The MAGLITE/Twist Head Flashlight

We are revising out page on the Flashlight Experiment. Our original writing left the reader feeling that we automatically discard any all flashlight experiments. We do not rely on it as being concrete proof, as we feel, like the SLS, it needs to be backed up with additional evidence.

Most of us have seen the “Flashlight” experiment, you may even do it yourself. It can seem quite convincing form of communication with spirits.

Some places sell these as “Flashlights to do the flashlight experiment.” Maglite has a patent on the design, and is manufacturers the vast majority of the this style of flashlight even though they are branded by many different companies. So unless you are buying a really cheap knock off, the flashlight you are using was most likely manufactured by Maglite.

The basic concept is you use a twist head flashlight, turn it on, and describe what you are doing so the spirit knows what to do, then slowly twist the head so it just turns off and put it down on a surface. You may even go so far as to turn it a couple of mm further past being off just to make sure vibrations won’t turn it back on. Then you ask a spirit or entity to turn on the flash light. After waiting a few seconds the flashlight turns on. Then you ask it turn it off, and again after a few seconds it turns off and WOW you have established communications.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, you may even use several flashlights so you can ask more complex questions, say have one flashlight for yes, another for no, maybe, ect. You may set up several and ask the spirit to pick the ones it wants to use. The experiment can get quite elaborate.

It is most effective using the Xenon bulb Maglites because Xenon bulb ones heat up faster then the LED ones, but, the LED ones are also susceptible to this. The problem is heat expansion and contraction can cause the flashlight to start turning on/off and even change how bright or dim it lights up. This is why we look at the Flashlight experiment as experience experiments that require additional evidence to back it up.

About 8 years a go we came across this video and duplicated the experiment in our own testing environment. I strongly encourage everyone watch https://youtu.be/wqNwGeXTQJk as it goes an through extremely thorough explanation for what is occurring. We also tested the same thing using the new LED Maglite (We didn’t go so far as the video did) and got similar results.

So when it comes to the flashlight experiment, we really feel there needs to be other evidence to back up what is happening as randomly turning on and off can be due to heat expansion and contraction.