Episode 67: The Philip Experiment

Noelle walks us through the story of The Philip Experiment! Scientists wanted to make a test group believe in ghosts, so they made up a tragic dude from the 1600s who committed suicide after his lover was accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake. FUN!

This story contains:

1. The Philip experiment was a 1972 parapsychology experiment conducted in Toronto, Ontario. (We love Canada!)

2. The experiment was conducted by the mathematician A. R. G. Owen and overseen by psychologist Dr. Joel Whitton. (They were gonna mess with people!)

3. They created a character named "Philip Aylesford.”(They said he was born in 1624 in England, had an early military career and was knighted by the age of sixteen.)

4. They Philip said was unhappily married to a woman named Dorothea and later fell in love with a Gypsy girl. (Y’all. We don’t say gypsy any more. Get it together.)

5. The scientists got people to believe they were communicating with the ghost of Philip! (People are fun. They’ll believe anything if you tell them about it every day for a year. Science?)

PS Justin Trudeau! Thanks for listening, you hot and worthy Prime Minister!

Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.