The Evil Tester Show - Episode 001 Halloween 2017 ## Halloween Special 2017 ## Alan Richardson - Houdini - Charles Fort - Ghost Hunting - Unconventional Influences http://eviltester.com/show/001-halloween-2017/ --- # _TLDR; The world needs a new Testing Podcast, so I created one_ --- # 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. --- # The Podcast - [Audio] https://eviltester.podbean.com/e/the-evil-tester-show-episode-001-halloween-special-2017/ - [Video] https://youtu.be/TLMtOM0FXRA - [Show Notes] http://eviltester.com/show/001-halloween-2017/

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

2. The Evil Tester Show ‐ Episode 001
Halloween Special 2017
Alan Richardson
Houdini
Charles Fort
Ghost Hunting
Unconventional Influences
http://eviltester.com/show/001‐halloween‐2017/
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3. TLDR; The world needs a new Testing
Podcast, so I created one
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4. 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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5. The Podcast
Audio
Video
Show Notes
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6. Charles Fort
You can find the books of Charles Fort online at Mr X's
Resologist.net
http://www.resologist.net/
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8. Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book of
The 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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9. Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book of
The Damned"
"Our especial interest is in modern science as a manifestation
of this one ideal or purpose or process:
That it has falsely excluded, because there are no positive
standards to judge by: that it has excluded things that,
by its own pseudostandards, have as much right to come in as
have the chosen."
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10. Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book of
The Damned"
"The data of the damned.
I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and
philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra‐respectable,
but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended into
journalism. I have come back with the quasi‐souls of lost data.
They will march. "
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11. Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book of
The Damned"
"I think that things raised from this earth's surface to that
region have been held there until shaken down by storms‐‐
The Super‐Sargasso Sea. "
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12. Ghost Hunting
http://www.assap.ac.uk/
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13. The Ghost‐Busters Century 1900 illustration was used with
permission from the artist
https://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/
A fantastic artist who has created Dr Seuss style versions of
Cthulhu, Doom, HP Lovecraft
Checkout their Twitter feed
https://twitter.com/DrFaustusAU
And their Deviant Art profile ‐ https://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/
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14. Houdini
Sequence in The Master Mystery where he is tied up, hanging from
a wall, knocks out his captor, takes off his shoes and socks, picks
the pocket of hist unconcsious guard which his feet, picks up a set
of keys with his feet, uses his toes to unlock a door, then walks up
the door while hanging to give himself leverage to untie the rope
holding him with his teeth. This is all pre‐ jackie chan stuff.
https://youtu.be/7m6f5hU4GRo?t=6m28s
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15. Later expose of spiritualists "A Magician
among the spirits"
https://archive.org/details/AMagicianAmongTheSpiritsByHarryHou
dini
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16. Houdini Seance
every halloween for 10 years after his Death, Houdini's wife
Beth held a seance
audio of the last Houdini seance you can find online on
Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/TheFinalHalloweenHoudiniSeance_8
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17. 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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18. Books Shown or Mentioned
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19. Books Shown or Mentioned
The Complete Books of Charles Fort by Dover
The Complete Books of Charles Fort: The Book of the
Damned / Lo! / Wild Talents / New Lands
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower by Daniel P. Mannix
Houdini's Strange Tales, edited by Patrick Culliton and T.L.
Williams
Houdini, His Life and Art by James Randi and Randolph Sugar
Houdini by William Lindsay Gresham
The Great Houdinis by Mel Shavelson
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20. Books Shown or Mentioned
Houdini on Magic ﴾Dover Magic Books﴿ by Houdini
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First
Superhero by Williiam Kalush and Larry Sloman
Death and the Magician: The Mystery of Houdini by Raymund
Fitzsimons
The Houdini‐Price Correspondence by Gabriel Curon
Magic and Mystery: The Incredible Psychic Investigations of
Houdini and Dunninger by Houdini and Dunninger
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon
Houdini: A mind in chains : a psychoanalytic portrait by
Bernard C. Meyer
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21. Books Shown or Mentioned
Houdini!!! by Kenneth Silverman
"A Magician among the spirits" ‐
https://archive.org/details/AMagicianAmongTheSpiritsByHarry
Houdini
"Miracle Mongers and Their Methods" by Harry Houdini ‐
https://archive.org/details/MiracleMongersAndTheirMethodsB
yHarryHoudini
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22. BIO ‐ Alan Richardson
Alan Richardson has more than twenty years of professional IT
experience, working as a programmer and at every level of the
testing hierarchy from tester through head of testing. He has
performed keynote speeches and tutorials at conferences
worldwide. Author of multiple books on testing and automating.
Alan also has created online training courses to help people learn
Technical Web Testing and Selenium WebDriver with Java. He works
as an independent consultant and coach, helping companies
improve their use of automation, agile, and exploratory technical
testing.
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23. Alan Richardson ﴾www﴿
www.compendiumdev.co.uk
www.eviltester.com
www.seleniumsimplified.com
www.javafortesters.com
uk.linkedin.com/in/eviltester
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