Richard Saunders Adventures of an Australian Paranormal Investigator Or... Don't come the raw prawn with me! Richard Saunders • President Australian Skeptics • Committee for Skeptical Inquiry • The Skeptic Zone Podcast • Mystery Investigators Show • ‘THE ONE’ TV Show • TV & Movies • Origami Author / Teacher What is Sk(c)epticism You are HUMAN and that means you you can be FOOLED Illusion 4 Pareidolia Pareidolia Illusion Illusion 2 What is the Paranormal? Spoon Bending Talking with the Dead Ghosts Uri Geller Spoon Bending Richard Saunders Coming up.... Talking TO the dead And…. Anti Vaccination? Talking TO the Dead Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading is not just... • Body language • The way one is Dressed • Cheating • Generalisations Cold Reading 101 THE PIPE PLOY • Who smoked the pipe please? • I’m getting pipe smoke….. • Someone on the other side is telling me about a pipe they liked. • Why am I smelling pipe smoke? Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading 101 Cold Reading 101 THE PIPE PLOY Your Great Uncle Fred Smith smoked a pipe! Your Dad’s mate Jim Brown smoked a pipe! If the subject cannot think of anyone, even the better….. “Go home and check!” Cold Reading 101 THE CANCER PLOY Dead family member. WHO passed from cancer please? I’m getting a mother figure who passed from cancer. The (un)Amazing Valda 2002 The (un)Amazing Valda D H Scones? The (un)Amazing Valda And then………. We got to do this because the spirits just said. Join hands, as the people who have ‘gone over’ from Bali have been trotting around here. They just said ‘it’s a sea of love’ and your love is getting them to be accepted on the other side, with those from the American tragedy. "She knew things about me she could not have possibly known!" ANTI Vaccination The Vaccination Chronicles THANK YOU www.skepticzone.tv www.skeptics.com.au .