{"title":"Thoughtographs and the Stanhope Lens","authors":"S. R. Wilk","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197518571.003.0026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ted Serios claimed to have the psychic ability to produce “thoughtographs.” He claimed that by using the power of his mind alone he could impress images on film of things that were in his mind. It seems much more likely that he used some form of trickery. A home-built optical device similar to what is called a “Stanhope lens” could perform the feat, provided he was skillful enough to distract the experimenters long enough to employ the device. Skeptics have demonstrated how such a device could be constructed and used effectively. What is a Stanhope Imager, and how might Serios have come up with the idea of using one to produce his seeming miracle photos?","PeriodicalId":211028,"journal":{"name":"Sandbows and Black Lights","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sandbows and Black Lights","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197518571.003.0026","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ted Serios claimed to have the psychic ability to produce “thoughtographs.” He claimed that by using the power of his mind alone he could impress images on film of things that were in his mind. It seems much more likely that he used some form of trickery. A home-built optical device similar to what is called a “Stanhope lens” could perform the feat, provided he was skillful enough to distract the experimenters long enough to employ the device. Skeptics have demonstrated how such a device could be constructed and used effectively. What is a Stanhope Imager, and how might Serios have come up with the idea of using one to produce his seeming miracle photos?
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