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The Evil Tester Show ‐ Episode 001

Halloween Special 2017

Alan Richardson

Houdini

Charles FortGhost HuntingUnconventional Influences

http://eviltester.com/show/001‐halloween‐2017/

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TLDR; The world needs a new TestingPodcast, so I created one

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We are in the Uncertainty Business.We find and investigate anomalous Phenomena

Anomalous ‐ "deviating from what is standard,normal, or expected."

We are part of a long tradition of Anomalous Phenomena seekers.

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The Podcast

AudioVideoShow Notes

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Charles Fort

You can find the books of Charles Fort online at Mr X'sResologist.net

http://www.resologist.net/

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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"

"A PROCESSION of the damned.By the damned, I mean the excluded.We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded."

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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"

"Our especial interest is in modern science as a manifestationof this one ideal or purpose or process:That it has falsely excluded, because there are no positivestandards to judge by: that it has excluded things that,by its own pseudostandards, have as much right to come in ashave the chosen."

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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"

"The data of the damned.I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific andphilosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra‐respectable,but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended intojournalism. I have come back with the quasi‐souls of lost data.They will march. "

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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"

"I think that things raised from this earth's surface to thatregion have been held there until shaken down by storms‐‐The Super‐Sargasso Sea. "

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Ghost Hunting

http://www.assap.ac.uk/

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The Ghost‐Busters Century 1900 illustration was used withpermission from the artist

https://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/

A fantastic artist who has created Dr Seuss style versions ofCthulhu, Doom, HP Lovecraft

Checkout their Twitter feed

https://twitter.com/DrFaustusAU

And their Deviant Art profile ‐ https://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/

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Houdini

Sequence in The Master Mystery where he is tied up, hanging froma wall, knocks out his captor, takes off his shoes and socks, picksthe pocket of hist unconcsious guard which his feet, picks up a setof keys with his feet, uses his toes to unlock a door, then walks upthe door while hanging to give himself leverage to untie the ropeholding him with his teeth. This is all pre‐ jackie chan stuff.

https://youtu.be/7m6f5hU4GRo?t=6m28s

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Later expose of spiritualists "A Magicianamong the spirits"

https://archive.org/details/AMagicianAmongTheSpiritsByHarryHoudini

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Houdini Seanceevery halloween for 10 years after his Death, Houdini's wifeBeth held a seanceaudio of the last Houdini seance you can find online onArchive.org

https://archive.org/details/TheFinalHalloweenHoudiniSeance_860

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Houdini Museum continues the tradition today and if you go off to,you can join in the seance

http://houdini.org/seance‐harry‐houdini‐attractions‐pocono‐poconos‐scranton.html

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Books Shown or Mentioned

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Books Shown or Mentioned

The Complete Books of Charles Fort by DoverThe Complete Books of Charles Fort: The Book of theDamned / Lo! / Wild Talents / New Lands

Memoirs of a Sword Swallower by Daniel P. MannixHoudini's Strange Tales, edited by Patrick Culliton and T.L.WilliamsHoudini, His Life and Art by James Randi and Randolph Sugar

Houdini by William Lindsay GreshamThe Great Houdinis by Mel Shavelson

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Books Shown or Mentioned

Houdini on Magic ﴾Dover Magic Books﴿ by HoudiniThe Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's FirstSuperhero by Williiam Kalush and Larry SlomanDeath and the Magician: The Mystery of Houdini by RaymundFitzsimons

The Houdini‐Price Correspondence by Gabriel CuronMagic and Mystery: The Incredible Psychic Investigations ofHoudini and Dunninger by Houdini and DunningerThe Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth BrandonHoudini: A mind in chains : a psychoanalytic portrait byBernard C. Meyer

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Books Shown or Mentioned

Houdini!!! by Kenneth Silverman

"A Magician among the spirits" ‐https://archive.org/details/AMagicianAmongTheSpiritsByHarryHoudini"Miracle Mongers and Their Methods" by Harry Houdini ‐https://archive.org/details/MiracleMongersAndTheirMethodsByHarryHoudini

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BIO ‐ Alan RichardsonAlan Richardson has more than twenty years of professional ITexperience, working as a programmer and at every level of thetesting hierarchy from tester through head of testing. He hasperformed keynote speeches and tutorials at conferencesworldwide. Author of multiple books on testing and automating.Alan also has created online training courses to help people learnTechnical Web Testing and Selenium WebDriver with Java. He worksas an independent consultant and coach, helping companiesimprove their use of automation, agile, and exploratory technicaltesting.

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