Richard Wiseman Seance

[429Cage]

It amazes me how simple tricks like these can fool people. Some particular seance effects are far more difficult to fake though - and a select few seem nearly impossible to produce through trickery. Wiseman did a good job with this video though. Maybe people who see these types of things will realize that anyone can be fooled. Maybe then more people might take precautions against that.

[BeckEhster]

whats the point of this bullshit?

[beatthecrowd001]

now someone fake materialization with ectoplasm that i want to see

[BadPsychicsTV]

@beatthecrowd001 See the video with Lemar Keene he does just that!

[beatthecrowd001]

@BadPsychicsTV will do cool

[jesusisamagicman]

Read quirkology

[XybeX]

Ghosts obviously have an irresistible urge to show up at seances playing trumpets and moving objects. This of course makes absolute sense and proves the existence of the supernatural.

[DVAFP]

pretty lame magic trick... what's this supposed to achieve? that you can fool little girls in the dark?

[k0smon]

They now fill the mediums hands with flour, which prevents anything of this type from happening.

[BadPsychicsTV]

@k0smon Makes no difference what they do. As long as the seance is in the dark you cannot eliminate fraud.

[k0smon]

@BadPsychicsTV ::: Materialization seances take place under red light, as in a photo dark room. There is no trickery involved.

[tsantza]

du calme les gars cette video prouve quand peut étre dupé stop et fin ... ça prouve pas la non existance du jeu ...

[k0smon]

Yes, ghosts exist. It is not magic, but some people have the ability to see them and talk to them. Reference John Edward, James VanPraagh, Lisa Williams. The answer you get from a ghost is pretty much the same as you would get from any person, because that is what they are, people alive in a higher frequency.

[rerevisionist]

"A group of open-minded volunteers" = people who are gullible.

[benthejrporter]

@rerevisionist Yes, how pathetic they are compared to extremely superior people like you.

[rerevisionist]

@benthejrporter - you forgot to mention yourself

[benthejrporter]

@rerevisionist Oh yeah

[rerevisionist]

@benthejrporter - that's right, fuckface!

[benthejrporter]

@rerevisionist Never forget it. Can I kiss your arse now or later, my MBA God?

[rerevisionist]

@benthejrporter - Master of Busniess Administration?  You have you ideologies crossed

[benthejrporter]

@rerevisionist No, Materialist Bravery Award ;-)

[PokerOnTour]

@rerevisionist or suckers

[trisky1234]

@rerevisionist = people who allow their fear become so vivid they hallucinate ;)

[429Cage]

@rerevisionist Open minded...... But discerning. That's how you have to be. Haha.

[k0smon]

The real mediums have their hands filled with flour to prevent this type of trickery.

Having attended 2 materialization seances, I can truthfully say that this portrayal is garbage and would fool no one acquainted with the phenomena.

[BadPsychicsTV]

@k0smon Lol, you are such a numpty.

Where is the actual proof of real physical mediumship?

Do I really need to bring up Helen Duncan and Peggy?

[k0smon]

@BadPsychicsTV Have you nothing but name-calling? You would reject any proof I could offer you, so I won't even bother.

[HeatVisionPaolo]

@k0smon Don't make an assumption like that, in doing so you are disassembling your own arguement. I would happily see evidence to prove mediumship to be real. Paranormal activity is really intriguing to me but I won't believe it until I am offered proof. As Agent Mulder says "I want to believe."

So if you have proof I would love to see it.

[k0smon]

@HeatVisionPaolo ::: I can offer you evidence, but 'proof' is totally up to your decision making process. Evidence comes from the myriad cases of NDEs, out of body experiences, psychic contact with the departed, even the presence of ghosts. Psychical research societies have investigated this phenomena for years. Reference victorzammit,com. I have attended materialization seances and attest to their reality. Heaps of evidence exists. Proof that would convince Randi? Not yet.

[MANGOS487]

@k0smonDo you think that ghost exists? and that some kind of guy with some kind of magic can contact them, make them move objects in the dark? and after all that receive some cliche answer?

[k0smon]

@MANGOS487 :::: Yes, ghosts exist. The 'guy with the magic' is called a medium. Moving objects is seldom done, it is the conversation that is important.

[MrBlimbo]

suckers

[mrredskater09]

@wasted6666666666 I agree...either a metaphyscian or a magickian should perform a seance' not an ignorant twat like this fucker!!! how do they make money doing this bs?

[xsmokeandmirrorsxx]

@mrredskater09

He doesn't make money from this. And I wouldn't call him an 'ignorant twat' either- he's a senior lecturer in psychology. He's done loads of fake seances to show how people can be lead to believe things that they are told so easily (EG. The temperature dropping) and how magician's tricks can explain many people's experiences. Also, he was a magician.

[mrredskater09]

@xsmokeandmirrorsxx The true definition of a Magickian is someone who has attained full enlightenment thru the tree of life, seeking out their true-will & purpose...

this guy dosn't do magick...nor is he a any type of magi, he did not just wanna prove that people who do a majority of seance's are bullshitters, but that he is a bullshitter to??? Also, seance's ghosts, demons, angels, faires, werewolves, vamps, all that shit is more fuckin real than dolly partons tits!!!

[xsmokeandmirrorsxx]

@mrredskater09

Ok, he is not claiming to be a magickian or have any sort of magick powers. He used to be a magician, as in the profession like a illusionist who does magic tricks. He uses psychology and magic tricks.

[mrredskater09]

@xsmokeandmirrorsxx lolz, So shut the fuck up?! is my point, Magick & seance's go hand in hand you dont get cuz your just a fucking void sucking up all the things you wanna hear u worthless spec of filth, id say look up ritual MAGICK thats what this ass-hole is doing!!!! not smoke & mirrors plain & simple...

[xsmokeandmirrorsxx]

@mrredskater09

First of all don't be so damn rude. you wouldn't say that in an actual conversation, so stop hiding behind anonymity. I'm going to make this short and sweet. This guy.. richard wiseman, is a psychologist and a sceptic of mediums and seances. He DOES NOT believe that magic is real. He DOES NOT perform ritual magic believing that it will work. This seance is FAKE. He's trying to show how easy people can be tricked into believing FAKE seances.

[mrredskater09]

@xsmokeandmirrorsxx with a regular seance they dont move shit on a fucking table, its more like moving objects in house poltergiest activity, not objects attached to string...besides you haven't even been to a seance, & I've actually conducted a few...so go ahead enlighten me.

[JAB63096]

@mrredskater09 there are multiple types of seances, someone really trying to connect, and the early 1900's scam artist, who uses people's greivence for monetary gain. I'm a magician, and we use similar techniques... besides you haven't even been to a hoaxed seance, & I've actually conducted a few...so go ahead, enlighten me.

[xsmokeandmirrorsxx]

@mrredskater09

He tricked people into believing him to make a point and then told them the truth so how is he a bullshitter? And yes, having been a magician... the profesional kind he does indeed use smoke and mirrors... for his magic TRICKS that he does...

Does that clear some stuff up at all?

[BadPsychicsTV]

@slowdavequick

Saw your video, very funny.

You do know that Ouija Boards were an invention by the same people who made Monopoly!

Its not spiritual!

Your video can easily be explained.

I think you guys need to act your age and stop deluding yourself with sily board games

[UlsterScotKeith]

@BadPsychicsTV

People have different beliefs mate, thats just the truth of it. Matter what you or i say. I think the Oujia board isn't real but im more interested in other things in the paranormal. (NOT MEDIUMS lol).

[youcandance12345]

this was the most pointless experiment imaginable.

[BadPsychicsTV]

why?

[youcandance12345]

because this isn't an experiment at all. its just some practical joke

[Wolffmanjackk]

Not really It just shows more evidence on how easy it is to fool people. Just like any other "religious" or supernatural thing. People are easily fooled into believing pure BS mainly because they are weak minded.

Spiritualism,religion, cults,UFO, etc are all examples of this. Normal people lead to believe things they normally wouldn't.

[wrender]

All this experiment proves is that people can be fooled and mislead. No surprises here. We can easily devise a similar experiment to demonstrate how people can be fooled by the media, the govt, or scientists for that matter. If we are starting from the presumption of dishonesty then everything's fair game since dishonesty can potentially exist in all things we tend to put our faith in.

[BadPsychicsTV]

I agree Wrender, the problem is that in 100% of cases where a camera has gotten into a seance it has recorded fraud! No exceptions.

The excuses that mediums come up with to prevent filming of any kind is ridiculous, and gullible people believe the nonsense.

Maybe if just one medium could prove a physical seance it would shut the skeptics up.

But alas in 100 years of such seances not one single medium has ever proven what they do, only ever got caught cheating

[ysbaddaden2003]

@BadPsychicsTV

Actually they could never disprove D D Home

[BadPsychicsTV]

yes they did

[fish67y]

complete fail i know it is scaring the people i do seance by my self with my friend garret and we make contact check my videos out

[AntonD429]

whos watcing michael jacksons tonight ? :P

[fish67y]

i performed a seance and got a response saying no

[BadPsychicsTV]

BudHunter, your reply exposes yourself.

I would guess you are about 13 with the language you use.

Point proven regarding believers.

WHen you dont get your own way you shout and cry and stomp your feet! lol

[tiga303]

i think itss shit beacuse they tied his hands to the chair and some how he just reached under his chair and got a stick :/ then it shows the objects moving but actually if you look it shows him moving them propa shit mann

[GregMcMahan]

The chair is gimmicked. He slid the roped hand forward, lifting the arm of the chair up so the rope would come off. He then reached into a pocket to get the reaching stick.

[lemonkisschick]

heh they probably felt cold because of mind over matter...

they anxiety was building up. :)

would have been a fun experience though.

[Rebelpunk44]

Abraham...

[KayGelzy1]

My mom and a bunch of her friends did this when they were young!!They tried 2 awaken Aberham Linclon...And let me tell you,That man doesn't wanna b awaken!

[majinrevan666]

Others' loved ones*

by the way what website are you referring to?

[BadPsychicsTV]

search google for BadPsychics

[majinrevan666]

Oh that...

I have already seen that, it was the only link I could

find tying him to fraud actually.

It isn't very convincing though, the not so similar voice is consistent with what mediums claim to be doing IE:

letting spirits speak through THEIR voice boxes.

If he is a fraud then the Gandhi example certainly

does not prove it.

[BadPsychicsTV]

But Flint never proved it was Gandhi, so there is no evidence to say it was him, other than a dodgy impression IN THE DARK.

Join my forum, you can ask all the questions you want on there.

In 100% of cases when the chance to cheat is removed 100% of mediums fail.

You are looking at proof backwards, you are saying because i cant prove it didnt happen then it must have, but that is backward, you cant prove something hasnt happened, its impossible, only that something did

[majinrevan666]

I'm not saying that because you can not prove otherwise it must have happened, I am saying that

because you can't prove otherwise you should not

jump to conclusions.

If I told you to prove such and such was your real name

and after being presented with some accounts of

its veracity I chose to show how all of these accounts COULD have been fabricated I still would

not be able to say you were lying.

Now this is a methodology argument so the subject

of inquiry doesn't matter.

P.S which forum?

[BadPsychicsTV]

I am not jumping to conclusions, I am suggesting that it is unlikely these miracles are real due to the fact they ONLY happen in the dark, have never been tested, oh and they break the laws of physics and biology.

Surely it would be foolish to believe any of these claims when they have never been proven and only happen in the dark.

Think about it.

Search google for BadPsychics forum

[XxBUDHUNTERxX]

yes it has not been proven but it also hasent been denied.i do the quija board twice a week.and let me tell you... seeing is believeing.....

[BadPsychicsTV]

What an incredibly stupid thing to say!

When you SAW David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear, was that "seeing is believing"?

Think before you comment otherwise you make yoruself look a right prat

[XxBUDHUNTERxX]

excuse me the only person whos looking like a prat is you my son..and no i didt see this bullshit about the fucking liberty city. like i said seeing is believing= you cant say shit intill you tried it!. there ya go you retard understand now lol. your the only guy here who didt get it lol. you cumshot.

[BadPsychicsTV]

I have tried it!

I completed a mediumship course, given readings on stage, you name it i have done it.

But keep trying to attack me. Probably makes you feel like a big boy doesnt it being so nasty.

[XxBUDHUNTERxX]

well if you tried it then you would know its real and you wouldent speak like a retard.

[BadPsychicsTV]

Itis becauseihavetried it and done it that I know it is not real.

[akchai]

Wouldn't...not wouldent....RETARD

[akchai]

Tell me sonny. Who is retardet? I think you..if you can't even spell right. Go and cry and stomp your feet to get what you want

[XxBUDHUNTERxX]

ok your spelling is retarded you spell retardet you little retard lol. sort your own spelling out before trying to act the bigman lol.

[Mateass23]

Well in original english language, that was used in 18th century it is possible to use T at the end instead of D. That is what teachers are using at english speaking colleges in Ireland or other parts. Still, count my misstakes and count yours and see. And sonny I am not trying to act like bigman. I am. I am old enough to be your father. I am stopping this conversation because it is leading nowhere. Grow up and than come and talk to me.

[XxBUDHUNTERxX]

lol no now listen to me little kid. that last comment made no sence. theres noway they used t at the end and is it the 18th hundreds now? no! fucking modem day! damn you fucking time bandit!

[XxBUDHUNTERxX]

you attack me retard with your snobby fuckin 2nd comment get a fucking life you lowlife fucking imp.

[BadPsychicsTV]

Ad Hominem

[akchai]

Wow...atack...not attack

[XxBUDHUNTERxX]

attack! retard fuck me can you guys even speak proper english??? fucking retards

[Akchaiy]

Look who is speaking about "english speaking" read your comments and than talk. You must be like 13 or something.

[akchai]

It is ouija board and than it is has not or hasn't not hasent...and also believing and than....crap...that is the only word for this

[majinrevan666]

What nonsense.

Actual mediums supposedly have several things

that hinder them from doing what this man did.

(Mouth being gagged, hands being strapped so tightly

that the only way to remove them is by cutting them etc)

Not to mention the accounts of materialization and

discarnate voices.

If someone wants to disprove seances he should

replicate them exactly, not "debunk" them by using

cheap parlor tricks.

[BadPsychicsTV]

They escape the bonds, or have confederates that help them

Just look at Warren Caylor, recently exposed as doing just that, and he fooled many gullible people such as yourself

[majinrevan666]

I'm not at all gullible, I'm just saying that to disprove

something you need to research the phenomenon thoroughly beforehand and avoid doing what this

video does.

I suggest you look up Leslie Flint.

Though I am not sure what mediums do is real, I can not bring myself to believe they are all false without

sufficient evidence.

It does strike me as rather puzzling that so many

people with amazing conjuring skills and talent

would choose to deceive people just for the fun of it.

[BadPsychicsTV]

I have looked up Leslie Flint and exposed him on my site.

All of his "voices" sounded suspiciously similar and nothing like the person did when they were alive, only a fool would fall for such an act.

And these people do NOT have amazing conjuring skills, thats why they do it in the dark!

Seriously think about it, they are doing magic tricks and turning off the lights, at least Paul Daniels did his tricks with the lights on.

[majinrevan666]

Even if it is done in the dark, making puppets appear in

human form to shake people's hands is quite a feat.

Or if they are their assistants to have so many people

take part in fraud probably isn't very easy, or cheap.

Think about it, if you were a medium fraud would you

spend countless hours mimicking other voices and

sharing false intimate moments with loved ones

just for the sake of amusement?

You'd have to be pretty mentally disturbed.

[BadPsychicsTV]

Lemar Keene did it for years with great ease until i decided to admit it was all a fraud.

As for why any medium would do this, thats easy, MONEY!

Warren Caylor charges £30 per person and could have over 20 people in on seance, thats £600 cash for a couple of hours work/

its ALL about the money, thats why Acorah and Fry stand on a stage, thats why Edward and Van Praag do it, they all do it for the money, and for the ego.

[majinrevan666]

Did he do it with his mouth gagged and manage to

speak in different sounding voices? how did he do it?

And how do you account for stories such as that of

Gladys Osborne and Sir Oliver?

And what about materialization? Did he manage that too?

[BadPsychicsTV]

Before the lights were switched off he was gagged, but when the lights are off NO ONE knows what goes on.

You are asking me to disprove something that he himself could not prove.

The burden of proof is on him, he made the claims, but could NOT prove them.

He refused to allow any night vision/infra red video recording into the seances, using all manner of excuses.

In 100% of cases where such recording has gone on, it has shown fraud,

[xsmokeandmirrorsxx]

@majinrevan666

and the mass amounts of money, don't forget.

[TERRIERPACK]

Dont you ever use a glass, once you made contact with spirit, the main talker can take there finger off and think can you still here me and the glass will move to YES.! Try it.

[warpsmith]

Wait a minute... the person doing the seance is Richard McDougall. Richard Wiseman leaves the room before the seance even begin. So why the mis-attribution in the title of this clip, when Wiseman had no active part in it?

[dormant111]

Richard Wiseman devised this experiment. McDougall is just an actor who did as he was told.

[warpsmith]

You really think so? Richard McDougall won the 2'nd place at FISM (the world championship in magic) in 1997, and has been a writer/consult for Derren Brown. Since Wiseman is just an amateur magician, it seems far more likely that Wiseman asked McDougall to create, design and perform the whole thing - and then just nicked the credit for it.

[dormant111]

Sorry, I didn't know McDougall was a professional magician but I don't think that makes it more likely that he designed the whole thing. Wiseman was also an award-winning professional magician before embarking on his academic career. As deception and the paranormal are his areas of expertise I think it's highly likely that this experiment was his idea. As a Professor of Psychology, he has no need to lie to make himself look good.

[warpsmith]

As far as I know, Wiseman has not won any awards, except maybe in local amateur magic competitions. Or do you know which competitions he has won? Sure, the idea of to make an experiment was probably his, but I'm fairly confident that it was McDougall who designed and created the actual seance for him. Wiseman lacks the know-how and experience for such things, despite his press-kit.

[spectacularpenguin]

Nah, this was Wiseman's gig. I was there. He had the know-how and experience all right.

[Cissy2cute]

In this respect, Prof. Wiseman is indeed an excellent successor to Harry Houdini, who was able to duplicate every trick mediums used while on stage in view of a full audience.

When are people going to accept the fact that there are no such things as mediums and that seances prey on both our emotional and psychological vulnerabilities.

[RayyM2]

What's impressive about this video is how well everything was correographed despite the near complete darkness.

[kisskissmary]

As a working Medium this makes me very sad. It's not necessary for magic or trickery for Spirit to come thru. One of the most heart-breaking things I endure in this line of work is the frauds and tricksters who publish themselves around to try and "debunk" the bonfide spiritualist. It keeps people from experiencing actual Spirit response. I work with Spirit every single day.. it's the greatest blessing in my life.

[coralarch]

OK, if you are a genuine medium, I'm happy to let you contact my husband. Contact me if you wish to work on a no-contact, no-fee basis.

[charzy888]

You fuckin delusional dimwit!! if you take money to contact spirits your a CON ARTIST.

[goldyflocks]

Jon Donnis...I might have known..The Prize Pillock on the Internet..Doh!

[loopy1980]

ummm, this aint what happens in a seance, idiot

[kayostheory70]

nice.

that's hilarious!

[ByronSharp]

I learnt about Professor Wiseman from magician Derren Brown's web site. Both show up the tricks of the paranormal and religious.

[TheTruthDoctor]

I have to say Derren Brown would never refer to himself as a magician. I agree that he is doing a great job of showing religious followers how unfounded their beliefs are. However to use such examples to conclued that paranormal phenomenon is entirely a manifestation of the mind would be as ignorent as blindly following any mainstream western religion. There are unexplained goings on beyond our understanding, unfortunatly there is all the crap in between to work through.

[ByronSharp]

Derren Brown does indeed refer to himself as a magician and has written several books for professional magicians.

[TheTruthDoctor]

I am aware of the several books and know he understands and practices the art of magic. However all interviews I have seen he has on many occasions made a point to state that he is not a magician. Having said that if you can direct me to his calling himeself a magician then I will accept that I am incorrect. Cheers!

[ByronSharp]

He might now mostly call himself a mentalist - which is part of the trick itself. Anyway what he calls himself is irrelevant. See for instance Wikipedia, he has written 3 books on magic, including one on card tricks. Or go to his official personal website which has a "protected area" for magicians, the password is a question that any professionally trained magician would know the answer to. There he sells books and videos for magicians. He's a magician who uses magic tricks.

[TheTruthDoctor]

Just trying to point out that he deserves more credit than being refered to as a magician who uses magic tricks. He uses a combinations of skills involving mentalism, psychology, hypnotism and magic.

[ByronSharp]

Ahh, but how much is psychology and how much is magic trick ?  It's a classic trick to distract your audience by letting them think they know how it is done. People see psychology where there is nothing but magic trick. See the "Out of This World" card trick on YouTube. Most of the comment posts see psychology as "the trick" when it's simply a classic card trick

[TheTruthDoctor]

Geez dude. How many magician do you know that are hypnotists?? Give it up already mate I don't know why you need to pigeon hole him into your little club. Stop telling me to see this...and check that....educate yourself. My comment was valid so why are you debating it?

[thedirtydeltas]

hypnosis is simply suggestion of the mind, and yes magic trick can be very suggestive Byron's actually right ,suggestive and creative by distraction/slight of hand ,this is a very hypnotic power ,that actually therapeutic hypnotists use all the time but through a different purpose to reach the subconscious.

[xsmokeandmirrorsxx]

@ByronSharp

He uses psychology to explain why the trick works, and uses the trick to demontrate the psychology. As far as I can see :)

[thesuxes66]

brilliant