The Philip Experiment: Did Scientists Create a Ghost?

The 2014 film The Quiet Ones was inspired by a real historical event known as The Philip Experiment. What many don’t realize is that The Philip Experiment was an actual research project conducted in Toronto in 1972. Organized to test whether paranormal phenomena—such as ghosts, spirits, demons, and poltergeists—could be products of human expectation, imagination, and visualization, the study involved a group of eight participants, some of whom were scientists with no prior interest in the occult. Their findings astonished them. To this day, the true nature of The Philip Experiment remains a mystery. Did the group unknowingly summon a…