John Geiger says that many people who experience the Third Man explain it as a religious experience.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

One thinks, in a way, of Welles' line in The Third Man : when he looks down from above and says, "If I gave you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped moving, "? would you really tell me to keep my money?"

从某一层面看来，可以假想，Welles，在《黑狱亡魂》中的台词,当他从高处往下看并说，“如果你干掉一个在下面走动的人,我就给你，20，000，英镑，你拒绝得了吗“

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That seems to me to be a fairly out-there proposition. And yet, the evidence is so overwhelming, that really nobody has surfaced to suggest that indeed this does not happen. John Geiger says there is a wide acceptance of the Third Man experience among the scientific community and the general public.

VOA: special.2010.02.24