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  • About Us
  • An Introduction
  • Considering Consciousness
  • The Book
  • The Report
  • The Diary
  • The Documentary
  • The Movie
  • The Blog
    • The Scole Blog
  • The Phenomena
  • The Experiments
    • Paranormal Photographic Experiment Protocols
    • Paranormal Photographic Experiments Pt 1: Alan Bennett
    • Paranormal Photographic Experiments Pt 2: Alan Bennett
    • Trans-Dimensional Communication Experiments
    • Paranormal Video Experiments: Dr Hans Schaer
  • The Evidence
    • 'Astonishing Mind-Matter Interactions' Witness Testimony: Prof Ernst Senkowski
    • Paranormal Apports Phenomena
    • Paranormal Light Phenomena Evidence
    • Paranormal Photographic Evidence >
      • Paranormal Photographic Evidence 1
      • Paranormal Photographic Evidence 2
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  • The Perspectives
    • Montague Keen: Memorable Moments and Meanings at Scole
    • George Dalzell: An American participant's experience of Scole
    • Jennifer Jones: One a group of fifteen participants at Scole
    • Piers Eggett: Convincing The Scientific Mind
    • David Christie-Murray: The Scole Debate: From a Christian's Point of View
    • Montague Keen: Two Theories to Explain the Daguerre Film
    • Montague Keen: Mental Mediumship: Scole Debate Speech
    • Rosalind Oliver: The Scole Experiments: An Overview
    • David Fontana: The Scole Report Five Years Later
  • The Commentary
  • The Thirtieth Anniversary
  • The Scole Association
    • Charles Crawford III
    • Rory Duff Macquisten
    • Alan Middleton >
      • A Short Explanation of Dark Energy
      • Exploring Immortality
      • Double Slit Experiment Explained
      • William Shatners Weird or What
    • Brigitte Rix >
      • About Channelled Automatic Writing
      • Is There A Source Why does this Universe Exist
      • Why Does This Physical World Seem Solid
      • Air Bubbles
    • Shannon Taggart
  • The Scole Files
  • Scole Search
  • The Bacci Experiment
  • The Norfolk Experiment
    • BioField Reader Experiments
  • The Torcal Experiment
  • The Siegert Experiment
  • The Claudius Portal
  • The Robinson Experiment
  • The Arizona Experiment
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  THE SCOLE EXPERIMENT


Paranormal Video Experiment with Dr Hans Schaer

On Saturday, 28 March, 1998 Dr Hans Schaer was invited to scrutinise a video session, part of which would be in fully-lighted conditions. Dr Schaer reported that the first part of the session took place in excellent visibility.
 
The new films were packed together in a sealed plastic wrap and were forty-five minute JVC type EHC (extra high grade) cassettes. The unopened package was handed to Dr Schaer. Having inspected the package, Dr Schaer opened it and selected one of the cassettes, which he signed and dated.
 
Alan showed him how to insert the cassette into the video camera. Dr Schaer was careful to do this himself, making sure that nobody else present touched the cassette. The camera was a JVC compact VHS camcorder, model GR-AX600 registered at 3 lux (1 lux in slow shutter mode), with an F 1.6 lens, which Dr Schaer had earlier supplied to the group. It was already mounted on the tripod when he inserted the cassette and was pointing towards the upright mirror across the room. This mirror was inclined backwards slightly and positioned approximately eleven feet from the camera lens. The electric light in the cellar was on and conditions were described by the doctor as being 'bright'. In these well-lit conditions, he switched on the video camera.
 
Dr Schaer and the four members of the Group (Alan and Diana Bennett and Robin and Sandra Foy) then sat round the central circular table. Robin put on the tape of Sandra's meditation music.

​Towards the end of the session, Mrs Bradshaw (one of the Spirit Team) said that she believed this experiment had produced a remarkable result and that if there were anything on the tape it would be near the beginning. This meant that it would have been produced during the first thirty minutes, when the video camera had been running in full electric light.
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At the end of the session, when the light was switched on again, Dr Schaer removed the video tape from the camera, checked his dated signature and carried the tape upstairs, where he inserted it into the video player in the Foys' sitting room. At the very beginning of the tape, they all saw in the lower right part of the television screen the clearly recognisable profile of a man aged between fifty and sixty, slightly bald in front, with dark black hair and possibly a black moustache, wearing metal-rimmed spectacles'. This portrait appeared as if it were inside a water bubble(see plate 44). It lasted for about six seconds. There were many coloured 'slurs' (Dr Schaer's word) on the tape, some of them animated. One of the slurs started to move towards the bubble, entered it and formed a second man's head behind the first one, but still easily recognisable. The second man wore something like a Russian fur hat. His face remained there for about three seconds and then both portraits vanished. Dr Schaer concludes his report of these events as follows:
 
We were not that evening, and still are not, able to identify these two men. No specific explanation as to their identity was given by the Spirit Team either. The Scole Group were kind enough to produce a postcard-size enlargement of one sequence of this video tape which shows these two men in profile very clearly.

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For many people, this website or the 86-minute film documentary, The Afterlife Investigations, are the first time they encounter The Scole Experiment.

​In addition to the film documentary, three books - with images, descriptions, and analysis - provide a comprehensive overview of this 'important to science' 5-year experiment.

The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death introduces all 5 years and the key experiments and concepts for the general reader.

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The Scole Experiment Website Managers and Curators of The Scole Files
The managers of this website are Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon. Grant and Jane are also the collators and curators of The Scole Files since 1998, administrators of The Scole Experiment Afterlife Research Association (SEARA or 'The Scole Association'), psi investigators and journalists, SPR members, writers, editors of The Scole Experiment diary ebook, and authors of the internationally best-selling book... The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death.

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All the original material produced and collected during The Scole Experiment - including photographs, objects, audio/video recordings, as well as the records and diaries kept of the events - is owned by the Scole Experimental Group. In 1998, the Scole Experimental Group granted Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon - in their capacities as authors of The Scole Experiment, appointed collators and curators of all The Scole Experiment material, and administrators of SEARA - all rights to use all The Scole Experiment material for their books, articles, films, and other projects. Separately, The Scole Experiment book and other original books, articles, and documents created by Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon, including material provided for the development of The Scole Experiment movie, is owned by Grant Solomon and Jane as the originators and creators of those works.

30th Anniversary in 2023 and publication with universal free access 'for educational purposes only' to all The Scole Files
In 2022, in preparation for the 30th Anniversary of the first significant Scole phenomenon (1993) in 2023, Scole Group members - Robin Foy, Alan Bennett, and Diana Bennett - asked Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon (officially appointed collators and curators of The Scole Experiment material since 1998) to digitally publish - with universal free access for study and discussion ('educational purposes only') - all The Scole Files, including Notes and Transcripts regarding the audio recordings of the 'Communication' during the 500 x 2-hour sessions of The Scole Experiment. Previously, in the book, the report, the diary, the documentary, the commentary, and elsewhere, only approximately 10% of the files had been published. The remaining 90% of the data and evidence will begin to be made universally and freely available 'for educational purposes only' at the start of 2023.

The Scole Experiment Movie
The Scole Experiment Movie is a joint American/British project currently 'in development' with producers @AndrewdDeane of Industry Entertainment Partners (Los Angeles, US) and Rory Rooney (UK).

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To see more about the psychical research and other projects Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon are undertaking for their further books and scripts, visit: GrantandJane.com

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