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Lorne and Lawrence Blair were filmmakers, not investigators of the paranormal, and that fact does more work in this subject than any other single circumstance.
The brothers spent a decade travelling the Indonesian archipelago, and the result — Ring of Fire, broadcast in 1988 — is a travel documentary series about islands, boats, volcanoes and people. One segment of one episode contains the material this archive exists because of: a man they called Dynamo Jack setting paper alight at a distance, delivering a shock by hand, and treating a patient without needles.
What that provenance gives the footage is the absence of a motive to fake it: a crew making a series about Indonesia had no stake in an energy claim, no audience to satisfy on the point, and nothing to sell afterwards. What the same provenance takes away is any evidentiary rigour at all. Nobody present was designing a test, nobody controlled the conditions, and nobody thought to. The footage is therefore both the strongest thing in the record and much weaker than it is usually asked to be. See the article on it.
At Chang's request the brothers removed the segment from subsequent releases. Lorne Blair died in 1995. Lawrence Blair has discussed the encounter in later interviews and has not recanted, which is a small fact that carries more weight than most of the argument built on top of it.
