Ted Serios was not a man one would expect to find at the centre of a scientific mystery. He was small, restless, and fond of whiskey, a working-class drifter who stumbled into a discovery that seemed to defy every known law of physics. He called his process thoughtography, the art of imprinting one’s imagination upon the camera’s lens. And for nearly ten years, under the watchful eye of psychiatrist Dr. Jule Eisenbud, Serios produced hundreds of photographs that would puzzle scientists, fascinate believers, and provoke decades of debate.

The photographs themselves were unlike anything seen before. Some were blank, others clouded or streaked with light. But then, every so often, an image would appear, a building, a monument, an object that had no connection to the place or time in which it was taken. A temple façade. A distant city skyline. A hotel still under construction. And all of it, Ted insisted, had come not from the camera but from his mind.

Dr. Eisenbud, a thoughtful and cautious man, approached Serios’s claims with scientific discipline. He invited witnesses from universities, engineers from Kodak, photographers, and magicians, and he documented every session with meticulous care. Cameras were inspected, film sealed and numbered, the settings controlled. Yet under these conditions, images continued to appear. Eisenbud’s book, The World of Ted Serios, remains one of the most detailed studies of its kind, a record of a phenomenon that sits uneasily between art, science, and the supernatural.

Our host revisits this extraordinary chapter of twentieth-century curiosity with a calm, open mind. He guides us through the strange partnership between Serios and Eisenbud, the atmosphere of those Denver hotel rooms thick with cigarette smoke and tension, and the peculiar ritual of concentration that preceded each photograph. He does not tell us what to believe. Instead, he asks us to listen — to the voices of those who were there, to the texture of an age when the limits of the human mind still seemed uncertain, and to the lingering question of what those photographs truly represent.

Whether Ted Serios was a visionary or a trickster may never be known. But the mystery he left behind, those small, square Polaroids haunted by shadows and light, continues to whisper across the years. In this quiet, reflective episode, we look once more through the lens of the impossible, and ask: what if the camera really could capture a thought?

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Born in London in 1911, Flint grew up in modest circumstances but claimed to hear voices of the departed from childhood. Those early experiences set him on a lifelong path toward Spiritualism and the exploration of life after death. Unlike trance mediums who spoke on behalf of spirits, Flint’s séances were said to produce independent voices, clearly audible to everyone in the room, appearing to come from midair rather than from the medium himself.

Sitters described conversations that were intimate, humorous, and deeply emotional. The voices called people by name, shared private memories, and even argued or joked. Among them were recurring personalities such as “Mickey,” a lively Cockney boy spirit, and “Dr. Charles Marshall,” a calm, guiding presence who oversaw communication from the other side.

During the Second World War, when grief touched nearly every British home, Flint’s séances offered solace. Widows and parents reported hearing the familiar tones of loved ones lost in battle. Others claimed to encounter famous figures, Oscar Wilde, Queen Victoria, Mahatma Gandhi, each speaking in distinct character and style. To many, these sessions felt less like performances than reunions across the boundary of death.

Flint was repeatedly tested. Investigators sealed his mouth, filled it with colored water, even bound him to a chair, yet the voices continued. Hundreds of hours of these sessions were recorded and can still be heard today through the Leslie Flint Educational Trust. Whether regarded as genuine spirit communication or an extraordinary unexplained acoustic phenomenon, they remain some of the clearest evidence of voices without visible source ever documented.

In this episode, I take you through Flint’s life, the atmosphere of his séances, and the enduring mystery of those voices in the dark. Was Leslie Flint truly speaking for the dead, or revealing new dimensions of consciousness still beyond our science?

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