CBC Newsworld/Roughcuts 17 April
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:34:46 EDT
Television show that will be of interest.
Subj: CBC Newsworld/Roughcuts 17 April
_Haunted House, Haunted Mind_ premieres nationally on television in Canada
on CBC Newsworld's Roughcuts on Saturday 17 April at 10 PM EDT (with a
repeat on Sunday 18 April at 4 PM EDT).
Haunted House, Haunted Mind is based on a true story by writer-broadcaster
Don Hill.
In 1994, Don Hill and his family sold the house they'd been living in, in
Canmore, Alberta and moved out. They were convinced the house was haunted!
It was your standard house with the mysterious noises, the chilling waves
of terror that come to mind when one thinks of haunted houses. Once there
was something that resembled your standard ghost - a luminous, transparent
human-sized thing - which vanished.
Frightened and intrigued, Hill kept a diary and set out to discover what
was haunting his house. Haunted House, Haunted Mind takes viewers on Hill's
four-year odyssey to uncover what phenomenon was taking place.
Hill consulted spiritual experts, brain scientists and medical doctors in
Canada and the United States, along with others who felt they too had once
been haunted by 'a presence.'
Hill volunteered as an experimental subject in a brain-science lab at
Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario run by Dr. Michael Persinger. It
was there his terrifying experience in the Canmore house was reproduced.
The machine in the laboratory stimulated his brain - he saw and 'felt' a
synthetic ghost - convincing proof to Hill of the effects of
electromagnetic and geomagnetic forces on human perception. Hill concluded
that the 'ghost' was literally in his brain.
Is it possible electromagnetic radiation does not induce hallucinations,
but rather helps us to see what is already there? Did Hill see a ghost or
not?
Haunted House, Haunted Mind is produced by Appropriate Entertainment Ltd.,
in association with CBC Newsworld.
For more details visit the web:
www.newsworld.cbc.ca/programs/sites/roughcuts.html (follow links to video
clip)
www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/sounds/index.html (follow links to CBC
Radio One Ideas sound file)