MISTER MYSTERY RESPONDS

Good. Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Pretzels!... Sorry, while debating this matter with myself I have had an extra sensory perception. I have seen pretzels! How is it possible?¿What on earth does it mean to have the vision of pretzels? Is it good or bad? Pretzels are good, but is it good or bad to envision pretzels? Let me debate it with myself... Good. Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bad! Good! Bus! Bus?... Sorry, I’ve had another extra sensory perception. But it doesn't make sense, I've seen a bus. Pretzels first, then a bus. Wait a second. Perhaps I have had the vision of an event that hasn't yet happened!... Whoever intends to eat pretzels on a bus, I let him know that I received that information in advance.

Minds talk incessantly for no particular reason. Yada-yada-yada-yada-yada. They are like a magpie. The truth is that they would be better off quiet. However, since they talk, let's try to find out what they're saying. To this end, it’s necessary to know the language of the mind. There are no language schools that teach this language, because it’s an innate language, like Latin. These privileged people who are born knowing the language of the mind are called ‘mentalists’ (if they read from left to right) or ‘psychics’ (from right to left). Those of us who aren't able to read minds are called ‘dimwits’ (from left to right) or ‘blockheads' (from right to left). To read minds profitably, there are several tips to keep in mind. First of all and before you start reading, take a quick look at the mind you’re gonna read and ask yourself what's the main idea. Most of the time it's something like “Don't do this to yourself, man” or “¿Has anyone seen my lipstick?” Next...

Extrasensory Perception (ESP) technology has evolved a lot in recent years thanks to an artifact invented by Eskimo engineer Don Tknowhat-Imdoing. The purpose of this invention is to stimulate the brain to be able to guess what a goldfish in a bowl is thinking. The artifact consists of a polo mallet and a chair with straps. The receiver is securely tied to the chair and beaten on the head with the polo mallet at regular intervals (it’s desirable to get the receiver to survive the experiment.). He is then given time to recover and the receiver's divinations are checked against the sender's thoughts. This is converted into a numeral variable called ‘precision’, which indicates the percentage of correct answers for the total of guesses made. If the ‘precision’ is greater than fifteen percent, it’s considered a success. If the percentage is lower, the experiment is repeated as many times as necessary and a lawsuit is filed. Image: Prof. Don Tknowwhat-Imdoing with the polo mallet, p...

Another of the warhorse issues of the Society for Psychical Research was what in the Victorian era was known as “sixth sense” and today is called Extrasensory Perception (ESP). For a whole day, through the laboratories of the SPR headquarters in West Kensington, dozens of volunteers paraded, with the help of whom it was intended to establish the frequency with which the “sixth sense” manifested among the population in general. They were given a choice of four alternatives: a circle, a square, a triangle and a dancer named Claire Smithson who was then triumphing at a music hall of the West End. The subjects had to figure out which of these four alternatives Frederic Myers was thinking. During the entire duration of the experiment, Myers remained in a closed room at the other end of the building. The problem is that he turned out to be always thinking about the same alternative (I will not reveal which one of them), which to some extent discredited the statistical results of the experime...