On April 25, 2014, The Quiet Ones will be released in American
theaters. The film purports to be
inspired by actual events, but to what extent does the movie recreate these
so-called “actual events”?
In the 1970s, real-life Dr. Alan Robert George Owen created the Toronto Society for Psychical Research. According to journalists Ryan and Louise Hung, this group consisted of eight adult men and women who invented a fictional aristocrat named Philip Aylesford. This fake man lived centuries ago and achieved infamy for cheating on his wife with a Gypsy. The angry wife then accused the Gypsy of witchcraft, resulting in her execution by being burned alive. All of this background story was intended to make Philip as lifelike as possible. Why? Well, the group’s goal was to see if paranormal activity could be created by the group’s psychic power out of belief in something rather than by the existence of actual spirits. The group held seances in which they called upon Philip to show signs of his presence, which the group claims this fictitious deceased person did in fact do at the group’s behest. Fortunately, the group recorded their “evidence” of what occurred, including levitating tables and weird knocking sounds. You can judge for yourself if what you are seeing is really something paranormal or an elaborate hoax.
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In the 1970s, real-life Dr. Alan Robert George Owen created the Toronto Society for Psychical Research. According to journalists Ryan and Louise Hung, this group consisted of eight adult men and women who invented a fictional aristocrat named Philip Aylesford. This fake man lived centuries ago and achieved infamy for cheating on his wife with a Gypsy. The angry wife then accused the Gypsy of witchcraft, resulting in her execution by being burned alive. All of this background story was intended to make Philip as lifelike as possible. Why? Well, the group’s goal was to see if paranormal activity could be created by the group’s psychic power out of belief in something rather than by the existence of actual spirits. The group held seances in which they called upon Philip to show signs of his presence, which the group claims this fictitious deceased person did in fact do at the group’s behest. Fortunately, the group recorded their “evidence” of what occurred, including levitating tables and weird knocking sounds. You can judge for yourself if what you are seeing is really something paranormal or an elaborate hoax.
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