An artist's instant mystery

The black-and-white Polaroid photo shows a building tilting precipitously to the right. Above what appears to be a picture window, a curving line of type clearly spells out The Old Gold Store.

But when Ted Serios snapped that shot on May 13, 1965, he was sitting inside a hotel room, and the camera was pointed directly at his face.

More than 46 years later, there's no consensus as to whether what Serios described as a thoughtograph is an example of a genuine paranormal event, or if it ranks among history's most clever cons.The alcoholic bellhop from Chicago, a former car thief and compulsive liar, claimed to be able to place images from his mind onto Polaroid film. In the mid-1960s, he participated in experiments conducted by Dr. Jule Eisenbud, a psychiatrist from the University of Denver. Over time, Serios generated about 1,000 images, 40 percent of which Eisenbud deemed to be paranormal.

The images are spooky and mysterious, says Emily Hauver, who curated an exhibit currently running at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. To this day, Ted Serios' psychic abilities are hotly debated. They have never been disproven, but they also have never been explained.

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