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Anomalous Healing Date: 08-12-10 Host: George Noory Guests: William Bengston, William Henry Prof. Bill Bengston discussed his research into anomalous healing and the laying of hands technique as well as his role in the Society for Scientific Exploration, a professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. The Society, which has over 1000 members, was founded in 1982 by a group of elite scientists who were tired of censorship in such areas as ESP, reincarnation, UFOs, and energy healing. One of the founders of the Society, astrophysicist Peter Sturrock, recently published his memoir of A Tale of Two Sciences, which features both his conventional and unconventional research. After having his chronic back pain healed by (the late) Bennett Mayrick, in a laying of hands technique, Bengston set off to investigate this form of anomalous or energy healing. He arranged for clinical experiments at City University of New York in which mice that had cancerous tumors were treated by skeptical students and teachers– they simply placed their hands in front of the cages of the sick mice. The mice all recovered completely after a number of these healing sessions– formerly the cancerous mice had 100% fatality. The experiment was reproduced a number of times with the same positive benefits, he reported. While these healing effects are mysterious, Bengston doesn’t view them as supernatural, but rather natural processes that just haven’t been …

Robert the Haunted Doll Date: 08-20-10 Host: George Noory Guests: Joshua P. Warren In the first half of the show, paranormal investigator Joshua P. Warren presented his report on an allegedly haunted doll on display in a Florida museum. Robert the Doll, as he is known, originally belonged to Key West resident Robert ‘Eugene’ Otto. According to legend, a disgruntled servant of the Otto family, also a Voodoo priestess, made the doll and gave it to Eugene in 1904. Shortly afterward many strange things began to occur in the Otto household. Warren said he was initially warned about Robert by a former Otto house caretaker, who claimed the doll could move on its own and terrorized him to the point that he began sleeping with a weapon. Others cautioned Warren not to photograph the 3-ft tall doll with coal black eyes without first obtaining his permission. The walls around the doll’s museum display are plastered with letters from people detailing the bad luck that had befallen them after snapping shots of Robert without his consent, he explained. Warren, who did ask for (and believes he received) Robert’s permission, described a chain of weird events that happened to him during and after his investigation. Only five out of the 72 3-D photos that he took of Robert developed. In addition, infrared alarm sensors, light bulbs, and internet service at his home malfunctioned, and his wife reported hearing mysterious voices from their living room. Warren thinks there is an energy …

Anomalous Healing Date: 08-12-10 Host: George Noory Guests: William Bengston, William Henry Prof. Bill Bengston discussed his research into anomalous healing and the laying of hands technique as well as his role in the Society for Scientific Exploration, a professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. The Society, which has over 1000 members, was founded in 1982 by a group of elite scientists who were tired of censorship in such areas as ESP, reincarnation, UFOs, and energy healing. One of the founders of the Society, astrophysicist Peter Sturrock, recently published his memoir of A Tale of Two Sciences, which features both his conventional and unconventional research. After having his chronic back pain healed by (the late) Bennett Mayrick, in a laying of hands technique, Bengston set off to investigate this form of anomalous or energy healing. He arranged for clinical experiments at City University of New York in which mice that had cancerous tumors were treated by skeptical students and teachers– they simply placed their hands in front of the cages of the sick mice. The mice all recovered completely after a number of these healing sessions– formerly the cancerous mice had 100% fatality. The experiment was reproduced a number of times with the same positive benefits, he reported. While these healing effects are mysterious, Bengston doesn’t view them as supernatural, but rather natural processes that just haven’t been …