Inside ‘The Telepathy Tapes’: Creator Ky Dickens Reveals The Extraordinary Story Behind The Podcast Sensation

It seems as though my child can absolutely read minds and knows what we're thinking or can see through our eyes. And it was person after person thinking they were alone in this unbelievable situation. Telepathy shouldn't be possible. It just shouldn't be possible, right? But if they just come into the classroom, come into the house,

You'll see it. Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. My guest today is Kai Dickens. Kai is the documentary filmmaker behind the surprise supersonic hit podcast series The Telepathy Tapes, which is this deeply immersive as well as very controversial. seven hour exploration of the rather audacious proposition that certain nonspeaking autistic individuals just might possess powers we've always presumed impossible.

Now, if nothing else, it's a compelling exfiles esque experience, and as somebody who really wants to believe, I will fully admit to being absolutely captivated by this series. The scientific minded side of me, however, wants to outright dismiss everything extra perceptory as an egregious offense to basically everything we know and can prove about the material world. At the same time, I just can't stop thinking about it. No one should take this off at face value.

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