Ultraweak-photon body imaging
🎓 Academic research
Tohoku Institute of Technology, Masaki Kobayashi · Kyoto Univ (PLOS ONE 2009) · Japan, Sendai · 2009
Using a cryogenic CCD in a fully dark room, they imaged nude subjects continuously emitting visible photons, strongest at 4 pm and weakest at midnight, tied to metabolic rhythm.
VerdictBody glow is real, at ~1/1000 of the eye’s visible threshold.
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Fukurai’s ‘thoughtography’ experiments
🎓 Academic research
Tokyo Imperial Univ assoc. prof. Tomokichi Fukurai · public tests by president Kikunae Yamakawa · Japan, Tokyo · Kumamoto · 1910–1913
Testing Chizuko Mifune’s clairvoyance, a 1910 public test overseen by the president had swap-suspicions and Mifune took poison the next year; then Ikuko Nagao’s ‘thoughtography’ marks on plates were suspected fakes and Fukurai was forced to resign in 1913 — the model for Sadako in ‘Ring’.
VerdictThe origin and scandal of Japanese parapsychology.
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Ted Serios ‘thoughtography’
📜 On record
As in the Magic entry · USA · 1960s
As above.
VerdictThe trick is reproducible.
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Kilner’s human ‘aura’ screen
📜 On record
St Thomas’ Hospital, Walter Kilner · UK, London · 1911
Through a dicyanin dye-glass screen he ‘saw’ an aura around the body, writing ‘The Human Atmosphere’.
VerdictA visual afterimage effect.
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