![]() ![]() The culmination of the work was ‘Project Alice’, an experiment using a video camera and mirrors angled to so that it recorded its own viewfinder. Sadly there is a gulf between the sometimes astonishing visual products and the general dullness of the verbal communications. Tapes in a recorder with the microphone removed still captured voices and there were other voices which emanated from different parts of the room, referred to as ‘extended voice’. The personalities coming through were consistent, sometimes answering questions before they had been asked. In addition to the spectacular light shows and images, there were a thousand hours of spirit communication. ![]() The best had to be the postcard with the caption, “If living please write, if dead don’t bother” which indicates a sense of humour on someone’s part. Some eighty apports were received, a good selection of which are displayed in the film. Amazing images were recorded on 35mm film, faces, glyphs, diagrams, verses, texts in various languages. There were patches of light forming human faces, a disembodied hand and other materialisations. Intelligent-seeming lights flashed around the room, bouncing on and seeming to go through the table, touching sitters on request and even seeming to enter them. There were temperature changes and breezes. ![]() The viewer certainly gets a flavour of what participants witnessed during the five years the group sat. There are two short extras on the DVD: contributions from some of the interviewees on what the afterlife might be like, and what appears to be a deleted scene on direct voice at Scole. The Afterlife Investigations has clearly been a long time in the making as there is footage taken within the cellar where the bulk of the activity occurred, and the Foys have not lived there for some time. There were a vast number of these according to the group’s reckoning more than in any other experiment in the history of the paranormal.Īll four of the primary living participants – Robin and Sandra Foy and mediums Diana and Alan Bennett – were interviewed by Coleman, and the points they and other interviewees make are illustrated by original recordings, supplemented by reconstructions, clearly labelled, to indicate what the experiences would have been like for the sitters. They assiduously documented the phenomena generated in their collaboration with a spirit team. Most valuably, the film incorporates some of the material generated by the Scole group. To add to the books, articles, presentations and blog posts comes Tim Coleman’s professionally-produced film which, while not just about Scole, does make it the focus. The Scole experiment continues to be of enormous interest since sittings terminated in 1998. ![]()
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