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There's no evidence that they did so, but granting them unrestricted opportunity pretty much torpedoed any hope for credibility. They added, "our evidence, although some may feel it points towards survival, will not carry conviction in this area for everyone.
This included the instruction to hold the séances in total darkness, no video recording or night vision technology was used.Since hand holding was not employed in the Scole seances, the mediums effectively had every opportunity to be completely hands free and do whatever they wanted to do. Alan and Diana hadalwaysbeen committed to the evidence of the phenomena produced during The Scole Experiment and the reality of the messages sent by the Spirit Teampersonalities. Here, investigators assessed and reviewed the work, including Dr Ulf Israelsson, Dr Hans-Peter Stüder, Dr Theo Locher, Dr Andreas Liptay-Wagner, and Dr Pal Kurthy. The developed images showed depictions of familiar photographs, portraits or abstract shapes, and at times written messages.
There were also doubts over several pieces of presented evidence and the fact that certain things, like the photographic film images, failed when replication was attempted under different conditions.We've seen claims of alleged psychic abilities unravel time and time again once those alleged abilities are tested in controlled conditions, unfortunately that wasn't done as part of the Scole Experiments.