Ep 324: The Scole Experiment Part 3 – Endgame
“The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”
Description:
If you’ve followed us through the first two chapters of this series, you might feel you’ve found the "shape" of the Scole Experiment. It sits comfortably on the shelf of classical Spiritualism alongside the Fox Sisters, the levitations of D.D. Home, or our own 2017 deep dive into the Bell Witch. It is, at first glance, a familiar story of earnest researchers, skeptical scientists, and the search for "love and light" from the Great Beyond. But as the investigation entered its final year, the shape of the story began to warp. The furniture stopped moving, the machinery turned on, and the messages shifted from the voices of deceased relatives to something resembling tech support from a different reality altogether. By 1998, the Scole Group had achieved the seemingly impossible: film that developed itself inside locked boxes and voices captured on tape decks without microphones. They had built a bridge via Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) — the very same category as our own infamous Sallie House "File 10." But the danger of building a bridge to the unknown is that you cannot control what chooses to cross it. Tonight, in the final chapter of our investigation, we examine the "Endgame." We explore the impossible roster of historical figures—from Thomas Edison to Harry Houdini — who allegedly reached across the void, and we discuss the ominous warning of a "Crystalline Time Probe" that brought the experiment to a crashing halt. Did four people in a Norfolk cellar truly crack the code of the afterlife? Or did they accidentally open a door to something far darker that had simply been waiting for the right moment to step through?
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Books & Reports
Foy, Robin P. Witnessing the Impossible: The Diary of the Scole Experiment. Diss: Campion Books, 2008.
Keen, Montague, Arthur Ellison, and David Fontana. "The Scole Report: An Account of an Investigation into the Genuineness of a Range of Physical Phenomena Associated with a Mediumistic Group in Norfolk, England." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 58, no. 220 (November 1999): 147–455.
Solomon, Grant, and Jane Solomon. The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death. Diss: Campion Books, 1999 (Updated 2006).
Multimedia
Drasin, Dan. "SCOLE: THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENT." YouTube video of Original Documentary. Uploaded by Dan Drasin.
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Episode 324: The Scole Experiment Part 3 – Endgame. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess. Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound. Music and Sound Design by Allen Carrescia. Tess Pfeifle, Producer and Lead Researcher. Ed Voccola, Technical Producer. Research Support from The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2026 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.