FAIRIES, FOLKLORE AND FORTEANA
Oct 08, 2020
2 minutes
THE ANAHEIM EXPERIMENT
t’s one of my favourite fortean experiments. In 1977, eight young men and women were brought to Anaheim Memorial Hospital in California, hypnotised and then asked identical questions about their experiences with UFOs. The group running the experiment (under Alvin Lawson) noted how. The eight had, in fact, been recruited as “creative, verbal types” from the local university. Then, once hypnotised, they had been encouraged to describe a non-existent experience and they had done so in terms which would have convinced most UFO enthusiasts that their memories were ‘the real thing’.
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