Finding telekinetic films

[Beleth]

I can't use my Ouija board anymore. Way too many pop-ups.

I tried to reach my grandfather on a Ouija board the other day.

"Hello Grandpa, are you there?"

Then the pointer began to move.
N-A-T-U-R-A-L-L-Y-E-N-L-A-R-G-E-Y-O-U-R-P-E-N-I

I quickly took my hands off the pointer.
Bloody spammers are everywhere!

 

[Luke T.]

Still not convinced.
During this experiment which took place on February 26th 1968 the scientists used instruments other than a compass to test for magnets.

So you are willing to believe someone can move a compass needle with their mind, and yet hesitate to believe they do it by trickery?

Has anyone got a video of Nina stopping and restarting the frog's heartbeat or separating the egg yolk from the white in the tank ?

Probably. But I wouldn't know who.

 

[Luke T.]

Egg video screen capture, because I am such a tease.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Yes. Magnets. And many a "scientist" has been fooled by parlor tricks in the past.

Just off the top of my head, if I have a magnet on a string around my neck and tuck the magnet under my arm and stand in a natural posture with my arms at my sides while someone scans me with a compass, it will not cause the compass to waver. After I am scanned, I merely have to move my arm a little way away from my body and allow the magnet to swing into position on my chest to allow the trick to commence.

I'm sure a magician could think of a dozen ways to conceal a magnet during a search.

In fact, wasn't the point of the whole 'Alpha Kids' thing Randi was involved iwth back in the '70s precisely to SHOW how easy it was to fool some of these researchers with simple parlor tricks.

 

[Azrael 5]

I find a scrying glass useful for finding things..car keys,loose change...telekenitic films!

 

[malbui]

I've got some telekinetic films but every time I go to pick them up they fly off the bookcase and come to rest elsewhere in the room. Damn those psychic powers.

 

[CFLarsen]

Neodymium magnets. Powerful little bastards.

At TAM3, Ray Hall ("cosmic" on JREF) showed us this trick:

VISIBLE, SLOW FALL
Get a length of copper plumbing pipe and drop a small neodymium magnet into it. The magnet will fall slowly. If you choose the magnet and the pipe to give a slip-fit on the magnet, the rate of fall will be very low. If you glue several NIB cylinder magnets end-to-end with repelling faces superglued together (a trick in itself!), the rate of fall will be even slower. And last: purchase some sheets of that green "magnet viewing film" from Edmund Scientific or other edu. supplier, cut them into strips and tape them around your copper tube, and the audience will be able to "see" the falling magnet as the field pattern moves along the seets of micro-encapsulated film. Or a messier version: wet the copper tube with gooey black ferrofluid, and watch the pattern as the magnet slowly falls.
Source

It. Was. Awesome!

 

[sackett]

My Ouija board was taken over by the ghost of Elvis. But he kept demanding fried peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, so I stopped payment and let the board get repossessed.

Ban this woman.

 

[Vikram]

I tried to reach my grandfather on a Ouija board the other day.

"Hello Grandpa, are you there?"

Then the pointer began to move.
N-A-T-U-R-A-L-L-Y-E-N-L-A-R-G-E-Y-O-U-R-P-E-N-I

I quickly took my hands off the pointer.

Yes, usually taking one's hand off the pointer halts the process of natural enlargement.

 

[Vikram]

So you are willing to believe someone can move a compass needle with their mind, and yet hesitate to believe they do it by trickery?

Let's see now... Boring Rational Explanation vs. Exciting Paranormal Explanation...

I think Jambo would rather go with the latter.

 

[joesixpack]

You don't even need a magnet to deflect a compas needle. A heavy peice of metal will do the trick. Most cafeteria style tables have a metal framework under the surface and you can do a pretty convincing "deflect the compass with mental power" trick if you hold the compass and move it back and forth over the metal frame. It's a pretty cool trick if you do it with enough theatrics.