Red Lights

00:36:09,125 --> 00:36:13,250 Margaret, I heard about Palladino. Everyone's talking about it. 614 00:36:13,250 --> 00:36:15,958 I wanted to say thank you. People like them give us a bad name. 615 00:36:15,958 --> 00:36:17,542 I doubt it. 616 00:36:17,542 --> 00:36:19,417 Come on, Margaret, give us a break. 617 00:36:19,417 --> 00:36:21,208 It's serious work we're doing up there. 618 00:36:21,208 --> 00:36:23,042 We started with scores of 2.1. 619 00:36:23,042 --> 00:36:25,083 You know, nothing to write home about, I know, 620 00:36:25,083 --> 00:36:29,292 but in the last couple of weeks we scored 3.4, 4, 4.6-- 621 00:36:29,292 --> 00:36:32,917 And the chances the difference are down to coincidence is 2 in 100, Margaret. 622 00:36:32,917 --> 00:36:35,292 - Paul. - Two in a hundred! 623 00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:37,792 All right-- 624 00:36:37,792 --> 00:36:39,417 All right. 625 00:36:39,417 --> 00:36:41,500 Tom, go ahead and start class without me. 626 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:43,458 Take this, this and that. 627 00:36:43,458 --> 00:36:46,083 And, um, show them the photograph. They'll enjoy that. 628 00:36:46,083 --> 00:36:47,875 I won't be long. 629 00:36:47,875 --> 00:36:50,417 So what is it this time? Psychic photography? 630 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:52,875 - Retrocognition, remote vision? - Telepathy. 631 00:36:52,875 --> 00:36:54,833 - Drawings, sealed envelopes, cards? - Zener cards. 632 00:36:54,833 --> 00:36:56,292 Double blind, triple blind, simple blind? 633 00:36:56,292 --> 00:36:58,208 Simple blind. I did it myself. 634 00:36:58,208 --> 00:37:00,250 I take it from your enthusiasm you just did a test. 635 00:37:00,250 --> 00:37:01,625 That's right. 636 00:37:01,625 --> 00:37:02,667 Were you facing your subject? 637 00:37:02,667 --> 00:37:04,500 Sure. 638 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:06,542 What about them? 639 00:37:06,542 --> 00:37:08,250 Uh, they were in the control booth, monitoring the subject. 640 00:37:08,250 --> 00:37:10,042 Who was monitoring you? 641 00:37:10,042 --> 00:37:12,542 Me? Why would anyone want to be monitoring me? 642 00:37:12,542 --> 00:37:14,375 It's a joke. 643 00:37:14,375 --> 00:37:16,833 So were you at the same eye level as the subject? 644 00:37:16,833 --> 00:37:18,208 Approximately, yes. 645 00:37:18,208 --> 00:37:19,333 - Under a light, I guess. - Yes. 646 00:37:19,333 --> 00:37:21,417 The way we are now? 647 00:37:21,417 --> 00:37:23,500 More or less, I guess. 648 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:26,375 - You have the cards with you? - No, I-I don't have them here. 649 00:37:28,375 --> 00:37:31,417 - Oh. Yeah, here. - Okay. 650 00:37:35,208 --> 00:37:37,333 Okay. 651 00:37:37,333 --> 00:37:38,875 Shoot. 652 00:37:38,875 --> 00:37:41,167 What do you mean, "shoot"? 653 00:37:41,167 --> 00:37:43,208 Go ahead. Shoot. 654 00:37:43,208 --> 00:37:45,667 - T-To you? - Sure. 655 00:37:46,250 --> 00:37:48,417 - Here? - Why not? 656 00:37:48,417 --> 00:37:50,583 Okay. 657 00:37:52,208 --> 00:37:56,208 Square. 658 00:37:56,208 --> 00:37:58,833 Cross. 659 00:37:58,833 --> 00:38:00,333 Square. 660 00:38:01,833 --> 00:38:03,958 Square. 661 00:38:03,958 --> 00:38:05,458 Star. 662 00:38:05,458 --> 00:38:07,917 - Wave. - How are you doing that? 663 00:38:07,917 --> 00:38:10,042 - Methodological defects-- -No, w--w--they're not transparent, we make sure-- 664 00:38:10,042 --> 00:38:13,917 improper controls, the inadvertent inclusion of relevant data 665 00:38:13,917 --> 00:38:15,958 or, in this case, 666 00:38:15,958 --> 00:38:17,583 all three at the same time. 667 00:38:17,583 --> 00:38:19,250 Congratulations. 668 00:38:19,250 --> 00:38:22,125 Next time, try taking them off first. 669 00:38:26,208 --> 00:38:28,583 So why'd you hold the card up to the light? 670 00:38:28,583 --> 00:38:31,750 So you wouldn't think about your glasses. 671 00:38:35,125 --> 00:38:39,417 So, these images were made during the Cold War-- 672 00:38:41,333 --> 00:38:45,083 under conditions controlled by the Soviet authorities, 673 00:38:45,083 --> 00:38:48,208 so there was no independent investigations. 674 00:39:02,875 --> 00:39:05,000 Leningrad, 1970. 675 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,458 Here Katia Novikova carries out 676 00:39:08,458 --> 00:39:11,292 one of her more controversial experiments. 677 00:39:11,292 --> 00:39:13,167 As you can see, 678 00:39:13,167 --> 00:39:16,208 she concentrates intensely on the heart of the frog, 679 00:39:16,208 --> 00:39:19,125 at the beginning making it beat faster, 680 00:39:19,125 --> 00:39:21,250 then slower, 681 00:39:21,250 --> 00:39:26,125 and then, stopping it beating altogether. 682 00:39:26,125 --> 00:39:30,625 Katia asserted that she had, she had inherited her powers from her mother-- 683 00:39:30,625 --> 00:39:34,083 and that during her childhood, she would see objects... 684 00:39:40,542 --> 00:39:43,292 Only God is right all the time, Dr. Matheson. 685 00:39:43,292 --> 00:39:46,250 And yes, there are sensitives who are impostors, 686 00:39: