 23 These beings were described as watchers and guardians. Direct communication with them would be the next phase of the experiment.

Speaker 23 But how? The Spirit team presented a mathematical formula that described interaction between dimensions.

Speaker 23 When Fontana showed it to quantum physicists, they confirmed it represented a model for quantum entanglement that hadn't been published yet.

Speaker 23 The formula used scientific symbols that wouldn't appear for another two years. Either the spirits were seeing the future or they were helping create it.
The SPR scientists wrote down the messages.

Speaker 23 They got worried. The predictions about climate, politics, all were disturbingly accurate.
Names, dates, places, details confirmed later by news reports.

Speaker 23 Once again, the spirits were either seeing the future or shaping it.

Speaker 23 In late 1997, the messages got urgent. The team of the Many Minds spirit groups said the experiment was ending soon.

Speaker 23 They did what they came to do built a bridge between dimensions planted ideas in human minds the next part would happen naturally without the seances they were pulling back letting things evolve their final messages focused on personal choice everyone must choose their path awareness could grow or shrink depends on what you focus on fear closes the mind love opens it The future wasn't fixed.

Speaker 23 Collective thoughts shaped it. The spirit team's last message was simple.
We are always here. The door remains open.
You need only step through. After the experiment ended, something strange happened.

Speaker 23 People around the world reported similar things. Lights in their homes, objects appearing, voices from empty rooms.

Speaker 23 A 2006 survey conducted by Banash University revealed that about 70% of respondents believed they had experienced a paranormal event that impacted their lives, often in a positive manner.

Speaker 23 The skull energy field had spread spread beyond the cellar. The team of many minds built a network and it was getting larger.
So the result of the skull experiments can mean one of only two things.

Speaker 23 Either this was the start of a great energy shift that would change our entire existence, or it was the greatest magic trick in history.

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Speaker 23 So, what really happened in that English English cellar? Was it real communication with the dead, proof of other dimensions, or just a five-year magic show? Well, let's look at what we know.

Speaker 23 The skull group held about 500 seances, 1993 to 1998. That's documented.
Real scientists investigated. The Society for Psychical Research.

Speaker 23 They wrote a 300-page report describing things the scientists couldn't explain. But there are serious problems, big ones.
First, the darkness. Always in total darkness.

Speaker 23 It blocks the main tool for observation, sight. Yes, they had glowing wristbands, but you could see where their hands were, but not what their hands were doing.

Speaker 23 The sealed film sounds like strong evidence, but even here there are issues. The investigators brought their own film, true, but the skull group controlled the room.

Speaker 23 The darkness gave them plenty of chances to switch film, to fake images. No independent lab ever checked to see if the film was switched.
That UV writing? Nobody checked.

Speaker 23 The group refused video recording. Big red flag.
They said electronics messed with spirit energy, which is convenient. That removed the best way to document things.

Speaker 23 When infrared cameras were finally allowed, the strange events mostly stopped.

Speaker 23 Later, investigators learned that Alan and Diana Bennett used to perform stage magic. They didn't mention this during the experiments.

Speaker 23 When asked, they admitted it, but they said their work with the spirit world was real. Magicians can do a lot in the dark.

Speaker 23 Magic experts say most skull events match old magic tricks used by fake mediums for centuries, just done very well, very patiently. Professional magicians showed how it could work.

Speaker 23 The spirit lights, small LEDs, hidden magnets, easy to move with wristbands on. The objects appearing? Sleight of hand.
Hidden pockets. The photos? Pre-exposed film.

Speaker 23 The voices from small hidden speakers. No advanced technology would be needed to pull off any of this, just darkness, planning, and patience.

Speaker 23 Four people working together for five years could create an extremely elaborate hoax. But why?

Speaker 23 Well, there's money in it. They charged fees for lectures.
They wrote books. Remember, there's always a book.
They charge for seminars and seances.

Speaker 23 Now, I'm not saying money was their primary motivation, but plenty of money was being made. But the skeptic view has holes too.

Speaker 23 If this was fraud, it needed amazing coordination for five years straight. And strange things happened in other places, not just the skull cellar.

Speaker 23 Dozens of witnesses saw things, including trained scientists. Events that needed incredible skill to fake every single time.
Now, what about the spirit messages?

Speaker 23 Most of their predictions didn't happen. The big consciousness shift, the planet changing? That hasn't happened yet.
At least not like they said it would. So was this a five-year fraud?

Speaker 23 Not according to the investigators from the Society for Psychical Research. Until the day he died, Montague Keene believed something real happened in that basement.

Speaker 23 In fact, he died during a debate where he was defending the paranormal so vigorously he had a heart attack. Professor Ellison was more measured.

Speaker 23 He admitted he witnessed unexplained events, but he stopped short of saying there were spirits involved. But he also said he found no evidence of fraud.

Speaker 23 Professor Fontana was also impressed and also hesitant. He couldn't explain what he experienced either, but he didn't think it proved life after death.

Speaker 23 Maybe the biggest clue is what happened after skull. If the team of many minds really built a spirit network, we should see more proof.
We should see proof everywhere.

Speaker 23 Instead, the events stopped when the skull group broke up. When asked what went wrong, the skull group said, and let me get this right.

Speaker 23 The interdimensional doorway they had established attracted interference from entities described as experimenters from the future.

Speaker 23 This interference was said to violate strict laws of space and time, leading the spirit team to advise ceasing the sessions to prevent further disturbances.

Speaker 23 That's a quote, and that explanation sounds a little too convenient. I think the skull experiments were four friends putting on a spooky magic show.

Speaker 23 But I approach the story as someone who doesn't believe in ghosts. I admit that I'm biased.
Still, I can't prove they were faking. Nobody could, and many tried.

Speaker 23 There may not be evidence of ghosts, but there is evidence that many people had positive experiences when they attended a skull seance.

Speaker 23 We have video statements statements from witness after witness describing these amazing life-changing events. Some people felt reconnected to lost loved ones.

Speaker 23 Others swear that the spirits healed their illnesses.

Speaker 23 Was this all in their minds? I think so. But what does it matter what I think? The skull group gave comfort to hundreds of people.
Is my skepticism more valid than their actual experience?

Speaker 23 I don't think so. Some of the people were so happy, they left the seance in tears.
I don't have the right to rob anyone of that joy. Nobody does.
And don't let anyone rob you of yours.

Speaker 23 Remain faithful, even as people like me remain defiant. If you believe that after we die, we go to heaven, keep believing it.
If you believe we reconnect with our loved ones, keep believing it.

Speaker 23 If you have some belief about the afterlife that gives you comfort, keep believing it. I'm willing to bet you're wrong, but I say this with all sincerity.
I really want to lose that bet.

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