ted serios

Ted Serios, a night clerk from Chicago, claimed in the 1960s that he could capture his thoughts directly on Polaroid film. Using a small tube – the "Gizmo" – and sometimes heavily intoxicated, Serios created instant photographs that remain mysterious to this day. The camera: without a lens, set...

Ted Serios, a Chicago bellhop who claimed he could produced images of his "thoughts" on film, enjoyed brief notoriety in the late 1960's courtesy of his patron Jule Eisenbud. Eisenbud, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School, published a book about Serios entitled...

I am reading "The Gold Leaf Lady" by Stephen Braude. Dr. Braude is a full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland and past chair of the department. He came to my attention in a segment on magic on To The Best Of Our Knowledge ( http://www.wpr.org/book/091220a.cfm ) . The book...

As a ghost hunter and organizer of occasional ghost nights, and a long term psychical investigator, I had to get Andrew Mayne's Ghost Vision trick. I had visions of a gizmo, like those Ted Serios was accused of using, but was very pleased with the DVD and the very low price. It's agreat trick...