044 – PARANORMALITY: PSYCHIC DOGS, GHOSTS AND SILLY VOICES—AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD WISEMAN

Today on MonsterTalk, we share an interview with Dr. Richard Wiseman recorded at TAM9—the James Randi Educational Foundation’s “Amazing Meeting.” It is a wide-ranging interview that discusses Wiseman’s new book, Paranormality: Why we see what isn’t there, as well as ghosts, psychic dogs and the trouble with counting dolphins. It has naught to do with monsters, but it is an amusing interview and provides a little background into the upcoming debate between MonsterTalk and Alex Tsakiris’ Skeptiko.

• Jaytee the psychic(?) dog
• Wiseman vs. Sheldrake on Skeptiko
• EMF and Ultra-low Frequency Sound as mechanisms for causing hauntings
• Wiseman’s famous “Colour Changing Card Trick”
• Wiseman’s YouTube channel
• Wiseman’s Ghost-photo Blog

Items of Interest

• Read an excerpt from Paranormality in eSkeptic
• Listen to the Skepticality interview with Richard Wiseman

Music

• Music from today’s intro was Soft Tempest by Symbion Project, used with permission. (Buy the MP3 from Amazon)
• Monstertalk Theme: Monster
  by Peach Stealing Monkeys