Third Man Syndrome (Part 2)

Doug and Tara jump back into trying to decipher Third Man Syndrome, plus related matters of material and mind. This part includes a discussion of the scientific theories that psychologists have presented to help explain sensed presences and the particular case of the mysterious so-called Third Man. Sources: The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by John Geiger "Belief in Angels and Heaven is More Common Than Belief in the Devil or Hell," from the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago They Survived: A Study of the Will to Survive by Wilfrid Noyce Peter Suedfeld and John Geiger, "The sensed presence as a coping resource in extreme environments," in: Miracles God, Science, and Psychology in the Paranormal, edited by J. Harold Ellens Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other by Ben Alderson-Day The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves by Charles Fernyhough "The Science of the Voices in your Head--with Charles Fernyhough," from the Royal Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95otBlepVHc&t=1754s Olaf Blanke, Polona Pozeg, Masayuki Hara, Lukas Heydrich, Andrea Serino, Akio Yamamoto, Toshiro Higuchi, Roy Salomon, Margitta Seeck, Theodor Landis, Shahar Arzy, Bruno Herbelin, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, "Neurological and Robot-Controlled Induction of an Apparition," Current Biology 24.22 (2014): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)01212-3 For More on Third Man Syndrome, see also: Astonishing Legends Podcast (with Scott Philbrook and Forrest Burgess): The Third Man Syndrome, Parts 1 and 2 (episodes 279 and 280)