25,000 PEOPLE TRIED TO READ MINDS THROUGH THE RADIO: The Mass Telepathy Experiment of 1927

A physicist sealed six volunteers in a room while thousands of BBC listeners attempted to telepathically read their minds.

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IN THIS EPISODE: In February 1927, a renowned physicist who helped invent radio technology locked six volunteers in a room and asked 25,000 radio listeners across Britain to telepathically guess what the volunteers were thinking. It was one of the most ambitious attempts to prove the existence of telepathy ever conducted.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:03:46.543 = Show Open
00:05:02.573 = Part One: The Physicist Who Hunted Ghosts
00:18:24.133 = ***Part Two: The Ghost Club – Where Scientists Hunt Spirits
00:39:29.030 = ***Part Three: The Night 25,000 People Tried To Read Minds
01:03:02.985 = ***Part Four: The Document That Vanished
01:18:53.038 = Show Close
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