The People Who Can Turn Streetlights OFF/ON Just by Walking by

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Imagine this, on a fine evening, you’re
returning home after a long day’s work.

And as you stroll down the footpath of
the street a block away from your house,

no one else is around,

and you only have the street lamps
illuminating your path towards home.

Oddly, the street lamp you just walked by

suddenly switched off,

only turning on again
once you’ve passed it.

Now being the level-headed person
that you are,

you probably shrug off what happened
as mere coincidence

and think nothing more of it.

However, three days later, you passed the
same row of street lights,

and the phenomenon happens again.

Which is even weirder
this time is that,

three successive lamps are affected,

each one suddenly turning off
as you approach,

only to turn on again
as soon as you step away.

Now, what just happened?

Was this another random coincidence
you should dismiss?

Or did you somehow influence
the street lights

with a hidden energy or power you didn’t know
you had, light man?

This phenomenon is something many people
have personally experienced

– or at the very least, witnessed

– a streetlight suddenly turning off
as someone passes under it.

While some may think that
this is mere chance,

there are also others that suggest this
to be an unknown phenomenon

caused by a few individuals
who supposedly possess

an incomprehensible ability to
influence electrical devices.

This may sound crazy, but over the years,

more and more people have
become more open

with sharing their unusual experiences
involving street lamps,

and this phenomenon came to be
known as “Street Light Interference” or SLI.

"So what is Street Light Interference"

“Street Light Interference” is a term

coined by paranormal scholar
and author Hilary Evans

to denote the claimed
ability of individuals

to turn street lights or outside
security building lights

on or off when passing near them.

Experience of this nature
are quite common,

with many people all over
the world claiming that

they involuntarily and
usually spontaneously

cause street lamps to go out.

And typically, “the effect is intermittent,
infrequent

and is without an immediately discernable
sequence of cause and effect.”

Although there are many personal
anecdotes involving SLI experiences,

the circumstances of each case are not always
the same as with other instances.

Some people report that they
have only encountered

switching off a single street
light close by,

while others claim to
have influenced

as many as a row of street lights
in a single instance.

There also those who say
they possess the capacity

to randomly affect only
specific street lights,

which makes it difficult to discern a testable
pattern in studying SLI.

Moreover, though the majority
of SLI cases happen while walking,

others say the phenomenon
also occurs for them

while they ride on bicycles,
motorbikes, or even the bus.

And, the SLI phenomenon
is not limited to street lights alone.

There are also reports of people

who supposedly can spontaneously
and intermittently

affect other electronic devices,

which varies from battery-operated
wrist watches

to railroad crossing to aircraft
navigation equipment.

Some people also claim to affect volume levels
on TVs, radios, and music players,

and cause credit cards and other
magnetically encoded cards

to get damaged and erased
while in their possession.

There are also those who often
experience problems with compasses,

causing them to stop or malfunction.

People who supposedly experience
the SLI phenomenon are referred to as

get this, “Sliders.” "SLI-ders", "Sliders"

Many "Sliders", I'm not talking about
the White Castle kind
(bánh mỳ kẹp thịt Slider White Castle )

Many “SLIders” suffer from
a lack of validation

when it comes to their skeptical family
members and friends

unless the time comes that they witness the
repeated occurrences firsthand.

And without sufficient explanation for
the phenomenon they experience

and with no one to turn to confirm them,

SLIders are mostly left to
their own devices in imagining

and speculating regarding the nature
of their supposed power

to influence street lamps
and other items and devices.

Now in a modern world,

where empirical research
decides the validity of a theory or a hypothesis,

any attempt in determining the main cause
of the Street Light Interference phenomenon

without thorough scientific investigation

is dismissed as mere speculation

and intensely rejected by
the academic community.

And this is where the problem
with studying SLI arises.

As with other reported psychic
or paranormal phenomena,

SLI is very difficult –
if not impossible

– to reproduce in
a laboratory setting.

Because they seem to occur spontaneously
and sporadically

without the deliberate intention
of the SLIder.

However, there are some informal tests

that have been conducted involving
this phenomenon,

and some of the data gathered in researchs
and studies

are based heavily or solely
on the personal anecdotes

and subjective reports of the people

who claim to have witnessed
or experienced SLI for themselves.

Even then, these tests and studies
have shown that SLIders

are usually unable to recreate
the SLI effect on demand.

And prior to his death in 2011,

the British paranormal scholar Hilary Evans
was the foremost authority on SLI.

Aside from being a pictorial archivist

and authoring numerous books,

Evans also helped found the Association for the
Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena

or ASSAP in 1981.

And after receiving numerous reports from
different people claiming that

street lights respond
to their presence ,

Evans decided to uncover the truth
behind the mystery.

He collected hundreds of accounts
of SLI through his research

which he referred to as
Street Lamp Interference Data Exchange

or SLIDE.

The culmination of this research
was the publication

of his final book titled,

“SLIDERS: The Enigma Street Light Interference.”

And here's some
of the explanations,

According to Evans,

it is theoretically possible
that every person

who claims to have experienced
SLI could be lying.

However, since the majority
of SLIders really have

“no ostensible motivation apart from
a natural and commendable desire to resolve”

this mystery, we can probably set aside deliberate
deceit for the time being.

And so, based on various research,

studies and assumptions from experts
that are supportive

or skeptical about the validity of the Street
Light Interference phenomenon,

possible explanations
for witness claims of SLI

can be grouped into
three broad categories -

psychological, paranormal, and mechanical.

And the second logical explanation
in his book about Street Light Interference,

Evans raised this primary question:

“does SLI occur at all, ”

or are the alleged witnesses
deluding themselves?

According to Evans, a decisive
answer to this question

cannot be produced until the SLI phenomenon
is scientifically tested.

However, Evans also noted that

SLI does not have the same
psychological pay-off

as maybe witchcraft
or alien abductions.

Because those who seek to enhance
their special gift of influencing street lamps

will not find much to flatter themselves
with achieving such a wondering feat.

In short, while its possibility cannot be
disregarded,

it seems highly unlikely that

all SLI experiences are delusions.

There are also those that suggest that

the SLI phenomenon might be attributed to

people’s tendency to see patterns
in “random noise.”

Because it is unusual for a light to turn
itself on or off when you walk past it,

it catches your attention.

And when it occurs several
times consecutively,

people have the tendency
to think that

there is some kind of mechanism
at work that makes it possible.

And so, some argue that SLI can trace its
roots in the power of suggestion,

which requires a mix of
different factors to work.

As such, SLI could be brought about by the
normal behavior of bulbs getting older,

the witness’s observer bias,

and some other important factor
that is unknown to the person

which would help in making sense
of the situation.

Now go onto the paranormal
phenomenon explanation,

Street Light Interference as a paranormal
phenomenon

is considered by skeptics to
be the least likely possibility.

Now, by “paranormal,”

It doesn’t have to mean that a supernatural
force or an occult process is involved.

If SLI really does occur as SLIders claim,

then this phenomenon cannot be confined

in the parameters of conventional science.

Until now, there is no scientific
recognition that

the human mind can cause physical
effects at a distance,

which is what SLIders allege
to be the case in SLI.

However, the problem with SLI
being a paranormal phenomenon

is that it will be difficult to conduct
experiments to test SLI

since the phenomenon happens
only at random

and it is not produced by the person
willing for it to happen.

There are also those
who believe that

what is causing street lamps
to turn off or on

could be some kind of “energy”
that is emitted by the human body.

SLIders report that the instances
they spontaneously influence street lamps

usually occur while they are
tired, stressed, furious, or sad.

Others, on the other hand,

believe that street lamps are affected
by some kind of static electricity

that is produced by the body.

There are also speculations that SLI might
have something to do

with the electrical impulses of the brain.

At present, these electrical
impulses are known

only to have an effect within
the body of an individual,

but if it could be the unconventional
remote control

that turns street lights off and on
for these SLI eyewitnesses.

Now moving onto the mechanical effect.

According to Evans,

“The fact that a mechanical device
is involved logically suggests

that a mechanical explanation
should be looked for.”

This is precisely why some
skeptics suggest

that SLI occurs as a consequence of lights

nearing the end
of their life.

Typical modern street lamps are
of the low-pressure sodium-vapor variety,

which emit red glow at start up

and turn into a steady monochrome
yellow once they’re fully operating.

The lamps automatically switch on
at sundown

through the activation of a light-sensitive
cell or a photocell.

When sunlight returns at dawn,

the photocell is triggered again,
switching the lamps off.

These bulbs take three to four minutes to
light up

and have a lifespan of 8,000 hours
or approximately two years.

When a bulb reaches
the end of its life,

it manifests a behavior that could explain
the SLI phenomenon.

This behavior is called “cycling,”

which entails street lamps
turning on and off

every few minutes until the time comes

that a technician comes
along to replace the bulb.

It is also possible that the bulb becomes
slightly dislodged from its socket.

If that is the case,
even a minor vibration

– such as that caused by a passing car,
bike, or person

– is enough to make the
lamp blink for a brief moment.

So in conclusion, the Street Light Interference
is a phenomenon

that remains to be a genuine
and fascinating mystery to those who believe it,

and to those who are open to reserve
judgement on it until such a time comes

that sufficient evidence is presented

that completely disproves it
or verifies it.

Should it be proven true later on,

SLI carries profound and exciting
implications for science

as well as for our knowledge
about human potential.

But speculations aside,

we also must not lose sight
of the fact that

at least some, if not all,
incidents of SLI

can be attributed to
entirely mundane causes.

It could simply be
a natural event

that could be explained
by logical reasons,

but we are unable to conclude as such

because of insufficiency
in tangible or verifiable evidence

and the influence of
psychological factors.

Although I don't really think people are
controlling the sreet lamps from turning on and off,

I'll be lying to say that

thoughout my life, and it just has happened to me
while I walked by a streetlight

and it turned on or turned off.

And I'll be lying if I told you guys that
I didn't think at that moment that

yeah, I had something to do with
that thing turning on or off.

But let me know your thoughts
on this entire phenomenon.

Do you believe SLI is real?

Are you a SLIders?

Do you like SLIders?

Let me know in
the comment below.

Thank you all so much
for watching this video.

I'll see you later.