Scole Experiment

Referenced in 6 episodes

Definition

A series of séances held in Scole, England, during the 1990s, known for purported paranormal phenomena including physical mediumship and the manifestation of unusual phenomena.

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He Had a Near-Death Experience and Realized What UFOs Actually Are | Keith Thompson

Third Eye DropsNov 1, 2026

At 24, journalist Keith Thompson nearly drowned in a Hawaiian riptide, left his body, and met dead relatives, including a great-uncle he didn't know had died. That experience launched decades of reporting on UFOs, near-death experiences, seances, and objects that seemingly appear from nowhere. In his new book Anomalous Phenomena, he argues these mysteries share a common pattern that points to a deep interconnectedness at the root of reality, one that materialist science has refused to map.

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Apports and Other Anomalous Phenomena with Keith Thompson

New Thinking AllowedOct 26, 2026

Author Keith Thompson joins Jeffrey Mishlove to discuss his book Anomalous Phenomena, which argues that mind and matter are not separate but points on a dynamic spectrum that interact in surprising ways. Starting with the Scole Experiment, where objects such as an 1891 penny and a 1944 newspaper allegedly materialized during seances, Thompson links apports to near-death experiences, stigmata, Navajo Bigfoot cases, and shape-shifting UFOs. He shares his own near-death experience and his mother's deathbed visitation as personal evidence that our scientific maps, not reality, contain the anomalies.

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Keith Thompson: Anomalous Phenomena—UFOs, Apports, and the Mystery of Consciousness

Earth AncientsOct 21, 2026

Journalist Keith Thompson, who introduced Harvard psychiatrist John Mack to the alien abduction phenomenon, discusses his new book 'Anomalous Phenomena: Apports and the Mystery of Objects that Materialize and Translocate.' He describes the Scole Experiment, a five-year series of seances in which coins, a 1944 newspaper, and images on sealed film reportedly appeared from nowhere, along with his own teenage experience of cosmic oneness and a near-death experience while drowning in Hawaii. The conversation ranges across Navajo Rangers investigating Bigfoot and skinwalkers, stigmata, Lourdes healings, Charles Lindbergh's phantom cockpit companions, and the state of UFO disclosure.

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The Scole Experiment with Robin Foy (1943 - 2022) (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedOct 14, 2026

Robin Foy, founder of the Scole Experimental Group, describes five years of seances in the cellar of his Norfolk home in which two trance mediums allegedly produced spirit lights, materializations, voices, and images on unopened film. He claims the spirit team was joined by extraterrestrials, including a small blue being and a miniature UFO, and even by Thomas Edison, who supposedly supplied a blueprint for a transdimensional communication device. Foy says the experiment ended in 1998 after time travelers from roughly a century in the future accidentally interfered through the spirit portal.

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Cultivating Physical Mediumship with Robin Foy (1943 - 2022) (4K Reboot)

New Thinking AllowedAug 13, 2026

Robin Foy, founder of the Noah's Ark Society and the famous Scole Experiment, recounts five decades of pursuing physical mediumship, from his first seance circle in Leicester in 1973 to sittings with direct voice medium Leslie Flint. He describes startling claimed phenomena, including a pet hamster and dog allegedly teleported by spirits and a spirit team that taught his group to produce phenomena using 'creative energy' instead of ectoplasm. He also explains how spirit messages, including clues about goats with bells and golden eagles, led him to a property near a sacred mountain in Antequera, Spain, for a new Spiritual Science center.

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The Scole Experiment Part 3: Endgame

Astonishing LegendsFeb 22, 2026

The final chapter of the Scole series takes an unexpected turn from Spiritualist phenomena to science fiction territory. It reveals purported evidence of inter-dimensional beings and time travelers through extraordinary events like self-developing film and unexplained voices. As the experiment concludes with ominous warnings, it raises the unsettling question of whether they proved life after death or released something uncontrollable.

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