By Grant Solomon & Jane Solomon
Curator Post Reference: DIA-250
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Scole-06-DIA-1996-11-09-250.txt [Drive]
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Below is the plaintext HTML extraction of the Session 218 Diary Entry.
Features the introduction of "Edwin", germanium technical instructions, and crystal essence experiments.
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FILE ID: Scole-06-DIA-1996-11-09-250.txt
LOCATION: 06-DIA-Diary/Session-250-1996-11-09/
ARCHIVE-ID: Scole-06-DIA-250
PURPOSE: Personal diary entry regarding Scole Session 250.
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ARCHIVE-ID: Scole-06-DIA-250
LOCATION: 06-DIA-Diary/Session-250-1996-11-09/
SESSION-ID: S-250
DATE: 09/11/1996
SUBJECT: Diary Entry for Session 250
SOURCE: Witnessing the Impossible (Foy, 2008 and 2023) / Original Diary
TAGS: #SPR #Edwin #Germanium #SVO #PsychicPhotography #BookTest #Myers
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VENUE:
Scole Experimental Room (SER); the converted cellar of Street Farmhouse, Scole, Norfolk, England.
GROUP PARTICIPANTS (Alphabetical by Surname):
1. Bennett, Alan
2. Bennett, Diana
3. Foy, Robin
4. Foy, Sandra
GUEST PARTICIPANTS (Alphabetical by Surname):
1. Ellison, Arthur
2. Fontana, David
3. Keen, Montague
COMMUNICATORS (Alphabetical by Name):
1. Bradshaw, Emily (Trance Voice)
2. Edwin (Trance Voice)
3. Manu (Trance Voice)
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DIARY TEXT:
Session 250.
Saturday 9th November 1996.
This Saturday, Monty Keen, Arthur Ellison, and David Fontana arrived at Scole for their scheduled experimental session. Arthur had brought some germanium with him and was thanked by Manu for bringing it. The new lockable wooden box we had had made was used at this session for the very first time. Before sitting, Monty chose a Polaroid 35 mm colour film at random from the two we had left. He took it out of the shop-sealed outer box (which also contained a cassette of chemicals for developing it) still in its lightproof plastic tub and quickly placed it in the new wooden box, which he then locked with a new padlock he had bought. Monty also brought a Kodachrome 35 mm slide film with him, leaving it in its shop-sealed cardboard box and plastic tub. This was put downstairs in the cellar for the spirit team to evaluate. The sealed wooden box containing the Polaroid film was placed on the central table during the session.
A "new" communicator (whom we assumed at the time to be a spirit scientist, though it was later revealed he was channeling the communications of the actual scientists in the Spirit Team) spoke to Arthur and asked for the germanium to be placed between two screws to create some specialist equipment for - he explained - a brand-new type of voice communication. It was explained that we would also need an amplifier, providing us with some equipment similar to a "cat’s whisker" radio. [Later, during Session 252, the Scole Group would agree to call him by a pseudonym, "Edwin"].
This session with the scientists was not short of phenomena. There were lights in the second dome and several attempts at showing spirit faces to our visitors. The figures who tried to show their faces also attempted to speak to us in their own energy voices. There were several shafts of light which occurred spontaneously, illuminating areas of floor around the feet of sitters, as well as a small light source of greenish-yellow, which appeared at the top of the central dome before beaming down on to the bottom of the dome. There were a number of "hooded" spirit lights which everybody witnessed and, once again, some two-foot-tall angelic beings that built up in the centre of the room then floated around the group and allowed Sandra and me - together with the scientists - to feel the material of their robes over our hands.
The Pyrex bowl was moved. At first it was turned upside down and was then illuminated by a bright spirit light from within. Everybody saw a number of quite different animated spirit hands in the light from the upturned bowl. It was not just a case of seeing the hands, because everyone also felt spirit hands touching them. Each time one of the visiting SPR scientists requested it, a spirit hand touched him again - immediately and unerringly in the darkness! The Pyrex bowl was finally turned the right way up once more, with the amazing crystal experiment of two days previously being repeated. Just as we thought it might do, this evidential experiment impressed all three of the scientists greatly and provided a lasting memory in each and every one of them of their sessions with the Scole Group.
For extra security, Arthur Ellison thrust his chin almost into the bowl as all three scientists viewed the illuminated large crystal point in the bowl and then picked it up one by one. The crystal remained clearly visible throughout the experiment. Then, moments later, the scientists were invited to pick the crystal up again. One by one, they tried - and failed - as their hands went straight through the visible crystal. Shortly afterwards, the spirit team asked the scientists once again to pick up the crystal, which we could all quite clearly still see. This time, it was once again solid! Nobody could possibly explain such an impressive experiment away, and all felt it to be 100% genuine.
The Kodachrome film was removed by the spirit team from its cardboard box and handed briefly to Sandra (still in its lightproof plastic pot), before being taken back by a spirit person and handed to David Fontana. As he had previously requested, Monty Keen was given a "book test" by Emily B. She spoke of Myers’ Human Personality book - Volume 1 - and mentioned page 250 (or 252), she was not quite sure. Nevertheless, she said that some French wording would be found on the relevant page, and this information later proved to be 100% correct, just as we expected it would be! Mrs B [Emily] had never let us down before!
David Fontana was asked to take the locked wooden box containing the 35 mm Polaroid film away with him (still locked) and retain the key. He was requested to bring the box back to Scole again for his (and Ingrid Slack's) sitting with us on the following Monday [Session 251], as the spirit team hoped to produce something for him on this film.
The new communicator [Edwin] mentioned Edinburgh University (which he was apparently not supposed to do), and then spoke to Professor Arthur Ellison in "electric speak". This involved technical electrical jargon about "envelopes" and "grids" that Arthur understood well, although the rest of us there hadn’t a clue what it was all about. This electric speak was a follow-on to his previous comments regarding a new piece of germanium-based equipment, that he wanted Arthur to build so that the spirit team could perfect a new form of direct communication. He spoke of the "piezo effect" on a germanium crystal.
At the end of the session, it was discovered that the new, locked wooden film box was sitting in front of me on the table, with the new type of film (35 mm Kodachrome) - now back in its cardboard carton and still in its plastic lightproof tub - sitting on top of it. David Fontana took the locked box (still containing the film originally locked into it) away with him as the spirit team had requested.
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ARCHIVAL NOTES:
This diary entry was recorded shortly after the conclusion of the session to preserve the most accurate immediate recollections of the phenomena and communications received. It was "Sitting 13" for the SPR Guest Participants and "Sitting 16" in The Scole Report (a peer-reviewed, refereed, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR)[Vol. 58, Part 220, November 1999] written by Keen, Ellison, and Fontana). There are audio recordings available for this sitting. Transcripts are available, including two pages from The Scole Report. One transcript extract, Scole-03-TRX-1996-11-09-250-P17-18.txt, consists of pages 17 and 18 of the session transcript published in The Scole Report (pp. 197-198).
CROSS-REFERENCES:
- AUDIO: Scole-02-AUD-1996-11-09-250-T1S1.wav
- AUDIO: Scole-02-AUD-1996-11-09-250-T1S2.wav
- TRANSCRIPT: Scole-03-TRX-1996-11-09-250-T1S1.txt
- TRANSCRIPT: Scole-03-TRX-1996-11-09-250-T1S2.txt
- TRANSCRIPT: Scole-03-TRX-1996-11-09-250-P17-18.txt
- SESSION LOG: Scole-08-SES-1996-11-09-250.txt
- REPORT: Scole-12-LIT-0002-The-Scole-Report-1999.txt
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REVISION HISTORY:
v1.3 - 12/10/2026 - Removed Researcher Contributions.
v1.2 - 10/10/2026 - Updated curator analysis and taxonomy to utilise modern DHI/NHI and anomalous phenomena terminology.
v1.1 - 11/04/2026 - Corrected Edwin's role: removed factual references to him as a "spirit scientist". Clarified his role as a channel for the Communicator Team's scientists.
v1.0 - 11/04/2026 - Initial creation in SANS Plaintext following agreed archival standards.
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